{"id":4646,"date":"2011-08-20T19:37:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2011-08-20T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:37:30","slug":"9-11-langley-scramble-cap-point-confusion-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"9-11: Langley Scramble; CAP point confusion, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this brief article, an addition to the Langley Scramble story, is to document why the Langley fighters made a turn to the south on approaching the Washington area.\u00a0 It is a simple explanation.\u00a0 The controller transposed two digits in the initial transmission to the flight lead, Quit 25.\u00a0 The coordinates initially provided\u00a0 at 0946 EDT were 38<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2<\/span><\/strong>5N 07702W. Here is the audio clip from NEADS tape DRM 2, Channel 13, cut 131828.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/0911131828-Quit-wrong-CAP-point.mp3\">0911131828 Quit wrong CAP point<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to vector to those coordinates on approach to Washington the Quit flight had to turn south to a heading the pilots recognized as wrong.\u00a0 In a subsequent exchange with the controller at 0952 EDT, the accurate coordinates, 38<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">5<\/span><\/strong>2N 07702W, were provided.\u00a0 The CAP point was based on the faded track for what was ultimately determined to be AA77, B032, as captured in the audio record.\u00a0 Here is the later audio clip from the same NEADS tape\/channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/0911131828-Quit-correct-CAP-point.mp3\">0911131828 Quit correct CAP point<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was nothing mysterious or nefarious about the turn south and then back north by the Langley fighters.\u00a0 The diversion was an error made in the heat of battle, nothing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this brief article, an addition to the Langley Scramble story, is to document why the Langley fighters made a turn to the south on approaching the Washington area.\u00a0 It is a simple explanation.\u00a0 The controller transposed two digits in the initial transmission to the flight lead, Quit 25.\u00a0 The coordinates initially provided\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=4646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9-11: Langley Scramble; CAP point confusion, explained<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-langley-scramble"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}