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In reply to the discussion: They Lied! [View all]

hack89

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17. Look at the times
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:38 PM
Aug 2014

it took nearly an hour and a half for the first interception. Secondly, these were not dedicated armed interceptors but rather planes in the air on schedule training flights.

The Payne Stewart accident does not make the case that it was routine to scramble fighters to intercept airliners over land pre-9/11

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