Frances Lozito
5/11/04
BackgroundShe started in December
1974
in the New York Regional
office
as a clerk. In July1977she moved into
the
security
office
at Region,
hi
1985 she was
accepted
as a
Special
Agent/Federal
Air Marshall and worked out of Chicago for
four
years. In
1989
shemovedto FAAHeadquartersandworkedinseveral
offices
withinACS(Air CivilSecurity). She became the Personal Security Inspector for United Airlines sometime in
1990-1991.In 1999 she
became
the
Division Manager
for Air
Carrier operations.
Allthe
PSFs
reported
to
her.
She
transferred
to
TSA
in
late 2002
and is now
Chief
of
Staff
in the
Office
ofSecurity Technology, TSA.
Dayof
9-11.
She was
sitting with
Lee Longmire
receiving
a
performance appraisal
and her
pager went
off
to report to the
10
th
floor
command center. She only knew at that time that a plane
had
crashed into
the
World Trade Center,
but not
that
it was a
commercial
aircraft.
At
thattime
she had not
heard about
a
hijacking. Some positions
were
occupied
and the TVwas on in the
room.
She
recalled that
she saw the
second
crash
occur
on TV and
thatthey knew something
was
different.
She
doesn't
recall
when
she
actually heard that therewas a hijacking ongoing. She sent for Steve Jenkins and Janet
Riffe
after
she arrived atthe10
th
floor
to become
PSI
representatives in the Aviation Command Center (ACC).Untilthere
was
confirmation
of
something
else,
Security always came
up to the ACC if a
commercial
aircraft
was
involved.
At
some point between
the
second
WTC
event
and the
Pentagon she learned that there were
hijacks
within the air
traffic
system.When
she
arrived
in the ACC she was not
initially assigned
a
task, except
to try and
understanding what was happening. She arrived together with Lee Longmire. She wasshown a schematic and immediately
identified
the
front
middle desk as her desk ofresponsibility. That is when she summoned Jenkins and
Riffe.
She recalled that MikeWeikert wasthere, almost surelyatposition2. LeeLongmirewas atposition
1.
She didnot sit down but roamed in the area between the dais and the
first
row of positions. Sherecalled that Janet sat at the PSI position and was on the phone with American Airlines.They made roomforSteve Jenkinsat thesame position.She was asked who else was there, on the dais and at the net positions. She recalled that
Falcone
was
there,
but
didn't recall
what
he was
doing.
She
thought
that
Mike was
initially
at
position
2. She
doesn't
recall sitting down that morning.
She
doesn'tespecially remember
any of the Air
Traffic
senior managers being there
or who
mannedthe two nets that day.
In
reference to Lee
Longmire's
notes, she did know what the number 2 position did; itmanaged the
flow
of
information.
If she had sat up
front,
she would have been on theprimary net, she recalled. She doesn't recall seeing
Jeff
Griffith,
but thought he might
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