StrongButKind
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ORIGINAL: sissifytoserve Well.....to me the most hilarious "Story" of all is some guy in a Turban in a cave made NORAD stand down on 9-11. But if a golfer (payne stuart) flys off course for 15 minutes (pre-911)...F-16 are right on his tail. Yet 4....yes 4 planes were able to fly for 2 hours with their transponders off.....no fighters were scrambled. Gee I wonder why. Could be that "new pearl harbor" they need to get wwIII started. Lots of money to be made. From the PM report: CLAIM:"It has been standard operating procedures for decades to immediately intercept off-course planes that do not respond to communications from air traffic controllers," says the Web site oilempire.us. "When the Air Force 'scrambles' a fighter plane to intercept, they usually reach the plane in question in minutes." FACT: In the decade before 9/11, NORAD intercepted only one civilian plane over North America: golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet, in October 1999. With passengers and crew unconscious from cabin decompression, the plane lost radio contact but remained in transponder contact until it crashed. Even so, it took an F-16 1 hour and 22 minutes to reach the stricken jet. Rules in effect back then, and on 9/11, prohibited supersonic flight on intercepts. Prior to 9/11, all other NORAD interceptions were limited to offshore Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ). "Until 9/11 there was no domestic ADIZ," FAA spokesman Bill Schumann tells PM. After 9/11, NORAD and the FAA increased cooperation, setting up hotlines between ATCs and NORAD command centers, according to officials from both agencies. NORAD has also increased its fighter coverage and has installed radar to monitor airspace over the continent.
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