How did I not know this?
Jul. 23rd, 2004 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiMore about Flight 93 in today's Salon.
How did I not know until just now that Flight 93 took off after one of the flight attendents on Flight 11 reported a hijacking?
Did you know this? Did you know that nearly 20 minutes passed before Betty Ong called the flight ops office and reported the hijacking of Flight 11? Did you know that the FAA's policy was not - and it's implied, still is not - to ground all planes during a hijacking?
This is utterly mad. How did it never occur to anyone at the FAA that hijackings might be a multi-site tandem assault, such that they would create a workable plan to deal with such things?
And I still have a question - does anyone know the answer? - why wasn't Bush told that a hijacking had taken place? Why wasn't he told anything until the first plane slammed into the tower and hundreds of people had been killed?
I haven't read the full report yet; I plan to, but I haven't yet. Systematic failures at every level of intelligence and government - that's pretty bloody obvious - but I want to know, what is the current stand? If there's been a hijacking, and it's been reported by an airline staffer, will the government still allow planes to take off?
And if so, why?
How did I not know until just now that Flight 93 took off after one of the flight attendents on Flight 11 reported a hijacking?
Did you know this? Did you know that nearly 20 minutes passed before Betty Ong called the flight ops office and reported the hijacking of Flight 11? Did you know that the FAA's policy was not - and it's implied, still is not - to ground all planes during a hijacking?
This is utterly mad. How did it never occur to anyone at the FAA that hijackings might be a multi-site tandem assault, such that they would create a workable plan to deal with such things?
And I still have a question - does anyone know the answer? - why wasn't Bush told that a hijacking had taken place? Why wasn't he told anything until the first plane slammed into the tower and hundreds of people had been killed?
I haven't read the full report yet; I plan to, but I haven't yet. Systematic failures at every level of intelligence and government - that's pretty bloody obvious - but I want to know, what is the current stand? If there's been a hijacking, and it's been reported by an airline staffer, will the government still allow planes to take off?
And if so, why?
