Now on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3aNMLkahcThey say in the last minute:
7:40 AAL11 left the gate
57 minutes later FAA informed NORAD
9 minutes to scramble interceprors
this gives: 7:40, 8:27 and 8:36
so more or less the OCT.
But they do NOT account for:
1. the surrealistic time between 8:13 (time of the signs of hijacking) and the late notification of the military. Imagine an ATC calling AAL11 for a quarter of an hour "where are you"? "Why don`t you answer?" "Hello!" "Don`t drive drunk and in the wrong way!" "Helllllllloooooho!"-
14 minutes like that. It is bullshit, they do not argue about that.
2. Allegedly there was a confusion with an exercise going on ? In a splut of a second even according to the video it is cleared: no ecercise, real world. The exercise cannot be an excuse, not at all, never.
3. 9 minutes to give the order to scramble ? No explanation for that. After it is clear ()"real world") it takes one hit on the button. Why should anybody in the NEADS should care for nothing else than the chief of the fire brigade who says: "do your job, the alarm is red now".
4. Allegedly the pilots do not know where they should go at thattime. But this causes no problem: they have radio, the AAL11 is on the RADAR of the ATCs, and the pilots have radar themselves.
5. The time between order to scramble and (alleged)start (8:52) is not mentioned in this part. No problem. It is the normal period of time internationally for QRA (Quick reaction alert). The only problem is: at 8:52 no intercepror left OTIS. There is no witness for that - but there are witnesses for
a) no scrambling at that time and b) no arrival in due time in New York.
The BBC documentary is primitive, bad, no new "information" and does not argue about the important issues.
Just saw part two which only adds to this issue that the pilots went seawards because they were used to do so. One laugh more. Imaagine a fire brigade, a police unit, a clinic emrgency transport acting that way. Again: they have radio to get informed where the plane is which should be intercepted.
Yes and it were a lot of planes in the airspace. Divide the number by ARTCCs and by ATCs in charge: a normal amount to get clear.