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Payne
Stewart Incident
and
American
Air
11
EventLast
Communication
First
Controller Attempt
toContactSupervisor
notified
Air
Defense Sector Notified
Fighters
Enroute
Fighters on
StationStewartTime
13:2713:3313:3813:5514:1214:52
Cumulative
06
11
28
4585
AA11
Time
12:1412:1512:2012:3812:5213:23
Cumulative
0
1
6
24
3869Key
Points:
A
one-hour time zone difference,
if not
accounted for, gives
the
impression that
DoDreacted
faster
than
it
actually
did to the
Payne Stewart incidentTherefore,
all
times
on
this chart
are
Coordinated Universal Time (ZULU)
FAA
had a
choice
of
vectoring
a
fighter
on a
training mission
or a
three-fighter
air
defense scramble.
It
selected
the
single fighter
to
track down
the
Stewart aircraft.
9-11
Incident
Aircraft
Impact
Notification
NTSB
8:46:409:02:409:37:45
10:03:11
Other
8:46:34
9:03:08
9:37:5710:03:10
Rounded
8:479:039:3810:03
Flight
AA11
UA175AA77UA93
Time
Warning
8:389:03
9:3410:06
9
minutes
0
minutes
4
minutes
0
minutes
NEAPS
Reaction (nearest
minute)
TimeActivity
8:388:388:388:398:398:39
8:40
8:40
8:41
Boston ARTCC Watch Desk call received
AA11
Cape TRACON call received
AA11
Mission Crew Commander summoned
to ops
floorLoudspeaker recall
for
Alpha Flight
ID
Section initiated separate call
to
Boston ARTCCMajor Deskins continued call from Boston ARTCC
Lat/Long
obtained from Boston ARTCCTrackers began
lookingfor
AA11
Otis
ordered
to
Battle Stations
8:418:458:458:468:468:489:039:04
Ground Control Position
for
Otis establishedScramble decision made
ID
Section initiated call
to New
York ARTCCScramble order issuedAA11 picked
up 8
nm
from impactUpdated
Lat/Long
obtained from
New
York ARTCCSecond hijack notification from
FAA
UA175
is
reported
as the
second aircraft
Terrorist
Pilot Manipulation
of
Aircraft Transponders
Aircraft
AA11
UA175
AA77UA93
Time
12201247124812561341
Action
Off
Change
ChangeOffOff
Effect
Known
Target Unknown Altitude (FAA)Unknown Target Unknown Location
(NEADS)
Known Target Unknown Location (FAA)
Unknown
Target Known Location (FAA)Unknown Target Unknown Location (FAA)
Unknown
Target Unknown Location(NEADS)
Known
Target Known Location (FAA)Wrong Target Known Location (NEADS)
Result
FAA
tracked,
not
effectively communicated
to
NEADS
NEADS
picked
up
target,
no
track, just before impact
FAA
lost
UA175,
never
communicated
to
NEADS
FAA
picked
up
intruder, never communicated
toNEADS
FAA
lost AA77
and
reported
as
possibly crashed
FAA
and
NEADS picked
up
intruder
in
last minutes
FAA
maintained continuity,
Pittsburgh
Towerevacuated
NEADS
tracked
DAL1989,
followed
it to
west
andback
Lufthansa
Flight 592, Frankfurt to Cairo, hijacked to New YorkMay
Testimony: No domestic
hijacking
inlast decade
Lufthansa:
First hijacking since 1985First trans-Atlantic hijacking since September 1976Multi-agency conference 2 hours and 20 minutes after FAA first notified; FBI lead, on the ground
Otis
AFB Air
Defense fighters
are
scrambled, take handoff from Canadian
jets
and
escort
plane
to
JFKDate
Goal
TypeHijackersNationalityWeaponMethod
Initial
Reaction
Air
Defense
Lead
Pilot
Battle
CabWeaponsID/MCC
Lufthansa
592
American
11
February 12, 1993Politcal AsylumTrans-Atlantic
1
EthiopianStarter PistolPilot HostageLEIssueOtis
AFB
DuffyMarr (BC)
Fox
(WD)
McCain (IT)September
11,2001
UnknownDomestic
5
Saudi, EgyptianKnives, SprayCrew NeutralizedPresumedLEIssueOtis AFBDuffyMarr (FO)Fox
(SD)
McCain (MCC/T)
Gofer 06, aMinnesota ANG C130, takesoffroutinely for home, sights primary only traffic,
is
vectored to follow by WashingtonApproach,and is twominutes behind whenitobserves the aircraft impact the Pentagon.
8:33
\n
Mixing
Bowl
8:36
American 77,
B757
Gofer 06, C130
:33
^Andrews
AFB
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