I was surprised at how hard it was to track the planes once the terrorists had turned off the jets' transponders. The limited number of fighters available to defend the US eastern seaboard was also a surprise.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
September 11 tapes
Vanity Fair has an article on the recently released tapes of conversations and phone calls from NORAD's North East command post as they responded to the events of September 11 2001. The article shows how there day evolves from a normal morning with a planned exercise ahead, to a the chaos of a full blown attack.
I was surprised at how hard it was to track the planes once the terrorists had turned off the jets' transponders. The limited number of fighters available to defend the US eastern seaboard was also a surprise.
I was surprised at how hard it was to track the planes once the terrorists had turned off the jets' transponders. The limited number of fighters available to defend the US eastern seaboard was also a surprise.
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