• @[email protected]
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    3110 months ago

    I mean, were there actually a terrorist onboard the plane, I imagine the logic would be “If they hijack it and decide to try to crash it into something 9/11 style, a fighter can at least blow it up in time to prevent more casualties on the ground”

    • TheRealKuni
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      710 months ago

      This would make sense. Fighters were scrambled to take out Flight 93. The assumed target was the White House, so they were scrambled so fast they didn’t have time to arm them. Their plan was to literally crash into the hijacked plane. One into the tail, one into the cockpit.

      By the time they arrived the plane had already been brought down by the passengers.

        • TheRealKuni
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          210 months ago

          I’m not totally sure, I don’t recall whether that was answered in the interview I saw with one of the pilots.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        210 months ago

        That’s surprising that they don’t keep at least a few jets armed in case they need to be scrambled for real. Guessing that’s since changed and they do now.