There isnt some magic button that an air traffic controller can press and presto, there are jets in the air. Once the air traffic controller notices a jet off course (which might not be immediately),
"which may not be immediatly" what a wonderfully misleading statement. superb writing tactic,im sure many will fall right into it.....
The reality of the matter is BUT NOT For longer than 30 seconds....the ATC has a Job to do its what they pay him for and that is to keep track of aircraft in the skies above this great land
He will notice the plane off course in a minute or less or he wont be working ATC for very long!so does he THEN push the magic button?
No of course not at that time he begins trying to contact the errant aircraft. after repeated attempts to raise the aircraft or when a transponder is turned off the ATC willl then take steps to contact NORAD which will then in turn scramble jets from an "Alert" base
he has to attempt to reestablish contact with the aircraft, and then actually pick up a phone and make a call to someone to tell them that there is a possible threat.
yes this will take a few minutes not a quarter hour or up to an hour as you are suggesting
Then this information has to be phoned in to the pilots, and if the pilots aren't already in the air, its going to take another 5 minutes to get them in the air.
what are you suggesting? that we are waiting on ethel to work the connection at the Plugboard at the central office? we have telephone ,radio, and internet capabilities its 2007 ? how long is this phone call or radio call gonna take i mean come on ? ...you seriously believe your own logic here?....hello its the most technologically advanced era of all time..... communications are INSTANT today... particularly in regards to NORAD and Defense ...
If you worked on radar systems so much, you should know that all of NORAD's efforts are focused on aircraft coming into the country, not commercial aircraft operating in American airspace.
thats BULL !!!
NORADS mission is to keep track of EVERYTHING IN THE SKY above America! What are you trying to pull? Ill say this, Only your writing style, has a chance of swaying SOME of the easier marks.... The rest of us ,clearly see the writing between the lines with you.
To use small community radar networks takes time to coordinate. It simply couldn't be done in half an hour.
birds could have been in the air in 20 mins tops .....awacs planes also could have been launched as well providing instantaneous radar ..your really something...The United States here bud not france.....i dont care pre 9-11 or not...
I dont know where you are getting your information about Washington and New York being about 10 minutes apart but you are full of crap. I'm looking on Delta's flight schedule between JFK and DCA, and the shortest flight time they have is about 1 hour and a half.
seriously you are comparing flight times of a commercial jetliner with intercept jets? you cant belive your logic here?
I know military jets are traveling a lot faster than commercial jets,
yeah i knew you couldnt be buying your own logic
but even if they were going double the speed of these commercial jets and even if they had been diverted immediately after someone realized something was wrong they would have arrived waaaaay late.
