Reply #30: you're wrong [View All]

First of all, I'm not trying to confuse the issue. I'm trying to tease apart the multitude of issues in play here.

Second, you say:
The FAA notified NORAD that Flight 93 was a possible hijack well before 9:20. Flight 93 hit the ground at 10:06. Supposedly when Flight 93 hit the ground, not a single fighter had even been scrambled in its direction.

But according to the Wash Post:
The military was not notified about United Airlines Flight 93 until after it crashed and did not learn about United Flight 175 until the minute it hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50791-2004Jun17.html

So on that point you are also wrong.

And finally, you said:
Don't you think the surviving relatives deserve an explanation other than "we were confused"?

For those mistakes where there is such an explanation, yes, they deserve that. We all do. I believe I've made it clear a few times now that this is not an all or nothing situation. I have not once said that everything that went wrong that day was simply the result of confusion, so don't put words in my mouth.

All I've said is that some mistakes are just that, mistakes, and there is no one to blame and nothing that could've been done. It's sad, yes, but that's just the way things go sometimes.