Reply #1: Depends

[dinyc]

on whether they took the settlement or not. I believe most of them have. This is Gale Sheehy's 2nd really good article on the 9-11 aircraft. She rocks.

Was Sweeney's call actually recorded? It sounds like info was passed on...this was puzzling to me because if she called Boston why not get the FBI in Boston who are already dealing with the hijackings to get involved since they are questioning Woodward. Other articles say the FBI in Dallas/Ft. Worth are the ones who put together the statement.

Since there was no tape machine in his office, Woodward began repeating the flight attendant’s alarming account to a colleague, Nancy Wyatt, the supervisor of pursers at Logan. On another phone, Ms. Wyatt was simultaneously transmitting Ms. Sweeney’s words to the airline’s Fort Worth headquarters. It was that relayed account that was played for the families.

In light of this rather convoluted chain of evidence how do those reports of a gun and a shot passenger factor into this?

Interesting that Mark Bingham's mom has been employed by the airlines for almost 30 years.

Hey Woody have you seen this?

In the FAA's command center in Herndon, Ben Sliney learns of the radio transmission. The words will haunt him all morning. "We have some planes."

"Order everyone to land": Sept. 11 was Ben Sliney's first day on the job as national operations manager at the Federal Aviation Administration's command center in Herndon, Va. Hours after starting, Sliney ordered the airspace over the United States cleared-the first time in history such an order had been given.

Sept. 11 is Sliney's first day on the job as national operations manager, the chess master of the air traffic system. The New Yorker, a lawyer who once sued the FAA on behalf of air traffic controllers, now walks the floor of the center — a room that resembles NASA's Mission Control.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-08-12-clear-skies.htm

Not a great day to be a newbie huh? But at least he wasn't the only one.


Leidig said "On 10 September 2001, Brigadier General Winfield, U.S. Army, asked that I stand a portion of his duty as Deputy Director for Operations, NMCC, on the following day.   I agreed and relieved Brigadier General Winfield at 0830 on 11 September 2001."
Winfield had requested Leidig to assume his watch at what turned out to be the very outset of the September 11 attacks--but even after American Flight 11 had already been determined to be hijacked just minutes before Winfield handed over his watch to Leidig.

http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=65&mode=&order=0&thold=0