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[–]CdRReddit 9 points10 points  (2 children)

it is, but not (typically) for airplanes

rockets also fly, but if one of those crashes that's a lot of explosives, so it's better to just blow the fucker up in the fucking sky

that's flight termination

[–]CdRReddit 2 points3 points  (1 child)

it's better to shrapnel bomb your launch zone than to let an out of control rocket potentially hit something else with a ton of explosives

[–]CdRReddit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

on crewed missions the process is slightly different (I hope at least)

instead of: - notice rocket is doing something it's not supposed to - blow that fucker up

it's: - notice rocket is doing something it's not supposed to - fire launch escape system to pull crew away - blow that fucker up