, but one of the biggest was just how unprepared our defenses were for an internal attack. While the Federal Aviation Administration did an incredible job landing all planes, the problems with communications and decision making and lack of flexibility in procedures when it came to intercepting aerial threats inside the country were disastrous.

The film is , made by the UK’s Channel 4. These days it’s pretty widely available online. This outstanding documentary takes you on a moment by moment recap of the chaos on the East Coast on that historic day. Since then, and how it deals with potentially hostile aircraft.

Additionally, the Washington D.C. area and the in an attempt to ensure that such an attack does not happen again.

Every few years the Kremlin pounds their chest about their latest and greatest in surface to air…

Even with all these enhancements, , but they are still not as blatant or potentially dangerous as the threat posed by hijackers turning commercial airliners into guided missiles and ramming them into buildings.

A 61 year old mailman from Florida flew a USPS adorned gyrocopter onto the Capitol lawn yesterday.…

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