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The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
It is not clear how the shootdown order was communicated within NORAD.
For possibility of ordering a shootdown, see Larry Arnold interview (Feb.
As this exchange shows, Secretary Rumsfeld was not in the NMCC when the shootdown order was first conveyed.
It is possible that NORAD commanders would have ordered a shootdown in the absence of the authorization communicated by the Vice President, but given the gravity of the decision to shoot down a commercial airliner, and NORAD's caution that a mistake not be made, we view this possibility as unlikely.