9/11 ATC 0800-0816

mattwinacott

4 weeks ago

when things are happening like highjackings I might come in and talk. I'd like to talk the TWA flight and United 175 close call and mention where to find ThermalDetonators article with small contribution from me.

mattwinacott

4 weeks ago

I want to talk about the response from NORAD and the fighter planes. I know about a mid air refueling of the fighters on the Atlantic ocean before an emergency supersonic flight to Baltimore they thought another plane was going to hit there. I have heard talk of this on the ATC radio. I have heard about a fighter plane error where instead of monitoring DC the planes were orbiting. "flying in a circle", 60 miles over the Atlantic Ocean, because they always thought about an outside threat. United 93 was coming to Washington. The Colonel who was in charge of the fighters says, where are the fighters? Response: Because that's where GiantKiller (fighter ATC)! Then they say Goddammit! OK. I've also listened to an ATC tape at Newark where a pilot says to ATC. " Ok we need to head back to the gate, we have people that saw this thing (plane hit WTC) they are historical. while the highjackings were happening there were ladies and they were all ladies in charge of talking to the airports. when they find out about the highjackings the one lady exclaims "cool"! another exclaims: "is this real world?' They were doing a training exercise about Russian invasion. so they didn't know if it was real at first. Also with United 93, the people in charge of making decisions for Washington and Cleveland airports were in a meeting. the one guy goes should we be alerting the military on this? response: I don't know. Response: Well that's a decision somebody is going to have to make in the next 10 minutes.