WAS THE LACK OF AIR DEFENSE ON 9/11 DELIBERATE?
The reported events of airline hijackings on September 11th, 2001 have had a great influence on the situation in the world since then and bear critical examination. The United States Government spends more on the military than all the rest of the countries on the Earth combined. The job of NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) is to know every inch of the skies over North America and protect them from attack. The Air National Guard maintains seven alert sites with fourteen fully armed fighters on call around the clock. New York City and Washington D.C. are far and away the top two cities in the United States that would be targeted by terrorists. Is it possible that one hour and fifty-three minutes went by from the time that radio contact was lost with American Airlines Flight 11 and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 while the USAF supposedly failed to intercept and shoot down any of these hijacked airplanes?
A minute-by-minute chronology of events with special
emphasis on the “hijacked” airplanes striking the World Trade Center will show
that NORAD had every opportunity to intercept and shoot down those planes.
At 8:13:31 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 made its last transmission after Boston Air Traffic Control: AAL 11 turn 20 degrees right. American Airlines Flight 11 responds: 20 right AAL 11. A few seconds later the Controller asks: AA11 now climb maintain FL350 (35,000 feet) Controller: AAL climb maintain FL 350 Controller: AAL 11 Boston. There is no response from American Airlines Flight 11. From 8:14 to 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 goes off course and is hijacked. At 8:17 a.m., after 3 minutes and 30 seconds of lost voice contact with American Airlines Flight 11, the FAA should have started to implement Standard Intercept Procedures. At 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 transponder signal stops transmitting Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) beacon signal. Did the FAA implement Standard Intercept Procedures and tell NORAD between 8:14 and 8:20? Did NORAD then sit on (Stand Down) this information for twenty-six to thirty-two minutes, until they finally tell the 102nd Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachussets to scramble at 8:46? Somewhere between 8:13:31 and 8:20, American Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked, and by 8:20 its transponder also is turned off, and NORAD doesn’t order Otis to scramble until 8:46.
If they did follow procedure and notify NORAD at 8:25 and NORAD followed protocol and ordered the 102nd Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachussets to scramble at say 8:26—two F-15s would have been airborne by no later than 8:32—these F-15s would have had at least fourteen minutes and twenty-six seconds to reach the WTC before American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the north side of the North Tower at 8:46:26. If these two F-15s were flying at top speed, fourteen minutes and twenty-six seconds is exactly twice the amount of time needed to reach the WTC. These two F-15s could have been at the WTC in just over seven minutes, or as early as 8:39. Even a spokesperson for Otis said that their F-15s could reach the WRC in ten to twelve minutes, which would have them there at 8:42 to 8:44. These two F-15s could have easily intercepted American Airlines Flight 11.
Almost forty miles north of the WTC on the Hudson River is by far the number one terrorist target in the United States. Indian Point and its three nuclear power stations, two of which are online. These three nuclear stations have accumulated sixty-five years worth of stockpiled highly radioactive waste. Indian Point is only twenty-four miles north of the New York City border. It is surrounded by the densest concentration of population in the United States, the northeast corridor. Why did American Airlines Flight 11 fly directly over the number one terrorist target in the United States, Indian Point nuclear power stations, and not hit it?
At 8:39 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 flies directly over the number one terrorist target in the United States, Indian Point nuclear power stations. If American Airlines Flight 11 hits Indian Point correctly in any of three different ways, they could have caused a meltdown and a release of vast amounts of radiation. Casualties could possibly be upwards of twenty million people prematurely dying from radiation poisoning. The whole northeast corridor fro New York City to Boston would instantly become a wasteland for thousands of years. Why did American Airlines Flight 11 jeopardize their mission by flying another seven plus minutes (when they could and should have been intercepted by the USAF) down the Hudson River to hit the WTC between the 94th and 98th floors where they ended up “only” killing less than half of the three thousand fifty-six people that died, when they could have hit their enemy’s number one target? Why didn’t they hit Indian Point?
