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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Who did it, then? Somebody shut down the air traffic.
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From the 911 Commission:
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Shortly before 9:10, suspecting that American 77 had been hijacked, American headquarters concluded that the second aircraft to hit the World Trade Center might have been Flight 77. After learning that United Airlines was missing a plane,American Airlines headquarters extended the ground stop nationwide.
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By 9:00, FAA and airline officials began to comprehend that attackers
were going after multiple aircraft. American Airlines’ nationwide ground stop between 9:05 and 9:10 was followed by a United Airlines ground stop.
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By 9:25, FAA’s Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center. They knew American 77 was lost. At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes"” Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount. A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a "nationwide ground stop"” While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
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Who made decisions? John S. White. At that time, he was Manager of the System Efficiency Division. He ordered all other airlines grounded. He was not even manager of the facility. The ATC handbook gave the facility no power to do what he did.
Nobody in the George Jr administration made any decisions that day. None called for fighter protection even for the White House. None authorized fighters to shoot down an attacking airliner. Fighter pilots who were dispatched by little people (one request even came from a Secret Service agent asking his friend in the Air Force to launch planes). No fighter was ever given authority to stop an attack.
Airlines grounded their planes. White's own employees were yelling at him to ground planes when he did so. Boston and NY Centers took it upon themselves to ground planes and call for scrambled fighters while mental midgets in the George Jr administration coud not make any decisions. In a conference call between the FAA Commissioner Jane Garvey, the Secretary of Transportation, and the military; the military left that phone call because these mental midgets were not making any decisions.
George Jr did absolutely nothing that day. Neither he nor his entire staff could make any decision. So a Secret Service agent ordered everyone back on Air Force 1 saying that they could make up their minds after the plane was airborne.
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John White reports to Jeff Griffith at Headquarters that UAL 93 is 29 minutes out of the Washington area. It turned around over Akron Ohio and is trakcing towards Washington. xxx take the line. What ask him if they want to scramble aircrafts. xxx says he does not know. White syas that is a decision that needs to be made in the next ten minutes. xxx responds that everyone just left the room. xxx tries to relay that information to someone else, most likely yyy. ...
John White was not aware that Headquarters did nothing with the information he reported on UAL93. He said, "that is a shame."
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Common knowledge - no administration official made a decision that day. Even George Jr sat in a child's chair in FL for 15 minutes without asking a single question. Apparently he was waiting for someone to tell him what to do. Then we reelected him.