What Were F-16's Doing Out 150 Miles In The Atlantic

They Were Supposedly Sent To Intercept Flight 77

They were 300 Miles West Of Fl 77

Langley Is A NORAD Alert Base

The USS Washington Carrier Group Was Out There

Why Did Langley Send It's Fighters East?

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lead pilot and local FAA controller incorrectly assumed the flight plan instruction to go east was newer guidance that superseded the original scramble order.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. A cruise missile hit the Pentagon, and Langley's fighters shot down Fl 77 over the Atlantic.

Full 9/11 commission report ... Page 45 ...PDF .. Jets out in Atlantic

Judicial Index