This is really odd:
Inside, at the operations desk, Lt. Cols. Phil (Dog) Thompson and Steve (Festus) Chase were fielding a flood of calls from the Secret Service and the FAA's two area air traffic control facilities--Washington Center and Washington Approach Control. Thompson is chief of safety for the 113th Wing, and Chase is now commander of the new Air Sovereignty Detachment here. By then, Brig. Gen. David F. Wherley, Jr., the 113th Wing commander, was on-site, trying to determine whether the unit had authorization to launch fighters.
"By this time, ((commercial)) airplanes were landing, but there were still several unidentified ones flying. One was in the northwest , basically coming down the ((Potomac)) River," Thompson said. Later, they would learn that the FAA and Norad's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) were tracking the hijacked United Flight 93, and feared it was coming toward Washington. Thanks to intervention by passengers, the aircraft ultimately crashed in Pennsylvania.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020929120010/...ws/aw090971.xmlHmmm...I'm not the biggest expert regarding the geography of the US, but that Flight 93 was coming down the Potomac is really new to me...
http://americasroof.com/content/albums/fli...pa_flight93.jpgThis guy is an officer from Andrews ANG. He knows what he's talking about, shouldn't he?