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Flight 11 & Flight 175 + NORAD


1st plane hijacked was AA Flight 11. The flight left Boston at 7:59 AM. At 8:14, besides failing to respond to an order from FAA, it's radio and transponder went off, suggesting that it had possibly been hi-jacked. At 8:20, the plane went radically off course, leading ground control to conclude that it had probably been hi-jacked. At 8:21, flight attendants reported via phone that the plane had definitely been taken over by hi-jackers who had already killed people. At 8:28, the plane was headed towards New York. At 8:44, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was in the Pentagon (talking about terrorism, coincidentally) with Rep. Chris Cox. “Let me tell ya,” the AP quoted Rumsfeld as saying, “I've been around the block a few times. There will be another Tere will be another event.” Indeed, Rummy was spot on with peculiar precision. Two minutes later, at 8:46, Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. This was 32 mins after evidence of a possible hi-jacking and 25 minutes after knowledge that it had definitely been hi-jacked.

Flight 11 should have been intercepted by figher jets at least within 10 minutes of any sign of a hi-jacking. Had standard procedures been followed for that type of situation, Flight 11 would have been intercepted before it reached the North Tower.

FAA regulations instruct air traffic controllers to:

Consider that an aircract emergency exists...when:...There is unexpected loss of radar contact and radio communications with any... aircraft.... If... you are in doubt that a situation constitutes an emergency or potential emergency, handle it as though it were an emergency.

Accordingly, at 8:14, the loss of radio would have led the flight control to begin emergency procedures. The loss of radio alone would have increased the awareness of the ground flight controllers. After the flight controller found out that he could not re-establish radio, he would have hastily contacted NMCC @ the Pentagon / NORAD. NORAD would then scramble some fighter jets from the nearest airfield to guide / command the strayed airplane to ground. According to a NORAD spokesperson when FFA senses something wrong, “it takes about one minute” to contact NORAD, then NORAD scrambles jets “within a matter of minutes to anywhere in the United States.” “According to the US Air Force's own website,” says Nafeez Ahmed, an f-15 routinely “goes from 'scramble order' to 29,000 ft in only 2.5 minutes” and then can fly upwards of 1,850 nmph.

If normal procedures were followed accordingly, Flight 11 would have been intercepted @ approx. 8:24. Surely this would happen no later than 8:30. That's 16 minutes before it crashed into the North Tower. And to add onto that, even if radio contact / signal had not been lost, the fact that the plane went radically off course would have been enough to lead FAA to notify the military.

Every plane follows a flight plan. These plans consists of points, or “fixes”, and according to MSNBC: "Pilots are supposed to hit each fix with pinpoint accuracy. If a plane deviates by 154 degrees, or two miles form that course, the flight controllers will hit the panic button. They'll call the plane, saying A'merican 11, you're deviating from course.” It's considered a real emergency.

If FAA waited until the plane went off course at 8:20, the plane should have been intercepted by 8:30, or 8:35 at the latest, again in the plenty of time to prevent it from crashing into the tower. As to what would occur on interception, Nafeez Ahmed explains by quoting FAA manual:

The interceptor military craft communicates by Rocking wings from a positition slightly above and ahead of, and normally to the left of, the intercepted aircraft.... This action conveys the message: “You have been intercepted.” The commercial jet is then supposed to respond by rocking it's wing to indicate compliance, upon which the interceptor performs a “slow level turn, normally to the left, on the desired heading [direction].” The commericial plane then responds by following the escort.

If Flight 11 had been intercepted, but did not respond, it would, according to procedures, have been shot down. After telling the Boston Globe that NORAD's “Fighters routinely intercept aircraft,” Major Mike Snyder, a spokesman for NORAD, continued on:

When planes are intercepted, they typically are handled with graduated respoinse. The approaching fighter may rock its wingtips to attract the pilot's attention, or make a pass in front of the aircraft. Eventually, it can fire tracer rounds in the airplane's path, or, under certain circumstances, down it with a missle.

Why was this not the case? Why was the plane not even intercepted?