Perhaps the most interesting thing this week is that an HC contributor found a document in the National Archives showing that, two days before 9/11, the military practiced responding to a simulated hijacking by...
Langley Air Force Base was the second military base that launched fighter jets to defend America in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Three of its F-16s were ordered to take...
The idea of such an attack was well known had been wargamed as a possibility in exercises before September 11.
—Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
In the aftermath of the...
In this supplement to The NORAD Papers , I shine the spotlight on The 9/11 Commission Report's assessment of NORAD in relation to the defense organization's "air sovereignty" mission on 9/11. To...
To say that communication between civilian Air Traffic Control (ATC) and NORAD was abysmal on the morning of September 11, 2001 would be a massive understatement. As an illustration, it took ATC twenty-three minutes...
This is a news item pertaining to the Complete 911 Timeline investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The
data published as part of this investigation has been...
