Considering how close this is to where a plane recently crashed due to terrorism, I can't believe they did this. Are they trying to give the terrorists new ideas? Yikes!

It's 2100kms from Dubai to Sharm El Sheikh, so not THAT close, and anyway this was filmed several weeks before the crash.

Well, OK...but it's still in the same region. I guess 'close, but no cigar'?
It would have made sense for them to put off releasing it then, since they seemed to have released it after the crash.

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I would even have said North Africa was a different region to the Middle East

I don't really see the need to hold it back. It is close, in the sense of only the entire country of Saudi Arabia between the filming location and Egypt, but it's not as if it was filmed at Sharm El Sheikh.

Actually I would argue against holding it back even if it was filmed there, or in the Sinai.

Politically, maybe yes. Geographically, not so much. (I actually had thought they were closer together, but I still say it's the same region).

Of course, some people are more sensitive than others. I thought it was 'close' in the sense that it shows people almost touching an airplane in flight, which is insanely dangerous to all involved, shortly after another airplane went down, an act which is CLAIMED by terrorists to have been a terrorist act.

I thought the idea of small, private, radar invisible, personal 'aircraft' flying so incredibly close to an airliner, released right after an airliner crashed under suspicious circumstances was ill advised.
In fact, I think it's ill advised to show something like that even if there had not been a crash.
With a different title, this could have been a terrorist recruiting film showing the next level of attacks they're considering. Keep in mind that one can make (with enough technical knowledge) or purchase a set of 'wings' with no oversight, and once in the air the pilot is nearly invisible. Using them to fly right up to within touching distance of large airliners is not an idea I would have intentionally put in anyone's minds.

looks like no landing method, just a parachute. possibly no takeoff except from aircraft already in flight.

and fuel? couldn't have more than 30 minutes worth I would think.

So, they're human-piloted cruise missiles, close enough for me.

That's like, 6 times the air time of a typical skydive, and people still pay big bucks to do that over and over...

Seems like this would be an incredibly expensive and complicated means to that end. Fly your launch aircraft close enough to an airport and you're going to arouse suspicion, and my hunch is if you're not close to an airport then intercepting a commercial airliner in a jetpack is going to be next to impossible.