DGM
Skeptic not Atheist
Just out of curiosity, Why do you think the Ottis pilots listened to ATC? They wouldn't have been "playing by the book" right? Your own post put a crimp in your "theory", unless you now want to say the pilots were in on it.But I'm not in a hole. I made legitimate points & asked legitimate questions. I keep being asked,"what did you want them to do? Shoot down a civilian airliner? It might have landed on a school or a hospital" etc,etc.
Okay,then,if shooting down a civilian airliner is such an extreme idea then why scramble fighters in the first place? Why fighters? Fighters are to shoot things down. What was the rush? Why an emergency scramble? Why "full blower all the way"? To get there and do nothing but watch?
Of course the intention was to shoot them down and after 9:03 it wasn't going happening by the book (actually after 8:47). The pilots weren't going to bother with the little game of over take,rock wings etc,etc. And everyone knew it.
Therefore when I see things that look like an intentional game of keep away being played from within our own air defenses,I say so.
You watch too many Bruce Willis movies.
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