Concerning 9/11. Why was there ,?

They hadn't been alerted in time and the nearest combat aircraft was miles away, an F-16 I believe and by the time he gat there the 3 aircraft had been crashed.

The 4 aircraft the passengers overcame the terrorists and the aeroplane was crashed in a field.

It took hours for the entire to be grounded in what was quite remarkable as there are hundreds of flights in the air daily.

Most of the time the USAF have very few aircraft ready to scramble full armed and ready to go at that time.

At 8:32 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials were notified Flight 11 had been hijacked and they in turn notified the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NORAD scrambled two F-15s from Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts and they were airborne by 8:53 a.m.[161] Because of slow and confused communication from FAA officials, NORAD had 9 minutes' notice that Flight 11 had been hijacked, and no notice about any of the other flights before they crashed.[161] After both of the Twin Towers had already been hit, more fighters were scrambled from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia at 9:30 a.m.[161] At 10:20 a.m. Vice President Dick Cheney issued orders to shoot down any commercial aircraft that could be positively identified as being hijacked. However, these instructions were not relayed in time for the fighters to take action.[161][162][163][164] Some fighters took to the air without live ammunition, knowing that to prevent the hijackers from striking their intended targets, the pilots might have to intercept and crash their fighters into the hijacked planes, possibly ejecting at the last moment.[165]

For the first time in U.S. history, SCATANA was invoked, establishing an ATC Zero condition, closing all airspace and immediately grounding all non-emergency civilian aircraft in the United States, Canada, and several other countries,[166] thus stranding tens of thousands of passengers across the world.[167] The Federal Aviation Administration closed American airspace to all international flights, causing about five hundred flights to be turned back or redirected to other countries. Canada received 226 of the diverted flights and launched Operation Yellow Ribbon to deal with the large numbers of grounded planes and stranded passengers.[168]

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Hman

There wasn't any cockup. You are ignoring completely what actually happened and most importantly when.

The hijackers chose their flights and their targets carefully to minimize time in the air. NEADS (North East Air Defense Sector) learned about the hijacking of Flight 11 nine minutes before it crashed into the World Trade Center, and was never notified about the other hijackings until after those planes had crashed. It takes 15 minutes just to get an alert fighter off the ground and the nearest one was 150 miles away. There was never even the remotest chance of intercepting any of the hijacked planes. Even if there had been, there was no protocol in place that morning which could have prevented what occurred. Remember, before 9/11 all hijackings were for ransom, not to use the planes as weapons.

The call to ground all domestic flights occurred AFTER all four hijacked aircraft had crashed so this is not relevant to the question.

Flight 93, the 4th and last hijacked plane crashed when the passengers tried to retake the plane from the hijackers. This is well documented.

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There wasn't a "cock-up". This is yet another in a long line of lies being spread by people desperate to blame shadowy forces that they can't even prove exist.

Uh..so when all planes were grounded....you assume they just all plopped to the earth at once?