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Originally posted by Boone 870
This scenario would have to include an Air Force Base within 30 miles of Flight 93 just to make it more realistic.
How does that prove there was a standdown?
No I don't. There were two F-15s over New York. They had been in the air since 8:46. Could they fly from New York to Ohio with the fuel they had on board? Could they make it from New York to Ohio in time to intercept before the plane crash, if they even knew about it? Why would NORAD pull 2 fighters away from a city that has already been hit twice by two hijacked airliners when they weren't sure they were the last?
But you keep forgetting about the 2 sets of interceptors that were already in the air sent up by the Air Force and the Secret Service.
I am aware of that. From my understanding, it was a radar feed from Dulles airport.
Oh by the way did you know the Secret Service has their own radar setup?
I'm guessing that it was 100% before September 11, 2001. How many of those intercepts were over the continental US? Only one that I can think of. That was Payne Stewart's Lear jet. It took NORAD over three hours before they could intercept. His jet was intercepted by an F-16 that was on a training mission and it took 1 hour and 20 minutes to get there.
Do you know what the sucess rate for NORAD is ?
Besides if they dropped the ball that much and let those planes go, how come no one was punished or fired? Instead those involved received promotions and awards.
Have you forgotten Wright-Patterson in Dayton, Ohio? And two alleged planes are reported to have taken the scenic route over Ohio. One alleged plane (77) very close to Dayton and Cincinnati. No one was sent out of Wright-Patterson. Those, in Ohio at the time, are well aware of that.
Yeah, interceptor planes sure were. After it was all over at the Pentagon did any alleged interceptor planes take off in the DC area. So where were they before any Pentagon strike?
They better have. It is an air force base.
Originally posted by Boone 870
Besides if they dropped the ball that much and let those planes go, how come no one was punished or fired? Instead those involved received promotions and awards.
Couldn't tell you.
So you mean the official story does not have an answer to that ?
Imagine that
Originally posted by Boone 870
reply to post by OrionStars
I think they train a lot. A-10's fly over my house all the time heading to the local gunnery range. One thing that I never see on those aircraft is air to air missiles, even after 9/11.
Just because there are combat aircraft setting at an Air Force base does not mean that they are sitting ready to launch and intercept aircraft. Do you expect them to be? If so, why?