ritaOK wrote:
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Monkeywerx also said that when Systems went down, US Fighter’s were scrambled. And refuelers with them.
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No ATC, no way to know where a rogue aircraft was.
IMHO, the fighters and refuelers being scrambled was a response to a threat.
An otherwise unexplained order from the FAA to implement a nationwide ground-stop would indicate a threat was considered. We have not had CAP - Combat Air Patrol - since 9/11.
Tankers widely deployed with a gaggle of fighters over CONUS could be defined as CAP.
But Boot-Edge-Edge is more concerned with Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE) in all aspects of transportation more than modernization for efficiency and safety.
MAC, at the same time, put an E4-B up off the east coast (see yesterday’s post).
This is a mobile ATC post than can direct traffic from a wide area.
There was ATC at that time.
Traffic beyond the Mississippi was extremely light and just getting underway as is normal for that time of day.
They just stayed grounded.
Don’t remember where, but during the same early period of the announcement of the “System Down”, and MIL fighters up, someone cleverly wondered IF someone(s) were trying to leave the country.
I expect not, given the blaze of sky action for that reason might seem a little overthetop. Still, I respected the sleuthing idea.
PS: Those cyber intrusion maps show the inter-continental intensity, implying that launches are computer driven from anywhere. But, of course, systems down precedes a direct attack.
Watch the water.