Aa11 -20 Degree Turn By The Atc To Avoid Traffic -then Nothing, What was this aircraft they were avoiding? Options

[roscoe]

In your excellent film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WSDxErgBE

You say that at approximately 08:15 American 11 was given a 20 degree turn to the right TO AVOID CONFLICTING TRAFFIC.

WHAT WAS THIS OTHER AIRCRAFT?

This post has been edited by roscoe: Feb 8 2014, 03:29 AM

[poppyburner]

In your excellent film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WSDxErgBE

You say that at approximately 08:15 American 11 was given a 20 degree turn to the right TO AVOID CONFLICTING TRAFFIC.

WHAT WAS THIS OTHER AIRCRAFT?

A crucial question!

'8:11:58 — 46R: AAL11, your traffic is at, uh, 2 o'clock 20 miles southwest-bound MD80 310.
...
8:13:29 — 46R: AAL11, turn 20 degrees right.

8:13:31 — AAL11: 20 right AAL11.
...
46R: This is Boston, I turned American 20 left and I was going to climb him. He will not respond to me now at all.

38R: Look's like he's turning right.

46R: Yea I turned him 20 right. '

~ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national...GHT11-TEXT.html.


McDonnell Douglas MD-80

According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' database: there was an AA 310 (DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport) to BWI (Baltimore–Washington International Airport)); but it had a 14:16 P.M. scheduled departure time and was cancelled.

So maybe I'm looking at the wrong plane.

In the Intercepted video, this villain seems to vanish from radar (@ 29:43), approximately at New Jersey's Greenwood Lake Airport?

This post has been edited by poppyburner: Feb 8 2014, 11:09 PM

[poppyburner]

Flight levels are described by a number, which is this nominal altitude ("pressure altitude") in feet, divided by 100, while being a multiple of 500 ft, therefore always ending on 0 or 5. Therefore an apparent altitude of, for example, 32,000 feet is referred to as "flight level 320".

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level

[roscoe]

This is very interesting. What was MD80?

Looks like a switch.

I take it you know that the Air traffic controller that handled AA11 and UA175 out of Boston also handled Egypt Air 990 in 1999.

This post has been edited by roscoe: Apr 1 2014, 12:19 AM

[poppyburner]

Intriguing; thanks.

I don't know how seriously to take that animation above, after watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kflpihuKVLM

But as there's seemingly so little investigation in this subject, I though that it'd be helpful for us to pull together whatever we can find.

[amazed!]

I'm guessing "310" was the altitude of the MD80.

[poppyburner]

I'm guessing "310" was the altitude of the MD80.

lol better late than never.