September 11, 2001 Research & Archives

The Joint Surveillance System (JSS). [Source: Dr. Steven R. Bussolari, MIT Lincoln Laboratory]

Military radar in Massachusetts, which is used by NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), is out of use this morning in order to undergo maintenance work. (9/11 Commission 10/27/2003 pdf file; 9/11 Commission 10/27/2003 pdf file) Radar Scheduled to Go Down - The J53 radar in North Truro, Massachusetts, is one of a number of radar sites that NEADS receives data from. (United States Space Command 12/30/1995; Jane's C4I Systems 9/1/2005; North American Aerospace Defense Command 10/23/2006 pdf file) It has a range of 250 miles. According to Technical Sergeant Jeffrey Richmond, the assistant air surveillance technician at NEADS, J53 is scheduled to go down this morning for some major repairs to be carried out. (9/11 Commission 10/27/2003 pdf file; 9/11 Commission 10/27/2003 pdf file) NEADS Personnel Refer to Radar - A member of staff at NEADS apparently refers to the J53 radar being offline shortly after those on the NEADS operations floor learn of the Flight 11 hijacking (see (8:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001) and while they are trying to locate the hijacked aircraft. She mentions that NEADS technicians "still should be able to get it" (presumably referring to the plane's radar track) "without 53." (North American Aerospace Defense Command 9/11/2001) (According to Richmond, the area covered by J53 is overlapped by other radars, "so the need for radar to undergo routine maintenance is accounted for.")

ID technician Shelley Watson will later recall that the NEADS ID desk uses the J53 radar as a point from which it attempts to locate Flight 11. At some time during the morning, Richmond insists that J53 be put back online at some capacity. Whether this happens is unstated. (9/11 Commission 10/27/2003 pdf file; 9/11 Commission 10/27/2003 pdf file) Radar Part of 'Joint Surveillance System' - The J53 radar site is part of the Joint Surveillance System (JSS). (Transportation Safety Board of Canada 9/2/1998; US Department of the Air Force 11/1/1999 pdf file; 9/11 Commission 2004) The JSS consists of "long-range radar sites around the perimeter of the US, with data shared by the [Department of Defense], FAA, Customs, and others." A 2003 Department of Defense report will state that, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, US air defense relies "largely on outward looking ground-based radars, specifically, the Joint Surveillance System." (US Department of Defense 7/2003 pdf file) According to General Ralph Eberhart, the commander of NORAD, NORAD has access to the JSS, "which is that system that rings the United States and looks out." He will say this system "looks for that foreign threat. It looks for someone coming into our airspace that's not authorized." (US Congress. Senate 10/25/2001)

Sergeant Matt Rosenberg, an army medic at the Pentagon, is studying "a new medical emergency disaster plan based on the unlikely scenario of an airplane crashing into the place." (Maraniss 9/16/2001)

The day before, Rosenberg later recalls in an interview with the Office of Medical History, he called the FBI with questions about who would have medical jurisdiction if such an event were to take place. "Believe it or not, the day prior to the incident, I was just on the phone with the FBI, and we were talking 'so who has command should this happen, who has the medical jurisdiction, who does this, who does that,' and we talked about it and talked about it, and he helped me out a lot. And then the next day, during the incident, I actually found him. He was out there on the incident that day." (Office of Medical History 9/2004, pp. 9)

John Sherman (left) and Rob Hargis (right). [Source: T.J. Kirkpatrick / MCT]

A spontaneous training exercise is held in the White House Situation Room, based on the scenario of a terrorist bombing in Yemen. In recent months, the Situation Room has been extra vigilant due to the increased reporting of a possible terrorist attack on US interests in the Middle East. Presumably influenced by these concerns, Rob Hargis, the senior duty officer in the Situation Room, now holds an impromptu drill. He says to the others in the room: "Okay, there's been a large bombing in Yemen. Who does what?" Further details of the exercise are unknown. Commenting on it, John Sherman, one of Hargis's two assistants, will later say: "We were pretty keen on recognizing an event early. But we had no thoughts that morning about an attack on the homeland." Situation Room Is the 'Nerve Center' of Crisis Management - The Situation Room is a multi-room facility on the ground floor of the White House's West Wing. It is staffed around the clock by personnel from each military branch, the State Department, and the intelligence agencies. (Bohn 8/29/2011)

