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Interview with

Lt Col Tim

Duffy

and

Leslie

Filson

no

date

Beginning

of

Tape

side

A

(This

is a

phone

interview,

sounds like airplanes

in the

background.

Also

she is

typing

the

tape

is very hard to understand)

F:

Your name

is Tim

right?

T: Yes

F: Lt Col Tim

Duffy,

okay since

you

know what

I'm

looking

on and I

already talked

to

Chris McDonald

and he was

cool with

me

calling

you

guys.

So as

long

as

you're okay

with

it

well

get

started.

T:

OkayF: How long have you been

with

the

unit

there?

T:

Little over

10

years.

F:

Part time?T: Yes, go back 1 year, I was on active duty for 2 years and back here for

1?????

F: You have been there

awhile,

are

from

there

originally?

T: Yes, I am, when I was active

duty,

I was all over.

F: So

you're

an

airline pilot

as

well?

T:

Yes, ma'am

F:

What

I

want

to

talk

to you

about

is the

initial

response

on

September

1

l

lh

, when

youguysgot the

scramble order

from

the

Northeast there. From what

I

here,

you

actually

got

aphone

call

from JCA(?).

T: It

didn't happen

the way it was

suppose

to

(inaudible)

the way it

came down

was

(inaudible)

contacted

right

away and as soon as we hear there was something about a

high

jackwe gotmoving. We're proactive,wewere proactively moving beforethe air

division

had any

idea about

it.F: I

need

to ask

you.

Do you

mind

if I

tape this phone conversation?

I'm

sorry,

I

meant

to

tell

you

that

the

minute

we got on the

phone, just

so I can

have

a

copy

of all my

notes.It's

all

going

to be

unclas

stuff

anyway.

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T:

Right

F:

Okay,

so

tell

me

kind

of the

sequence

of

events

and

what happened. I'll just

ask you

stuff

from there, about when you guys got the first call and what you saw.

T:

Well,

we

swap

out at

around

8

o'clock

in the

morning,

so I

showed

up at

7:30

to setup my

material

and get all my

flying

gear

together,

(inaudible)

so

about 8:00

we

wereready

to go and the

guys were getting ready

to fly the

morning

go and it was a

9:00 take

off.

One of the guys that was

flying

with me was suppose to be in the morning go, so

nasty(?)

was just going to hold the alert for him

until

he got back on the ground then hewas going

to

resume

his

alert.

I

guess

at

about 8:30, 8:35

out by the ops

desk

I got a

phone call from

one of the

sergeants

he

said you've

got a

phone

call.

I

just assumed

it

was my

wife,

nobody else knew I was here. I said "who is it", he said "it's Otis tower,

something

about a highjacking", that's not something that we throw around blatantly,

that

word, so I had a radio with me and I called for a (?) suit up right away. So I was a

little

bit ahead of nasty getting suited up, probably about a minute or two, so when hecame

in I

said "have

you

ever done

a

highjacking before?"

he

said "no",

I

said

"I

have"he said "okay you get the

lead."

F: Let me back up on the highjacking, I think Col

Marr

told me you flew a highjacking

in

92?

T: Yea

F:

Real quick,

I

guess

that...

T: 92, the jet

that

washighjackedin the

Kennedy.

F:

That's

kind

of

weird, okay

, go

ahead.T: He said "okay you've got the lead" ?? command post because the sergeant at the desk

as

soon

as 1

called

for the

suit

up, I

just yelled

to him

"patch

us

through

to the

command

post."

The squadron commander Tracer (?) was supervisor of

flying

that day, so he was

in

the

command post already,

1

told

him

"I'm

#1 and

nasty

is

gong

to be #2" at the

time,

he was on the

phone

trying

to get if the air

division

was

being notified yet.

F: Who is the

squadron commander again?T: He was at the time, he's not here anymore, he's retired moved down to WashingtonF: OkayT: Lt Col John Tracy

F: So

he's

trying

to get in

touch

with

the

Northeast then?

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T:

When

I run in, I'm all

suited

up and he has a

phone

in

both

ears,

but he

looked

at me,

I

told

him

"I'm

1

Nasty

is 2" he

said

"this

looks like

the

real thing."

It is

American

757

on route

to

California.

I

said "okay, we're going

to the

jets"

so at

that point,

I ran out and

told Nasty

"??

the

truck

let's

go

straight

to the

planes"

so we

hopped

in the

truck

and

going

out to the

alert jets,

we

were about half

way

there when

we got

battle station, which

at

that point now the air

division

was in the loop on what's ??F: When you are at battle stations, am I correct, you see a light that indicates that?

T:

Yes, when

we run out

there

??? in the

way,

but

when

the

horn

goes

off,

we

have

a

large

PA

that

goes

off and we

also have radios that

we

carry with

us all the

time. They

go off and say

"off kilo

1 and 2

battle

stations"

and

then when

we get out

there,

they have

like

stop lights, red,

green,

yellow

and

depending

on

what light

is on

tells

us

what statuswe are in.F: So you

actually

at

this

point, you here there is an American 67, so you know

something

is

pretty serious?T:

Righl

now it is a suspected

highjacking.

We are not sure what the problem is, I mean

it

was one of prettiest days I'd ever

flown, literally

not a cloud in the sky,

visibility

was

probably

better than100miles.

F: Wow

T: It was

funny

when I was

driving

in

that

morning, I

knew

I

wasn't

on the

flying

schedule

and 1 was

"what

a day to go

flying"

it was a

beautiful fall

morning, just crystal

clear.

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F:If you don't

mind

me asking .

T:

F:

T:

F:

T:

T:

F:

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