IP: Read it and be real worried -- [And we need a missile shield !! ]-- Pentagon Tracked Deadly Jet but Found No Way to Stop It

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

One hour and they could not get a jet fighter there I assume from Andrews I 
could drive it in less time.. Wonder what would have happened if it had 
been a old USSR bomber coming in. Sounds like not contingency plans at all 
and fouled up chain of command.

Dave


http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15CONT.html

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 — During the hour or so that American Airlines Flight 
77 was under the control of hijackers, up to the moment it struck the west 
side of the Pentagon, military officials in a command center on the east 
side of the building were urgently talking to law enforcement and air 
traffic control officials about what to do.

But despite elaborate plans that link civilian and military efforts to 
control the nation's airspace in defense of the country, and despite two 
other jetliners' having already hit the World Trade Center in New York, the 
fighter planes that scrambled into protective orbits around Washington did 
not arrive until 15 minutes after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. Even if they 
had been there sooner, it is not clear what they would have done to thwart 
the attack.

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