EVD-104

Commission / NORAD tapes: delayed notification and a phantom AA11

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Provenance

Source: 9/11 Commission Report
Date: 2004-07-22
Page: Chapter 1 tables
SHA-256: 8506dd8a234e962e218891d736863d0d6e12fe0455148057eb7a46b70232f506
Classification: unclassified
Copyright: public domain

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Observation

Military notification lagged FAA awareness; a phantom AA11 was injected into the response.

Interpretation

Documents a process failure. Motive (incompetence vs interference) is a separate hypothesis.

Source text

OBSERVATION: The Commission timeline and, more sharply, the NEADS tapes later published via Vanity Fair (EVD-135) show that NORAD's early public account of simultaneous awareness was false. NEADS was told of a still-airborne AA11 after that aircraft had already hit WTC 1.

John Farmer (EVD-136) later said some NORAD/FAA accounts were untrue.

Whether this is accident, fog of war, concurrent exercises (EVD-134), or something more is H011 — not settled by the delay itself.

Hypothesis linkage

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Phantom AA11 and delayed notification.

People

John Farmer

Citations

Cited by EVD-134