Why were U.S. interceptors halted for 1 hour and 52 minutes on 9/11?

Question

The White House removes shoot-down Authority from military field commanders on wayward aircraft over U.S. airspace (implemented on June 1, 2001), and in the 10 months prior to The White House directive, military interceptors were scrambled successfully on 67 different locations (Associated Press 8/12/2002).

http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/video_true_lies_of_911.htm

Keep it up meat-heads and when they come to take your children away, you will hear me saying "I told you so".

Answer 1

Because it was an inside job!

Answer 2

With all due respect, your statments aren't correct.

For example, in only 1 instance was a military interceptor scrambled for CIVILIAN plane in the decade prior to 9/11.

If you knew the entire NORAD story you would understand that nothing unusual happened with respect to interceptions.

Here's what happened:

ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE NORAD EVENTS ON 9/11 SHOULD READ THIS NICE SUMMARY:

At 8:37AM, the Boston control tower determined that Flight 11 had been hijacked because of an accidental transmission they heard from the hijackers. They contacted NORAD. However, the hijackers had turned off the plane’s transponder so that no one knew where the plane was. 2 F15’s were ordered to battle stations (on the ground) at Otis Air Force base (Falmouth, MA), but they didn’t take off because the controllers, not knowing where Flight 11 was, couldn’t tell NORAD where to go. When Flight 11 hit the North Tower at 8:46AM, the NORAD jets were still on the ground. At 8:53AM, the F15s were ordered into a holding pattern over Long Island awaiting a target. Still, no one was even sure what plane had hit the first tower. They thought it was a small plane.

Meanwhile, Flight 175 was hijacked. Again, the hijackers turned off the transponder so the plane’s location was not exactly known. The NY control tower now had to figure out where 2 flights were, Flight 11 & Flight 175. (it still didn’t understand that Flight 11 had hit Tower 1). The NY controllers finally decided that Flight 175 was hijacked & called NORAD at 9:03AM which was the time that it hit the South Tower.

Even though both towers had been hit, the controllers still hadn’t told NORAD a specific plane to even think about shooting down. The controllers, and almost everyone in the country, just did not know what was going on. This was not their fault. You need those transponders.

At 9:25 the two F15s moved into a holding pattern over NYC, because there was simply nothing for them to do.

At 9:30 AM, two F16s took off from Langley, VA to support the Otis jets in case they ran out of fuel. They also were looking for Flight 11, being unaware that it had already crashed.

Meanwhile Flight 77 was supposed to be heading to Indianapolis, but its transponder was turned off & it did not return radio calls. The control tower in Indianapolis thought the plane had crashed so it didn’t notify NORAD. Hence, none of the airborne jets or controllers knew that Flight 77 was hijacked & that it was well on its way to Washington DC

At 9:32 alert controllers in Boston realized that an unidentified plane was closing in on Wash DC. Thus, they ordered the fighters in NYC to fly to Washington at supersonic speeds (which was actually not permitted then). Unfortunately, even at supersonic speeds, the fighters couldn’t reach Washington until just after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at 9:37 AM. By the way, Flight 77 was thus traced up to the Pentagon disproving the idiotic “missile hitting the pentagon” theory.

As for the 4th plane, Flight 93, indecisiveness delayed a request for military aid and it crashed into a field in Shanksville at 10:03 AM.
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As you can see, nothing was "halted for 1 hour and 52 minutes." That's simply a false statement. You should be concerned with always having your facts right & speaking the truth.

Answer 3

The CIA knew all about Bin Laden before Bush's inauguration. Bush was warned on the day he was inaugurated. He and Rove figured that a hijacking would permit him to declare an emergency that would make him a war president who needed tax cuts. He just didn't know how bad the hijacking would be. He could have locked the pilots' door and avoided 9/11. He should have been impeached.

Answer 4

Gaussian Integer has a very concise answer. However, just turning off a transponder does not in anyway make a plane disappear from radar. The transponder makes it easier to track the plane and provides certain information to the control stations. So the plane would still be on radar if would just show up as an unidentified flight.

Answer 5

Lets say the interceptors downed on of the planes over Manhaten , How many casualties on ground ? you may say its the same look to casualties on the WTC , yes true but who would guess at that time what gonna happen

Answer 6

Prior to 9/11 there was no standing order for military aircraft to shoot down civilian airliners that had been hijacked.

Prior to 9/11 there had never been an attempt to use a hijacked civilian airliner as a suicide weapon.

As usual you conspiracy theorists get the cart before the horse and end up getting a fresh meal of horse apples in doing so.

Bon-Appetite little troll!!!

Answer 7

You're a couple months late...the Conspiracy Theory train already pulled out of the station...You might be able to get a seat on the Ron Paul express if you hurry...

EDIT- Errr, why would they commit the conspiracy of the century if all they wanted to do was take away my children...all they would have needed is a candy train and a guy in a fox suit named J. Worthington Foulfellow...?

Answer 8

You call those of us that don't follow your conspiracy garbage "meat heads". I don't think you people that believe that stuf have brains enough to pour pi55 out of a boot with directions on the heel. Get over it meat head.

Answer 9

Got any proof to support that claim?

Show me a copy of the orders, the directive, the whatever it was used to make that happen. Show me the affadavited testimony of those involved saying this happened.

Show me some proof! Is that too much to ask? Apparently, it is!

Answer 10

I take offense at you calling people meat heads. What makes you so certain that you are correct? Just because it's on the internet, doesn't make it true. Perhaps you are the meat head here.