Its mission is to provide current intelligence and crisis support to the National Security Council staff, the national security adviser, and the president. Its watch teams provide 24-hour monitoring of international events. (Donley, O'Leary, and Montgomery 1997) Throughout the terrorist attacks later this morning, the White House Situation Room will serve as "the nerve center of presidential crisis management," according to McClatchy Newspapers. However, its director, Navy Captain Deborah Loewer, is away from the White House on this day, accompanying President Bush on his visit to Florida. (Bohn 8/29/2011)

NORAD's war room in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado [Source: Val Gempis]

Lieutenant Colonel Dawne Deskins and other day shift employees at NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) in Rome, NY, start their workday. NORAD is conducting a week-long, large-scale exercise called Vigilant Guardian. (Seely 1/25/2002) Deskins is regional mission crew chief for the Vigilant Guardian exercise. (ABC News 9/11/2002) Exercise Includes Simulated Attack on the US - Vigilant Guardian is described as "an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide"; as a "simulated air war"; and as "an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States." According to the 9/11 Commission, it "postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union." (Seely 1/25/2002; Filson 2003, pp. 55 and 122; 9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 458) Vigilant Guardian is described as being held annually, and is one of NORAD's four major annual exercises. (Filson 2003, pp. 41; Arkin 2005, pp. 545; GlobalSecurity (.org) 4/27/2005)

However, one report says it takes place semi-annually. (Scott 6/3/2002) Accounts by participants vary on whether 9/11 is the second, third, or fourth day of the exercise. (Code One Magazine 1/2002; Seely 1/25/2002; Kampouris 9/11/2002) Vigilant Guardian is a command post exercise (CPX), and in at least some previous years was conducted in conjunction with Stratcom's Global Guardian exercise and a US Space Command exercise called Apollo Guardian. (US Congress n.d.; Arkin 2005, pp. 545; GlobalSecurity (.org) 4/27/2005) All of NORAD is participating in Vigilant Guardian on 9/11. (Scott 6/3/2002)

Exercise Includes Simulated Hijacking - Vanity Fair reports that the "day's exercise" (presumably Vigilant Guardian) is "designed to run a range of scenarios, including a 'traditional' simulated hijack in which politically motivated perpetrators commandeer an aircraft, land on a Cuba-like island, and seek asylum." (Bronner 8/1/2006) However, at NEADS, most of the dozen or so staff on the operations floor have no idea what the exercise is going to entail and are ready for anything. (Cooper 8/5/2004) NORAD Fully Staffed and Alert - NORAD is currently running a real-world operation named Operation Northern Vigilance (see September 9, 2001). It may also be conducting a field training exercise calling Amalgam Warrior on this morning (see 9:28 a.m. September 11, 2001). NORAD is thus fully staffed and alert, and senior officers are manning stations throughout the US. The entire chain of command will be in place and ready when the first hijacking is reported. An article later says, "In retrospect, the exercise would prove to be a serendipitous enabler of a rapid military response to terrorist attacks on September 11." (Scott 6/3/2002; Kelly 12/5/2003) Colonel Robert Marr, in charge of NEADS, will say: "We had the fighters with a little more gas on board. A few more weapons on board." (ABC News 9/11/2002) However, Deskins and other NORAD officials later are initially confused about whether the 9/11 attacks are real or part of the exercise (see (8:38 a.m.-8:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001).

Two of the Flight 175 hijackers approach a customer service representative at the United Airlines ticket counter at Boston's Logan Airport. The two appear unaccustomed to traveling. One tells the representative, Gail Jawahir, that he needs a ticket, though upon examining his documents she finds he already has one. Both men have problems answering standard security questions, which Jawahir has to repeat very slowly until they give the routine, reassuring answers. There is conflicting evidence over their identities. Jawahir will place her encounter with the men at "shortly before 7 a.m." Shown photos of the alleged hijackers after 9/11, she will indicate that one of the two she encountered resembled Mohand Alshehri, suggesting the two were Alshehri and Fayez Ahmed Banihammad, who checked in at 6:53 a.m. Yet she recalls the two having the same last name and having assigned seats on Row 9 of the plane, suggesting they were Ahmed and Hamza Alghamdi, who checked in at 6:20 a.m. (9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 2, 451; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 17-18, 89)

All five Flight 175 hijackers reportedly check in at Boston's Logan Airport, pass through a security checkpoint, and board their plane during this period. The five hijackers are Marwan Alshehhi, Fayez Ahmed Banihammad, Hamza Alghamdi, Ahmed Alghamdi, and Mohand Alshehri. (9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 89)

The FAA has a program in place called CAPPS, which selects passengers for more thorough security screening based on suspicious behavior such as buying a one-way ticket or paying with cash (see (6:20 a.m.-7:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001).

