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Originally Posted by David C
The flights would have been intercepted and four people armed with only box-cutters would be overpowered easily by a few hundred passengers.
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So even though NORAD had only one intercept over the continental US before 911 and it took over an hour and 15 minutes (Payne Stewart) and was then accomplished not with an air defense plane but instead with an unarmed plane already airborne for an unrelated training mission that was diverted, they should have intercepted these planes when given even less time? Have you even really thought about this?
Today passengers would overpower hijackers with boxcutters. Before 911 it was generally accepted that you would cooperate with the hijackers as they only wanted to divert the plane and not crash it into a building.