It is routine policy and practice for fighter jets to intercept planes if they go off course even by 2 miles. In the year prior to 9/11 there were 67 such intercepts.
So why was 4 planes allowed to stray off course without being intercepted?
2007-08-29 11:50:03 · 18 answers · asked by Jewlz 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
There are more unanswered questions around 9/11, the a free nation should allow.
On the 9/6/2001, I was on my way to Europe with my wife, flying from the Detroit airport. Three "women" totally covered in Burkha's, with eye slits rolled by security, untouched, 6 feet tall and 3 foot shoulders. I said to my wife: "If this are women, I am Donald Duck." They could have carried a dozen Kalashnikov. Southfield, Detroit is and was one of the biggest recruitment centers for Al Queada.
The US had been warned since 1970, after the Arabs hijacked the first planes, over and over by European Security. Frankfurt Airport had at that time 3000 special forces with automatic weapons and dogs controlling 24/7.
I say, 9/11 was a colossal failure on all fronts -airport security, FBI, CIA, Pentagon and many many other agencies, who worked still under cold war (over since 1989), instructions.
Another thing is mind boggling, why did we go to Afghanistan and Iraq, when 18 of the 19 hijackers where Saudis.
2007-08-29 12:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ya know, why is no one can ever tell you or show one instance of military fighters, intercepting civilan air liners before 911 ?
They all point to the golfers plane being intercepted, but they never mention, it had been out of radio contact for over an hour and Air Force jets were in the area training at the time.
The military never had a policy of intercepting off course planes inside the US.
Thats a myth by the conspiracy nuts.
2007-08-29 19:58:13 · answer #2 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We did not know the intention was to crash the planes. I think the standard practice was to try and talk the hi-jackers down. Can't imagine a quick approval at that time by Congress to immediately shoot down American Commercial Airlines and kill several hundred Americans and endangering many hundreds more on the ground. Of course, things have changed now and after 9/11 our actions would be far more aggressive in a similar situation.... As it is, we do not seem to be completely prepared for another such onslaught.
2007-08-29 19:07:07 · answer #3 · answered by Willie B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they didn't look like they were heading to "targets" until they flew into the buildings--and field--that they flew into. It's a little easier to intercepted a missile or a MIG than it is to figure out if a commercial airliner is lost or the navigation systems aren't working, or they're going to become a bomb in a few moments. And just imagine the devastation that would have been caused in Manhattan and surrounding areas if the Air Force shot down three jetliners?
2007-08-29 19:15:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The radar tracking devices were turned off by the hijackers when they took over the aircraft. Until that happened, nothing untoward had caused suspicion as the aircraft were still following their normal course. By the time the alarm was raised following the aircraft disappearing off the air traffic control radar, nobody had any idea where the aircraft were!
It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack!
2007-08-29 20:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by mad_mick001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have been misinformed about the "routine policy and practice" information you provided. It absolutely was not policy or practice to do that.
For those who blame the military, the military had no part in what happened on 9/11. It is not within the scope of our military to monitor or respond to civilian air traffic incidents.
For cryin out loud... people will believe anything!
2007-08-29 22:22:20 · answer #6 · answered by Amy S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones they did get up were sent out to the ocean and were expecting missiles from Russia. An absolute 180 from the alleged hijackers!
rukidding rukidding. That IS NOT protocol!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8672066571196607580&q=pandora's+black+box&total=42&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
2007-08-29 19:24:40 · answer #7 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a universal routine practice -- and it certainly wasn't back then. That practice usually only applies if the planes enter restricted airspace -- which only one of them did.
Prior to then, the standard policy of airlines was for the pilots to accomodate hijackers' demands and take the plane wherever they wanted -- until a solution could be reached. That policy was intended to save lives -- nobody imagined that planes would be used as projectile weapons.
That policy changed post-9/11 -- for obvious reasons.
2007-08-29 18:54:49 · answer #8 · answered by coragryph 7 · 17⤊ 0⤋
They were hijacked. We knew this. But history taught us that hijackers rarely hurt the people. They get flown out of the country or what ever. We've never had them flown into buildings. When the first one hit the towers, we thought it was an accident. It was unfathomable to believe that his was done on purpose. By the time the 2nd one hit, we figured it out.
2007-08-29 18:57:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Especially flight 77 which was off course for an EXTREMELY long time without being intercepted.
The official story is that many of the fighter jets were many hundreds of miles away on training missions.
2007-08-29 18:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by Stefan B 1977 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