U.S. fighter jets and an airborne surveillance aircraft were scrambled minutes after an American Airlines 757 jetliner crashed into the Pentagon in a terrorist attack on the morning of Sept. 11, Gen. Richard Myers, the president's choice for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers today. Those jets did not shoot down another airliner that crashed in rural Pennsylvania, Myers added. Myers is currently the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Myers told members of the...
