Reply #6: Intercept means get up there and find out what's going on [View All]

[eridani]

not shooting a plane out of the sky. Normal procedure calls for intercepting ANY plane that is off of flight plan, and doesn't respond to radio. Not because it means a hijacking--mostly it doesn't. What it always and everywhere means is serious deep shit trouble. Always! It is imperative to find out whether some malfunction has occurred which might cause a crash, possibly in populated areas.

The question is WHY WERE NORMAL, STANDARD PROCEDURES NOT FOLLOWED?? Twelve different jets tracked golfer Payne Stewart's plane until the last pair was able to verify that the plane's windows had frosted over, it was unlikely that anyone in it was alive, and that it was on course to crash in an unpopulated area.

WHY WAS THIS NOT DONE ON 9/11?? My employer has had more thorough investigations of paper cut injuries.