I had always assumed that the F-16s that were scrambled were planning to (tragically) shoot down commercial airliners. I did not know that the planes were unarmed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-give-her-life-on-sept-11/2011/09/06/gIQAMpcODK_story.html
September 10, 2011
An amazing 9/11 unknown story…the F-16s were unarmed…it was a suicide mission to prevent another attack
Posted by Jason J. Czarnezki under Uncategorized[2] Comments
JASON J. CZARNEZKI 
September 10, 2011 at 10:35 PM
How do you explain away the Secondary Debris Field with an engine and debris found 8 miles from the crash site?
http://flight93crash.com/flight93_secondary_debris_field.html
Why do you chose to credit the belated account that the F-16s were not equipped or ordered to shoot the plane down to protect its intended target?
September 10, 2011 at 10:54 PM
What is “amazing” is how anyone can buy into this self-serving story and the
“Let’s Roll” Bush-Shit:
More significantly, what this carefully drafted script fails to mention is that, given the prevailing technology in September 2001, it was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to place a wireless cell call from an aircraft traveling at high speed above 8000 feet:
“Wireless communications networks weren’t designed for ground-to-air communication. Cellular experts privately admit that they’re surprised the calls were able to be placed from the hijacked planes, and that they lasted as long as they did. They speculate that the only reason that the calls went through in the first place is that the aircraft were flying so close to the ground ( http://www.elliott.org/technology/2001/cellpermit.htm
Expert opinion within the wireless telecom industry casts serious doubt on “the findings” of the 9/11 Commission. According to Alexa Graf, a spokesman of AT&T, commenting in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks:
“it was almost a fluke that the [9/11] calls reached their destinations… From high altitudes, the call quality is not very good, and most callers will experience drops. Although calls are not reliable, callers can pick up and hold calls for a little while below a certain altitude” ( http://wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_final_contact/