As has been explained here ad nauseam, the fighters' response time was too slow for them to be able to intercept 77. My questions remain unanswered. How was the "mystery plane" identified as an E4B, and would it be unusual to see an E4B in the sky over our nation's capital?
White, four engines (modified 747), widely seen, photographed, videotaped, broadcast, often confused with Flight 77 (reports of it flying over the capitol are usually referring to this). Linda Brookhart's famous photo:
I don't know how unusual it is, but many people felt it was unusual, flying over restricted airspace. Four of these "Doomsday planes" were part of the Global Guardian exercise happening that morning. This is probably one.
It's not officially acknowledged but in every other way. CNN did a segment on it even.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUF7a42qz8 The 84 RADES radar data farmer obtained shows it taking off from Andrews AFB at 9:43, flying north over the east side of the capitol at 9:45, west along its north edge, looping north and passing south over its west edge again at 9:49.
So I dunno, is that unusual?
I pre-ordered the book, he's not a CIT-Pffft level liar, but I don't really hold high hopes for it.
9:32? He's in good company there - Terral Lee Croft and Barbara Honegger are the other two champions of a case built on two wall clocks that had fallen and stopped at attack time - and had their hands wind up lower, pointing at 9:30-32. Broken clocks + gravity? Or 9:32 attack? It's no Essene secret that Gaffney chose the latter (if couched as "might it be," etc.)
I have to say, not promising. But I'll see how the book is.
