Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I think the self-decapitation of a country's government through poor flight arrangements/policy is an interesting new phenomenon. Do you know of another occasion when a country basically lost most of its senior politicians and army general in the blink of an eye? Even at war this doesn't tend to happen.
I hope for the sake of the people of Iran, Israel and freedom-loving people everywhere, that rigged instrumentation or autopiloting can be placed on board official Iranian air transport.
What does Ahmadinejad fly? Are they fitted with special or standard avionics? Can something be prepared equipment-wise as pulled from the same type of aircraft, modified, and then swapped when he has landed in a foreign country or else on Iranian soil?
In Die Hard II the bad guys re-calibrated sea level -200 feet below the real ground level and one plane crashed straight into it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EfN4W2z0c
