Tape of 9/11 Controllers Was Destroyed by FAA 'Quality Assurance' Manager

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WASHINGTON - Air traffic controllers who handled two of the hijacked flights on Sept. 11, 2001, recorded their experiences shortly after the planes crashed, but a supervisor destroyed the tape, the government said Thursday.

A report by Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead said the manager for the New York air traffic control center asked the controllers to record their experiences a few hours after the crashes, believing they would be important for law enforcement.

Sometime between December 2001 and February 2002, an unidentified Federal Aviation Administration quality assurance manager crushed the cassette case in his hand, cut the tape into small pieces and threw them away in multiple trash cans, the report said.

The manager said he destroyed the tape because he felt it violated FAA policy calling for written statements from controllers who have handled a plane involved in an accident or other serious incident. He also said he felt the controllers weren't in the right frame of mind to have consented to the taping, the report said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&nci...

Me Book

[daa]

1. Fire his ass

Why is no one in government ever held accountable?

[leftofthedial]

5. it would be like the bushgang

to fire his ass

while all the other bushgangers who planned 9-11 get off scot free

[Generator]

2. Quality Assurance Manager

Is that what they are calling those that coverup to cover their asses under threat of BushBots ruining their life and worse?

Ah ha.

[sandnsea]

3. kick

This needs a little attention. Maybe another kick will help.

On edit:

Looks like the cavalry showed up! I was worried this would get lost, glad it isn't!

[bigtree]

4. Good kick

". . . cut the tape into small pieces and threw them away in multiple trash cans."

Shades of Ollie North.

[Kool Kitty]

6. I love this line:

"He also felt the controllers weren't in the right frame of mind to have consented to the taping, the report said." Meaning, OMG, what if the tape of what really happened got out there! Can't have any honest, real-time responses, can we? Might make the FAA and the government look bad.

[el_gato]

7. what is His or Her name?

I would like to find out more about his person.

[Killarney]

8. Holy shit. That doesn't look good.

[Old and In the Way]

9. Tell me again, there was no conspiracy to cover-up the truth of 9/11?

I wonder if he got a raise for his QA work from Bush after this? I'll bet he's done quite well at the FAA since he took this "uni-lateral" action.

Unbelievable.....

[nostamj]

12. "Unbelievable....." nah!

all TOO believable.

have these people testified before the commission?

yo! Jersey Girls! get on this...

[MI Cherie]

10. Someone should have ...

... made a copy of that tape — before they could destroy it.

[Ms. Clio]

11. My god that is unbelievable

Simply stunning. Not just thrown away, but cut up and thrown into multiple trash cans???

What the hell was on that tape???

[RedEagle]

13. Back up with Will's post

[Kool Kitty]

14. Kick. This is unbelievable.

Isn't that destroying evidence?

[Must_B_Free]

15. Just a coincidence

just like all the rest.

If I had a nickle for every one of them, I could go on a cruise.

[BurtWorm]

16. cut the tape into small pieces and threw them away in multiple trash cans