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You are confusing airspace under US air traffic control and US airspace. Those areas are still international waters.
by hueving 10y ago
You are confusing airspace under US air traffic control and US airspace. Those areas are still international waters.
- ryanlol 10y agoI am assuming that air traffic control can influence the paths those planes take.
- ajdlinux 10y agoThey can of course influence paths, but they're not going to be able to tell some random plane in the Western Pacific to fly to the US, and I'm not even sure they'd have the legal power to order you to land somewhere in particular until you're actually flying over US territory.
- tastythrowaway 10y agoThey may not, but their friends might... https://www.washingtonpost.com/c281c2f4-e3eb-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/c281c2f4-e3eb-11e2-a11e-c2ea8...