Although reports claim that between two and five of the Flight 175 hijackers have one-way tickets, none are selected by CAPPS. (Sperry 4/24/2002; US Congress 9/26/2002; US Congress 9/26/2002; Goo and Eggen 1/28/2004; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 18)

Two of them have problems answering security questions at the ticket counter (see (6:20 a.m.-6:53 a.m.) September 11, 2001).

At the security checkpoint, all five would pass through a walk-through metal detector, and an X-ray machine would screen their carry-on luggage. But Logan Airport has no video surveillance of its checkpoints (see 1991-2000), so there is no documentary evidence of exactly when they go through, or how they are processed. Jennifer Gore, the young supervisor overseeing the checkpoint, is later unable to recall seeing any of them. The Globe and Mail will explain, "She was trained to look for metal bits in bags and in clothes, not people." (Saunders et al. 9/7/2002; 9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 2; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 18)

Two employees of Odigo, Inc., an Israeli company, receive warnings of an imminent attack in New York City about two hours before the first plane hits the WTC. Odigo, one of the world's largest instant messaging companies, has its headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo Research and Development offices where the warnings were received are located in Herzliyya, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Israeli security and the FBI were notified immediately after the 9/11 attacks began. The two employees claim not to know who sent the warnings. "Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain interests or demographics. [Alex] Diamandis [Odigo vice president of sales and marketing] said it was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message." (Dror 9/26/2001; Washington Post 9/27/2001)

Odigo claims the warning did not specifically mention the WTC, but the company refuses to divulge what was specified, claiming, "Providing more details would only lead to more conjecture." (Washington Post 9/28/2001) However, a later newspaper report claims that the message declared "that some sort of attack was about to take place. The notes ended with an anti-Semitic slur. 'The messages said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of time, and it did—almost to the minute,' said Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales for the high-tech company... He said the employees did not know the person who sent the message, but they traced it to a computer address and have given that information to the FBI." (Fallis and Cha 10/4/2001) Odigo gave the FBI the Internet address of the message's sender so the name of the sender could be found. (Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Hamburg) 9/26/2001) Two months later, it is reported that the FBI is still investigating the matter, but there have been no reports since. (Griffith 11/20/2001)

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice arrives at her office at the White House. (Bumiller 2007, pp. xi)

Rice will later recall that today is intended to be "a normal day, foreign visitors, several meetings." (Rice 9/11/2002)

Usually she or her deputy, Stephen Hadley, goes along on presidential trips to handle any national security questions that might come up, so one of them would have gone with President Bush the previous day for his two-day trip to Florida (see September 10, 2001). (Hillman 9/9/2001; Bumiller 2007, pp. xi)

But, as Rice will later recall, Bush's trip is "such a short trip that we decided not to do that." (Rice 9/11/2002)

In their place, they have sent Navy Captain Deborah Loewer, the director of the White House Situation Room. (Bumiller 2007, pp. xi)

Shay Sullivan. [Source: Longboat Observer]

A group of Middle Eastern men pulls up at the resort on Longboat Key, Florida, where President Bush is staying and falsely claims to have an interview scheduled with the president, but the men are turned away from the premises, according to a local fire marshal who later hears about the incident. (Sullivan 9/26/2001) Bush arrived at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key at 6:30 p.m. on September 10 and then spent the night there (see September 10, 2001). (Sammon 2002, pp. 13; Bayles 9/10/2002) Sometime before 6:00 a.m. on September 11, or possibly on the evening of September 10, a van occupied by some Middle Eastern men pulls up at the resort. The men claim to be reporters and say they are there for a "poolside" interview with Bush. They then ask for a particular Secret Service agent by name. Security guards phone the receptionist at the resort and relay the men's request. The receptionist has not heard of the Secret Service agent named by the men or anything about a planned interview with Bush. She passes the phone to a Secret Service agent, who similarly tells the security guards that no one knows of the agent the men referred to or is aware of any scheduled interview with the president. The Secret Service agent says the men should contact the president's public relations office in Washington, DC, and has them turned away from the premises. (Sullivan 9/26/2001; Longboat Observer 9/7/2011)

