i've never really understood the point of "fighter jet escort" in these kind of situations. all the fighter jets can do is shoot down the passenger plane. but i thought a blown up passenger plane is what we're trying to avoid.
i guess, it make a kind of statement to have military planes escort the commercial aircraft back to the airport. nothing says "this is serious" like a pair of F-16s.
and, i suppose, the fighter jets can shoot down the passenger plane before it rams itself into some important dutch monument (like a big windmill or something). but still. this fighter jet thing just strikes me as a way to act like we're really doing something even though what we're doing can't accomplish what we say we want to do.
