Sharing a link to my post on Twitter/X today...exclusive writings for this blog to follow over the next few weeks, hopefully! - Shruti
In my humble legal opinion, at least the human beings on the civil airplane that the other side endangered by allowing them to fly after initiating trouble in the skies, would have the locus standii to seek addressal somewhere, even if at a consumer forum of some sort, initially.
Obviously, the perpetrators were trying to put my country, which has the right to defend itself, into a Catch 22 situation.