What was the point of sending up the F-16s? Were they planning on blowing it up with missiles to prevent the bomber from blowing it up with a shoebomb?
Planning to prevent it from flying into a building holding thousands of people.
Stop asking questions like that! Life is scary. Brown people are scary. The American people are ready, willing, and able to abdicate their freedoms, liberties, and economic prosperity to the federal government for the promise of being kept safe from scary brown people with cigarettes.