Actual: http://www.spacecom.af.mil/norad/presrelNORADTimelines.htm

Comparisons to CNN: http://default/bumkinville/presrelNORADTimelines.htm

Norad report on fighter response timelines, September 11, 2001
18 September, 2001 Contact: (719) 554-6889 NORAD'S Response Times PETERSON AFB, Colo. --The following timelines show NORAD's response to the airliner hijackings on September 11, 2001.
American Airlines Flight 11 -- Boston enroute to Los Angeles
FAA Notification to NEADS	0840*
Fighter Scramble Order (Otis Air National Guard Base, Falmouth, Mass. Two F-15s)	0846**
Fighters Airborne	0852
Airline Impact Time (World Trade Center 1)	0846*** (estimated)	Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location Aircraft not airborne/153 miles
United Airlines Flight 175 -- Boston enroute to Los Angeles:
FAA Notification to NEADS	0843
Fighter Scramble Order (Otis ANGB, Falmouth, Mass. Same 2 F-15s as Flight 11)	0846
Fighters Airborne	0852
Airline Impact Time (World Trade Center 2)	0902 (estimated)	Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 8**** min/71 miles
American Flight 77 -- Dulles enroute to Los Angeles:
FAA Notification to NEADS	0924
Fighter Scramble Order (Langley AFB, Hampton, Va. 2 F-16s)	0924
Fighters Airborne	0930
Airline Impact Time (Pentagon)	0937(estimated)	Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 12 min/105 miles
United Flight 93 -- Newark to San Francisco:
FAA Notification to NEADS	N/A*****
Fighter Scramble Order	(Langley F-16s already airborne for AA Flt 77)
Fighters Airborne	(Langley F-16 CAP remains in place to protect DC)
Airline Impact Time (Pennsylvania)	1003 (estimated)	Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location (from DC F-16 CAP) approx 11 min/100 miles
Notes by NORAD:	* All times are Eastern Daylight Time; NEADS = North East Air Defense Sector, NORAD
	** Scramble = Order to get an aircraft airborne as soon as possible
	*** Estimated = loss of radar contact
	**** Flight times are calculated at 9 miles per minute or .9 Mach
	***** The FAA and NEADS established a line of open communication discussing AA Flt 77 and UA Flt 93

David Irving comments:

 

NORAD [North East Air Defense] released the above data one week after the September 11, 2001 disaster. They show the remarkable state of readiness of US fighter defense forces in peacetime -- the fighters being airborne, presumably with live ammunition and armament, within six minutes of the order to scramble.

The figures are however vague and possibly even misleading in the final (white) panels, concerning United Airlines flight 93 which crashed at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The generally accepted time of impact is 10:06 a.m. The suggestion that the nearest fighter plane was one hundred miles away is not compatible with eyewitness accounts of a fighter plane visibly pursuing the airliner in its final moments, or with (possibly mistaken) eyewitness statements that they heard one to three loud explosions while the plane was still airborne. These matters could be resolved if the F.B.I. released the transcript of the ground-to-air communications with this plane; if the confusion over the salvage of the flight-data and cockpit voice recorders were to be cleared up; and if NORAD or NEADS were to make public the transcript of the discussion referred to in the five-star footnote ("The FAA and NEADS established a line of open communication discussing AA Flt 77 and UA Flt 93").