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Re: NORAD spokesman on interceptions
Tom Brosz — (archived)

The aircraft routinely intercepted by U.S. fighters are usually military ones from other nations, not passenger planes full of civilians that originate inside the U.S.. This makes a hell of a big difference. The quote you gave came from this article. It might be educational to read the rest of it.

"We scramble aircraft to respond to any aircraft that we consider a potential threat. The hijacked aircraft were normal, scheduled commercial aircraft on approved flight plans and we only had 10 minutes prior notice to the first
attack, which unfortunately was not enough notice," said Marine Corps Major Mike Snyder, a spokesman for NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo.



"This is an unprecedented event, unfortunately, and we're just going to have to adjust accordingly," Snyder said.



I would like to know if there is more recent information on which of the two scrambling timelines given in this article is the actual one, but note that even had the planes scrambled immediately as CBS said, they still wouldn't have made it in time.

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