Ferdinand von Schirach - Terror

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Guilty or not guilty?
Enter the courtroom, hear the evidence, make your judgement.
A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down the plane killing 164 people to save 70,000.
Put on trial and charged with murder, the fate of the pilot is placed in the audience's hands.
Ferdinand von Schirach's
, in a translation by David Tushingham, received its UK Premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, in June 2017

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Presiding JudgeI see.

LauterbachWe’re constantly on the lookout for Renegade.

Presiding JudgeRenegade?

LauterbachSorry. That refers to a civilian aircraft being pirated in the air for terrorist purposes. We call that ‘Renegade’.

Presiding JudgeIt sounds American.

LauterbachIt is. It’s the internationally accepted term.

Presiding JudgeVery well then, Renegade. How do you find out about such a case?

LauterbachThat is the most difficult part of our job. What we do is stay in radio contact with every aircraft and look for irregularities.

Presiding JudgeSuch as?

LauterbachAn aeroplane going off course or the automatic recognition system being switched off or simply being unable to make radio contact.

Presiding JudgeDoes that happen often?

LauterbachUsually three or four times a day. They’re hardly ever hijackings. Still, we need to check on every single one and then make a decision.

Presiding JudgeI see.

LauterbachOn 26th May it was very straightforward, though.

Presiding JudgeStraightforward? Why?

LauterbachThe terrorist forced the pilot to announce over the radio that he had hijacked the aeroplane.

Presiding JudgeCould you be more precise, please?

LauterbachAt 19:32 we received a radio transmission from Lufthansa flight LH 2047. This was the flight from Berlin-Tegel to Munich, departing 19:20, landing 20:30. The pilot said he was being forced to read a text aloud.

Presiding JudgeWhat was this text?

Lauterbach( reads from a sheet of paper ) ‘With the grace of God, I have this plane in my power. Rejoice, community of Muslims. The crusader governments of Germany, Italy, Denmark and England have killed our brothers, now we will kill your families. You shall die as we have died.’

Presiding JudgeIn those precise words?

LauterbachYes, those were the words.

Then the pilot said that the terrorist wanted to crash the aircraft into the football stadium in Munich. He was referring to the Allianz Arena. That day there was an international match there: Germany versus England. The stadium was sold out, 70,000 spectators.

Presiding JudgeYou heard him say that on the radio yourself?

LauterbachYes. It’s recorded, all radio transmissions are saved. I put it on loudspeaker so that everyone in the room could hear.

Presiding JudgeDid the terrorist reveal his identity?

LauterbachWe only found that out later. He was a suicide bomber belonging to an Al Qaeda splinter organisation.

Presiding JudgeThat’s not something you know from your own enquiries, is it?

LauterbachNo, from the Federal Criminal Police. And then the newspapers. As I said, that wasn’t till much later.

Presiding JudgeWhat did you do after you’d heard what was said on the radio?

LauterbachI informed everyone in the room.

Presiding JudgeYes, you put the message on the loudspeakers, you’ve already said that. I mean after that.

LauterbachRight. I initiated a sequence of calls to all NATO command centres. At the same time I informed the Commander of the Air Force, Lieutentant General Radtke.

Presiding JudgeWho is he?

LauterbachHe is the most senior general in the Air Force. I reported to him.

Presiding JudgeIs that usual practice?

LauterbachYes, and it’s in the official regulations.

Presiding JudgeGo on.

LauterbachI gave the order for the rapid reaction force to be deployed and to establish visual contact with the hijacked Lufthansa aeroplane.

Presiding JudgeWhat is a rapid reaction force?

LauterbachTwo fighter aircraft, of the Eurofighter type.

They are on constant standby. One unit is stationed in the north, in Wittmund in East Frisia, and the other is in the south, in Neuburg on the Danube. The fighters from Wittmund were airborne at the time. It took the pilots eleven minutes to reach the Lufthansa plane.

Presiding JudgeThat’s very fast, isn’t it?

LauterbachIt’s normal. Our airspace isn’t that big.

Presiding JudgeFine. Who were the pilots? I mean the pilots of the rapid reaction force.

LauterbachMajor Koch and First Lieutenant Weinberger.

The rapid reaction force is generally staffed so that an older, more experienced pilot will fly together with a younger one. Major Koch is thirty-one years old, First Lieutenant Weinberger twenty-five.

Presiding JudgeI see. Let’s go back to your telephone call with Lieutenant General Radtke.

LauterbachYes.

Presiding JudgeWhat were his orders?

LauterbachThe first thing General Radtke wanted to know was whether the rapid reaction force already had visual contact with the pilot.

Presiding JudgeWhat was your answer?

LauterbachAfter the fighters had caught up with the Lufthansa aircraft, it was possible to establish visual contact. The officers reported being able to see a man dressed in civilian clothes in the cockpit. This man was between the pilot and co-pilot. Radio contact was no longer possible as the devices on board the Lufthansa aircraft had been switched off.

Presiding JudgeAnd that’s what you passed on?

LauterbachOf course.

Presiding JudgeWhat were Radtke’s orders then?

LauterbachTo divert the Lufthansa aircraft off course and force it to land.

Presiding JudgeWhat exactly did he say to you?

Lauterbach‘Intervention.’ The order was ‘Intervention’. That means forcing it off course.

Presiding JudgeIntervention, I see.

LauterbachYes. At the same time all the staff in the control centre were looking for an airfield to make a landing. We have contingency plans at certain airfields for cases like this.

Presiding JudgeSo you passed on the order.

LauterbachYes, immediately.

Presiding JudgeJust that one word?

LauterbachYes. Military language is concise. There was no need for more.

Presiding JudgeBut as far as I can tell from the files, the Lufthansa plane did not react.

LauterbachThat’s right, it maintained its course.

Presiding JudgeWhat happened next?

LauterbachI reported this to General Radtke. And I gave him the additional details.

Presiding JudgeWhat details?

LauterbachThat we were dealing with a Lufthansa aircraft of the Airbus A320-100/200 type. That in addition to the terrorist there were 164 people on board. How many of those belonged to the crew. Its speed. Its estimated time of impact. Those sort of things. Details.

Presiding JudgeAnd where had you got these details from?

LauterbachFrom my colleagues in civil aviation security. There were 98 men, 62 women and two children. I had the passenger list in front of me. The youngest child was just four years old, a girl.

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