Excerpts from T7 interview with Monte Belger:

Aircraft that were unaccounted for:

9:40-9:45 Still doesn't know where the report came from that AAL 77 had crashed on the
Kentucky/Indiana border. (He knew by that point that AAL 77 was in trouble.)

At this time of the Pentagon crash, he and Garvey were both talking to the airlines. He
knows he talked to Bob Baker and Russ Chew, but doesn't know who he talked to at
United (although he is pretty sure he talked to UAL).

Communications:

That day he was talking to the airlines; people at DOT; no one from the military

He did not participate on the primary or tac net at all.

He thought the senior security person at FAA would have been the person on the primary
net - Ross Hamory was his first guess - then he thought it was Lee Longmire.

Said that security would have coordinated the mil response "they did that routinely" (I
don't know what was meant by that statement.)

He had the distinct impression that the mil was on that primary net. He mentioned the
mil liaisons out at Herndon.

His understanding of when the mil responded and who coordinated the response:

He did not know that NORAD had responded (by responded he meant "put aircraft in the
air") until after the Pentagon crash. He did not recall any conversations with Jane or
anyone else about coordinating the military response.

The assumption was that the DOD/NORAD was on the net and aware of what was going
on. After the fact, he learned that NORAD was contacted directly by ZBW and ZNY at
9:20 "or something." Knowing that they had been called, the assumption was NORAD
would coordinate with the ATC directly. "I assumed that they would be doing their
thing" (meaning the mil).

"This was so spontaneous - NORAD was notified by the field offices before Washington
notified the mil." He learned of the field notification after-the-fact.

Situational Awareness:

He doesn't remember how he learned of the Pentagon crash. A few minutes later, he was
on the phone with the Secretary. During that conversation with the sect and Jane Garvey,
the secretary said "lets bring everything down" (9:40 and 9:45). That order was
immediately implemented. Belger said his attention turned to "monitoring the system"
until 12:15 PM, when he learned that all the aircraft were all out of the sky.

UAL 93:

He was told of the UAL 93 crash shortly after the crash. "I don't recall doing anything to
monitor that flight." (this is not to say he wasn 't aware there were problems with it; he
goes on to say later that he remembers hearing UAL 93 supposedly had a bomb on it.)

Belger said the most confusing part for him was "not knowing which flight went where"
- he did not know it was AAL 77 that went into the Pentagon.

He remembers talking to UAL and AAL shortly after talking to the Secretary. They
weren't sure which aircrafts had hit the trade centers. "UAL thought both were their's,"
Belger said. Miles asked, "American or United?" and Belger said, "my recollection is
United."

Belger said it took too long to get confirmation that it was a AAL flight that hit the
Pentagon. He wanted to know at the time, "Why can't someone go look at the tail?"