The first plane would have hit no matter what. Probably the second too, as that was when people started realizing that it was an intentional attack and not just a freak accident. After the grounding of all planes though they could have opened fire, although it would have been REALLY bad PR.

as we disovered the other night, you know little regarding such things

MA you are the definition of an ignorant nigger tbh.

uh huh sure kiddo

MA youre mentally retarded

incorrect. they did practice drills 4x a week for yrs

took no longer than 10 min to scrabble an intercept which was immediately triggered upon violating airspace

on 9/11... it took 50 minutes

Drills and real life is different.

The government is actually pretty impotent.
The difference between terrorist attacks happening and not happening... is the will to commit acts of terrorism.🤷‍♂️

Not to mention that they had to fly a quarter of the way up the country.

they had such things down to a SCIENCE during the cold war........ intercepting those relatively slow aircraft was childs play

incorrect. the airwing responsible is less that 20 min by car

so the pentagon is in a major city

planes fly around the area all the time

a stones throw by air

and you expect them to randomly scrample jets

read the JTAC docs

to shoot down a radom plane

one among many

They were on the tail of at least one plane, can't remember which one, but IIRC they were given orders not to fire.

Then again, the documentary I'm thinking of came out like, a decade ago, so I'm possibly misremembering things.

not 'random'

which was cleared for everything

by our own airports

and air traffic control

hostile the MOMENT it enters restricted airspace

the air traffic patterns are carefully laid out to keep commerical traffic in very specific lanes

espeically around sensitive areas

so

reagan airport

is like

right next to

the pentagon

You do realize they move at like, 700 MPH right? Commercial planes can cross all of NYC in a couple of minutes, much less through the restricted airspace in question.

yes, but any plane LANDING at Reagan MUST REDUCE AIRSPEED to avoid overshooting the runway

this means if they do NOT, they have time to SHOOT THEM DOWN

9/11 truthers are always quick to blame the all powerful and totally competent bush admin but never seem to point out how the attackers had Saudi ties.

because their approach vectors (which includes speed) dictates if they are indeed in a particular flight path

Your pointing fingers at the wrong govt.

it's like a carousel

if you miss your approach window, there is a plane behind you... so you have to loop around