I agree that norad should have been on top of it. One could say the closing of bases in prior years thwarted their ability to respond. But they
responded swift and well everytime before and after.
Originally posted by swan001
reply to post by KpxMarMoTT
I asked myself all these questions. The documents are simply classified, nothing can prove our logic right. All our theories, wathever logic they are, can't be proved by actual documents...
The tower could have had a super-combustion using positron based explosion device? That may caused all the electrond in the matter to destroy, leaving bondless atoms or micromolecules.

Originally posted by defcon5
Here's a prime example:
Airliner crew flies 150 miles past airport
NORAD was not involved with this one either, and no fighters were scrambled.
As a matter of fact, the FAA called the airlines dispatch to try and communicate with the crew.
BTW... I don't buy that these guys got in an argument for one second. Personally, I think these two bozo bird drivers fell asleep.edit on 4/5/2012 by defcon5 because: (no reason given)
Plus, watch the videos. The buildings were both hit at the very top--and they fell apart from the bottom. The only way that was possible was if they set off explosives.
Originally posted by samkent
reply to post by XxNightAngelusxX
Plus, watch the videos. The buildings were both hit at the very top--and they fell apart from the bottom. The only way that was possible was if they set off explosives.
You are giving away your age. And it's clear you have not seen the videos.
8:25: Boston Center flight controllers alert other flight control centers regarding Flight 11. NORAD is not yet alerted.
8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies NEADS of the hijacking of Flight 11, the first notification received by NORAD that American 11 had been hijacked. The controller requests military help to intercept the jetliner.
8:46: Two F-15 fighter jets are ordered to scramble from Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, intended to intercept Flight 11. Because Flight 11's transponder is off, the pilots do not know the location of their target. NEADS spends the next several minutes watching their radar screens in anticipation of Flight 11 returning a radar contact.
Ground Interrogation Equipment
An ATC ground station consists of two radar systems and their associated support components. The most prominent component is the PSR. It is also referred to as skin paint radar because sometimes it shows not synthetic or alpha-numeric target symbols, but bright (or colored) blips or areas on the “skin” of the radar screen. This is a non-cooperative process: it doesn't need any additional avionic devices; it detects and displays all reflective objects.Weather radar data is shown in skin paint mode generally. The primary surveillance radar is subject to the radar equation that says signal strength drops off as the fourth power of distance to the target. Objects detected using the PSR are known as primary targets.
The second system is the secondary surveillance radar, or SSR, which depends on a cooperating transponder installed on the aircraft being tracked. The transponder emits a signal when it is swept by the secondary radar. In a transponder based system signals drop off as the inverse square of the distance to the target, instead of the fourth power in primary radars. As a result, effective range is greatly increased for a given power level. The transponder can also send encoded information about the aircraft, such as identity and altitude.