Did 9/11 happen because NORAD, USAF, FAA all got lazy at the same time and forgot to use basic hijack protocol

Answer 1

1) USAF generally would have nothing to do with a hijacking. They are part of the military.

2) The FAA & NORAD did not get lazy. What happened, is (first) it took a while to figure out the planes were hijacked. The hijackers didn't tell the control towers anything.

Secondly, the hijacked planes had their transponders turned off, & they couldn't be tracked. No one could figure out where the planes were, so NORAD wasn't even asked to send jets up initially because noone could tell them where to go. When WTC 1 & 2 were hit, even then, controllers weren't sure what was happening.

Fighters then went up over NYC, but too late.

Finally, someone realized that a plane was coming to Washington (Flight 77) but the NORAD jets couldn't make it there in time from NYC. It hit the pentagon.

Everyone followed "protocol" The problem is that we didn't have a quick way of figuring out when a plane is hijacked & where it is if the hijackers turn off the transponder. It has very little to do with NORAD or protocol. It was a tracking problem.

The things we do now to prevent this is (1) better screening of passengers for weapons. (2) Better doors on the cockpits.
We might also have transponders that can't be turned off, I don't know, but that would be a good idea.

Answer 2

A lot of failures contributed to the events of September 11, 2001 however it appears that somebody with a superior intellect as yourself wouldn't have make any of those mistakes. Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? Permitting one to ask such important questions such as "How could you be so stupid?".........

Colonel Frank Borman appeared before Congress in 1967 to answer questions regarding the tragic Apollo One fire. He was being being bow beating by Wather Mondale who wanted to cancel the Apollo program. Another Congressman asked Colonel Borman 'who or what went wrong that caused this fire that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee?'

Colonel Borman told them that everybody at NASA and North American (Makers of the capsule), even himself all had to share in the responsible for a 'failure of imagination', nobody ever believed such an event would ever occur. Was it foreseen that an event like like 9/11 could happen? Yes, a lot of people had foreseen it as a possibility, but nobody had dreamt of it on such a scale.

So if you like you can throw NORAD, the USAF and the FAA under the bus for not being full prepared on 9/11, but before you do ask yourself how prepared were you on 9/11? It is real easy to talk trash about this and that six years after the fact.....

Answer 3

Yet another liberal showing how little they actually know about the military, yet are more than willing to try and bash the military.

Prior to 9-11, NORAD did not, and was not responsible for monitoring air traffic inside of the USA. When NORAD was established in the 1950's they only monitored threats that were trying to penetrate US airspace.

It was only after 9-11 that the charter of NORAD was changed making them responsible for challenging threats flying within the US...

Answer 4

Conspiracy theories
Main article: 9/11 conspiracy theories
Various conspiracy theories have emerged as a reaction to the attacks suggesting that individuals outside of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda knew of, planned, or carried out the attacks.[134] According to an August 2007 Zogby opinion poll sponsored by 9/11 Truth, 26 percent of the American public suspect the government turned a blind eye toward the attacks, and 4.6 percent suspect the government participated in the attacks.[135] These theories are not accepted as credible by most mainstream journalists, scientists, and political leaders, who have concluded that responsibility for the attacks and the resulting destruction rests with Al Qaeda.[

Answer 5

There do seem to be some massive coincidences in the timing of 9/11 and maybe even a hint of an idea that there was a leak from Cheneys office about the date of a huge anti terrorist exercise which lead to the confusion amongst the people in NORAD and air defense command.

The links from this site are very interesting reading but you can draw your own conclusions.

Answer 6

Stupid question, there were no such things in place over the skies of the USA before 9/11 except for restricted airspace over the Whitehouse and other sensitive military locations.

Answer 7

I don't think we had any protocols for such an event.

Hijackings before then were used as political statements or as transportation to sympathetic countries.

Never before this had anyone used planes as missiles, and despite the evidence that Al Qaeda would try such a thing, the administration had no plans for how to deal with it.

Answer 8

NORAD has nothing to do with civil aviation
USAF does not play cops and robbers with civilian pilots unless they are flying over no-fly zones
FAA saw it all as it was happening, however, they did all they could've done from the towers at the airports.

You are way off base.

Answer 9

I don't remember seeing "When planes ram into Buildings Hijacking " in the contingency book back then.

Answer 10

It happened because airport security let folks go through with box cutters.