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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
IIRC, the first plane that intercepted Payne's plane was an F-16 already in the air and in the general vicinity (on a test run flown by a test pilot?). That cuts significant time off having to scramble a jet from the ground... and it still took them over an hour.
A significant weakness in the US' internal air defense doesn't equal a conspiracy and Ventura point out that weakness doesn't support a conspiracy.
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Is it even a significant weakness? Jeez, every single person's experience with the military, except for Cap'n, is limited to what we have seen on TV and played on video games.
Looking for a few airliners in one of the busiest transportation corridors in the world must be akin to looking for a few needles in a whole stack of needles. Everything looks the same and making the wrong decision, ie. intercepting or even attacking the wrong airliner would be an incredibly brutal error.