Incident Resembles Recent Assassination Method - Some people will later note the similarity of this alleged incident to the method used to assassinate General Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, on September 9. (Martin 7/4/2004) Massoud was killed by a bomb hidden in the video camera of two Arab men who said they were journalists who wanted to interview him (see September 9, 2001). (Elliott 8/12/2002; Martin 9/9/2002) "Were the men on Longboat Key planning to kill Bush in similar fashion?" the St. Petersburg Times will ask. (Martin 7/4/2004) Fire Marshal Learns about Incident - The alleged incident on Longboat Key will come to light after reporter Shay Sullivan hears local Fire Marshal Carroll Mooneyhan describing it to a colleague during a lull in a firefighters' union meeting and then writes an article about it for the Longboat Observer. Mooneyhan does not witness the incident firsthand, but will learn about it when he is at the front desk at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort at around 6:00 a.m. on September 11. At that time, he will overhear the receptionist and a security guard discussing what happened. It is unclear when exactly the incident they discuss is meant to have occurred. (Sullivan 9/26/2001; Hartill 9/7/2011) The Secret Service will question Mooneyhan about what he hears. (Martin 7/4/2004) Two weeks after 9/11, the FBI will reportedly be looking into the alleged incident. (Sullivan 9/26/2001) Incident Is Later Denied - The day after the incident is first reported in the Longboat Observer, Mooneyhan "went silent" about it, Sullivan will say. (Hartill 9/7/2011) In 2004, Mooneyhan will deny telling anyone at the Longboat Observer about the incident. "How did they get that information from me if I didn't know it?" he will say. (Martin 7/4/2004) However, Sullivan will suggest that Mooneyhan may have been "ordered to stop talking about it." He will note that Secret Service agents visited his newspaper and "suggested we back off the story." (Hartill 9/7/2011) Longboat Key Police Chief John Kintz will say in 2011 that he has been unable to find any evidence of the incident. "[T]here wasn't a single person who could confirm that it happened," he will say, adding, "We never found anyone who worked at the gate who could tell us that that happened." (Hartill 9/7/2011) Other Suspicious Incidents Occur - Other suspicious incidents occur in the Longboat Key area around this time. Shortly after 4:00 a.m. on September 11, a Sudanese man contacts police in Sarasota and says he is concerned that a friend of his might pose a threat to the president while he is visiting the area (see 4:07 a.m. September 11, 2001). (Summers and Swan 2011, pp. 457) And at 8:50 a.m. on September 11, a local man will see a van in Sarasota with two Middle Eastern men screaming out the windows, "Down with Bush" (see (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001). (Sullivan 9/26/2001) Whether these two incidents are related to the alleged incident at the Longboat Key resort is unclear.

Abdulaziz Alomari, right, and Mohamed Atta, left (in dark shirt),passing through security in the Portland, Maine, airport. Note the different times on the two time stamps, one in the middle, one at the bottom. [Source: FBI]

Minutes after arriving at the Portland airport, hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari pass through the airport's single security checkpoint, on the way to boarding their 6 a.m. flight to Boston. The checkpoint has a surveillance camera pointing at it, which captures them as they go through. (Mcgeary and van Biema 9/24/2001; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 2-3) Some reports say the pair passes through at 5:53 a.m. (Prial 9/14/2001; Risen and van Natta 9/14/2001; Eggen and Slevin 9/14/2001) Other reports put it earlier, at 5:45 a.m. (Portland Press Herald 10/5/2001; Federal Bureau of Investigation 10/5/2001; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 3) Strangely, when stills from the surveillance camera are later publicly released, they show two time stamps, one of 5:45 and another of 5:53. (Millar 9/21/2001; Federal Bureau of Investigation 10/4/2001) When they'd checked in just minutes earlier, Atta and Alomari were observed wearing ties and jackets (see 5:43 a.m. September 11, 2001). But in the security video footage, they have just open-necked shirts, with no jackets or ties. (Smerconish 2/24/2005; Hench 3/6/2005; CNN 3/3/2006)

