military pilots. and weren't fighter pilots. and taking two aircrafts and trying to do what we call an intercept on them at night with closing velocities of over 1,000 miles an hour and no airborne intercept radar on board the airliner himself, so he's using his eyes, is probably a bit of a stretch. add to it two more things, all commercial aircraft have a t-cass. >> traffic collision avoid dance system. think of it like your car on steroids. anything that got within five to ten miles of another airplane, the crew of the airplane would be alerted and they would move. again, without a fighter jet to get up to 7, 8, 9 gs, you cannot maneuver very well to hit something. and his other point was that, you know, that might explain why the plane went off to the west, but if i was going to look for something to ram, i would stay