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[Civil War Spoilers] Don't know if this is the right subreddit to ask this but, in the airport scene?

Why doesn't Tony's side just destroy the airplane that Caps team was trying to get to, wouldn't cap just say "ok, we don't have a reason to fight now"? At least the "criminals" wouldn't be able to escape so easily.
gpt
That's the best tactic in retrospect.

**Tony:** Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in.  That was 24 hours ago. / You're gonna turn Barnes over and you're gonna come with us.  NOW! Because it's us!  We're surrounded by JSOC guys, with no compunction about being impolite.

A flight from Germany to Washington, D.C. is about 10 to 11 hours commercial.

Arguably Tony needed the Quinjet to transport Steve to the New Avengers Facility (in upstate NY) or Washington, in time to fulfill his pledge to Ross, otherwise Steve risks getting killed by JSOC... or spreading the conflict beyond the airport because Steve wasn't going to stop (as recognized by Natasha, though the causalities *she* could foresee would have been mitigated if she stopped Steve *instead* of letting him go, so that decision doesn't make much sense either).

Not a very good reason, but there you go.