NORAD

[GostHacked]

The level of pedantry you display in this thread is ridiculous. Before the 9/11 attacks, commercial flights were not deemed to be threats, and so NORAD did not maintain active tracks on domestic airliners.

Wrong, the Pentagon had deemed it a potential threat enough to carry out several exercises involving hijacked planes and them crashing into buildings, all before 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia....Pentagon_MASCAL

The Pentagon Mass Casualty project (codenamed Pentagon Mascal) was a contingency exercise that was held in the Office of the Secretary of Defense conference room between October 24 and October 26, 2000. The exercise required emergency response teams, members of the defense protective services, and U.S. government officials to conduct emergency simulations in preparation for a possible plane crash into The Pentagon.

Several exercises carried out on 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_operations_and_exercises_on_September_11,_2001

On September 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was involved in an ongoing operation which involved deploying fighter aircraft to northwestern North America. The US Military and NORAD had also planned to conduct several military exercises and a drill was being held by the National Reconnaissance Office, a Department of Defense agency. The operations, exercises and drills were all canceled following the September 11 attacks.

http://usatoday30.us...-18-norad_x.htm

WASHINGTON — In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.

One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center. In another exercise, jets performed a mock shootdown over the Atlantic Ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the United States. In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon — but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.

NORAD, in a written statement, confirmed that such hijacking exercises occurred. It said the scenarios outlined were regional drills, not regularly scheduled continent-wide exercises.

A list of exercises involving commercial airlines.

http://tarpley.net/d...ills_of_911.pdf

Edited December 27, 2012 by GostHacked