I understand it seems very easy, but the US is a very large country with huge space to cover, and with thousands of flights up at any given day - it's a pretty chaotic situation. After flight 11 was hit, there was a call about a phantom flight 11, from Colin Scoggins, who reported erroneously that Flight 11 was not, in fact, the aircraft that hit the North Tower at 08:46, as had been previously believed, but that it was still in the air and heading towards Washington. NEADS responded to this report by giving a scramble order to three fighters from the 119th Fighter Wing on alert at Langley Air Force Base at 09:24, and by 9:30 they were in the air. American Airlines Flight 77 took off from Dulles International Airport outside Washington D.C. at 08:20. The last transmission from the flight took place at 08:50:51. Later, after hearing about the hijacked planes hitting the World Trade Center, Indianapolis Center suspected that Flight 77 may also have been hijacked, and shared this information with FAA Command Center at Herndon, where staff contacted FAA Headquarters in Washington at 09:25. The FAA did not contact NEADS to make this report. This phone call was initiated by NEADS in an attempt to locate Phantom Flight 11. At 09:35, Colin Scoggins from the FAA's Boston Center again called NEADS to inform them that they had located an aircraft, which later turned out to be Flight 77, heading toward Washington D.C. at a high speed. Two minutes later, a NEADS radar technician spotted a target he believed to be Flight 77. This radar target was in fact Flight 77, but the target vanished as soon as it was discovered. NEADS officials urgently ordered the fighters from Langley to be sent to Washington immediately, but the plane struck the Pentagon at 09:37:46. The Langley fighters were still 150 miles away. Also this guy has nothing to do with sending out any fighter jets, so I don't really understand what you expect him to explain.

@@missJolie85 shill

@@billjim334 no

Depends what you think intercepts means. Hijackings usually land and demands are made. You would look to shoot down before the aircraft is over an urban area but you'd need to be certain it was going 'down' into that area or aiming at a target (which was pretty unprecedented at the time). You'd have to be certain it wasn't trying to land at an airport, of which there are many in the area. By the time it was certainly going into a tower it would almost be too late. Over simplistic. Our military and radar capability now is night and day compared to back then, it's far more advanced today and globally all airspaces coordinate better between military/civilian precisely because of 9/11. Yes the aircraft travelled for about 20 minutes but as you know, the crew were unable to squawk in time which they would be expected to do in a hijacking, a change in direction is abnormal but not indicative of anything sinister straight away.

Two unarmed Air National Guard F15s scrambled from Virginia and tried to intercept the plane that eventually crashed in PA. In an admitted that they agreed that they would ram the plane if possible. Unfortunately, the plane crashed before they could reach it.

Prob lax security at THAT time

They had box cutters and the hijackers threatened they had bombs. I don't think they ever did. Prior to 9/11, small knives like pocket knives were permitted. Definitely a different time.

I don't know if you understand this but it was PRE 9/11

Bombs were fake or they said they had a bomb to scare them and back then u could carry many more things than now

@@OohLaLush I worked in Airport security at that time here in the UK and pocket knives definitely not permitted.

Quit while you’re ahead

I think you watch too many movies. They don't exactly have a bunch of armed jets sitting around all ready to take off at a moment's notice to intercept aircraft

Kinda funny that people don't believe that military jets can't get in the air within minutes. When Russia gets anywhere close to Alaska Canadian and American jets are in the air under 3 minutes to intercept them. No aggression from either side but Russia has tested us and we've escorted them numerous times. Usually Canadia fighter aircraft with an American fuel plane in support but sometimes more of a mixture

Don't fuck with NORAD! Lol

That shit happens monthly if not weekly.