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Miles Kara
From:
John Raidt
Sent:
Monday, February 09, 2004 12:43 PMTo: Team 8
Subject:
FW: FAA
tapes
Fl
11
The
attached
is an
e-mail
that
Jamie received. Jamie
was
interested
in the
Sweeney
call
so I
e-mailed
her
what
we
knew
on
that
and a
couple
of the
other items.
I let her
know that
the
NORAD
etc.
was in
Team
8's
purview.
—Original
Message—
From:
Jamie Gorelick
Sent:
Monday, February
09,
2004
11:03
AM
To:
John Raidt
Subject:
FW:
FAA
tapes
Fl 11
—Original
Message—
From:
Gailsheehy@aol.com
[mailto:Gailsheehy@aol.com]
Sent:
Friday,
February
06,
2004
1:27
PMTo:
Gorelick, Jamie
Subject:
FAA
tapes
Fl 11
Dear
Jamie,
To
gveyoumore solid questionsto
look
into, hereiswhat
I've
earnedso
far:
American's Flight
11
took off from Logan Airport in Boston at 7:59 am. By
8:14
a.m.,
the FAA controllerfollowing that
flight
from
a
bunker
in
Nashua,
New Hampshire,
already knew
it was
missing;
its
transponder
had
been turned
off and the
controller
could
not get a
response from
the
pilots.
Madeline Amy Sweeney, the other flight attendant on Fl11,gave the first specific information the airline
and
the government got
that
day, after she went face to face with the hijackers on American's
Flight
11.
Ms.Sweeney used an AirPhone to call AA Flight Service at Boston's Logan airport and talked to her colleague, MikeWoodward.. She gave seat locations and physical descriptions of the hijackers. American apparently had notape recording facility at
Logan,
which in itself is disturbing, so Woodward took notes. Ms. Sweeney gave him theseat
locationsof
three
of the
hijackers:
9D, 9G, and
10B.
Shesaid
they were
all of
Middle
Eastern
descent
and
one spoke Engish very well. Woodward ordered a colleague to punch up those seat
locations
on the computer.Within five to 15 minutes before the plane crashed, the airline had the names, addresses, phone numbers, andcredit cards of three of the five hijackers.
They
knew that9G wasAbdul Alamri,10 B wasSadam
Tk,
and 9D wasMohamed Atta, which allowedofficials to identify them
15
to 20 minutes before the first crash. She gave officials key clues to the fact that this
was
not a
traditional hijacking.
And she
gave
the
first
and
only eye-witness account
of a
bomb
on
board.
"How
do
you-
know
it's
abomb" askedherphone contact."Because the
hijackers
showed me a bomb."
That
is
my
info, from Ms. Sweeney's
husband,
who is in contact with Mike
Woodward,
who was warned
by
AA not o
tall<|
| He is
willing
to
talk
to the
commission about
Ms.
Sweeney's
transmission.
MIS
notes were
taxen
py
ine
FBI,
but he may
have
a
copy.More indications that much more was known than the airlines or FAA revealed come from reporting by theChristian Science Monitor, by Mike Clayton, who contacted two flight controllers at the FAA bunker in Nashua,
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New
Hampshire
on
Sept 11,
and
published their accounts
-
which matched
up - on
Sept
12.
I've never heard
any
more about this pilot transmission, and the controllers were warned to keep silent once the CSM storyappeared. But they could be subpoenaed. Here is what is known:Shortly after FAA air traffic controllers in Nashua, NH failed to get a response from Fl
11,
one of crew, theypresumeapilot, activatedthe"pushtotalk" radio microphoneon the"wheel"of theaircraft,andsurreptitiouslytried to signal to authorities that plane had been violently overtaken. By using the button of the radio microphone,which allows pilots to have their hands on the controls while communicating, the controllers said, he was able toallow them to hear much of what was said and other noises in the cockpit.
The
pilot's voice and the heavily accented voice of a hijacker were clearly audible
It
was the interpretation of the listening controllers that the pilot was in the driver's seat much of the way to theplane's deadly end point.TheNYT got
partial
transcripts of the communications between pilots and controllers on all 4 planes and reported
(Oct
16, 2001)thatacontroller heardanunidentified voice from cockpitof Fl 11say:"Wehave some planes. Just
stay
quiet
and
you'll
be
O.K.
We are
returning
to the
airport."
The
controller, confused, said
"
Who's trying
to
call
me?" No response. Then the same ME voice: "Nobody move
please;
we are going back to the airport. Don't tryto make any stupid moves."
All
of it
this
was recorded by a Federal Aviation Administration
traffic-control
center. Federal law-enforcement officials arrived at the flight-control
facility
minutes after Flight11crashed into the World Trade Center and took the tape.Another, simultaneous sign of a
multiple
hijacking was picked up by United Airlines Flight 175, which
left
Boston
for
LA at8:14am.Just afterittook off,the airtraffic controllerhadaskedforhelp from other pilotsinfinding flight
11,
which was already missing.
"Weheard a suspicious transmission on our departure from BOS," the pilot reported just after
takekoff.
"soundslike someone keyed the mike and said everyone stay in your seats."
Tapes
were also made by FAA flight controllers in Indianapolis, and between FAA and the Pentagon, NORAD
and
Secret Service. Have theseFAAflight controller tapes been turned overto thecommission? Haveany of thevictim's families demanded their righttohear them?
Finally,
the facts surrounding the last
flight,
United #93, are the most mysterious and heavily guarded. At 9:30
am,
six minutes
after
receiving orders from NORAD, three F16's were airborne,aceto NORAD's timeline. At firs,
the
planes were directed toward new York and probably reached 600 mph within two minutes,
ace
to Maj.General Mike J. Haugen, adjutant general of the North Dakota National Guard. Then they were vectored west andgivena new flight target: Reagan National airport. The
pilots
heard over their headsets that the FAA had ordered
all
civilian aircrafttoland. Then they heardanominous squawk overthe
plane's
transponder,acode thatindicates almost an emergency wartime footing. Gen. Haugen says the F-16s were asked to confirm that thePentagon was on
fire.
The lead flier looked down and confirmed the worst.Then the pilots received the most surreal order of the morning. Accroding to Gen Haugen, "A person came on theradio and identified themselves as being with the Secret Service, and he said
'I
want you to protect the WhiteHouse
at all costs.'"Now,
it gets really vague... Here is the NORAD official timeline:Airline Impact Time (Pentagon) 0937(estimated)
Fighter
Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 12 min/105milesUnitedFlight 93 - Newark to San Francisco
FAA
Notification to NEADS N/A *****Fighter Scramble: Order (Langley F-16s already airborne for AA
Fit
77)
Fighters Airborne
(Langley
F-16 CAP
remains
in
place
to
protect
DC)
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