Events (34)

• 10:00 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Commander Complains about Senior Officer Interfering on Operations Floor 2001-09-11
• 10:05 a.m.-10:08 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Alerted to Flight 93, Reportedly for the First Time 2001-09-11
• 10:07 a.m. September 11, 2001: Langley Pilot Reports Aircraft over White House, Asks NEADS for Instructions 2001-09-11
• (10:08 a.m.-10:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Commanders Arnold and Marr Consider Possibility of Shootdown Authorization 2001-09-11
• 10:10 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Personnel Told Langley Fighters Cannot Shoot Down Hijacked Planes 2001-09-11
• 10:12 a.m. September 11, 2001: Syracuse Fighter Jets Still Not Ready to Launch 2001-09-11
• 10:26 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns that Air Force One Is Airborne, Long after It Took Off 2001-09-11
• 10:32 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Personnel Confused over Meaning of Shootdown Order, Do Not Pass It on to Fighters 2001-09-11
• (8:38 a.m.-8:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Personnel Mistake Hijacking for Part of an Exercise 2001-09-11
• (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Sergeant Passes on News of Hijacking to Colleagues 2001-09-11
• (8:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighter Pilots Unofficially Told to Get Ready to Scramble After Flight 11 2001-09-11
• 8:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns of Threat to Flight 11 Cockpit 2001-09-11
• 8:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Commanders Give Order to Launch Otis Jets 2001-09-11
• (8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighters Ordered to Scramble to Flight 11 Nine Minutes after NORAD Notification 2001-09-11
• 8:53 a.m. September 11, 2001: Otis Fighters Airborne, Allegedly Ordered toward New York 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Contradictions over Otis Fighter Mission and Whereabouts 2001-09-11
• (9:08 a.m.-9:13 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighters Put in Holding Pattern over Ocean instead of Defending New York City 2001-09-11
• 9:09 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Orders Langley Fighters to Battle Stations 2001-09-11
• (9:09 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Fighter Jets Running out of Fuel 2001-09-11
• (9:12 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Takes Control of New York Airspace 2001-09-11
• 9:14 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Commander Tells a Colleague to Send a Refueling Plane out over the Ocean 2001-09-11
• (9:19 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Technicians Say They Are Willing to Order an Aircraft Shootdown 2001-09-11
• Shortly After 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Technicians Unable to Locate Flight 11 Following Incorrect Report It Is Still Airborne 2001-09-11
• 9:23 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Wants Fighters to Track Phantom Flight 11 2001-09-11
• 9:24 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Orders Jets Scrambled from Langley; Conflicting Explanations Later Given for Order 2001-09-11
• 9:31 a.m. September 11, 2001: Refueling Plane Is Redirected to Training Airspace off the Coast of Maryland 2001-09-11
• (9:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Pilot Says He Would Shoot Down a Hijacked Aircraft 2001-09-11
• 9:36 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Takes Control of Washington Airspace, Directs Langley Fighters toward White House 2001-09-11
• (9:36 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Personnel See Aircraft Disappear over Washington on Radar 2001-09-11
• 9:36 a.m. September 11, 2001: Report of Airliner Approaching White House Sets off ‘Frenzy’ at NEADS 2001-09-11
• (9:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Hijacking Simulation Scheduled as Part of NORAD Exercise 2001-09-11
• 9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Informs NEADS of Possible Hijacking of Delta 1989 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:41 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Tries Unsuccessfully to Get Minnesota Jets Scrambled after Delta 1989 2001-09-11
• 9:58 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Requests Help from Western Air Defense Sector 2001-09-11