Southeast Air Defense Sector

Events (11)

• October 25, 1999: Golfer Payne Stewart Dies in Plane Crash; Incident Raises Questions about Shooting Down Off-Course Planes 1999-10-25
• 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
• September 10, 2001: Training Exercise Scenario at NORAD’s Southeast Sector Involves Cubans Hijacking Plane, Wanting to Go to New York 2001-09-10
• (10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Alert Fighters at Tyndall Air Base Do Not Launch to Escort Air Force One 2001-09-11
• 10:31 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Passes on Shootdown Order to Its Air Defense Sectors 2001-09-11
• (12:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: AWACS Plane Takes Off from a Base in Oklahoma and Then Escorts Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (1:45 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Louisiana Air National Guard Fighters Scrambled to Protect Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (After 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Texas Air National Guard Jets Directed toward Air Force One 2001-09-11
• 1990-2001: NORAD Regularly Launches Fighters to Intercept Suspicious Aircraft before 9/11