Snidely
October 13th 06, 08:58 PM
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
> "Snidely" > wrote in
[...]
> > I'm also interested in knowing more about the jets that were/weren't
> > scrambled, and air traffic control's reactions, because I volunteer in
> > a disaster response group.
> >
> The whole event probalb ytook about 15 seconds, how fast do you think
> fighters are?
Well, it's not whether they tried to shoot him down that I'm wondering
about. There are conflicting reports about whether fighters were
scrambled, and then there's the issue of what the fighters are doing
after that 15 seconds is up...especially as there doesn't seem to have
been any move to shut down aviation.
/dps
> "Snidely" > wrote in
[...]
> > I'm also interested in knowing more about the jets that were/weren't
> > scrambled, and air traffic control's reactions, because I volunteer in
> > a disaster response group.
> >
> The whole event probalb ytook about 15 seconds, how fast do you think
> fighters are?
Well, it's not whether they tried to shoot him down that I'm wondering
about. There are conflicting reports about whether fighters were
scrambled, and then there's the issue of what the fighters are doing
after that 15 seconds is up...especially as there doesn't seem to have
been any move to shut down aviation.
/dps