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NORAD conducted exercises in 1999 which airplanes were hijacked and crashed into targets which included the WTC and Pentagon.
NORAD had drills of jets as weapons.
By Steven Komarow and Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY
30 minute gap between when the FAA determined Flight 77 had been hijacked and when it formally told this to NORAD.
By Paul Thompson of History Commons.
Flight 77 took off from Dulles International Airport near Washington at 8:20, ten minutes after the scheduled departure time. [8:20, CNN, 9/17/01, Guardian, 10/17/01] Its last routine radio communication was made 51 seconds after 8:50, and then it failed to respond to a routine instruction.