Template:(9:02 a.m.-9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Calls NEADS about Second Hijacking

(9:02 a.m.-9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Calls NEADS about Second Hijacking
Moments before Flight 175 crashes into the World Trade Center, Colin Scoggins, the military liaison at Boston Center, calls NEADS to notify it that there is a second hijacked aircraft over the US. Scoggins learned of the second hijacking on the FAA headquarters’ hijack teleconference and senses that he should call NEADS with this latest information. According to Lynn Spencer, Scoggins "“imagines that he must be one of dozens of FAA facilities flooding [NEADS] with phone calls. What he doesn’t know is that his is in fact the only one giving them information about the flights this morning, other than the coverage on CNN.”"

- Spencer

However, the 9/11 Commission will say that NEADS also learns of the second hijacking around this time from New York Center, stating, {{quote|“The first indication that the NORAD air defenders had of the second hijacked aircraft, United 175, came in a phone call from New York Center to NEADS at 9:03”|Commission|.

Just after Scoggins reports the second hijacking to NEADS, those on the NEADS operations floor see the live television coverage of Flight 175 hitting the South Tower on a screen at the front of the room. Apparently, Scoggins’s phone call continues for several minutes: According to the 9/11 Commission, {{quote|“Between 9:04 a.m. and 9:07 a.m., the NEADS identification technicians were on the phone with FAA Boston Center seeking further information on Flight 175 when Boston Center confirmed a second crash at the World Trade Center.”|Commission }}