The training was in partnership with the Georgia Air National Guard 165th Airlift Wing. Marines with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, Detachment A, trained with the Air Traffic Navigation, Integration and Coordination System aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Jan. Many thanks to Mary Kay Schmidt and Thomas Haughton for their assistance with this post.MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, S.C. Miscellaneous – (e) Other – 5 A90 32 AT –1 Memo to Employees.pdf (NAID 7599585).Īll documents are from the series: Open Files Relating to SeptemTerrorist Attacks on the United States, 2001-2004 (NAID 7419198, Entry UD-10D 1) Record Group 237: Records of the Federal Aviation Administration National Archives at College Park, MD. After the system restarted, air travel would never be the same. He recounts how two days later, “as we were all working through our shock and grief, we restarted the system – a little at a time, in accordance with national security interests.” The memo closes with the assurance that, “e will recover and we will build a stronger and better system.” The events of September 11 changed the world. He thanked the entire Air Traffic team for their strength, purpose, and dedication throughout the critical situation and their work to implement the national ground stop and clear the airspace. Miscellaneous – (e) Other – 5 AWA 199 2_ Executive Summary.doc (NAID 7601772), Page ES-4.Ī week later, the Director of Air Traffic Control issued a memo to all Air Traffic Control employees. This chart shows aircraft operations before, during, and after September 11, 2001. By 12:16 P.M., three-and-a-half hours after the first plane hit, the airspace was clear of commercial and private flights. Miscellaneous – (e) Other – 5 DCC 359 ATCSCC ADVISORY 036 REDACT-SEALED.pdf (NAID 34914391 ).Īir traffic worked quickly to ground flights as the horrific events of the day continued to unfold, with the collapse of the North and South towers and crash of a fourth hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 93, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. At 11:06 AM, the FAA issued Advisory 036, which suspended operations in the National Airspace System. At this time, there were more than 4,500 aircraft in the air. airspace, ordering all aircraft to land at the nearest airport as soon as practical. Shortly after a third hijacked plane struck the Pentagon at 9:37 A.M, the FAA began the first ever unplanned shutdown of U. Responding to the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued the first national ground stop in the nation’s history – prohibiting departures for all civilian aircraft, regardless of destination. īy 9:03 A.M., two hijacked planes had crashed into the World Trade Center’s North and South Towers.
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Washington ARTCC to Aircraft Accident File ZDC-ARTCC-212, Full Transcript Aircraft Accident AAL77 Washington, DC Septem1. Pilots exchanged “good days” and “good mornings” with air traffic control. A Federal Aviation Executive Summary ( NAID 7601772) describes the day as “severe clear,” a perfect day for flying. September 11, 2001, began as an ordinary day in the United States’ air traffic control system. By Megan Dwyre, Special Access and FOIA Program Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
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