we were supersonic going down to long island, and my wing man, dan nash, called and said you are super and i said yeah i know, don't worry about it. i just wanted to get there. colonel bob mar: at mach one it would take 16 minutes to get to new york, that's 10 miles a minute. lieutenant colonel mission commander northeast air defense almost simultaneously, we brought in more surveillance technicians to look at the scopes. staff sergeant larry thorton northeast air defense: the area was so congested the hijacked flight was incredibly difficult to find. we were looking for little marks in a pile of clutter on a two dimensional scope. master sergeant joe mccain, northeast air defense: we picked up a search track going down the hudson valley straight in from the north to new york. the plane was fast and headed in an unusual direction with no transponder. we watched the track until it faded over new york city. lieutenant general tom, commander air force base shreveport, louisiana: we were in the midst of this annual exercise called global guardian. they loaded all the bombers, but the subma