Does anyone still believe this bullshit? Clearly there's nothing that the fighter jets could do to ensure the safety of the flight/passengers - the most they could do is to shoot the plane down in a safe area to avoid casualties on the ground, if it were e.g. controlled by terrorists.
And the media/institutions wonder why people don't trust them...
So, please stop with the alternative facts and the conspiracy stuff. Not every country works like the US of A, unbelievably.
Yeah we're going need a source on that. Don't even think of pulling up that vague Grundgesetz about human dignity, the legality of refusing an order would be established AFTER the fact. To call such an order illegal before any court judgement is the very thing that you are branding as an alternative fact.
>The armed forces’ authorisation pursuant to § 14.3 of the Aviation Security Act (Luftsicherheitsgesetz – LuftSiG) to shoot down by the direct use of armed force an aircraft that is intended to be used against human lives is incompatible with the right to life under Article 2.2 sentence 1 of the Basic Law in conjunction with the guarantee of human dignity under Article 1.1 of the Basic Law to the extent that it affects persons on board the aircraft who are not participants in the crime.
In other words, not all in-flight emergencies follow the Hollywood movie conventions ;)
Perhaps hijackers seeing armed missiles out the window might rethink their negotiating position. You never used to hijack a plane to kill people that's fairly recent.