If planes hit the wtc why didn't the airforce shoot it down before it got there?

Question

The WTC is a major government building if it were meant to have been protected it would have been protected. You can't own the WTC, however you can rent it, the renter during the time could have been in on it for the insuransce money.

Answer 1

La Guardia airport is just past the WTC and many planes fly well within a mile every day.  Even if you realized in advance that a planes was about to hit the WTC, no fighter jet could take off from the ground and get to the plane before it hit the building.  It would appear to be a standard flight on line to land at La Guardia until moments before impact.

Answer 2

i dont think so....at first they thought it was an accident, dont ask me how someone could accidentally hit a huge tower, but in this movie some guy said not until the second tower got hit did he realize it was terrorists.

Answer 3

Hello,,maybe the order of the day was to just let it happen so little bushy boy would have his options increase. like his payoffs for investments options.

Answer 4

Complete chaos and totally unprepared for such an attack.

Examples: NORAD was not even directly connected to the FAA network and was finally notified at 8:40 am - just 6 minutes before the first plane struck the tower.

Without even knowing the intent of the hijackers, shooting down a fully fueled, jumbo jet over a large metro area like New York would seem a little excessive at the time.