Why was the Pentagon hit on the so-called “peaceful” west side, which was mostly under construction as opposed to the command center east side of the Pentagon?
If one plane didn’t do the job at Indian Point, two planes most definitely would have done the job. United Airlines Flight 175 also flew very close to Indian Point; it was literally within a couple of minutes flying time. United Airlines Flight 93 left Newark International Airport, within ten minutes flying time of Indian Point. Three of these airliners could have hit Indian Point within about thirteen minutes of each other, between 8:39 and 8:52, if they had wanted to. The whole northeast corridor fro New York City to Boston would instantly become a wasteland for thousands of years.
NORAD officially admitted that the FAA told them about the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:40. Ao for twenty-six minutes and twenty-nine seconds nothing has been done. This doesn’t happen accidentally.
At 8:46 a.m. NORAD orders the 102nd
Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachussets to
scramble two of their F-15 fighters. This is from the 102nd Fighter
Wing’s mission statement of September 11, 2001: “Our aircraft and their crews
are on continuous 24-hour, 365-day alert to guard our skies…” . NORAD may have
held on to the vital information of American Airlines Flight 11 for perhaps
eight minutes, maybe ten minutes, possibly up to twenty-six minutes and let us
not forget that the last voice transmission of american Airlines Flight 11 with
Boston air traffic control occurred at 8:13:31; so maybe NORAD had over
thirty-two minutes before they notified Otis to scramble their two F-15s. How
could NORAD hold on to the information of the American Airlines Flight 11
hijacking and not immediately have scrambled Otis? At 8:46:26 a.m. American
Airlines Flight 11 impacts the north side of the North Tower of the WTC between
the 94th and 98th floors flying at a speed of 490 miles
per hour.
At 8:47 a.m. the FAA informed NORAD of American Airlines Flight 11 striking the World Trade Center. NORAD says it doesn’t tell the two F-15 pilots now scrambling to take-off from Otis that Flight 11 has hit the WTC until 8:57. Why not? Especially when there is another hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175, so close to New York City- and at 8:49 it turns and heads straight on for New York City?
NORAD says that when United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the WTC at 9:02:54m tge two F-15s from Otis are still seventy-one miles away. This means their average flight speed was only 23.9% of their top speed in trying to intercept United Airlines Flight 175.
Otis is 153 miles from the WTC. F-15s have a top speed of 1875+ mph. Minus 71 miles left from 153 miles equals 82 miles covered in the eleven minutes from 8:52 take-off to 9:03. Sixty minutes divided by eleven minutes equals 5.45, times this by the 82 miles covered equal 447.3 mph. How could these two F-15s possibly be going less than one-quarter their top speed in trying to intercept United Airlines Flight 175? How? Stand down.
American Airlines Flight was headed straight for Washington D.C., which was 300 miles from the position of the F-15s. All they have to do is to fly only 576.9 mph or 30.8% of their top speed to beat American Airlines Flight 77 to the Pentagon. What do we pay these guys to do? Why didn’t these F-15s leave at any time between 9:03 and 9:26 to intercept American airlines flight 77, the only airliner in the sky with its transponder signal off and also off course and heading straight to Washington D.C.? Why, NORAD? Stand down.
In regard to the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 (the so-called “cell phone flight”) whereby the media and government assert passengers overpowered hijackers; it bears investigating the approaching impossible likelihood of several cell phone calls being made at cruising altitude of an airliner. Please read ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky- An Alternative 9-11 Scenario’ and ‘Cell Phone Experiments in Airliners’ in Volume 1, Number 3 of ‘The Revisionist’ available from www.wwiibooks.com to learn more. In the case of United Airlines Flight 93, anyway, an Air force pilot may well actually have shot down a “hijacked” airliner.
This article is primarily comprised of excerpts from the article ‘Stand Down-Was 9-11 Lack of Air Defense Deliberate?’ by Mark Elsis