Reply #145: Of the seven bases mentioned in the article, only Portland and Riverside..

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...were physically out of range, with Ellington a borderline case.

Here are the distances from Washington, DC to the following bases:

Langley (Hampton, VA) = 134 miles
Otis (Falmouth, MA) = 385 miles
Panama City, FL = 778 miles
Homestead, FL = 948 miles
Ellington (Houston, TX) = 1221 miles

At a max speed of 1400 mph, five of the above noted bases could have put interceptors in the air and reached Washington, DC. Why weren't they scrambled as well?

And why were none of the following bases activated? We're told that they were in "Stand Down" status...

"Maybe some of these Air station could have managed to get fighters up just as fast as the 180th Fighter Wing. Why weren't they? Stand Down.

Andrews AFB 11 miles SE of Washington D.C.
Bolling AFB 3 miles south of US Capitol
Dover AFB Dover, DE
Hanscom AFB 17 miles northwest of Boston, MA
McGuire AFB 18 miles southeast of Trenton, NJ
Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton, OH
Cape Cod, MA AFS
New Boston, NH AFS"

...and then we have the following event taking place on 911 from an airfield in "inactive status":

"The following happened on September 11, 2001; At 10:01 a.m. the FAA ordered the 180th Fighter Wing out of Swanton, Ohio to scramble their F-16 fighters. Although the base has no fighters on stand-by alert status, it manages to put fighters in the air 16 minutes later, a "phenomenal" response time - but still 11 minutes after the last hijacked plane has crashed.

One interesting aspect is that NORAD has explained that it didn't scramble fighters from bases nearer to the hijacked planes because they only used bases in the NORAD defensive network. Yet the 180th Fighter Wing out of Swanton, Ohio wasn't part of that network, so why weren't planes at other bases scrambled at 8:20 or 8:40 or 8:43 or 8:46:26 or 9:02:54 or 9:24 or at the very least at 9:37?"

There are way too many questions about the events of 911, and IMHO, none of them are "stupid". You, of course, are welcome to your own opinions.