T8 B2 FAA NY Center Mike McCormick Fdr- Handwritten Notes- Alt MFR- Personnel Statment

8/14/2019 T8 B2 FAA NY Center Mike McCormick Fdr- Handwritten Notes- Alt MFR- Personnel Statment

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Individual variables are used to choose an aircrafts routes, often the winds m ake thehighest difference to what route is taken. Espe cially early on the day. Know what thepreferential routes are.Wind and weather on ly real variables. Som e level of

Sectors:Must hand off (transfer com and control) and point out (verbal confirmation). Hand offwith comp uter input, point out verba l. In general in domestic all done with autom ation.Responsible for all aircraft whether primary or transponding. H andoff and point out radarterms. In oceanic no such thing. Everything is verbal in oceanic.Normally do an automated handoff (preferred). Y ou'd do a point out if you were going toclip someone else airspace, but not necessarily transfer communicationft.. ,A re such things as automated point outs but generally not used here. Need more refinedproceduresKennedy IS a high and low position. From surface to unlimited. Un ique to NYStill have Tracon positions, but that sector owns all the airspace.56 has space delegated to Tracon.

> Only sectors to the west own to the grown. Due to Tracons.ATCs at ZNY mostly stay in the same areas, but can bid on getting moved to new areas.Generally career ZNY employees.Don ' t have super high or ultra high since most aircraft climbing and descending. A ll thedomestic airspace they own will fit in one salt lake city super high area.

"^Jnterjacility you can force an untracked data block, but to other facilities, no. can forcefull data block but primary needs to be keyed first. On the receiving end he needs to keyto display that information.A A 1 1 would have had to pick that out on there own.That's why their visual track onlystarts there. DDidn't get that much help from Boston. Looked in their areas for the primary. Vectoredaircraft over the target and that's where they got their information f rom. Was not atransfer from boston. C omm unication would not have been picked up on by boston.There was a temporary wall at the time that blocked on the cafeteria side. Area f now hasnew sectors, and can watch w hat is being hand led by area e. flight data unit is the sam e.Areas a-TMU about the same, but added since 9/11 additional land lines directcoordination to NEADS and CONNER. Telcon hotline with dens. C O N N E R phone


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patched into VICs (?). Added recordings to MOS desk. All TMU lines were taped. TMC sSTMCs OMIC all taped. Only phones that are not taped and still not taped are phones onthe area supervisor desk. Since 911 internet access at watch desk/OMIC. Headline newsat nom/NAS area.Have ability to coord inate with NEADS especially over Giant Killer and the Wh iskeyareas (south of Giant Killer?).Q& A - request fo r transcripts, documents, etc. McCorm ick did speak to Biggio. Accidentpackage vs. accident file.Otis fighters - doesn't believe they were handled or hand off. Just came into our airspacequote. W ere aware of them, and knew m ore mili tary aircraft came in . course of severaldays many aircraft. Officially would have both packages on al 1 and UAL175 sinceaccident happ ened in both p laces. Cleveland has package for 93 .At one point all three were in ZNY airspace. Pointed out AA11 to UAL175.CORRECTION: AA11 WAS SCHEDULED TO TRAV EL THROUGH SECTOR 34 -ELMIRA HIGHW AY (ZNY AIRSPACE).SATORI:42, 56.Philsner (?) back on October 12 .


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ACTION: Complete in accordance with FA A Order 8020.1 IB , Aircraft Accident and Incident Notification, investigation, andReporting, paragraph 75, Personnel Statements.BACKGROUND: Much of the information concerning the circumstances surrounding this accident/incident can be retrieved viasome type of recorded data source. How ever, some of the facts concerning what you saw and wh at you did may not have beencompletely captured. The purpose of this statement is to provide an y tacts with in your personal kn owledge that you betieve willprovide a more complete understanding of the circumstances sutrounding this accident/incident Therefore, speculations, hearsayopinions, conclusions, and/or other extraneous data are not to be included in this statement Additionally, this statement m ay bereleased to the pu blic through FOIA or litigation activities including prctrial discovery, depositions, and actual court testimony.INSTRUCtlQNS: This statement is to be PRINTED and signed by you. Statement times and dates shall conespond with SISO.Your signature below certifies die accuracy of this statement. It will neither be edited nor typed, and, once signed, will constituteyour original statement .This statement concerns the accident/incident involving (/AC / ? at/


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