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Nydia Gonzalez was an American Airlines supervisor, based at Systems Operations Control.
Timeline[]
(8:21 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 11 Attendant Ong’s Hijacking Account Forwarded to American Airlines Operations Center[]
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Nydia Gonzalez, an American Airlines supervisor with expertise on security matters, is patched in to a call with flight attendant Betty Ong on Flight 11.[1]
At 8:21 a.m., according to the 9/11 Commission (or 8:27 a.m., according to the Wall Street Journal), Gonzalez calls Craig Marquis, a manager at the American Airlines System Operations Control (SOC) in Fort Worth, Texas. Gonzalez holds the phone to Ong to one ear, and the phone to Marquis to the other.[2][3] [4][5]
Marquis quickly says, “I’m assuming they’ve declared an emergency. Let me get ATC [ air traffic control ] on here. Stand by.… Okay, we’re contacting the flight crew now and we’re… we’re also contacting ATC.”
Gonzalez relays that Ong is saying the hijackers from seats 2A and 2B are in the cockpit with the pilots, and that there are no doctors on board. Gonzalez talks to Marquis continuously until Flight 11 crashes. While only the first four minutes of Ong’s call from Flight 11 are recorded by American Airlines [see 1], all of Gonzalez’s call to Marquis will be recorded. Four minutes, of what is apparently a compilation from it, are later played before the 9/11 Commission. [1]
(Between 8:27 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Ong Gives Flight 11 Details; Seating Accounts Differ[]
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Nydia Gonzalez, an American Airlines supervisor at its Southeastern Reservations Office, is relaying information to Craig Marquis, a manager at the American Airlines System Operations Control (SOC)[see 2]. According to Marquis,
“She said two flight attendants had been stabbed, one was on oxygen. A passenger had his throat slashed and looked dead and they had gotten into the cockpit.”
Marquis later recollects that Ong said the four hijackers had come from first-class seats: 2A, 2B, 9A, and 9B. She’d said the wounded passenger was in seat 10B. [2] [6] Note that this conflicts with the seats flight attendant Amy Sweeney gave for the hijackers at about the same time: 9D, 9G, and 10B [see 3]. At around 8:30 a.m., this information is passed to Gerard Arpey , the effective head of American Airlines this morning [see 4].[7]
By 9:59 a.m., counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke and other top officials receive the information. [8]
8:33 a.m. September 11, 2001: Betty Ong Reports Death of Flight 11 Passenger[]
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In her emergency phone call from Flight 11, Betty Ong reports that someone on the plane might have been killed. The 9/11 Commission says this is “the first indication of a fatality on board.” A minute later, Nydia Gonzalez, an American Airlines supervisor who is receiving Ong’s call, relays the details to American Airlines manager Craig Marquis: “They think they might have a fatality on the flight. One of our passengers, possibly on 9B, Levin or Lewis, might have been fatally stabbed.” She is presumably referring to Daniel Lewin, who was killed at around 8:20 a.m. [see 5]. Ong had briefly referred to a stabbing earlier on, saying, “Somebody’s stabbed in business class” [see 1]. Whether she was referring to Lewin on that occasion, or to the stabbing of a flight attendant or another passenger, is unknown.[9]
8:35 a.m.-8:36 a.m. September 11, 2001: American Airlines Supervisor Confirms Details of Slightly Misnamed Hijacker[]
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Nydia Gonzalez, a supervisor at the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office, is one of the American employees receiving the emergency phone call from Flight 11 attendant Betty Ong [see 1]. At this time, she confirms the details of a report by Ong, regarding the identity of one of the plane’s hijackers:
“He’s the one that’s in the—he’s in the cockpit. Okay you said Tom Sukani? Okay—Okay and he was in 10B. Okay, okay, so he’s one of the persons that are in the cockpit. And as far as weapons, all they have are just knives?”
“Tom Sukani” is presumably a mistaken reference to hijacker Satam Al Suqami. Gonzalez is continuously relaying details of Ong’s call to Craig Marquis, a manager at the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth [see 2]. At 8:36 a.m., Marquis receives Gonzalez’s report about the hijacker Ong referred to as “Tom Sukani.” He then initiates a “lockout” procedure for Flight 11 [see 6].[7]
8:37 a.m.-8:38 a.m. September 11, 2001: American Airlines Reports that Flight 11 Is a Confirmed Hijacking[]
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American Airlines manager Craig Marquis is talking to Nydia Gonzalez, who in turn is talking to flight attendant Betty Ong on Flight 11.
Marquis tells Gonzalez,
“We contacted air traffic control, they are going to handle this as a confirmed hijacking. So they’re moving all the traffic out of this aircraft’s way.… He turned his transponder off, so we don’t have a definitive altitude for him. We’re just going by… They seem to think that they have him on a primary radar. They seem to think that he is descending.”[1]
Boston air traffic control had in fact begun notifying its chain of command that Flight 11 was a suspected hijacking at around 8:25 [see 7]
(8:44 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight Attendant Betty Ong’s Call to American Airlines Ends[]
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Good scope? Timeline? + wikified? + red links < 10? all red links fixed? referenced? Illustrated? Googled and added info? Checked 9/11 records archives? Checked Wikinews? Checked Wikisource? For the last 25 minutes, Flight 11 attendant Betty Ong has been speaking by Airfone to three employees at the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina [see 8].
As Flight 11 approaches New York and the World Trade Center, it appears to be quiet on board. Vanessa Minter, one of the employees receiving Ong’s call, later recalls, “You didn’t hear hysteria in the background. You didn’t hear people screaming.” In a composed voice, Ong repeatedly says, “Pray for us. Pray for us.” Minter and Nydia Gonzalez, the reservations office supervisor, assure her they are praying. Seconds later, the line goes dead. [10]
At 8:44 a.m., according to the 9/11 Commission, Gonzalez confirms, “I think we might have lost her.”[11] Amy Sweeney, another Flight 11 attendant, has also made an emergency phone call from the plane. This also ends at 8:44 a.m. [see 9]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 9/11 COMMISSION (1/27/2004). "Public Hearing". Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 9/11 Commission Report,26 July 2004,Page 5
- ↑ 9/11 Commission August 2004 Staff report,26 August 2004,Page 9
- ↑ BOSTON GLOBE. 11/23/2001. http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/planes_reconstruction.htm.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 9/11 Commission August 2004 Staff report,26 August 2004,Page 12 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 9/11 Commission August 2004 Staff report,26 August 2004,Page 8, Page 12
- ↑ ABC NEWS. 7/18/2002.PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE. 9/8/2004.
- ↑ 9/11 Commission August 2004 Staff report,26 August 2004,Page 14
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (see 8:19 a.m. Betty Ong) Cite error: Invalid
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tag; name "819ong" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 (see 8:21 a.m. Betty Ong)
- ↑ (see (Before 8:26 a.m.) Hijackers Identified by Seat Locations)
- ↑ (see (8:30 a.m.) American Airlines Vice President)
- ↑ (see 8:20am:Israelis Special-Ops Passenger)
- ↑ (see 8:36 a.m. American Airlines)
- ↑ (see 8:25 a.m. Boston Center)
- ↑ (see 8:19 a.m. September 11, 2001)
- ↑ (see (8:44 a.m.) September 11, 2001).