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The comparison is meant to show if you disrupt a flight for any reason, they can land at the closest airport and have the disruptive person removed.That makes no sense.
Obviously the shoe bomber had no control over where his flight took him.
Once he tried to light the fuse, they took his shoes and tied him up.
Doesn't matter if they went back, landed sooner, or continued on to their original destination.
But comparing an actual bomb to saliva droplets, is not at all rational.
A bomb can cause a plane to depressurize and be torn apart by the high speed winds.
Everyone is going to get the saliva droplets of everyone else on any long flight.
That is pretty much guaranteed.