Reply #1: Huge error from the very beginning

[hack89]

It has been standard operating procedures for decades to immediately intercept off course planes that do not respond to communications from air traffic controllers

That is not true - not at least overland. Planes approaching America from foreign airspace that go off course, loose comms or can't be identified will be intercepted before entering US airspace. But planes that originate in US airspace will not automatically and immediately be intercepted.

You cannot prove this - there is no evidence at all that it was SOP. With the tens of thousands of daily flights in America, this should have been happening on a daily basis. Why is there no evidence to show this?

And think about it - there are 7 bases all on the coast where 14 strip alert fighters are located. That's not a lot of planes. And who is intercepting all those plane over Kansas - fighters are short ranged.