Ben Sliney was the FAA Director of Operations on Sept. 11, 2001. That day was, perhaps ironically, his first day on the job. After evaluating the situation and after two planes had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, he ordered the full landing of the roughly 4,200 airplanes in the air at the time, an unprecedented judgment call which the 9/11 Commission later denoted as an important and decisive act in the chaos of that morning. Sliney plays himself in the 2006 movie "United 93". FAA may refer to: Federal Aviation Administration in the United States Fleet Air Arm in the UK Royal Navy Fuerza Aérea Argentina in Argentina This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated attacks carried out in the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. ... United 93 is a critically acclaimed [1][2] 2006 docudrama chronicling the actual events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. ...