US air defenses completely unprepared for September 11
0 Comments | AFP, June, 2004
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US civilian and military aviation authorities were completely unprepared for the September 11, 2001 attacks and plagued by poor coordination and communications as they cobbled together a response, a national inquiry commission said.
But the country's air-defense commander insisted that if the military had been informed promptly about the hijackings of four airliners they could have shot them down before they wreaked havoc in New York and outside Washington.
The commission said procedures drafted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) had been based on a traditional hijacking and not a suicide attack using the aircraft as a guided missile.
"On the morning of 9/11, the existing...
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