Federal Aviation Administration

Events (225)

• (9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Who Warns Who of Flight 77’s Impending Approach to D.C.? 2001-09-11
• (9:28 a.m.-9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Cleveland Center Controllers Mistakenly Think Delta 1989 Is Hijacked 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:25 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Dulles Airport Controllers Reportedly Notice Flight 77, Earlier than 9/11 Commission Claims 2001-09-11
• (9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Emergency Operations Center Is Finally Operational 2001-09-11
• (9:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Command Center Identifies Ten Possible Hijacked Planes 2001-09-11
• (9:32 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: In Middle of Crisis, FAA Group Wants Tour of Washington Airport’s Control Tower 2001-09-11
• (9:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Hijacker Tells Passengers Bomb Is Onboard; Air Traffic Controller Overhears 2001-09-11
• 9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Mentions in Passing to NORAD that Flight 77 Is Missing 2001-09-11
• 9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA’s Headquarters Notified There Might Be a Bomb Onboard Flight 93; NORAD Not Notified 2001-09-11
• Before 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Government Departments in Washington Not Evacuated Prior to Pentagon Attack 2001-09-11
• (9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Cleveland Flight Control Wants NORAD Notified; FAA Command Center Says People Are Working on It 2001-09-11
• (After 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Aircraft Carriers Called to Defend US; Uncertainty Over When This Happens 2001-09-11
• 9:37 a.m.-9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Begins Air Threat Conference Call 2001-09-11
• After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft Insists on Leaving Milwaukee and Flying to Washington, despite FAA Ground Stop 2001-09-11
• After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Air Force Crisis Action Team Responds to Attacks 2001-09-11
• Before 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 77 Disappears from Radar 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:38 a.m. and 11:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Dulles Airport Is Locked Down 2001-09-11
• (9:39 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Hijacker Again Warns of Bomb on Board, Flight Controllers Again Overhear; NORAD Still Not Notified 2001-09-11
• 9:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: Cleveland Center Notifies Regional Operations Center about Flight 93 2001-09-11
• 9:41 a.m.-9:48 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Command Center Notifies FAA Headquarters about Flight 93 Problems 2001-09-11
• (9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Senior FAA Manager, on His First Day on the Job, Orders All Planes Out of the Sky Nationwide 2001-09-11
• 9:49 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Headquarters Continues to Delay Decision on Contacting NORAD About Flight 93 2001-09-11
• (9:50 a.m. and After) September 11, 2001: Cleveland Airport and City Buildings Evacuated due to Possibly Hijacked Aircraft Coming in to Land 2001-09-11
• 9:53 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Headquarters Still Only Talking About Telling NORAD of Flight 93 Hijack 2001-09-11
• (9:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Reagan Airport Control Tower Evacuated due to Report of Approaching Aircraft 2001-09-11
• (9:55 a.m. and After) September 11, 2001: Numerous International Flights to US Transmit Emergency Transponder Codes 2001-09-11
• (After 10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: United Airlines Tells FAA Flight 93 Is over Maryland, Says Military Will Be Informed 2001-09-11
• 9:17 a.m. EST, September 11, 2001: New York Airports Closed 2001-09-11
• (September 12-21, 2001): Recovery Workers Search for One of the Black Boxes at Ground Zero in Locations Where Its Signal Has Been Detected 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Air Force Utilizes New Radar Command Center; Device Overcomes Vulnerabilities Seen on 9/11 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001-October 2003: FAA New York Center Managers Fail to Notify Superiors about Tape of Controllers’ 9/11 Recollections 2001-09-12
• September 13, 2001: Saudi Royals Fly to Kentucky in Violation of Domestic Flight Ban 2001-09-13
• September 14, 2001: FAA New York Center Instructed to Retain 9/11 Evidence, yet Tape of Controllers’ Accounts Later Destroyed 2001-09-14
• September 17, 2001: FAA Publishes Timeline of the 9/11 Attacks That Is Used to Brief the White House but Lacks Key Information 2001-09-17
• September 18, 2001: Investigators Reported to Have Detected a Signal from One of the Crashed Planes’ Black Boxes at Ground Zero 2001-09-18
• November 23, 2001: Report Suggests Hijackers Snuck into Cockpits 2001-11-23
• January 5, 2002: US Teenager Voicing Support for Bin Laden Flies Plane into Bank Tower in Tampa, Florida 2002-01-05
• August 12, 2002: FAA Releases No New Information About 9/11 2002-08-12
• September 18, 2002: 9/11 Victims’ Relatives Raise Questions about US Agencies’ Conduct 2002-09-18
• October 14, 2003: 9/11 Commission Issues First Subpoena, to FAA 2003-10-14
• May 6, 2004: Report of Transportation Department Investigation Released, Blames Destruction of Tape of Controllers’ 9/11 Recollections on ‘Poor Judgment’ 2004-05-06
• 4:30 p.m., June 9, 2004: Capitol Evacuated as Unidentified Aircraft Nears; Plane Carrying Governor Almost Shot Down 2004-06-09
• Shortly before July 22, 2004: 9/11 Commission Debates Referring Military and Aviation Officials to Justice Department for Criminal Investigation 2004-07-22
• July 30, 2004: Senator Mark Dayton Says NORAD and FAA Lied about 9/11 Failures 2004-07-30
• February 10, 2005: Censored Version of Critical 9/11 Report Completed Before Presidential Elections Is Finally Released 2005-02-10
• September 13, 2005: Revised Version of 9/11’s Commission’s FAA Report Released; Some Material Still Blacked Out 2005-09-13
• March 22, 2006: Increased Airport Security May Have Thwarted 9/11 if Moussaoui Confessed 2006-03-22
• September 1, 2006: FAA Cleared of Misleading the 9/11 Commission 2006-09-01
• January-August 2001: Airlines Receive FAA Warnings, But Later Claim They Were Given No Real Hints of Possible Terrorist Attacks
• January-February 2001: Flight School’s Repeated Warnings About Hijacker Hanjour Ignored by FAA