The Washington air corridor was closed down shortly after 9 that morning.
This is incorrect. The first ATC sector to declare ATC Zero was New York ARTCC, at 0905. Boston ARTCC followed suit soon after, but Washington ARTCC remained open for business for much longer.
There werent a ton of planes (perfectly visible on military radars)flying around without transponders.
Declaring ATC Zero and emptying your airspace are not the same thing. When AA77 hit the Pentagon there were about 4,000 commercial aircraft in the air over the USA - most of them in the east. I'm not sure what you're referring to by "military radars", but NORAD - the only organisation with assets capable of scrambling for an intercept - doesn't have any radars of its own in the Continental United States. It relies on the ARSR-4 radars of the Joint Surveillance System. These radars are fed to FAA ARTCCs and then a feed is sent from the ARTCC to NORAD.
FAA protocol (which i have already posted)would ASSUME( and with certainty after 9 that morning)that an offcourse jetliner without a transponder was a highjack. And immediately ask for help. They're byword is to assume the worst.
This is incorrect. A non operating transponder was not a hijacking indicator on 9/11, and a hijacking did not automatically call for military escort.
From my USN days aboard the Kennedy, even back then an F14 had the ability to track and engage seven targets at the same time.
The F-14s Hughes AWG-9 radar could track 24 targets and engage up to six at a time.
I'm sure you're aware, having worked with F-14s, that the F-14 had the most powerful and unique Air to Air radar ever developed, specifically designed to be used with the AIM-54 Phoenix long range air-to-air missile.
I'm also sure, being so avionics savvy, that you're aware there's a rather fundamental difference between the radar on a combat interceptor and a ground based air route surveillance radar like the ARSR-4. Further, I am sure you're equally aware that there's a rather fundamental difference in operational procedure between a long range interceptor engaging waves of enemy bombers during full-out Nuclear War and alert fighters trying to locate wayward civil airliners in civil airspace during peace time.
And dont try and tell me nobody knew 77 was a rogue until 9:35. Thats the bigest crock i have EVER heard.
Well other than the passengers, the hijackers, the parents of one flight attendant, and possibly a customer services representative at American Airlines, no one knew AA77 was rogue until probably the afternoon of 9/11, if not September 12.
Having said that, at 0921 Indianapolis ARTCC
suspected that AA77 had been hijacked. Of course it doesn't do much good to suspect an aircraft is hijacked if you don't know where it is or where it's going.
As i said earlier, its plain as day, confusion was faked, planes were vectored intentionally errantly, and slowly.If at all. Not to mention the coincidence of wargames morphing the Exact same circumstances that day, a 1 in 365 chance.
What on earth are you talking about?
Norad claimed no interceptors were in the air before the Pentagon hit, that lie has been changed several times, to reflect the commisions third version.
This is incorrect, NORAD had fighters in the air moments after WTC1 was hit.
