Northeast Air Defense Sector

Events (136)

• February 11, 1993: Hijacking Raises Concern of Plane Being Crashed into New York Building 1993-02-11
• January 9, 1999: NORAD Holds an Exercise Based on Terrorists Planning to Crash a Plane into the White House 1999-01-09
• November 6, 1999: NORAD Conducts Exercise Scenario Based around Hijackers Planning to Crash Plane into UN Headquarters in New York 1999-11-06
• June 5, 2000: NORAD Exercise Simulates Hijackers Planning to Crash Planes into White House and Statue of Liberty 2000-06-05
• October 16-23, 2000: NORAD Exercise Includes Scenarios of Attempted Suicide Plane Crashes into UN Headquarters in New York 2000-10-16
• July 14, 2001: NEADS Personnel Are Briefed on the Threat Posed by Bin Laden 2001-07-14
• August 4, 2001: Air Defense Exercise Involves the Scenario of Bin Laden Using a Drone Aircraft to Attack Washington 2001-08-04
• September 9, 2001: NEADS Exercise Includes Scenario with Terrorist Hijackers Targeting New York 2001-09-09
• September 10, 2001: NORAD Setting Stage for Major Exercise, Preparing for Possible Russian Reaction 2001-09-10
• Early Morning September 11, 2001: Langley Pilot Asks to Be Taken off Alert Later On 2001-09-11
• Before September 11, 2001: NEADS Staff Briefed on Possibility of Plane Hitting WTC 2001-09-11
• (Early Morning) September 11, 2001: NEADS Threat Briefing Includes No Indication of Increased Terrorist Threat 2001-09-11
• Before September 11, 2001: Fighters Regularly Launch within Minutes of Scramble Order in Response to Suspicious Aircraft 2001-09-11
• After 9:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Talks to Cleveland Flight Control about Hijacking, United 93 Not Mentioned 2001-09-11
• (10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Notified of Suspected Hijacked Aircraft out of Canada 2001-09-11
• 10:01 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Calls Toledo Unit, Requests Fighter Jets 2001-09-11
• 10:01 a.m. September 11, 2001: Toledo Pilots Apparently Think Call from NEADS Is a Joke 2001-09-11
• 10:06 a.m.-10:08 a.m. September 11, 2001: Some NEADS Staff and Others Uncertain Whether Day’s Training Exercise Is Over 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
• 10:12 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center Still Receiving False Radar Information for Training Exercise, Wants It Stopped 2001-09-11
• (10:13 a.m.-10:23 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Projected Flight 93 Arrival into Washington; Could It Have Been Shot Down? 2001-09-11
• (10:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001: 1st Fighter Wing Cannot Assist NORAD as It Has Been Told to Stand By 2001-09-11
• 10:15 a.m. and After September 11, 2001: NEADS Informed of Further Suspected Hijackings 2001-09-11
• 10:15 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns Flight 93 Is Down 2001-09-11
• 10:15 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Sectors Told Peacetime Rules of Engagement Still Apply 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Controller Contacts NEADS and Canadian Facility, Reports Center Evacuation and Airborne Threat 2001-09-11
• (10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Air Base Ordered to Launch All Available Fighters 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
• (10:31 a.m.-10:47 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Concerned about Convoy of Military Aircraft Approaching US 2001-09-11
• 10:31 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Passes on Shootdown Order to Its Air Defense Sectors 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Controller Passes on Shootdown Authorization to Toledo Fighters, Because NEADS Cannot Reach Them 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
• (After 10:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Fighters Intercept Military Cargo Plane Returning from England 2001-09-11
• 10:57 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Employee Tells a Person on the Phone Not to Tell Anyone that Air Force One is Airborne 2001-09-11
• (11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Second Pair of Fighters Helps Patrol New York Airspace 2001-09-11
• 11:11 a.m. September 11, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft’s Plane Diverted to Richmond, Threatened with Being Shot Down 2001-09-11
• (11:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Instructs AWACS Plane to Return to Washington Area to Help It Communicate with Fighters 2001-09-11
• (11:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Marine Fighters Arrive over Washington but Lack Correct Authentication Code 2001-09-11
• (Shortly Before 6:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighters over New York Told to Inspect ‘Unknown’ Aircraft that Is Their Own Refueling Plane 2001-09-11
• (6:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Radar Located in Northeast US Offline for Repair Work 2001-09-11
• (6:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD on Alert for Emergency Exercises 2001-09-11
• (8:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Commander Marr and CONR Commander Arnold Discuss NORAD Training Exercise 2001-09-11
• (8:26 a.m.-8:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 11 Turns, Many Watch It on Primary Radar 2001-09-11
• 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001: Battle Cab at NEADS Is Already Manned because of the Ongoing NORAD Exercise 2001-09-11
• 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001: Many Trainees Are in the Battle Cab at NEADS to Observe a Russian Military Exercise 2001-09-11
• (8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: ’Technical Issue’ Prevents Recording of NEADS Personnel Handling Otis Fighters 2001-09-11