For it to be attempted murder you would have to prove that there was clear intent to kill someone. Putting an obstacle in the path of something doesn’t imply a clear intent to kill .
Well that might be the case with some vehicles, but surely if you’re putting something substantial in the path of an aircraft there is every likelyhood that you could end up bringing it down and killing someone.
About five years ago now I was in a car that my brother was driving, going down an unlit main road in Baldock, Herts when we spotted a metal bollard that some tw*t had stood up in the middle of the road. Thankfully we got down to about 20mph before we hit it, which was bad enough, but someone else might have hit it at full tilt and been killed. To my mind it was pretty close to attempted murder, to do something similar to an aircraft surely crosses the line.
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