At 9:32 a.m. [on September 11, 2001] the FAA’s [Federal Aviation Administration’s] Cleveland Center received a transmission from one of the hijackers on Flight 93: ‘Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board.’…Nine minutes later, the center lost the plane’s transponder signal. Indecisiveness at the ATC [Air Traffic Control] Command Center, in Herndon [Virginia], […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “Ben Sliney arrived for his first day at work as national operations manager for the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration]. …Finally at 9:25, with Flight 77 growing more worrisome, Sliney made a bold decision. He ordered a full groundstop–all commercial and private flight activity across the country was grounded; no flights were […]
9/11/2001
As the events on the morning of September 11, 2001, were taking place, “Flight 175 also had been hijacked, but the New York Air Traffic Control was slow to respond, in part because the controller assigned to the flight was also assigned to Flight 11 and was busy searching for that missing plane. At 9:03 […]
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At 8:52 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “Two F-15 fighter jets took off from Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod [Massachusetts] in pursuit of the hijacked airplane [United Flight 175]. …They had missed stopping the first hijacked plane [American Flight 11] and now they were late for the second. No one had really thought […]
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“At 8:46 a.m. [on September 11, 2001], before the F-15s from Otis Air Force Base [in Massachusetts] were even airborne, Flight 11 smashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The fighters took off at 8:53 a.m. on a preassigned vector, per standard operating procedure. In this case, they were sent to military […]
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, “Upon hearing the second message [from the cockpit of Flight 11], the [air traffic] controller concluded that Flight 11 had been hijacked. He consulted his supervisors; at 8:37 a.m., [the Federal Aviation Administration’s] Boston Center bypassed the prescribed protocol and contacted NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS). Two […]
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On September 11, 2001, “The first of the planes was reported hijacked to the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] at 8:24 a.m.; the last of them would not crash until 10:03, which meant that the supersonic military jet fighters stationed up and down the East Coast to defend American borders had at least one hour and […]
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“At about 8:13 a.m. [on September 11, 2001], the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11 began…At 8:46, the plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.” While visiting an elementary school in Florida to promote education, presidential Advisor Karl Rove informed President Bush, who responded, ” ‘What a horrible accident!’ …Just as […]
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“Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. …For those heading to an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 1 […]
9/11/2001
From a response on Yahoo! Answers regarding the weather on September 11, 2001: “The morning of September 11, there literally wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I still remember the anchor on Channel 7 after the first plane hit remark that with how clear it was, he didn’t know how anyone could run into the […]