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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 09:00 AM
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911 comes down to a failure of the air traffic controllers to noftify the
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air force to scramble or anyone else. Twenty minutes after the WTC
Cleveland was still asking, do you think we should ask the Air Force to scramble? and the supervisors said no.

On top of that, when Langley sent up the F 15's they thought they were looking for ICBM missiles from Russia. No one told them they
were looking for hijacked planes that were being used as missiles.

When they saw the Pentagon on fire they thought they had let an ICBM
missile get through.

But the main responsibility is the stupidity of the air traffic controllers. Yes they are trained to be calm at all times, but does that mean their brains are in "prozac" mode.
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