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Why is it that a Learjet carrying U.S. Open golf champion Payne Stewart was intercepted by F-16's withing 15-20 minutes of ground controllers losing contact...
Cheney gave NORAD the order to stand down scrambling jets to intercept
So, I was standing in the SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility), which is basically this underground bunker command post for USCENTCOM, when the first plane hit.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
You might want to check your "source" out before you continue to use him. Nobody stood down any flights that day. We were woefully unprepared when it came to intercepting hostile aircraft within our airspace.
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
Another interesting question that should be asked.
Why is it that a Learjet carrying U.S. Open golf champion Payne Stewart was intercepted by F-16's withing 15-20 minutes of ground controllers losing contact...
"At 0933:38 EDT (6 minutes and 20 seconds after N47BA acknowledged the previous clearance), the controller instructed N47BA to change radio frequencies and contact another Jacksonville ARTCC controller. The controller received no response from N47BA. The controller called the flight five more times over the next 4 1/2 minutes but received no response.
About 0952 CDT (1052 EDT) ,7 a USAF F-16 test pilot from the 40th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, was vectored to within 8 nm of N47BA. About 0954 CDT (1054 EDT) , at a range of 2,000 feet from the accident airplane and an altitude of about 46,400 feet, the test pilot made two radio calls to N47BA but did not receive a response".
www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/AAB0001.htm
(ABCnews.com)-H E R N D O N, Va., Aug. 13 — The military sent fighter jets to chase suspicious aircraft 462 times between Sept. 11 and June, nearly seven times as often as the 67 scrambles from the same period a year earlier.
Originally posted by ashamedamerican
Why is it that a Learjet carrying U.S. Open golf champion Payne Stewart was intercepted by F-16's withing 15-20 minutes of ground controllers losing contact...
As you have clearly layed out in your post even generals are now questioning the supposed "truth" we have been spoon-fed.
All I can say is that they better hope they covered their tracks thoroughly, because if the people ever find out what they really did not even god will have mercy on their souls.
1. Why were standard operating procedures for dealing with hijacked airliners not followed that day?
This is not the only source to claim that a stand down order was given, I have seen this repeated again and again in multiple places and from multiple sources.
Well according to this article,we were intercepting planes at a fine rate prior to 9/11.
67 times!! But yet no time on 9/11,for 4 missing planes?
(ABCnews.com)-H E R N D O N, Va., Aug. 13 — The military sent fighter jets to chase suspicious aircraft 462 times between Sept. 11 and June, nearly seven times as often as the 67 scrambles from the same period a year earlier.
Originally posted by jthomas
You'd think 9/11 Truthers would catch on that every time they repeat a debunked claim they just get debunked again to their utter embarrassment.
How many times over the years have we seen this Payne Stewart myth get completely trashed only for it to resurface again as "fact?" What is it with the 9/11 Truther mind that they just don't get it?
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
And without realizing it, you just shot your argument all to hell. CENTCOM is NOT in the loop for continental air defense in the US. So while he can claim he was in a SCIF at CENTCOM all he wants to make himself look all the better for conspiracy theorists. He is full of BS.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
He is full of BS.
Originally posted by pinch
And likewise, have you taken a look at these "generals"? They are some of the absolutely most whacked-out lunatic bat-poop crazy idiots you could find. If you want to hitch your wagon to these moonbats, help yourself.
911 Truth Will Never Fade, Only Grow!
It is clear that at least five if not six training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the morning of 9/11. This meant that NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22 hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled and delayed.