What Were F-16's Doing Out 150 Miles Over The Atlantic?
They Were Supposedly Sent To Intercept Flight 77
They were 300 Miles West Of Flight 77
Langley Is A NORAD Alert Base
The USS Washington Carrier Group Was Out There
9/11 Testimony The NORAD mission commander ordered his only three other planes on alert in Virginia to scramble and fly north to Baltimore. Minutes later, when he was told that a plane was approaching Washington, he learned that the planes were flying East over the Atlantic Ocean away from Baltimore and Washington, so that when the third plane struck the Pentagon NORAD's fighters were 150 miles away, farther than they were before they took off. The order to scramble was given to fighters out of Langley Air Force base in Virginia, leaving the fighters scrambled from Otis over New York. However, the Langley fighters were headed east, not north, because they followed a "generic" scramble order. This sent them over the ocean, out of local airspace, because the lead pilot and local FAA controller incorrectly assumed the flight plan instruction to go east was newer guidance that superseded the original scramble order. The Truth Is: Flight 77 went out on a kamikaze strike on the USS Washington, which was on maneuvers in the area. Langley's fighters shot down Fl 77 over the Atlantic. Full 9/11 commission report ... Page 45 ...PDF .. Jets out in Atlantic
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