Airplane shot down in Colombia

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Dave S wrote:

PPL-A (Canada) wrote:


Don't you think that simply following this plane until it ran out of
fuel and had to land might have resulted in the arrest of far more
important people in the chain of drug distribution ...

And if the plane was about to cross a soverign border, where you could
not legally go forward to track them.. and the other country was not
willing nor equipped to track them, nor was willing to arrest and
extradite the crew of the plane... then how do you propose to track and
follow the plane?

The pilot knew what he was doing. He was making a run for the border,
and freedom. He gambled and lost.


One problem here (other than the moral problem of capital punishment for
suspicious behavior) is that the video did not establish whether or not
the plane was warned, or merely fired upon without warning.