Amanda Angelika wrote:

In news:nigmg.47647$fb2.23494@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net,
Bryan Olson <fakeaddress@nowhere.org> typed:

Amanda Angelika wrote:

What is remarkable about 911 is the considerable amount of response
time available between the first and second plane hit should have
been sufficient to scramble the fighters.

Sixteen minutes is not long. At the time no one but the
terrorists knew that another plane was headed for the second
tower.

Well it should be sufficient time to get airborn and at mach 2 thats 250
miles in 10 minutes.

Why don't you check out how things really work instead of just
making up what you think should have happened?

Admittedly one would not want to down a US civilian passenger
aircraft, under any circumstances.  but the second plane could have
been buzzed sufficiently to send it on a different course

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Your just making that up right?

Well there are a number of things fighter jets can do to buzz a larger

So the answer is yes, you're just making stuff up.

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The problem is even highly experienced commercial pilots would have
difficulty flying a passenger jet into a particular building
hundreds of miles away with practically no navigational aids.

Finding the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on a clear day is hard?
Where did you get that incredibly stupid idea?

Things may look big on the ground, but it's a different story from the air
and travelling at 500 mph there is little margin for error.

You don't know what you are talking about.