Reply #24: "a silly story..."

[petgoat]

I haven't investigated it yet, so I don't know. But it certainly
seems less silly than the story that almost an hour after the first
WTC strike an unarmed passenger airliner passed unnoticed into what
should have been the most expensively-defended airspace in the history
of the world and flew into the HQ of the greatest military power the
world has ever seen.

It's less silly than the notion that after three hijacked airliners
had been flown into buildings, the following dialog took place about
the fourth:

Command Center: Uh, do we want to think, uh, about scrambling aircraft?

FAA Headquarters: Oh, God, I don't know.

Command Center: Uh, that's a decision somebody's gonna have to make
probably in the next ten minutes.

FAA Headquarters: Uh, ya know everybody just left the room.


Now that is a silly story.

So, when you say there is no basement at the FAA, you're saying the
DOT offices are built on some kind of unconventional slab foundation?