NAPOLITANO: Well, I think, first of all, we are investigating, as always, going backwards to see what happened and when, who knew what and when. But here — I think it’s important for the public to know, there are different types of databases.
And there were simply, throughout the law enforcement community, never information that would put this individual on a no-fly list or a selectee list. So that’s number one.
Number two, I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have. The passengers reacted correctly, the crew reacted correctly, within an hour to 90 minutes, all 128 flights in the air had been notified. And those flights already had taken mitigation measures on the off-chance that there was somebody else also flying with some sort of destructive intent.
So the system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-napolitano-gibbs-mcconnell/story?id=9428037
Of course, if the detonater had functioned properly, the only thing happening would have been the rapid descent of pieces of airplane and people. Lots of people are going to die thanks to morons like Janet Napalitano.
In essence, they are trying to figure a way to tie this to global warming ;-)
Wow! She thinks that having notified all aircraft in the air within one and a half hours is an indicator of success. If it were a coordinated attack, then the evil scum would have simultaneously ignited their bombs. Within 90 minutes, probably half the aircraft in the air would have landed.
And what's with this "128 flights"? There are roughly 5,000 IFR aircraft in the air over the US at any given time.