![]() Soon, military commanders are preparing for the possibility that any number of additional planes could be headed toward New York. Another one just hit the World Trade."Ĭontroller:"The whole building just came apart!" Yeah."Ĭontroller: "Another one just hit the building!"Ĭontroller: "Another one just hit it hard. I need a direction, ah destination."Īfter the first plane hits the North tower, several air traffic controllers - some of whom can see Manhattan from their windows - soon spot a second threat.Ĭontroller: "Hey, can you look out your window right now? Can you see a guy at about 4,000 feet, about five east of the airport right now, looks like he's - "Ĭontroller: "Do you see a guy - is he descending into the building also?"Ĭontroller: "He's descending really quick too. James Fox, weapons team leader, NORAD: "I don't know where I'm scrambling these guys to. Military commanders can only guess what the hijackers' intentions could be. Jeremy Powell of NORAD: "Is this real world, or exercise?"Ĭooper: "No, this is not an exercise, not a test." ![]() Soon, a Boston air traffic controller is speaking to North American Aerospace Defense Command.Ĭontroller Joseph Cooper: "We need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out." Just stay quiet."Ītta: ".Don't try to make any stupid moves." If you try to make any moves, you will injure yourself and the airplane. We are returning to the airport."Ĭontroller: "Who's trying to call me, here? American 11 are you trying to call?"Ītta: "Nobody move, everything will be okay. We don't know who's up there."įive minutes later, hijacker Mohamed Atta is heard, apparently as he is speaking to the passengers.Ĭontroller: "Is that American 11 trying to call?"Ītta: "We have some planes. Ong: "Can anybody get up to the cockpit? We can't even get into the cockpit. Nobody knows who stabbed who, and we can't even get up to business class right now because nobody can breathe." I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked." Somebody's stabbed in business class, and I think there's Mace, that we can't breathe. įlight Attendant Betty Ong, on American Airlines Flight 11, which eventually hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center, calls an American Airlines office on the ground. The recordings have been assembled by researchers and posted at. In excerpts posted online - some of which were declassified only within the past year - listeners can hear everything from the wrenching words of a flight attendant on a hijacked airliner and the haunting voices of two of the terrorists in the cockpits, to the cross talk of air controllers and military officials as they come to realize the extent of the attacks. ![]() ![]() (CNN) - Extensive audio recordings from September 11, 2001, capture a raw, vivid, moment-by-moment account of the terrorist attacks, directly from those who were in the middle of the crisis.
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