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Payne Stewart Incident and American Air 11Event

Last CommunicationFirst Controller Attempt toContactSupervisor notifiedAir Defense Sector NotifiedFighters EnrouteFighters on Station

StewartTime13:2713:3313:3813:5514:1214:52

Cumulative0611

284585

AA11Time

12:1412:1512:2012:3812:5213:23

Cumulative016

243869

Ke y Points:A one-hour time zone difference, if not accounted for, gives the impression that DoDreacted faster than it actually did to the Payne Stewart incidentTherefore, all times on this chart are Coordinated Universal Time (ZULU)FA A had a choice of vectoring a fighter on a training mission or a three-fighter ai rdefense scramble. It selected the single fighter to track down the Stewart aircraft.

9-11 Incident AircraftImpact Notification

NTSB8:46:40

9:02:40

9:37:4510:03:11

Other8:46:34

9:03:08

9:37:5710:03:10

Rounded8:479:03

9:3810:03

FlightAA11UA175

AA77UA93

Time Warning8:389:03

9:3410:06

9 minutes0 minutes

4 minutes0 minutes

NEAPS Reaction (nearest minute)Time Activity8:388:388:388:398:398:398:408:408:41

Boston ARTCC Watch Desk call received AA11Cape TRACON call received AA11Mission Crew Commander summoned to ops floorLoudspeaker recall for Alpha FlightID Section initiated separate call to Boston ARTCCMajor Deskins continued call from Boston ARTCCLat/Long obtained from Boston ARTCCTrackers began looking for AA11Otis ordered to Battle Stations


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8:418:458:458:468:468:489:039:04

Ground Control Position for Otis establishedScramble decision madeID Section initiated call to New York ARTCCScramble order issuedAA11 picked up 8 nm from impactUpdated Lat/Long obtained from New York ARTCCSecond hijack notification from FAAUA175 is reported as the second aircraft

Terrorist Pilot Manipulation of Aircraft TranspondersTime1220

124712481256

1341

ActionOff

ChangeChange

Off

Off

EffectKnown Target Unknown Altitude (FAA)Unknown Target Unknown Location(NEADS)Known Target Unknown Location (FAA)Unknown Target Known Location (FAA)Unknown Target Unknown Location (FAA)Unknown Target Unknown Location(NEADS)

Known Target Known Location (FAA)Wrong Target Known Location (NEADS)

ResultFAA tracked, not effectively communicated to NEADSNEADS picked up target, no track, just before impactFAA lost UA175, never communicated to NEADSFA A picked up intruder, never communicated toNEADSFA A lost AA77 and reported as possibly crashedFAA and NEADS picked up intruder in last minutesFAA maintained continuity, Pittsburgh TowerevacuatedNEADS tracked DAL1989, followed it to west andback


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Lufthansa Flight 592, Frankfurt to Ca iro, hijacked to New YorkMay Testimony: No domestic hijacking in last decadeLufthansa: First hijacking s ince 1985First trans -Atlantic hijacking since September 1976Multi-agency conference 2 hours an d 20 minutes after FAA first notified; FBI lead, on the groundOtis AFB Air Defense fighters are scrambled, take handoff from Canadian jets an d escort plane toJFK

DateGoalTypeHijackersNationalityWeaponMethodInitial ReactionAir DefenseLead PilotBattle Ca bWeaponsID/MCC

Lufthansa 592 American 11February 12, 1993Politcal As ylumTrans-Atlantic1EthiopianStarter PistolPilot HostageLE IssueOtis AFBDuffyMarr (BC)Fox (WD)McCain (IT)

September 11,2001UnknownDomestic

5Saudi, EgyptianKnives, SprayCrew NeutralizedPresumed LE IssueOtis AFBDuffyMarr (FO)Fox (SD)McCain (MCC/T)

Gofer 06, a Minnesota ANG C130, takes offroutinely for home, sights primary only traffic,is vectored to follow by WashingtonApproach, and is two minutes behind when itobserves the aircraft impact the Pentagon.

8:33 \nMixing Bowl 8:36

American 77, B757

Gofer 06, C130:33^Andrews AFB


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Langley Scramble, a series of individual actions that don't cohere in the aggregate.1. NEA DS scrambles Langley fighters for a heading and altitude (010, FL 290) bu t doesno t provide target dataa bearing an d range. No mission, "words," is given.2. NEA DS adds a third fighter to the scramble, after battle stations has been authorized.3. Langley Base Operations asks for "words" from NEA DS and is told it has to do withthe situation in New York.4. Lang ley Tow er enters a standard flight plan (090 for 60) so that it can get the fightersoff the ground and at altitude as qu ickly as possible.5. Langley To wer turns control over to Norfolk Approach while the fighters are takingoff and understands that som eone else will head the fighters where they need to go.6. Norfolk Approach believes the flight plan to be later information that supercedes thescramble order.7. The fighters take off to the east, standard air defense procedure an d proceed onrunway heading (080) to 4000 altitude.7. The lead pilot concurs that the flight plan is his second heading.8. Norfolk Approach asks the lead pilot which direction he wou ld like to go? The pilotdoes not hear that question at the time.9. Norfolk Approach hands off ATC to Giant Killer which is not expecting to receive thefighters; it heard the scram ble order.10. NEADS controller recognizes his fighters are "headed for Whiskey 386.. .1 have noidea why."11 . He is told, "call Giant Killer, no rush. There is no rush because N EAD S is waitingfor the third pilot to catch up.Net result is that no one took action or initiative to change the flight plan and the Langleyfighters proceeded into m ilitary controlled airspace over water.AFIO (Au thority fo r Intercept Operations)Controllers "paired" the fighters to a "Z" point south of BW INEADS became aware of a target six miles from the White House an d established a trackB032 on what would ultimately be identified as American Air 77.Controllers desperately tried to gain control o f the Langley fighters and took the only stepthey couldNEADS declared AFIO and got the fighters headed toward Baltimore.Controllers then paired the fighters to the new track B032 an d vectored them toWashington DCThrough either a transposition of numbers or a faulty pointer in the cockpit of the leadpilot the fighters temporarily headed for a CAP south of Washington

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