Northeast Air Defense Sector

Events (136)

• (8:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Makes His First Call to NEADS, Though 9/11 Commission Does Not Mention It 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
• (8:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Notifies NEADS, Against Normal Procedures; Timing Disputed 2001-09-11
• Shortly After 8:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Otis Commander Phones NEADS for Authorization to Launch Fighters 2001-09-11
• Shortly After 8:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Staff Unable to Locate Hijacked Planes on Radar Screens 2001-09-11
• (8:38 a.m.-8:52 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Calls NORAD Public Affairs Officer 2001-09-11
• (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Sergeant Passes on News of Hijacking to Colleagues 2001-09-11
• 8:38 a.m. and After September 11, 2001: NEADS Technicians Try Locating Flight 11, but Reportedly Hindered by Outdated Equipment 2001-09-11
• (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Updates NEADS on Flight 11 2001-09-11
• (8:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: ’Hubbub’ at NEADS Headquarters Thought to Be Result of Exercise Scenario 2001-09-11
• (Between 8:40 a.m. and 8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Calls Atlantic City Unit, but Phone Is Not Answered 2001-09-11
• 8:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Learns of Threat to Flight 11 Cockpit 2001-09-11
• 8:43 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Notified that Flight 175 Has Been Hijacked 2001-09-11
• 8:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Commanders Give Order to Launch Otis Jets 2001-09-11
• 8:45 a.m.-8:46 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Technician Locates Flight 11 on Radar Screen, Then Sees It Disappear over New York 2001-09-11
• (8.46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center Receives First Notification of Hijacking; Approves Launching of Fighters 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
• 8:54 a.m.-8:55 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA’s Boston Center Redirects Otis Fighters on Instructions from NEADS 2001-09-11
• 8:55 a.m.-8:57 a.m. September 11, 2001: Confusion at NEADS over Identity of Plane that Hit WTC 2001-09-11
• (8:56 a.m.-8:57 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Fighter Pilot Speaks with NEADS, but Crash at WTC Supposedly Not Mentioned 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 8:51 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Possibly Knows Flight 77 Is Hijacked, yet NEADS Not Notified 2001-09-11
• (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Northern Vigilance Operation Canceled; False Blips Purged from Radar Screens 2001-09-11
• (Shortly Before 9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Learns of Second Hijacking over FAA Teleconference 2001-09-11
• (9:02 a.m.-9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Calls NEADS about Second Hijacking 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Contradictions over Otis Fighter Mission and Whereabouts 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA’s New York Center First Informs NEADS that Flight 175 Has Been Hijacked, 9/11 Commission Will Claim 2001-09-11
• (9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 175 Crash Leads to Confusion at NEADS; Some Think It Is a Simulation 2001-09-11
• 9:04 a.m.-9:06 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Talks with Tanker Plane about Refueling Scrambled Fighters 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
• (Between 9:10 a.m. and 9:23 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Wants Third Jet Launched from Langley, Meaning Unit Will Have No Supervisor of Flying 2001-09-11
• (9:12 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Takes Control of New York Airspace 2001-09-11
• (9:12 a.m.-11:57 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS and NORAD Experiencing Communications Problems 2001-09-11
• 9:13 a.m. September 11, 2001: Otis Jets Leave Holding Pattern and Head for New York 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
• 9:15 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Technician Says Exercise Not Yet Canceled 2001-09-11
• 9:16 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Reported Hijacked before Hijacking Supposedly Occurs, According to Some Accounts; One Hijacker May Have Snuck into Cockpit Early 2001-09-11
• (9:19 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Technicians Say They Are Willing to Order an Aircraft Shootdown 2001-09-11
• (9:09 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pilots at Langley Air Force Base Go to ‘Battle Stations’ 2001-09-11
• 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Air Traffic Control Center Mistakenly Tells NEADS Flight 11 Is Still Airborne 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
• 9:27 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Center Tells NEADS that Delta 1989 Is Missing 2001-09-11
• 9:27 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Tells a Refueling Plane to Stay over the Ocean until Needed 2001-09-11
• (9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Unable to Talk to Langley Supervisor because He Is Flying Spare Jet 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
• 9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Mentions in Passing to NORAD that Flight 77 Is Missing 2001-09-11