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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity

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To: Second_Titan who wrote (7789)9/12/2001 11:20:56 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 23153
 
Just a guess, but here goes:

Decision to scramble fighters - 15 minutes at least to get authority, probably longer

Scramble fighters - five minutes minimum airborne

Arrive at target - another 5-15 minutes depending where they scrambled from, maybe longer

Time to inspect aircraft visually and decide if it was hijacked - several minutes at least maybe more

Get authorization to shoot down a civilian airliner with innocent passengers - ask Bush, he is the only one who could authorize it - 30 minutes or more?

Add it up then compare the total to the flight time of those planes. You can't stop this kind of attack unless you are on a war footing to begin with. We weren't until the other day.
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