Regional
Office
Air
Traffic
Division, immediately upon receipt
of
notification that
the WTC had
been hit,
worked
with others
in the
regional
office
to
establish
an
emergency command post
on the
5th
floor.
Personnel
from
all
branches were quickly assigned
for
duty
in the
commandpost;
a
system
of
runners
was
also
set up to
ensure messages were relayed
to and
from
the
4th floor.
Resource Management Branch,
AEA-540,
started release
of
nonessentialpersonnel
at
9:05
am, and
notified
the
regional points
of
contact
for the
National
Air
Traffic
Controllers Association
(NATCA)
and the
National Association
of Air
Traffic
Specialists
(NAATS). The
Division received timely updates
via
phone calls
or
pages
from field
facility
managers
and/or
union representatives. Critical information, such
as
the
report
from
Washington Tower that
a
B757
had hit the
Pentagon,
was
immediatelyrelayed
to the
command
post.
Air
Traffic
personnel
and
senior management have been
available
in the
regional
office
24
hours
per day
since
the WTC
events
of
last week.
Washington
National Tower
When
the
personnel
at DCA
heard about
the
World
Trade Center attacks,
we
cleared
DCA
airspace
of all VFR
traffic.
Later, When
IAD
called about
the
unknown primarytarget, (AAL
77) our
Supervisor
(OS Vic
Padgett)
got on the
secret service
hot
line
to
pass
information
and
also stopped
all of our
departures.
One of our
controllers (Dan
Creedon)
tagged
the
primary target
to
make
it
easier
to
track. When
we saw the
fireball
from
the
crash
of
AAL77 into
the
pentagon,
we
(CPC Dave Walsh) activated
the
airportcrash
and
rescue phone
to
alert
the
airport crash
and
rescue personnel
of the
crash.
CPC
Steve
Collison turned Gofer
06,
C130,
to
follow
unknown
aircraft
to see
where
it was
going.
New
York ARTCC
On
September
11,
2001, between 1239
UTC and
1305
UTC the
following actions were
taken
by New
York ARTCC
to try and
mitigate
the
many incidents occurring
at
this time.
New
York ARTCC sector
42
(CPC
Dave
Bodtiglia) initiated
a
track
on
primary targetbelieved
to be AAL11
heading southbound.
ZNY
STMC (Marty
Rosenburg)
asks
ZNY
MLS
(Bob
Felser)
to get
military assistance.
ZNY ATM
(Michael
J. McCormick)
called
N90
OMIC
to
warn them
to
look
for
primary target
in
vicinity
of
Hudson Riversouthbound toward Manhattan.
ZNY ATM
asks Area
B OSIC (OS
Paul Thumser)
&
CIC
(Evana
Dowis)
to
coordinate
for fighter
intercept
on
hijack aircraft.
ZNY MLS
contactsHuntress. Several discussions over
a
period
of 12
minutes occurred, including muchinformation about type aircraft, aircraft call sign,
beacon code
and
location.
UAL 175
asked
to
recycle transponder
by ZNY
Sector R42. Sector
R42 CPC
monitoring bothprimary targets
for
AAL11
and UAL 175
informs
CIC
continuously
of
aircraft,
positions,
and
altitudes when available.
ZNY ATM
observes
target
on R42 and
R55
display
heading
toward NYC.
ZNY ATM
attempts several phone calls
to AEA ATD to
warn
of
another hijack
and
probable second attack
on
WTC.
N90
OMIC (Bob Birch)
informs
ZNY
ATM that
EWR
ATCT reports an
aircraft
crashed in the World Trade Center.ZNYATM warns N90 that more is going on and that there is more than one hijack. Additional
hijack
may be
headed toward NYC.
ZNY OMIC
(Bruce Barrett) directs STMCs (PeteMulligan and Marty Rosenburg) to stop all
traffic
into
NYARTCC.
ZNY MLS
notifies
ZNY ATM that military
aircraft
are scrambled and requests current location and beacon
code
of
aircraft.
ZNY ATM
notifies
him that the
aircraft
appears to have crashed in thesame location. ZNY AATM (Dave Lecates) notified ATM that second
aircraft
crashedinto WTC with live pictures on CNN. ZNY ATM directs OMIC to declare ATC 0. Allinternational oceanic
traffic
withinZNY wastoldtodiverttoalternate destinations.Alock down of New York ARTCC was accomplished.
New
York TRACON
STMC Ron Regan and OMIC Bob Birch cleared all Air
Traffic
out of the New York areaas soon as he became aware of a
hijacking
with serious implications.Washington
ARTCC
Washington ARTCC ATM (Luis Ramirez) ordered a stop of all departures in theWashington Area approximately nine minutes
before
any
direction.
CPC RichardWallace overhead
the
Telcon discussion about
AAL 77
while walking
buy the
watchdesk regarding AAL 77 and indicated he worked the
aircraft
and went back to
find
alldata related to AAL 77. The
facility
went into a total lockdown and
FMA,
NATCA,
ZNY-1,
and
ZNY-2
brought all meals for the personnel remaining on duty. Each areawas
directed
to set up and look for primary targets within there airspace, and NATCAand FAA worked as a team throughout this event in accomplishing all necessary tasks inproviding the
best
possible service to the military and civilian
aircraft.
Dulles
TowerDuring this time of crisis, the Dulles ATCT Team had many instances of exemplaryperformance. Within the Dulles Team there were also several star performers, whosededication, instincts and
professionalism
gave our Team the winning edge.Danielle O'Brien - The
certified
professional controller at Dulles ATCT who noticed theprimary target later
identified
as
hijacked
aircraft
AAL77. She immediately brought thisunknown target to the attention of the supervisor and the entire work
force
in the DullesTRACON.John Hendershot - The supervisor at Dulles ATCT who immediately realized theimportance
of the
unknown target
and
contacted
the
White House Joint OperationsCenter and Washington National ATCT to
inform
them of the danger.
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