8:20 - FAA confirms Flight 11 was a hijacking. Fighter
jets should have been scrambled at this time.
9:37 - Flight 77 hits the Pentagon
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1:17 - Time that Andrews AFB had to protect the Pentagon.
Google Maps provides distance and time by various modes of transportation.
- Car: 0
hours 26 minutes
- Metro/Bus: 1 hour 11 minutes
- Bike: 1 hour 14 minutes
- Jet: could not get from Andrews to the
Pentagon in time?
- Walking: 4 hours 18 minutes.
At least the jets were faster than walking.
- Metro/Bus: 1 hour 11 minutes
At least the jets arrived faster than
Walking: 4 hours 18 minutes
- Jet: should have been able to get to the Pentagon
within minutes
There were two fighter squadrons present at Andrews AFB, one USAF and one Marine Corps squadron. Andrews is 12 miles from the Pentagon. Any unresponsive bogey within P-56 (Prohibited Airspace 56, THE most protected airspace in the world that includes the Nations Capital) would be immediately brought down with mach-plus capable fighter aircraft and/or SAM missiles. To allow a non-responsive sub-sonic commercial aircraft to descend in a downward spiral from an altitude of 7,000 feet, then level off at the precise moment, and then describe a tight 360 degree circle before making a ground level hit exactly where the Pentagon's accounting offices were located... is absolutely inexcusable and many USAF Officers should have been court-marshaled.... unless there was collusion between the White House and the Pentagon that allowed for the Pentagon impact. And this superb flying was supposedly done by a Saudi with only rudimentary skills on single motor aircraft.