Why wasn't a Uchiha asked to control the Nine Tails during its attack?


Madara or Tobi had controlled the Nine Tails to attack Konoha during Naruto's
birth. But there were other Uchihas in the village such as Itachi's father.
So, the village could have made use of them to defend the Nine Tails by
controlling it using their sharingan. Why didn't they do that?

Another question: Why were the three sannin not seen during the Nine Tails
attack?




Why no other Uchiha in Konoha was asked to take control of the Nine Tailed
beast? - To control the nine tailed beast you need to be a shinobi of very
high caliber. Being an Uchiha is just not enough to be able to control the
nine tailed beast. Tobi had Hashirama's cells (in the form of Zetsu) infused
in him that allowed him larger chakra and better control of the Nine Tails.

Where were the three sanins? - it has not been mentioned anywhere in the plot
where they were, so all we can do is guess about their whereabouts. If they
were in the village they would have surely come for help, and since they were
absent from the battle, we can only guess that they were out of the village on
some mission.




As for the Uchiha, the nine tails was already being controlled by Tobi at the
time, so I doubt anyone would be able to control him on top of that.

Not to mention, the Uchiha weren't exactly trusted at the time, following the
Second Hokage's rule.

As for the three sannin, it wasn't explained anywhere, but it isn't hard to
imagine them being at a remote mission and out of the village.

