This section presents the most important errors contained in statements from subsequent public information efforts.
-- Inaccurate Statement 1: The FAA notified the military at 9:16 that United 93 was hijacked.
-- Inaccurate Statement 2: The FAA notified the military of the hijacking of American 77 at 9:24.
-- Inaccurate Statement 3: The Langley fighters were scrambled in response to the FAA’s notification to the military, at 9:24, that American 77 was hijacked.
-- Inaccurate Statement 4: Military officials were tracking United 93 and intended to intercept the aircraft if it continued towards Washington, DC.
I found this compelling :::
Contrary to testimony before the Commission, the Langley fighters were ordered scrambled not because of United 93, which had not been hijacked, nor because of American 77, which had not yet been reported to NEADS, but because of the mistaken report that American 11 – the first hijacked plane – had not hit the World Trade Center, but was heading south towards Washington, DC. The fighters were ordered scrambled initially toward New York, and then vectored toward Baltimore, in an effort to intercept that mistakenly reported aircraft. The best evidence for both this false report and the resulting scramble is the subpoenaed NEADS tape, which records that at approximately 9:21....
FAA had run its efforts through a Security and Counterterrorism Committee begiknning back in the 1990s. This effort went through various renaming exercises over the years.
In any case, any and all tasking that would have coordinated hijacking information was avoided.
No central counterterrorism information center at FAA ??? Despite all that money spent in the 1990s ?
Who knew ?
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