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  • 2019-09-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Video Show US Air Traffic on Sept. 11, 2001? (en)
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  • On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, shortly after a plane crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered all planes flying over the United States grounded. In the span of a few hours, air-traffic controllers helped clear the skies of nearly 4,000 commercial planes. An animation video supposedly showing the amount of air traffic over the U.S. quickly diminishing in the aftermath of the terrorist attack is frequently shared online on the anniversary of 9/11: This animation is real and is based on actual air-traffic control data from that date. NASA created the video for the National Air and Space Museum's America by Air exhibition. It was originally shared to the museum's YouTube page on Sept. 9, 2011, with the following description: A longer version of this clip from the YouTube channel AirBoyd includes various annotations to explain what was happening while planes were being grounded across the country: The number of planes in the sky on that day peaked at around 4,050 about 9:25 a.m. EDT. FAA air-traffic controllers worked to ground all commercial flights over the next few hours, and by noon, the sky was nearly empty. A contemporary newspaper clipping of an Associated Press article describes how Air traffic around the nation was halted yesterday for the first time in history: Wed, Sep 12, 2001 – Page 12 · The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) · Newspapers.com (en)
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