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Why weren't all aircraft grounded?

posted 8 years ago by montyburns56
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One scene that surprised me was the fact that there was a lot of aircraft taxiing at that Israeli airport when Gerry first landed there. Presumably they were internal flights, but why would you take the risk of allowing something that could help speed up the transfer of the infection?

What seems even more bizarre is the way that the Israelis allow an authorized flight into it's airspace. I know that Gerry mentions that he is from the UN, but if was the Israeli PM, I wouldn't care if an aircraft had the US President and the head of the UN on it, I still wouldn't allow it into my country.

[–] dobravery 8 years ago

A plane with desperate pilots low on fuel, are going to put that plane inside the walls one way or another.
Your only alternative is to shoot them down. Thousands of aircraft?

If you let them land, you can search and quarantine the passengers in a controlled format.

I understand your point. Letting the planes land falls in the same philosophy of letting the buses in.

In your defense, that philosophy didn't work so well for them..

[–] UncleRuckis (2637) 4 years ago

"A plane with desperate pilots low on fuel, are going to put that plane inside the walls one way or another.
Your only alternative is to shoot them down. Thousands of aircraft?"

That entire city was overrun in 5 minutes! Given how insanely fast it spreads, restricting all incoming air travel would be the only option. Letting them land and searching would be a huge gamble for every living person on the ground.

Shooting the planes down would be harsh, but necessary as hell. To be honest, no safe country would let them within 10 miles of their air space. All it would take is one infected plane to be overrun, pilot dies and lose control, and now that plane is a missile that could easily obliterate city walls.

[–] captainburrito (128) 7 years ago

I found the flights to be strange. I mean there was an infected on that Belarus plane so even without the wall being breached, they'd possibly have been screwed by that one infected who could quickly multiply.

I'd let Gerry in, that delegation was small and easy enough to contain. Besides, any efforts that worked towards a solution is something I'd welcome. Walls have tendency of being breached at some point.

[–] emori (3674) a year ago

None of scenes in Israel made sense. They just needed the plot to happen so they ignored.

No one would allow plane to land in such closed country in middle of apocalypse. They would shot it down.

Israelis would not allow those refugees who sang. Because one zombie can take down whole country. Where did they even come from? They showed us wall and there were wasteland of zombies there. Not to mention food. There would be no food for all of them. Israel would close down and not let anything in.

But there was freaking 'belarus airways" plane full of tourists who were flying god knows where. Back to belarus? This was the plane that should have bring Brad Pitt to those russian scenes that were cut out, right? Because it was such bizarre choice to plane naming. Could have been France airlines or Croatian. But nope - fucking dictatorship belarus.

I feel like this was suppose to show how Brad accidentally flew to russia and stuck there for months.