@geeky Die Quelle folgt doch auf diesen Beitrag. Hast du sicher überlesen (Absicht unterstell ich dir mal nicht
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I got the call and I, the words that I remember as clear as day was, "we will take lives in the air to preserve lives on the ground." Marr orders his air controllers, tell the pilots to intercept Flight 93.
Nothing any controller would ever want to pass to a pilot, to shoot down an airliner filled with innocent people. And we of course passed that on to the pilots. United Airlines Flight 93 will not be allowed to reach Washington, DC.
The closest fighters are two F-16 pilots on a training mission from Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Detroit. So we were able to get hold them on the radios and say, hey guys, we may need you to come down south and try and head off United Airlines Flight 93.
The real scary part is that those guys are up there on a training mission. They don't have any weapons on board they can use. We started receiving reports from the fighters that were heading to, to intercept. The FAA kept us informed with their time estimates as the aircraft got closer and closer.
The first question that came from my mission crew commander, the, the individual that's in charge of the operations force, said, "well, sir, what are they gonna do?" I said, "we're gonna put them as close to that airplane they can get, in view of the cockpit, and convince that guy in that airplane that he needs to land."
And if that doesn't work? Without any weapons, what can the fighter pilots do except crash into the hijacked plane? Well, as, as military men, there are, times you have to make sacrifices, that you have to make.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/abcnews091102.htmlAber kannst du auch hier nachlesen:
https://books.google.at/books?id=p063Z0CSLa4C&pg=PT210&lpg=PT210&dq=911+we+will+take+lives+in+the+air+to+preserve+lives+on+the+ground&source=bl&ots=l2W7uiNB3y&sig=BOdj02vbs1mZxxfpjGX_MaDtka8&hl=de&sa=X&ei=6D6UVJCpEovfaN-vgNgI&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=911%20we%20will%20take%20lives%20in%20the%20air%20to%20preserve%20lives%20on%20the%20ground&f=false"If you have to stop an aircraft, sometimes the only way to stop an aircraft is with your own aircraft, if you don't have any weapons." - "We will take lives in the air in order to preserve lives on the ground."
Col Robert Marr
Luftraum wurde geschlossen - Abschussbefehl stand - und wenn man keine Waffen hat, dann hätte man den Jet auch gerammt, so die Worte des NORAD Commanders