Originally Posted by MediaGuy

Not everyone at the same time.

Each one of these taken on its own, or even a handful or *half* of them, certainly it's understandable - but taken together with all the other first-time occurences, coincidences, and "inadvertent" serendipitous events that day, does give one pause.

And with the ridiculous secretiveness of NSA, CIA, FBI and the other alphabet agencies about that day - the conspiracy theorists are sure to have a field day. The government is not helping by refusing to release video, for one instance, of the crash at the Pentagon, for example. If it happened the way they say it did, where's the threat to national security? What's on those tapes that isn't on News copter footage or the few frames they did release that would compromise anything?


Actually pilots are trained to be ready to ram even civilian airliners in these cases.

Depending what you read, there were quite a few people who knew what was going on, and had confirmation of the hijack, but everyone was waiting on someone to give the order...

Of course all the confusion about whom and when to call could have been due to Cheney's changing the standarod operating procedure and chain of command several months earlier. And maybe it was a result of the confusion on 9/11, that the order was changed back after 9/11.

Budget cuts in the Bush era seem to have disabled many NORAD "Alert" cold-war defense bases, and though these were "outward looking" as they say, it doesn't mean military pilots aren't prepared to do what it takes - and what they're ordered to do - to defend the country.

I don't remember the exact number but there were very few jets (on the order of three or something) available and not out on training or exercise runs that morning - if not for the whole country, then definitely for the entire eastern coast.

God or Providence or Allah was definitely on the hijackers' side that morning, if you're right ...