Zainelabdeen Ibrahim Omer, a Sudanese man, tells police in Sarasota, Florida, he is concerned that a friend of his may pose a threat to President Bush, who is spending the night on nearby Longboat Key and is due to visit Sarasota today. After he contacts the Sarasota police, Omer is visited by some officers. He tells them that on the previous evening he talked to a friend of his, who he identifies only as "Gandi." He says Gandi is in Sarasota with two companions, with the intention of getting a friend of theirs out of jail. Omer is apparently concerned that Gandi may be a danger to Bush while he is visiting the area. He says Gandi "has made several remarks in the past that indicated extremely violent thoughts." He adds that, considering the man's "past inclinations," the fact that Gandi is in Sarasota at the time Bush is visiting the area "might not be coincidental." The Sarasota police officers will contact the Secret Service, whose agents then question Omer about his concerns. Police officers and Secret Service agents will visit an address on 32nd Street in Sarasota, where they find 11 Arab men apparently at morning prayer. One of the men has a card for the Longboat Key Club, which is near the resort where Bush has been spending the night (see September 10, 2001).

The men will be questioned, held until Bush has left the area, and then released. It will later be reported that Gandi has links to the guerrilla group, the Sudan People's Liberation Army. However, an unnamed law enforcement source will tell authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan that there is "nothing to indicate" the 11 Arab men questioned by the police and the Secret Service are linked to the 9/11 plotters. (Sarasota Police Department 9/11/2001; Sarasota Police Department 9/11/2001; Summers and Swan 2011, pp. 457)

While Bush is staying on Longboat Key, several Middle Eastern men reportedly arrive at the resort where he is staying and falsely claim they have an interview with him arranged (see (Before 6:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001).

And at 8:50 a.m. on September 11, a local man will see a van in Sarasota with two Middle Eastern men screaming out the windows, "Down with Bush" (see (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001). (Sullivan 9/26/2001)

Chris Lyons, a newspaper delivery driver, sees four or five Middle Eastern men near the entrance of Portland airport, from where alleged hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari will later take a plane to Boston (see (6:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001). The men are speaking Arabic among themselves and hauling about ten suitcases into the airport. Lyons later says they "stuck out because usually no one is around at that hour." After 9/11, local police will say they don't think the men are connected to the attacks. However, Lyons is concerned that they might have been "support people," because, he says, "It's just too much of a coincidence that this group of businessmen was leaving Portland the morning of the terrorist attacks." (Portland Press Herald 9/22/2001; Walsh 10/21/2001)

Willie Brown. [Source: San Francisco City Government]

Eight hours prior to the terrorist attacks, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a warning from his "security people at the airport," advising him to be cautious in traveling. (Matier and Ross 9/12/2001) Later reports will claim that this is because someone saw the State Department warning of September 7 (see September 7, 2001), which focused on the threat to military personnel in Asia. Brown is scheduled to fly to New York the next morning. (US Department of State 9/7/2001; Matier and Ross 9/12/2001; Matier and Ross 9/14/2001) The source of the warning, and why it is personally issued to Brown, will remain unknown.

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This was the first TV interview Osama (Usama) Bin Laden permitted. It was conducted in 1997 by CNN's Peter Arnett, Peter Bergen and photographer Peter Jouvenal. The CNN team was taken to an undisclosed location in Afghanistan for the interview.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecovered_flight_recorders

Flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) in commercial aircraft continuously record information and can provide key evidence in determining the causes of an aircraft loss. The greatest depth from which a flight recorder has been recovered is 16,000 feet (4,900 m) the CVR of South African Airways Flight 295.

Recovered recorders are not always able to definitively identify, however, the causes of an accident. Recorders successfully recovered can be too damaged to be read, or may have missing data caused by power loss, as with TWA Flight 800, American Airlines Flight 77, and Swissair Flight 111. In the bombing of TWA Flight 841 on 8 September 1974, neither the FDR nor CVR were recovered from the Ionian Sea, despite the locations being narrowed down through the use of the attached Underwater locator beacons (known as "pingers").

