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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (122)	4/23/2003 1:11:16 PM
From: ChrisJP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

How did they know DC would be a target ? They didn't. Like I said, they probably only had 20 minutes to figure out where AA 777 was heading. And yes -- there were definitely some response snafus relating to DC: 8:46 a.m. At the time of the first WTC crash, three F-16s assigned to Andrews Air Force Base 10 miles from Washington are flying an air-to-ground training mission on a range in North Carolina, 207 miles away. Eventually they are recalled to Andrews and land there at some point after Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 9/9/02] F-16s can travel a maximum speed of 1500 mph. Traveling even at 1100 mph, the speed NORAD Major General Larry Arnold says two fighters from Massachusetts travel toward Flight 175, at least one of the F-16s could have returned to Washington within 10 minutes and started patrolling the skies well before 9:00 a.m. Why are they recalled so late, and then ordered back to base (and then to take off again) instead of being sent straight to Washington? ---------------------------------------------------- I still say they only had about 30 minutes to figure out that DC was a target -- so even if they scrambled 10 minutes later -- intercepted 10 minutes later -- what are they gonna do ? escort a plane at 1000 ft ? They would have escorted it into the Pentagon. All I'm trying to do is show that no one was "asleep at the switch" either intentionally or unintentionally. Chris