Originally Posted by CO FF
Clancy wrote the scene with John Clark & Domingo Chavez using lasers to blind Japanese AWACS pilots on landing, in Debt of Honor, as a prelude to the US Special Forces attack. A few hundred pages later, he has the JAL 747 crashing into the Capitol.
Clark and Chavez actually used a three-million candlepower xenon arc light (just checked the passage in the book).
And "Storming Heaven" by Dale Brown is a better analogy to what happened on 9.11, as it details multiple terrorists attacks using commercial airliners.