Date of Crash	Flight No.	Airline	Plane Type	Presumed Location	Notes
8/16/1965	389	United Airlines	Boeing 727-22	Lake Michigan, off Chicago, Illinois	Resting in 76 m (249 ft) of water; FDR recording media never found[1]
5/2/1970	980	ALM	Douglas DC-9-33CF	Caribbean Sea	Resting in 5,000 ft (1,500 m) of water; neither recorder found[2]
6/29/1972	290	North Central Airlines	Convair CV-580	Lake Winnebago, near Appleton, Wisconsin	An estimated 50% to 60% of the wreckage was recovered from the shallow, muddy water. The FDR was recovered in good condition, but the CVR was never found.
7/22/1973	816	Pan American World Airways	Boeing 707-321B	Pacific Ocean, off Papeete, Tahiti	Resting in 700 m (2,300 ft) of water; neither recorder found[3]
9/30/1975	240	Malév	Tupolev Tu-154	Near the Lebanese shoreline	Resting in between 600 and 1,000 m (2,000 and 3,300 ft) of water[4]
1/30/1979	cargo	Varig aircraft PP-VLU	Boeing 707-323C	in the Pacific Ocean, around 200 kilometers East Northeast from Tokyo, Japan	The aircraft debris were never located and thus, neither the CVR and FDR was found and the cause of the crash was never determined.[5]
1/1/1985	980	Eastern Air Lines	Boeing 727-225	25 nmi (46 km) from La Paz at the 19,600 ft (5,970 m) level of Andean peak Mt. Illimani.	Due to the extreme high altitude and inaccessibility of the accident location, the FDR and CVR were not recovered at the time.[6] A team of 3 men claimed in 2016 to have recovered the remains of the CVR and parts of the FDR.[7] Due to Bolivia remaining the country officially in charge of the investigation, the NTSB was unable to claim the components until January 4, 2017, after Bolivia officially requested assistance from the NTSB in December of 2016.[8] On 7 February 2017, the NTSB released a statement, according to which what had been found was not the cockpit flight recorder, but rather the rack that had fixed it on to the plane - and [a] promising spool of tape turned out to be 'an 18-minute recording of the Trial by Treehouse episode of the television series I Spy, dubbed in Spanish. [9][10]
11/28/1987	295	South African Airways	Boeing 747-244B Combi	Indian Ocean, near Mauritius	CVR located at 4,900 m (16,100 ft); FDR not found.
11/29/1987	858	Korean Air	Boeing 707-3B5C	Andaman Sea	Neither flight recorder was ever found.[11]
7/3/1988	655	Iran Air	Airbus 300	Persian Gulf	Neither flight recorder was ever found.[12]
3/10/1989	1363	Air Ontario	Fokker F28-1000	Dryden, Ontario	CVR and FDR destroyed by post-crash fire,
10/4/1992	1862	El Al Israel Airlines	Boeing 747-258F	Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Zuidoost	One Black Box was found. The tape was broken in 4 pieces. The last 2:45 minutes were unreadable.[13]
9/11/2001	11	American Airlines	Boeing 767-223ER	North World Trade Center, New York City	[14]
9/11/2001	175	United Airlines	Boeing 767-222	South World Trade Center, New York City	[14]
10/4/2001	1812	Siberia Airlines	Tupolev Tu-154	Black Sea	Neither flight recorder found. Main fuselage of the aircraft, believed to contain the recorder, was believed to be at depth of 1,000 metres - too deep for divers to retrieve.[15]
5/25/2003	N844AA	N/A	Boeing 727	Luanda, Angola	Plane missing along with pilot Ben Charles Padilla and John Mikel Mutantu
10/14/2004	1602	MK Airlines	Boeing 747-244(SF)	Halifax, Nova Scotia	FDR recovered; CVR mutilated in post crash fire
10/22/2005	210	Bellview Airlines	Boeing 737-200	Lisa Village, Ogun, Nigeria	FDR was never found
7/28/2011	991	Asiana Airlines	Boeing 747-400F	Korea Strait	Neither flight recorder was ever found.
12/9/2012	N345MC	Private	Learjet 25	Iturbide, Mexico	CVR and FDR destroyed upon high speed impact
3/8/2014	370	Malaysia Airlines	Boeing 777-2H6ER	South Indian Ocean	Plane and all 239 passengers and crew missing CVR missing; FDR missing Search for debris and recorders suspended 2017-01-17

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