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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 24 2004, 07:26 PM
Your explanation that "they need 5 minutes to secure the building" strikes me as a little odd.
For conversation, the timeline:
Card told GW Bush about the second plane at 9:05. At 9:15, Bush was in a holding room being briefed and considering remarks to the nation. At 9:35, the presidential motorcade left the school, half an hour after Bush had been told of the second plane while in the classroom.
At 9:54, Air Force One lifted off.
Cowperson
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Right on schedule after NORAD, the NSC, and the FAA had about 10-15 minutes to compare what they each knew for certain versus what was speculation, and what each was capable of doing.
Interesting tidbit. The military technically owns and is responsible for all the airspace over the US, but they grant through legal agreement the FAA authority to operate all airspace from the surface to 60,000’. It took about 1 hour for the FAA to orderly transfer most of the airspace operational control and authority back to the military through NORAD.