Originally Posted by
anacapamalibu
Takes less than an hour to shutdown all air travel. It is possible to "hermetically seal" a country's borders in short order.
8:46:40: Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 99. The aircraft enters the tower intact.
9:42: Senior FAA traffic manager Ben Sliney issues the execution order for SCATANA grounding all air traffic over the United States and diverting any incoming international traffic to alternate destinations.
Yes, because two hijacked airliners flying into a building in the heart of NYC (and two other airliners hijacked at the same time, one going for the White House and other one for the Pentagon!!) are comparable situations....