Missles deployed around Washington DC

[bigr]

It makes no sense. the complete lack of coordination between the FAA and NORAD makes it unreasonable to assume air defenses at the white house. the secret service at the white house called the ANG unit at Andrews AFB for help in scrambling fighters. some of which were unarmed. interesting article below about the fighter pilots that flew that day and the chaos. The title of the article is "F-16 pilots considered ramming flight 93"




http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst.jsp?view=story&id=news/aw090971.xml

 

[Captain X]

Does anybody really think that they'd try and take over aircraft again?

All Ali-fugazi-bin-ahmed-tabouli has to do is sit quietly in his seat while his positive bag matched, checked luggage with the C4 does all the work. Remember, they are suicide bombers, so they'll gladly get on the plane.

 

[TurboS7]

Pity the poor guy that gets lost in his 172 this weekend. I would say that there would be 6 or more Patriot trails heading right for him.

 

[1900laker]

Right!

"Where'd he go?"


"uhm.......where'd who go?"

 

[Eagleflip]

It makes no sense. the complete lack of coordination between the FAA and NORAD makes it unreasonable to assume air defenses at the white house. the secret service at the white house called the ANG unit at Andrews AFB for help in scrambling fighters. some of which were unarmed. interesting article below about the fighter pilots that flew that day and the chaos. The title of the article is "F-16 pilots considered ramming flight 93"

BigR, I'd daresay that very few people on this board know what coordination procedures do currently exist between the White House/Secret Service and NORAD. Those who do will naturally not say what those procedures are.

The story you quote is quite interesting and says a lot about the flexibility of our Air Force pilots. I believe that Navy or Marine pilots, had they been called to task, would have performed equally well during those hectic first hours after the attacks. I'm frankly not surprised at the lack of communication during at time, as no one anticipated such a frighteningly effective use of our own civilian aircraft.

Don't assume that previous issues haven't been worked out--I'm comfortable flying into Dulles and JFK tomorrow. But I'm going to be careful nonetheless.

 

[bigr]

Your quite right, the secret service for sure never would divulge such info. and NORAD is the same.

my conclusion is based on the flight path of AA Flight 77. It was screaming down on the white house. but it didn't hit because some think it was too hard for the hijackers to get a good visual on. had there been any "ack" "ack"... why didn't they use it? the secret service was aware of a hijacked plane headed for washington.

It then flew directly over Reagan and made a looping right turn until lined up on the pentagon.

check out this analysis of AA Flight 77's flight path with maps:

http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings/steves-analysis.htm