22. 083815 Powell Cooper Deskins
Powell: Sir, sir, sir.
Cooper: Yes sir.
Powell: Yeah, I‘ve got an MCC comin’ right now to talk to you so you can handle all that.
Cooper: Thank you.
Powell: Alright.
Deskins: Hi, this is Major Deskins.
Cooper: Hi, Joe Cooper, Boston Center we have a—
Deskins: Yeah, Joe.
Cooper: Hijacked aircraft headed towards the New York metro area. Wonderin’ if you could uh send some one up there, some F-16s or somethin’ to help us out, maybe out of—
Deskins: New York metro.
Cooper: Maybe out of Otis.
Deskins: Do you have a mode 3 on it?
Cooper: No, no.
Deskins: A mode 3 code?
Cooper: It’s just a primary target only, we lost, ah, we lost the, ah, mode, the mode C on it, so you’d have to get up in the air and we’d have to vector you towards the aircraft.
Deskins: Ok, so you’d want’a control the intercept, because—
Cooper: We’d have to, yeah.
Deskins: You’d have to, right.
Cooper: Until you guys can pick him up on primary radar.
Deskins: Ok. Do you have a general location as to where he is?
Cooper: We’re still trackin’ him right now.
Deskins: You’re trackin’ him.
Cooper: Yeah.
Deskins: Can you, can you give me a lat long, where he is for our SA?
Cooper: Yeah, hold on a second.