some interesting info Wrote:
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> I just wanted to get some reactions to the
> following points that have boggled my mind
> regarding the circumstances around 911.
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> 3.) All fighter planes that could have protected
> NY and DC were scrambled out over the Atlantic
> ocean and NC. Interesting we would leave those 2
> cities unprotected.
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> 4.) The training exercise occuring at the time of
> the attacks was for terrorist hijacking of
> airplanes and so there were hundreds of fake radar
> blips on screen.
Totally false. At the time of the hijacking there were only 6 planes detailed to be "ready alert" types of interceptors for the entire eastern seaboard. Not sure where you are getting your information from, but it is probably akin to the guy in France who says that a missile is what hit the Pentagon even though there were hundreds of eye-witnesses to the event. Sorry that there aren't cameras 24/7 covering every square inch of the outside of the building, but - it happens. Before 9/11 it was not that huge a priority to put cameras on every square inch of the grounds when you had protective fencing and other measures to keep ground threats away from the building. Undoubtedly they would have little chance of having cameras in place to catch the airborne ones...
9/11 10th Anniversary: F-15 pilot Dan Nash recalls response
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/9-11_10th_anniversary_f-15_pilot_dan_nash.html
...Otis kept two of its roughly 18 F-15 fighters -- as well as one or two “spares” -- on alert, fully armed and ready to scramble. In all, Nash said, six fighters were on alert status to defend the eastern seaboard each day in September 2001: the two at Otis, two at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and two at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida....
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...As the eagle flies, it’s 153 miles from Cape Cod’s Otis Air National Guard Base to New York City. Duffy and Nash cruised at a supersonic Mach 1.2. “We got there as fast as we could,” Nash, now a lieutenant colonel with the Air Guard's 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Regional Airport in Westfield, recalled recently.
They were 70 miles out when an air traffic controller told them that a “second plane” had hit the World Trade Center. “We were scrambled on a suspected hijacking of American (Flight)11,” Nash said. “And, that’s all we knew. So when they said a second aircraft had hit the World Trade Center, my reaction was, ‘Well, what happened to American 11?’ Because nobody was talking about that anymore.” ...
The official scramble order from the Northeast Air Defense Sector came in to the Otis command post at 8:46 a.m. -- the same moment that Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Nash and Duffy were in the air at 8:52 a.m., Vittner wrote, flying on full after-burners...
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