:: Thursday, June 20, 2002 ::
The myth of NORAD's non-response on 9/11. One of the prominent arguments made by Government Foreknowledge/Complicity theorists is that the standing FAA/NORAD procedures for intercepting wayward civilian aircraft were not followed, which means that our air defense system had to have been "stood down" - an act which would have required intervention from the highest levels.
Damian Penny addresses this assertion, also made by one of Canada's own media mental patients, Barry Zwicker, with today's report that this same system failed to intercept a Cessna that violated White House airspace late yesterday. He might also have mentioned the case of Charles Bishop whose own suicidal crash into a Tampa building fialed to elicit a military intercept until 45 minutes after he had taken off without authorization.
Zwicker cites an NBC report - aired just hours after the attacks occurred - which stated that no jets were sortied until after the attack on the Pentagon. This statement is directly contradicted by NORAD, whose website posted the timelines of their response to all four hijackings:
American Airlines Flight 11 ? Boston enroute to Los Angeles FAA Notification to NEADS 0840* Fighter Scramble Order (Otis Air National Guard Base, Falmouth, Mass. Two F-15s) 0846** Fighters Airborne 0852 Airline Impact Time (World Trade Center 1) 0846 (estimated)*** Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location Aircraft not airborne/153 miles
United Airlines Flight 175 ? Boston enroute to Los Angeles FAA Notification to NEADS 0843 Fighter Scramble Order (Otis ANGB, Falmouth, Mass. Same 2 F-15s as Flight 11) 0846 Fighters Airborne 0852 Airline Impact Time (World Trade Center 2) 0902 (estimated) Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 8 min****/71 miles
American Flight 77 ?Dulles enroute to Los Angeles FAA Notification to NEADS 0924 Fighter Scramble Order (Langley AFB, Hampton, Va. 2 F-16s) 0924 Fighters Airborne 0930 Airline Impact Time (Pentagon) 0937(estimated) Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 12 min/105 miles
United Flight 93 ? Newark to San Francisco FAA Notification to NEADS N/A ***** Fighter Scramble Order (Langley F-16s already airborne for AA Flt 77) Fighters Airborne (Langley F-16 CAP remains in place to protect DC) Airline Impact Time (Pennsylvania) 1003 (estimated) Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 11 min/100 miles (from DC F-16 CAP)
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Other versions of this flavor of conspiracy theory reject the evidence that NORAD responded before the Pentagon was hit as a "cover story" which is contradicted by initial reports. Reasonable people understand that in a crisis, first reports are often wrong, but to these mental defectives, those initial reports are the Freudian slips that emanate the truth, and anything reported after reflection is part of a cover up.
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