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Interview
Guide
NortheastAir
Defense
Sector
Rome,
New YorkDates: TBD
Note: With possible exception
of the
Commanding
Officer
and the
Operations
Officer
all
interviewees will
first
be
asked
to, in
narrative
form
without interruption, provide theirrecollection of events as they unfolded on 9/11. The detailed interview guide can then be
used
to make sure all relevant points are covered.
Commission Sensitive
 
Commanding Officer
Personal
Data
Name: Rank:Years
in
Position
on
9/11:
Current
Position: Phone:
E-mail:
Start with short career history with emphasison airdefense experience.
Morning
of
9/11
1.
Where were you on the morning of
9/11
and how did you become aware
of
the developing situation?2. What were your immediate orders and actions when you became aware?
3.
What communication means were immediately available to you and towhom?4. Explain how you
deconflicted
the on-going exercise and how youorganized your forces to meet the challenge?
5.
What processes
and
procedures were
in
place
for you to
gain situationalawareness and how
quickly
were you able to do so?6. What initial guidance did you receive
from
CONR,
if any. At what point
did
you receive guidance and what was it?7. Did you personally have any contact with FAA at any level or with
NORAD
at any level? How about the NMCC or other Washington area
entity?8. Did you
personally have
any
contact with
the
Wings
at
Otis
and
Langley?If so what were the details of that contact?
Commission
Sensitive
 
9. How did youmanage
events
of the morning—what was
your relationship
with
the Mission Control Commander and the Director of Operations?
10.
What input did you have to the decisions to
scramble—from
Otis?
FromLangley?
11.
What inputdid youhaveto thedecisionstocontinue routine scheduledtraining at Otis? Elsewhere? Was that training exercise-related?
12.
In the
hunt
for
American
Air
11
what
do you
recall about
the
effort
to
establish
its
altitude? What capability does
the
Sector
have
to do so?
Manning the
Watch
13.
What standards
did you
establish
for
your SAOC
to
identify
specialtracksorother unknown tracksofinterest?
14.
How did you
decide when
an
officer
is
sufficiently
trained
and
capableto perform duty as a Mission Control Commander?
15.
Where
did
Major Nasypany rank among
the
Mission
ControlCommanders and alternates who performed that duty?
16.
How
often
and in what manner did you test or exercise your watchteams to deal with unknown targets?
17.
How
often
and
when
did you
conduct such tests
or
exercises
to
deal
with
a hijacking?
The Scrambles, Interception and Shootdown Authority
18.
What orders did you understand the scrambled pilots to have as they got
in
the air that morning? What were they supposed to do? What were theirorders concerning expenditure of ordnance?
19.
At
what time
did you
become aware
of
guidance
to
take positive actionagainst hijacked commercial airliners
and how and
from
whom
did you
receive that guidance?
Commission
Sensitive
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