One of my son’s good friends in the Air Force became the commander of the Predator squadron out in Creech Air Force Base – it is near Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

The procedure with Predator drones is that Air Force personnel are stationed at different areas of operation. They control the takeoff. But when the drone gets to a certain altitude, the people at Creech AFB take control. They are the ones who are given the authority to execute a drone attack.

Now, if for some reason – if – it loses contact with the people controlling it, the Predator goes into an automatic landing mode. One time that’s what happened over Iran. The drone lost contact, landed, and the Iranians retrieved it.

So now the question becomes: Why don’t you put in a self-destruct mechanism?

Because then it would be Murphy's Law. That’s always a big thing in the Air Force. Murphy's Law: if something bad is going to happen, it’s going to happen on your day.

You would see these drones taking off and blowing up, right?

So, they elected not to do that. They were going to try to come up with a better plan to make sure they do not lose control.

That’s why even to this day there are no self-destruct mechanisms on fighter planes. I wouldn’t want to be flying with a system that could go off, just because I’ve hit the wrong switch. Murphy’s Law.