I don't know, but I do know for certain that two fighters were launched from Toledo, Ohio and went eastward at supersonic speed. That is a fact.
Were they the two F-16s that took off without a weapons load? If it came down to it they were going to have to ram the plane and then eject.
Shoot Down Orders Can Come From The General On Duty At NORAD HQ.
Shanksville is not too far northwest of me and I was outside with my dad while he finished siding my house that day.
I could swear a military type plane went zooming west around that time but I have no idea if it was connected to Flight 93.
A lot of military planes go over here because we're under their approach path to the Martinsburg WV armory.
At 500+ mph and just a few minutes later, it could have crashed a lot closer to me than it did.
[we're in a direct line from there to DC]
It's a chilling thought.
For months before 9/11, I was having nightmares about a plane crashing in my dad's deer pasture, which never made any sense.
The whole morning of 9/11 had a weird, surrealistic feel to it.
It was too beautiful outside, the sun was too bright but the birds were all silent.
Very odd.
And from Otis ANGB, Selfridge ANGB, and Andrews AFB, but those were ANG as well, and were not armed with anything but practice ammo, IIRC it was one of the pair from that unit that made the "we could ram 'em and eject" comment.