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Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by homervb
Wow! I havent seen such ignorant commentary in a long time from a truther. Oh wait, yes I have.
Your personal incredulity notwithstanding, why are you regurgitating the FALSE facts and ASSUMPTIONS based solely on incredulity from all of those damned fool conspiracy sites? Do some actual research regarding the education background of most of the hijackers. Then I want you to explain how our "air defense" system works, since I can tell the only place you learned about it is from the movies and other ignorant sources. Also I wish for you to explain to me the SOP that was enacted with regards to airliner hijackings, prior to 9/11/01. Once you can correctly give me all of this information, then we'll see if you can provide anything useful to the thread.
You are confusing Flight 11 with AA 77 which struck the Pentagon. The data you refer to is from the flight data recorder recovered at the Pentagon so if you don't believe a plane crashed there why is it relevant to you ? However, assuming it was from AA 77 the FDR doesn't indicate the cockpit door was ever opened on multiple previous flights, including trans-continental. Fact is there is not a shred of evidence that the cockpit door parameter was ever hooked up to be recorded.
Pentagon footage being withheld is just your supposition. What is your evidence for its existence. FBI says not :- www.911myths.com...
Who do you think should suffer consequences over antiquated DoD accounting systems failing to fully reconcile expenditure over many years ? The $2.3 trillion figure was being bandied about before Rumsfeld took office; indeed before GWB was elected.
I guess just thinking bout how the burning infernos from the plane melted all that steel (turning it molten) but a hijackers passport remained completely intact. The passport survived a high speed aircraft to skyscraper collision which happened to burn so hard that it took down a skyscraper. Yes, I acknolwedge that other personal belongings were recovered, just not from the exact point of impact/explosion/fires within the WTC
So you agree it was one passport recovered at the WTC , not multiple passports. Various other personal documents belonging to people who died that day were recovered.
a. Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) of Civil and Military Aircraft. Pursuant
to references a and b, the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), has exclusive responsibility to direct law enforcement activity
related to actual or attempted aircraft piracy (hijacking) in the “special
aircraft jurisdiction” of the United States. When requested by the
Administrator, Department of Defense will provide assistance to these
law enforcement efforts. Pursuant to reference c, the NMCC is the focal
point within Department of Defense for providing assistance. In the
event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious
means by the FAA. The NMCC will, with the exception of immediate
responses as authorized by reference d, forward requests for DOD
assistance to the Secretary of Defense for approval. DOD assistance to
the FAA will be provided in accordance with reference d. Additional
guidance is provided in Enclosure A.
b. Support. When notified that military assistance is needed in
conjunction with an aircraft piracy (hijacking) emergency, the DDO,
NMCC, will:
(1) Determine whether or not the assistance needed is reasonably
available from police or commercial sources. If not, the DDO, NMCC, will
notify the appropriate unified command or NORAD to determine if suitable
assets are available and will forward the request to the Secretary of
Defense for approval in accordance with DODD 3025.15, paragraph D.7
(reference d).
(2) If suitable assets from a unified command or NORAD are not
reasonably available, the DDO, NMCC, will coordinate with the appropriate
Military Service operations center to provide military assistance.
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by homervb
Very good, Im glad to see someone is trying. Now, how many airliners have been hijacked around the world resulting in an actual shootdown of said airliner? What were the reasons of hijackings and what were the usual outcomes?
A majority of the hijackings of airplanes ended up with either negotiations for ransoms or demands, and upon completion, people were released and/or the plane was stormed by special forces. Nothing about the hijackings of the airliners seemed out of the "ordinary" as a regular hijacking. No one was expecting for the aircraft to be used as missiles and aimed at buildings. Here is where the issue begins. You speak of the military SOP, while it mentions that the directive is implemented only at the request of the FAA when it is obvious that something far more serious is a foot. The DoD gets involved only when the FAA requests special assistance
a. Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) of Civil and Military Aircraft. Pursuant
to references a and b, the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), has exclusive responsibility to direct law enforcement activity
related to actual or attempted aircraft piracy (hijacking) in the “special
aircraft jurisdiction” of the United States. When requested by the
Administrator, Department of Defense will provide assistance to these
law enforcement efforts. Pursuant to reference c, the NMCC is the focal
point within Department of Defense for providing assistance. In the
event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious
means by the FAA. The NMCC will, with the exception of immediate
responses as authorized by reference d, forward requests for DOD
assistance to the Secretary of Defense for approval. DOD assistance to
the FAA will be provided in accordance with reference d. Additional
guidance is provided in Enclosure A.
b. Support. When notified that military assistance is needed in
conjunction with an aircraft piracy (hijacking) emergency, the DDO,
NMCC, will:
(1) Determine whether or not the assistance needed is reasonably
available from police or commercial sources. If not, the DDO, NMCC, will
notify the appropriate unified command or NORAD to determine if suitable
assets are available and will forward the request to the Secretary of
Defense for approval in accordance with DODD 3025.15, paragraph D.7
(reference d).
(2) If suitable assets from a unified command or NORAD are not
reasonably available, the DDO, NMCC, will coordinate with the appropriate
Military Service operations center to provide military assistance.
As you can see, hijackings usually fall under police and FAA jurisdiction, and as such, are not military matters unless requested by the FAA. You are coming from the DoD SOP, not the FAA and local police authority SOP. Once again, usually hijackings are relegated to police depts, as it is a criminal matter.
www.dtic.mil...
As far as the FAA was concerned, the hijackers were going to land, make demands, and hold for ransom, or fly to Cuba or whatever country they wished. It wasnt until the first and second impacts that DoD assistance was requested and realized by the FAA controllers.edit on 3/27/2012 by GenRadek because: clarifying
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by homervb
No I see what you are getting at, and in that case it would make sense.
However, I still do believe that even in the old directive, the DoD only gets involved once it is requested. But then, for all of this to be happening, you would still require a lot of people "in on it". Also, hitting WTC7 with a plane would have been very difficult, and it would have made people wonder what the point was. Also, if WTC7 was rigged, the impact and fires of a 767 or 757 would have set off the charges immediately. And here is where we'd get deepr and deeper into the CT rabbit hole and then more and more things would get ridiculous.