From cruise altitude to impact was 8 minutes.
ATC noticed altitude deviation at about 6 minutes prior to impact.
Now allow 3-4 minutes for ATC to attempt contact with pilot and failing to do so...still very early to get highly alarmed, but I'll give it to you.
We are now at 2 - 3 minutes to impact....
Do you REALLY think it even remotely possible for an ATC facility to contact a military facility, convince them it's a real problem, and then for the military to react.....all of these things in 2 to 3 minutes?????
Military involvement is not feasible.
Were the fighters already up there on some exercise, or was that totally false? WItnesses saw three jets just before the crash.
I read that it was 18 minutes, which would make a difference.
“From cruise altitude to impact was 8 minutes.”
I’m not sure it would have made a difference, but I thought that I read somewhere that the time interval was changed to 18 minutes until impact.