11 SEP 18:18 UNTIL 11 OCT 23:59Īt 09.23 the NEADS orders the scramble of the Langley fighters to have them over Washington where another missing plane should be approaching. REPEAT: SCATANA HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED. SCATANA HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED, HOWEVER, DOD AIRCREWS WILL FOLLOW SCATANA PROCEDURES FOR FILING FLIGHT PLANS IN ORDER TO GAIN DEPARTURE APPROVAL. 4,500 civilian and general aviation flights are affected by the order to land immediately.Īlthough some believe that the FAA issued the execution order for SCATANA, the Plan for the “Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids”, in order to ground all the air traffic, the emergency plan was not completely implemented as the Defense Department left the air traffic control system in the hands of the FAA and decided to leave all the radio navigational aids still running, so as that the thousands of planes which were aloft in domestic airspace could use them to land or to divert to an alternate destination. No civilian plane is allowed to take off, while all inbound aircraft are instructed to return to their departure airport or to divert to the nearest airport. (USAF)īetween 09.25 and 09.45 the whole US airspace is shut down. Air Force F-15 with the 101st FS flying over Manhattan. They are able to establish a CAP over NYC at 09.25LT. When they exit the holding pattern, they are 115 miles from Manhattan. While all takeoffs and arrivals to the New York Center are banned, at 09:09 LT the F-16s of the North Dakota ANG were given the order to go to battle station at Langley AFB should the need to relieve the Otis fighters arise.Īt 09.13, the two F-15s set a course to Manhattan, after the FAA has cleared the NYC airspace. NEADS is notified of a second hijacked commercial plane about the time it was hitting the WTC. The interceptors will maintain the holding pattern from 09.09 to 09.13 LT.Īt 9.02:59 United 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Still lacking confirmed reports about Flight 11, in order to prevent them from interesting the overcrowded NYC airspace, the two F-15s are initially vectored towards a military-controlled airspace off Long Island coast and ordered to “hold as needed”. In the same moments, Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.Īccording to the base radar data, the two fighters take off at 08.53 LT, unaware that the American B767 has already crashed. As it always happens, other air bases could be called to provide air defense but they would need time to prepare, arm and scramble their planes.Īt 08.37 LT, 16 minutes after American Airlines flight 11, a B767 from Boston to Los Angeles, has switched its transponder off, NEADS is notified of the hijacking.Īt 08.46, two F-15s (callsigns “Panta 45” and “Panta 46”) are ordered to scramble from Otis to intercept AA11. On 9/11 the NEADS could count on two QRA (Quick Reaction Alert – please note this is a UK designation) cells: one at Otis ANGB, Cape Cod, Massachussets, and the other one at Langley AFB, Hampton, in Virginia. The NEADS, based in Rome, New York, was one of the three sectors of the famous NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This article and the following ones will add some details to what is already known and give information that were never disclosed before.
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