We had several opportunities beyond airport security to stop these guys from doing the damage they did. It could have been somebody "asleep at their post" in every instance, or it could have been sabotage.
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Four planes at once with no transponder info on the FAA screens and Air Force screens. All of them just showing up as blips on radar. One plane is in a "NO FLY ZONE";.. within constantly monitored, restricted airspace. A pilot has already remarked that when a plane deviates just a little, that the FAA oversight will call and/or allow for course corrections. But, we are talking about planes that were miles off course. In these instances, the FAA reports it to the Air Force. But also, in these instances, the Air Force has already locked onto these planes, because they monitor the commercial system as well as their own. That's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. They have to, so that we don't have military and commercial aircraft flying into one another, constantly. In a circumstance like Flight 11, this plane is so far of course it is ridiculous and they are not responding normally to communications. They did a hard bank (90 degrees to the south) somewhere north of Albany, NY. The Air Force is to scramble at least a recon aircraft to monitor. Why no recon, on any of the first three flights?
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http://www.patriotsaints.com/News/91...ng/capable.htm
Anyone know enough about USAF policy to debunk this? It's well within the realm of possiblity that this guy is talking out his ass, but this isn't the first time I've heard of pilots saying they don't understand how this happened under US airspace regulations.