No, it was not the job of NORAD to scramble armed fighter jets every time a
plane went off course

Which pre-9/11 they wouldn't know about anyway since *all* of NORADs sensors
were pointed *outward*. Since 9/11 they have gotten an FAA feed into their
respective HQs, but even this wasn't completed for nearly a year after 9/11/01.

Thank God they still won't scramble fighters for NORDO aircraft or off course
jets, this would be a 24/7/365 operation....and that's just responding to the
wayward B-52s from the Formal Training Unit


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"