Ben Sliney was the FAA Director of Operations on Sept. 11, 2001, which was his first day on the job. After evaluating the situation and after two planes had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, he ordered the full landing of the roughly 4,200 airplanes in the air at the time, an unprecedented judgment call which the 9/11 Commission later denoted as an important and decisive act in the chaos of that morning. Wikipedia
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Personally issued a nationwide grounding of all air traffic in the moments following the crash of United Airlines Flight 175 into the second tower of the World Trade Center, during the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Later, when American Airlines Flight 77 str www.imdb.com/name/nm2214842/
Ben Sliney was the Federal Aviation Administration's operations manager on September 11, 2001, his first day in the job. He decided to shut down the airspace across the US following the hijacking of the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pe www.metro.co.uk/fame/interviews/article.html?in_article_i...
