The Strange Strange Air Defense Response on 9/11
I already knew that officially, according to the 9/11 commission report, no fighters were scrambled successfully in response to the hijackings of flight 11, flight 175, flight 77 and flight 93. This was over a period of almost one hour and 45 minutes, and one hour where it was clear the country was under unprecedented attack. This of course is completely outrageous.
But it wasn't until I read "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions" by David Ray Griffin that I learned that there actually were fighters scrambled rapidly to counter a hijacked aircraft. The problem is, that this hijacked aircraft was officially non-existant. This was the "phantom" flight 11 that continued flying after the "real" flight 11 hit the north tower.
As we know, there are reasons to believe that this aircraft DID exist. However, the important point for now is that this phantom flight 11 officially did not exist.
To quote from Griffin:
The way this whole episode is treated by the 9/11 commissison undoubtedly indicates they are covering up something important, and my guess that what they are covering up is that this second phantom flight 11 was indeed real, and was a real threat to Washington DC. In fact, for all we really know, this second flight may have been what actually hit the Pentagon.
But the fact that a second mystery flight 11 existed is a killer to the official 9/11 story, especially since we have reason to think that this second flight 11 was important for how the 9/11 hijackings were carried out.
Another interesting possibility is that this second flight 11 was part of the hijacking exercise that was happening on 9/11, and the fighters that were scrambled were also part of that exercise, rather than a real defensive measure. Indeed, the Langley fighters travelled relatively slowly and did not arrive over Washington DC in time to prevent the Pentagon hit. In fact, these fighters initially went the WRONG WAY for some reason-- east over the ocean-- all the more reason to think they were participating in the wargames that morning.
But it wasn't until I read "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions" by David Ray Griffin that I learned that there actually were fighters scrambled rapidly to counter a hijacked aircraft. The problem is, that this hijacked aircraft was officially non-existant. This was the "phantom" flight 11 that continued flying after the "real" flight 11 hit the north tower.
As we know, there are reasons to believe that this aircraft DID exist. However, the important point for now is that this phantom flight 11 officially did not exist.
To quote from Griffin:
...the Commission has generally portrayed FAA personnel as reluctant to notify the military even after they are absolutely confident a hijacking has occurred. But now we are told that a controller, haing a suspicion that must have seemed extremely counterintuitive, expressed this suspicion as a conviction with such confidence to a NEADS technician that this technician passed it on as definite truth to the NEADS commander.Highly bizarre, to say the least.
If all this were not implausible enough, we then have to believe that the NEADS commander would, without verifying the truth of this implausible message with the managers at the Boston center, give Langley a scramble order. The 9/11 commission has usually insisted that all such communications follow the the chain-of-command protocol. But here we are told that a conversation between some person at the Boston center and some technician at NEADS-- neither of whom can now be identified-- was sufficient to swing the US military into action.
The way this whole episode is treated by the 9/11 commissison undoubtedly indicates they are covering up something important, and my guess that what they are covering up is that this second phantom flight 11 was indeed real, and was a real threat to Washington DC. In fact, for all we really know, this second flight may have been what actually hit the Pentagon.
But the fact that a second mystery flight 11 existed is a killer to the official 9/11 story, especially since we have reason to think that this second flight 11 was important for how the 9/11 hijackings were carried out.
Another interesting possibility is that this second flight 11 was part of the hijacking exercise that was happening on 9/11, and the fighters that were scrambled were also part of that exercise, rather than a real defensive measure. Indeed, the Langley fighters travelled relatively slowly and did not arrive over Washington DC in time to prevent the Pentagon hit. In fact, these fighters initially went the WRONG WAY for some reason-- east over the ocean-- all the more reason to think they were participating in the wargames that morning.
posted by spooked at 9:11 AM
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