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Originally posted by Danbones
reply to post by Drunkenparrot
maybe if Stubblebine was still in charge of intelligence the reports of terrorists at the door would have been heeded and 911 would never have happened at all
well
24 more senior experts and a bunch of top guns to go...
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by Human_Alien
Taking specific accounts from a few people does not a "case for a missile" make.
NORAD Stand-Down
The Prevention of Interceptions of the Commandeered Planes
It is standard operating procedure (SOP) to scramble jet fighters whenever a jetliner goes off course or radio contact with it is lost. Between September 2000 and June 2001, interceptors were scrambled 67 times. 1 In the year 2000 jets were scrambled 129 times. 2
There are several elements involved in domestic air defense. The air traffic control system continuously monitors air traffic and notifies NORAD of any deviations of any aircraft from their flight-paths or loss of radio contact. NORAD monitors air and space traffic continuously and is prepared to react immediately to threats and emergencies. It has the authority to order units from the Air National Guard, the Air Force, or other armed services to scramble fighters in pursuit of jetliners in trouble.
Routine interception procedures were not followed on September 11th, 2001.
911research.wtc7.net...
Layered Failures
The air defense network had, on September 11th, predictable and effective procedures for dealing with just such an attack. Yet it failed to respond in a timely manner until after the attack was over, more than an hour and a half after it had started. The official timeline describes a series of events and mode of response in which the delays are spread out into a number of areas. There are failures upon failures, in what might be described as a strategy of layered failures, or failure in depth. The failures can be divided into four types.
Failures to report: Based on the official timeline, the FAA response times for reporting the deviating aircraft were many times longer than the prescribed times.
911research.wtc7.net...
Failures to scramble: NORAD, once notified of the off-course aircraft, failed to scramble jets from the nearest bases.
911research.wtc7.net...
Failures to intercept: Once airborne, interceptors failed to reach their targets because they flew at small fractions of their top speeds and/or in the wrong directions.
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Failures to redeploy: Fighters that were airborne and within interception range of the deviating aircraft were not redeployed to pursue them.
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Originally posted by hooper
If you look back through the threads you'll find a poll where even on this forum they couldn't get better than, I think, 80% that think 9/11 was an "inside job"! I mean, if you can't muster better than 80% here, what do you think it looks like in the wider world??
Norman Mineta Confirms That Dick Cheney Ordered Stand Down on 9/11
Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta answered questions from members of 9/11 Truth Seattle.org about his testimony before the 9/11 Commission report.
Mineta says Vice President Cheney was "absolutely" already there when he arrived at approximately 9:25 a.m. in the PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center) bunker on the morning of 9/11. Mineta seemed shocked to learn that the 9/11 Commission Report claimed Cheney had not arrived there until 9:58-- after the Pentagon had been hit, a report that Mineta definitively contradicted.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The 9/11 Stand Down in 2 Minutes
NORAD, responsible for intercepting errant aircraft over the U.S., has a standard operating procedure for scrambling planes for interception which takes less than 15 minutes
They did this successfully (on time) 129 times in 2000 and and 67 times between September 2000 and June 2001.
Yet, on September 11th, they failed to do their job 4 times in a single day:
NORAD, once notified of the off-course aircraft, failed to scramble jets from the nearest bases
Once airborne, interceptors failed to reach their targets because they flew at small fractions of their top speeds
Fighters that were airborne and within interception range of the deviating aircraft were not redeployed to pursue them
You might think that the military couldn't find the hijacked planes because the hijackers turned off the transponders. However, a former air traffic controller, who knows the flight corridor which the two planes which hit the Twin Towers flew "like the back of my hand" and who handled two actual hijackings says that planes can be tracked on radar even when their transponders are turned off (also, listen to this interview).
As a former senior air force colonel said:
"If our government had merely [done] nothing, and I say that as an old interceptor pilot—I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were, and I know what they’ve changed them to—if our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason!"
Norad's stand down on 9/11 was so blatant that Norad has been forced to give 3 entirely different versions of what happened that day, as each previous version has been exposed
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by Danbones
There was no "stand down" of NORAD>
Just another "truther" lie.
Originally posted by Drunkenparrot
Originally posted by Danbones
reply to post by Drunkenparrot
maybe if Stubblebine was still in charge of intelligence the reports of terrorists at the door would have been heeded and 911 would never have happened at all
well
24 more senior experts and a bunch of top guns to go...
Perhaps so, I certainly agree that a lot more went wrong than should have and that there was an abysmal failure on the part of the U.S. Intelligence apparatus.
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by Danbones
There was no "stand down" of NORAD>
Just another "truther" lie.
and:
To bad there is no human responce from the "vehicle" carrying the transponder..
Another indication that there is no comprehension of aviation, and how things are in the reality of that industry.
The only person who would have been able to reply to ATC was a hijacker, at that point. He had no reason to....no point.
But, if you think that a missile carries a transponder, and that the controllers saw the code change, because there as a tiny person on the missile, then by all means, go with the same sort of ignorance and silliness as all the rest of 'em.....
issuesen.wikipedia.org...
In telecommunications, identification, friend or foe (IFF) is an identification system designed for command and control. It is a system that enables military and national (civilian-located ATC) interrogation systems to identify aircraft, vehicles, or forces as friendly and to determine their bearing and range from the interrogator.
IFF was first developed during World War II. The term is somewhat of a misnomer, as IFF can only positively identify friendly targets but not hostile ones. If an IFF interrogation receives no reply or an invalid reply, the object cannot be identified as friendly, but is not positively identified as a foe.
There are many reasons for friendly aircraft not to reply to IFF, such as battle damage or equipment failure, loss of encryption keys, and wrong encryption keys. Terrain-hugging aircraft are very often poor candidates for microwave line-of-sight systems such as the IFF system. Microwaves cannot penetrate terrain, and very often atmosphere effects (referred to as anomalous propagation) cause timing, range, and azimuth
Originally posted by ProudBird
Another mistake, and/or a lie (not that zorgon lied, mind you.....an innocent victim, and just repeating someone else's lie).
Originally posted by swm001
What a moron!!! You can see the plane come in from the top right of the screen. It disappears because someone tampered with the footage. At least edit it out completely if you are going to put it on here..stupid!!!!!!!