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AviationAdministration
Cleveland
Air
Traffic Control Tower
Cleveland
Hopkins International
Airport
3rd
Floor Administration Building
Cleveland OH
44135
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DAL1989 OrderofEvents
times
are
UCT. Subtract
4
hours
for
local time, e.g. 1350:41
UCT =
9:50:41
a.m.
B
is
Cleveland Center
wakem
is theCleveland CenterWakemSectorHO is the
handoff
position
at Clevland Approach
OS
is the Supervisor in the Tower
ARW
is the
Arrival West position
at
Cleveland Approach
CLE
is Cleveland Hopkins AirportETA is estimated time of arrival
LC
is theLocal Control Positionin thetower
Italics are comments for
clarification
All
clearances issued
toDAL1989
received appropriate responses
from
the
pilot
except
as
noted.1350:411351:27
1352:17
1-^355:10
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1357:54
1358:341358:501400:34
1401:17
1402:02
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1402:18
1402:46
ZOBWakem sector (Wakem) calls Handoff (HO)andadvisesDAL1989"isconfirmed hijackandWestbound
and
away from your airport
so for now you can
disregard him."City
Ops
calls
the
Tower Supervisor
(OS)
and
asks,
"do we
have
a
hijack aircraft
inbound?"
OS
says
hecan't confirm thatandwill call CityOpsback.
Wakem
calls
HO and
advises
"DAL's
hanging
a
U-turn
now
heading
back
toward you.
He
supposedly
has a
bomb
on
board
and not a
hijack." Wakem
then advises
DAL
1989
will
be
coming in
from
North of Sandusky and is about
10-12
minutes out from the boundary.
OS
advises CityOpsthatDAL1989isinboundtoCleveland believedtohaveabombonboard,isaB767, planning runway 6R. City asks if DAL is a hijack or a bomb threat. OS says he doesn'tknow
and
advises
DAL is
about 12 minutes
out
(City
Ops
advises
the
information they
had was
on a
UAL93.)
City
Ops advises the
fire
stations will be at
"quarters"
until FBI arrives.
Wakem
call HO and advises that DAL
1989
will be descending to
9,000'
to get under the holdingpattern going direct Wakem then
direct
CLE.
OS
tells City
Ops
that
the
bomb
area
is on the
West
side
at
Romeo,
but
that
they're
worried abouttheconstruction guys. City tellsthe OS to go forRomeo, that
they're
pullingtheconstructionguys out of
there
now.
Romeo is thetaxhvaydesignator.
TJie
construction is the new rumvay.
Wakem call
HO and
advises "now
we're
being
told
DAL is a
hijack
and may
have
a
bomb."
Wakem then says
the
information
"coming
from
the
pilot
has
been really unreliable
and
shaky."
ZOB
Carlton sector
(CRL)
then calls
and
tells
HO
that
they
are
working
DAL1989and
that
he is
going direct to the airport now and that the pilot requested it.
Arrival
West (ARW) controller callsDAL1989.Noresponse
from
DAL.
DAL1989
contacts ARW at
9,000'.
9000
'
is the aircraft's altitude.
ARW issues DAL1989 direct
to the
field.
ARW asksDAL1989
his
intentions.
DAL
answers
"we're
landing Cleveland."ARWasks
DAL1989
"canyoumakein theclear communications with me?"DAL1989responds,
1403:54
J4:071404:25
1405:04
1405:311406:57
1408:04
1408:281409:09
1410:10
**U1:18
if
1412:371413:19
1414:1.11415:11
1415:261418:38
1418:41
1418:481419:05
"V
1419:26
"affirmative,
we are not a
trip sir."
ARW
issues DAL1989 heading 070.City
Ops
calls
for ETA on
DAL1989.
OS
advises
7 to 8
minutes,
about
20
miles
West.
ARW
instructs
DAL1989
"descend
at
your discretion
to
7,000."
DAL1989
asks
if he
will
use
runway 24L.
ARW
responds yes.
ARW
instructs
DAL1989
at
7,000 reduce speed
to
170.
7000
is the
altitude
Wakem
calls
to ask if
we're working
DAL1989.We
tell
them
yes we
are.
ZOB
then asks
HO ifwe can
give
him any
information
on DAL 1989. HO
advises
ZOB the DAL is
landing here
at
CLE and
that we're treating
him as an
emergency.
HO
calls Wakem
and
advises "once
DAL
lands
the
City says
no one
else
is
landing"
untileverything gets worked out.
City
Ops
says
the FBI
wants
to
know
if
DAL1989
squawked this (Hijack).
OS
says
no.
ARW
instructs
DAL1989
to
descend
and
maintain 5,000,
fly
heading 060.
OS
advises City
Ops
that once
DAL
gets down we're shut down.
ARW
advises
DAL1989
that
he
will
be
keeping
him on ARW
frequency
on final.
ARW
instructs DAL1989
to
descend
and
maintain 4,000, turn right 140.
ARW
instructs
DAL1989
to rum
right
to
210, intercept
the
localizer,
anddescendand
maintain3,000.
ARW
clears
DAL1 989 for the
ILS
Runway
24L
approach.
ARW
advises
DAL1989 to
contact
the
tower.DAL1989 checks
in
with Local Control (LC).
LC
issues wind
and
clears
DAL1989
to
land.
LC
advises
DAL1989
that
he
will
be
parked
on the
West side
of the
airport.
HO
advises Wakem that
DAL
1989
is "on the
ground
at
1418." Wakem asks
"very
safely
too I
hope?"
HO
responds that
DAL is
being taken
to the
bomb area
for now to
check.
LC
issues
DAL1989
taxi instructions.
Cab
Coordinator (CC) tells
HO
that
DAL is on the
ground, that
we're
officially
closed,
and
that
DAL is
being taxied
to the
West side.DAL1989 transmits
to LC,
"just
to
make sure
we
don't have
any
misunderstandings here,
our
flaps
are up, we are landing
only
as a
precaution
at the
company's request,
you
understand
that."
LC -
responds
affirmative,
but
advises DAL1989
that
parking
on the
West side
was at the
City's
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