Template:8:25 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control

8:25 a.m. September 11, 2001: Boston Flight Control Tells Other Centers About Hijack, But Not NORAD
Boston Center reportedly “notifies several air traffic control centers that a hijack is taking place.” This is immediately after Boston controllers heard a transmission from Flight 11, declaring, “We have some planes”, and would be consistent with a claim later made to the 9/11 Commission by Mike Canavan, the FAA’s associate administrator for civil aviation security. He says, {{quote|“[M]y experience as soon as you know you had a hijacked aircraft, you notify everyone.… [W]hen you finally find out, yes, we do have a problem, then… the standard notification is it kind of gets broadcast out to all the regions.”

An early FAA report will say only that Boston controllers begin “inter-facility coordination” with New York air traffic control at this time, but the New York Times reports that controllers at Washington Center also know “about the hijacking of the first plane to crash, even before it hit the World Trade Center.”

However, the Indianapolis flight controller monitoring Flight 77 claims to not know about this or Flight 175’s hijacking twenty minutes later at 8:56 a.m.. Additionally, the flight controllers at La Guardia airport are never told about the hijacked planes and learn about them from watching the news. Boston Center also begins notifying the FAA chain of command of the suspected Flight 11 hijacking at this time, but it does not notify NORAD for another 6-15 minutes, depending on the account.