Name: 經歷911事件後，一位機長的獨白 In My Seat - A Pilot's Story from Sept 10th - 11th
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it didn't really sink in. And I think uhÉ a lot of people that are close to an event

like that, you know, you're kind of in a sort of a dream state for a little bit

try to figure out what happened and uh...

I finally started to piece it all together

uh... later on that evening. Megan: And when he finally did get a hold of me he just

Well I've been with American Airlines since 1991, so we're coming up on my

I have been a pilot a little bit longer than that. I was first

uh... out of Brunswick, Maine and uh... I was on active duty for eight years.

I got about 35 hundred hours of P-3 time in those eight years.

and then I got hired by American Airlines and currently I fly the boeing 757

It's interesting 'cause you don't know what's gonna happen September 11th

when you're living september 10th. And i just remember september 10th because

but it's it's cooler then it would be other places and I'd taken them to the

library and I was sitting outside drinking a coffee while they were in the library

and for the first time really thanking the Lord because I felt safe I thought, "Wow,

safe and what in the world could ever happen

in Georgetown, Maine. Steve: September 10th is a date that means you know great deal to

uh... i did what I normally do on September 10th.

The day before I become available to go flying.. And my flying is in blocks of days

So I was available to go flying on September 11th.

So at about three o'clock in the afternoon on September 10th I

sat down at the computer and I logged in like I normally do... to check to see

if there was any unassigned flying for the next day.

And sure enough there was one trip that was available on September 11th it

uh flight 11 out of Boston's Logan Airport

It was a two-day trip got back on the second day

left at I think about uhÉ 7:40, 7:45 in the morning

And I looked at it and there was no uhÉ pilot assigned to it yet.

so the next thing that I do is I go and check and see

if there's any reserve pilots available. Now i know i'm available but there might

And it just so happened that on September 11th, 2001

uh... there was only one guy available to go flying on that day and that was me.

So i've been through this drill a lot of times over the years uh... I went and I...

I went out to the car, opened up the trunk I got my

my dirty luggage out of the trunk, and I threw it in the washing machine, and I packed my

bags with the new clean stuff and took it back out to the car and I said, "I'm going to LA."

And at three o'clock in the afternoon, in fact in those days uh... uh...

what's called crew scheduling at American Airlines would actually

put his epaulets on his shoulder and found the ID, and...

you know made sure he had everything packed he needed and we just prepare.

you prepare in a certain way. When you're airline family it's the same thing. There's

and kind of a checklist you go through to prepare for dad to leave on a trip.

The... the final assignment comes from via the phone call. So they make,

you know, positive contact communication with you. It's not just in the computer

they'll call and they'll say, "Hey, just wanna let you know you've been assigned

Now I might know that already by looking into the computer. I could already

see that. But a real person will call you and say, "Scheibner, it's now your trip." And now

at that point once you have that phone conversation,

even if a line pilot wants to they can't bump you off that trip so

they've only got a 30 minute window of opportunity once that phone call gets

It's not the norm but it's not completely out of the question either. In fact, I

uh... it was later on that evening I thought, " You know, they never assigned that trip to me." And I

really didn't give it another thought because, well, what that means is i still

get paid but I've got tomorrow off. I'm still available to go flying, but

you know they were finalized the assignment so I guess I can, you know, brush off my

was the fact that a fellow by the name of Tom McGuinness

who was one of those line holding pilots little bit senior to me

and Tom did what i did that afternoon about three o'clock in the afternoon.

and he logged in and he looked and he saw that that flight was open but my name

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