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How Blair was seconds from ordering RAF to shoot down passenger plane over London after 9/11
Tim Shipman
Daily Mail
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Tony Blair came close to ordering the RAF to shoot down a passenger airliner over London after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, he reveals in his memoirs.
The former prime minister described how fighter jets were scrambled after the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control as it approached the capital.
Mr Blair was given emergency powers to authorise the military to bring down planes after the September 11 2001 atrocities in which terrorists crashed airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC.
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Mr Blair recalled in his book: ‘A passenger jet had been out of contact for some time, and was heading over London.
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‘I had the senior RAF commander authorised to get my decision. The fighter jet was airborne. For several anxious minutes we talked, trying desperately to get an instinct as to whether this was threat or mishap. The deadline came. I decided we should hold back.
‘Moments later the plane regained contact. It had been a technical error. I needed to sit down and thank God for that one!
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