> During the 9/11 attacks, if Flight 93 hadn't crashed, one of the proposed plans was to ram the airliner with an F-16. To be fair they were also very limited

> During the 9/11 attacks, if Flight 93 hadn't crashed, one of the proposed plans was to ram the airliner with an F-16. To be fair they were also very limited in possible responses on that day. There were only 14 armed fighters in the continental US with a couple hundred others off in Alaska playing war games with a simulated Russian attack: http://web.archive.org/web/20020917072642/http://www.aviationnow.com/content/publication/awst/20020603/avi_stor.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20020917072642/http://www.aviatio...