We train countless hours for emergencies like this. As a professional pilot, we go through whole classes introducing and refreshing us to the concepts of problem solving and crew resource management. Its a constantly evolving process of identifying the problem>collecting facts>identifying alternatives>weighing the…

No, but it can buy a new set of underwear...

They should have just guac’d away from the whole situation...

Looked like Burbank, considering where they were flying (in reference to the Hollywood Sign. LAX is a LOT bigger, with 4 parallel runways, and VNY has 2 parallels. Neither have intersecting runways

Someone at Apple Maps is silently cheering right now...

Please, educate yourself before you post your armchair general nonsense:

I’m a pilot for a major news and media corporation based in NYC. I get to see every corner of the world, experience cultures vastly different from mine, but what keeps me going to work is the natural beauty of Earth, once you slip the bonds of gravity. I’ve watched the sun rise, fall, and rise again in a single…

How is this going to effect civilian freedom of navigation through this region? I never enjoy the knowledge that there are SAMs pointed in my direction when I fly over...

Follow up - are medium-long range missile systems like this that relevant anymore to an advanced adversary like the US with long-range strike…

Between this, the rising air defense threat in the South China Sea, and the Russian threat in the middle east, I bet the USAF is really wishing they had more F-22s now...

Oh wait... they already have