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Old Sep 15, 2006 | 4:18 pm
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kaukau
 
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Originally Posted by Spiff
Nope. And neither does just flying the plane to its destination.

When someone presents a false choice argument like "should the plane divert or do you want everyone to die?" I'm going to call them on it.

Divert, shmivert. When your route is HNL-LAX, there's no diverting, just a mid-way point. Diverting's not all it's cracked up to be! "Stay the course!".
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