Originally posted by: alchemize
I read this and listened to all the tapes the other day. I hestitated to post it because of a certain fly species it may draw...
It was pretty clear that there wasn't good system integration - NORAD, the FAA, and the airlines. Shocking too how few armed fighters we had ready to scramble for the entire US. I wonder if that's changed? And also the pentagon was more concerned about covering it's collective poltical ass than admitting faults in the system and improving.
PS: Pics?
If I may comment. There was an little known article a few years ago that never made the main stream american press on this topic. The systems these people are using have major differences. I hesitate to say descrepancies becuase that would indicate something is wrong with both systems.
yet the real difference is each system was designed for a different purpose.
Also I found it very hard to believe that in the time it would take a passenger airliner taking off from what is it Dales International Airport and heading for the White House no jet fighter would be able to intercept the airliner before it hit the white house unless by some miracle we had a few already in the air for some other purpose.
Yet who knows if they have corrected these discrepancies? It falls under the heading of national security you can bet we will never know.
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