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Fri May 7, 2004 02:12 AM ET
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air controllers who communicated with or tracked hijacked jets on Sept. 11, 2001, taped their recollections later that day but the recording was destroyed without anyone ever listening to it, a U.S. investigator said on Thursday.
Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead found irregularities in how two Federal Aviation Administration managers at the main air traffic center on New York's Long Island handled the tape and concluded they used poor judgment.
The tape dealt specifically with the two aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center towers. A third hijacked plane struck the Pentagon and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
One of the men, a quality assurance manager, destroyed the tape months after it was made. He crushed the single audiocassette in his hand, cut the recording strands into small pieces and threw the debris into different trash cans at the center, Mead said.
The FAA agreed with Mead's overall findings and said it was taking disciplinary action against the manager who destroyed the tape.
Mead also found the two managers misconstrued a directive from FAA headquarters to save all data and records pertaining to Sept. 11, and criticized them for not alerting their superiors. But the investigation found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and prosecutors declined to pursue the matter.
"We have no indication there was anything on the tape that would lead anyone to conclude that they had something to hide or that the controllers did not properly carry out their duties on Sept. 11," Mead's investigators concluded.
Controllers were praised for safely clearing the skies after the attacks.
Mead found the initial decision by the senior manager at the center to record the employee recollections hours after the attacks was a prudent step to help investigators and assist controllers in writing official statements on their involvement, which the FAA requires. The taping took place in a room at the New York air traffic center called the "Bat Cave."
But an agreement with the controllers union to destroy the tape after the written reports were completed was improper, Mead found.
"What those six controllers recounted in a group setting on September 11, in their own voices, about what transpired that morning, are no longer available to assist any investigation or inform the public," Mead wrote.
But controllers were allowed to review radar data and radio transcripts when compiling their written statements. FAA spokesman Greg Martin said it appeared the tape would not have shed additional light for federal investigators and the independent commission probing the attacks.
Mead said his investigators were told no one listened to the tape after it was made.
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