remember when Bush/CHeney assumed control of the Flight shootdown control?
2 months later, 911 happened and the generals were powerless to shoot down planes heading for buildings while Bush and Cheney wouldn't give the order.
Perhaps the state militias will have an issue in the coming months and the governors will be powerless to act in some capacity?
Umm. Norad still is control over American air space.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/secrethistory/timeline7.htmlOfficers at the Northeast Air Defence Sector had still not heard from FAA headquarters. At 9:08 am, Mission Crew Commander
Kevin Nasypany began improvising the air defence of North America. "There were a lot of things going through my mind whether I was going to have to force an aircraft down was I going to have to shoot it down? My whole goal is to stop what's happening," recalls Nasypany. "People loose track of how much chaos there was. We were in a situation that was just a mess, you know, and we were trying to get our arms around it a little bit," says Duffy.
Things were about to get worse. Shortly after 9 am, American Airlines realized that another of their planes, Flight 77, was probably hijacked. Again, relaying the news to the U.S. military would be delayed this time by half an hour. Lt .Colonel Steve O'Brien of the Minnesota Air National Guard happened to be in the Washington area that day. He took off from Andrews Air Force Base at 9:30 in a C-130 cargo plane. Unaware of what was going on, he was pointing out the sights of the national capital to his crew. Then, air traffic controllers asked him to look out for the American Airlines plane. In fact, the hijacked aircraft was about to collide with him. "At that time, we had been converging to the point where he had started to roll up into a forty-five degree bank turn and was almost filling up our entire windscreen. It was fairly close. I would say within a half mile or so. Then maybe five, ten seconds later they came back and asked us if we still had him in sight and if we did they'd like us to follow the aircraft. That was strange, because I've never in twenty-something years of flying have I been asked to follow an aircraft, especially a commercial aircraft," says O'Brien.
American Airlines Flight 77 would crash into the Pentagon at 9:37 am. O'Brien witnessed the crash from the air, " We saw the explosion and I knew right away what had happened. The way it hit the Pentagon, it didn't look like it was an accident. I mean most pilots, if they've got an emergency going on in their aircraft, they are going to do everything they can to avoid populated areas, certainly avoid hitting a big building if they can."
