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FACTUAL ISSUES

Flight

11

(1) FAA/NORAD:

What is the source of the resurrection of Flight

11?(2)

FAA: What information did Washington (the WOC) have and at what timeabout the hijacking of

11?

Did the controllers pass along "we have some planes"

to

DC?(3) FAA/NORAD:

Who within FAA was on the phone to NEADS? Where were

they

getting their information re

11's

position? Why couldn't NEADS

find

11

ontheir scopes?

Flight 175

(1)

FAA:

Did the NY

ARTCC, AEA, ANE,

or

anyone else

in the FAA

notify

NORAD

and/or the NMCC regarding the hijacking of Flight 175?

(2)

FAA: Did the FAA ever "declare" 175 a hijacking? Why was such scantattention paid to this aircraft?

(3)

NORAD: Various accounts

of

when

FAA

"notified" NORAD

of 175

hijack:

(1)

Timeline 0843;

(2)

Hearing Testimony

-- no

notification (verify with transcript);

(3)

Scottpresentation (Bates NCT0025894)

-

0905. Which

is t?

Flight

77

(1)

FAA:

Did

anyone

at

Indy/AGL

or

elsewhere

in the FAA

notify NORAD aboutthe hijacking of Flight 77?

(2)

FAA:

Why did 77

"disappear" from radar?

Is

there radar coverage

in

this

area?

How often does

this

happen?

(3)

When

did 77

"reappear"

on

radar

and

whose scopes would

it

have appeared

on?

(3)

FAA: What was the situational awareness of lndy\AGL re the earlierhijackings

(11

&175)and WTChits?

(4)

FAA: What did the Dulles/National controllers know (if anything) about 77being lost?

Did any

controller "know" that

the

target they were seeing

-

either

on

the

scope

of

hitting

the

Pentagon

- was 77?

Flight 93

(1)

FAA: What was the situational awareness of Cleveland\AGL re the earlierhijackings and hits?

(2)

NORAD: Wouldthemilitary have beenin apositiontoshoot down93 had itcontinuedon to DC?

(a)

FAA: What was the closest aircraft to 93 around the time it went down?

Were

theCleveland controllers awareof anymilitary aircraft nearby?

General

Issues

(1)

Tutorial

on

scopes

-

what

a

primary target looks

like;

what buttons have

to be

pushed

to

pull

up

primary targets

(1)

Nail

the

story

-

both from

the WH

side

and the

military

side

- of the

shoot

down

order.

(2)

What is the source of the WH phantom

aircrafts?

(List from USSS

timeline)

(3)

Nail every communication betweenan FAAofficialandNORAD

(4)

ROE: Answer

(1)

what the pilots believed were the rules of engagement they

were

operating under, and (2) what in fact, from a paper perspective, the rules ofengagement were

(5)

Liaison Officers:

On

9/11,

who

were

the FAA

liaison officers

at

NORAD

andvisa

versa? Whatdidtheydo?

SPECIFIC

QUESTIONS

In

the chaos of that day

(9/11),

what did you think worked well?

What

did you think didn't work as well?

How

would you describe

FAA's

preparedness today for another hijackingincident? What are the outstanding weaknesses?

If

you were a member of the 9/11 Commission, looking at the aviation issues,

what

recommendation(s) would you have to make the system safer?

Are you

aware

of any

after-action

reports

or

assessments

that were

done

about

the

events

of the

day?

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