Comments by "M Fitz" (@MFitz12) on "VICE TV"
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The Air National Guard F-16's from the 121st Fighter Squadron, Andrews AFB, flown by now Colonel Heather Penney and her commanding officer, now General Marc Sasseville were not armed because the 121st was not an alert unit . This meant weapons were not loaded, there was only a skeleton crew - sufficient to get a 3-ship flight up, no chain of command present and no one to even give the order to take off. ANG peacetime chain of command is civilian, going up to the state governor normally, but for this squadron because of its geographic location actually goes to the office of the President Of the United States.
Who was out of town, in Florida.
Because this unit was not an alert unit, the jets were not armed. No missiles and only a handful of inert training rounds for the 20mm cannon were on board. At this time there were 3 possible bogies. The pair climbed into their unarmed F-16 fighter jets and took off in pursuit of one of them, a Boeing 757 which was reported to have turned-around near Cleveland, descended, and was now heading back towards the Capitol. Two more F-16’s were getting fueled and armed to join them when they were ready, 45 minutes later.
With 'Shoot-to-kill' orders but unarmed. the pair decided before take off they would ram their fighter jets into Flight 93 to prevent it from reaching its target. Sasseville ramming the cockpit and Penny the tail in order to bring the hijacked aircraft straight down. They set up a CAP and worked with Potomic Air Traffic Control to identify possible targets.
It was a suicide mission.
Flight 93 however, had already crashed before they even took off.
Sass and Penny flew several more sorties that day, including escorting Air Force One back to DC later in the day.
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There is not now and never was any mystery about the collapse of Building 7;
FDNY Chief Daniel Nigro;
”The biggest decision we had to make on the first day was to clear the area and create a collapse zone around the severely damaged 7 World Trade Center, a 47 story building heavily involved in fire. A number of fire officers and companies assessed the damage to the building. The appraisals indicated that the buildings structural integrity was in serious doubt. I issues orders to PULL BACK the firefighters and define the collapse zone. It was a critical decision; We could not lose any more firefighters. It took a lot of time to PULL EVERYONE OUT, given the emotionalism of the day, communications difficulties and the collapse terrain.”
Firehouse magazine interview with Deputy Fire Chief Hayden, FDNY.:
Firehouse: Other people tell me that there were a lot of firefighters in the street who were visible, and they put out traffic cones to mark them off?
Hayden: Yeah. There was enough there and we were marking off. There were a lot of damaged apparatus there that were covered. We tried to get searches in those areas. By now, this is going on into the afternoon, and we were concerned about additional collapse, not only of the Marriott, because there was a good portion of the Marriott still standing, but also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse.
Firehouse: Was there heavy fire in there right away?
Hayden: No, not right away, and that’s probably why it stood for so long because it took a while for that fire to develop. It was a heavy body of fire in there and then we didn’t make any attempt to fight it. That was just one of those wars we were just going to lose. We were concerned about the collapse of a 47-story building there. We were worried about additional collapse there of what was remaining standing of the towers and the Marriott, so we started PULLING the people back after a couple of hours of surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris. We started to PULL guys back because we were concerned for their safety.
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