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The Voices of 9-11

The Story of the FAA and NORAD Response to the September 11, 2001, Attacks

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The Voices of 9-11

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"The story of the day, of 9/11 itself, is best told in the voices of 9/11," said Miles Kara, a retired Army colonel and an investigator for the September 11 Commission, in a recent New York Times report.

Included here is a selection of recordings of Federal Aviation Administration, Defense Department, and American Airlines communications from September 11, 2001. You will hear air traffic controllers, military aviation officers, airline and fighter jet pilots, as well as two of the hijackers, during two hours of that historic morning.

Transcripts and some of the recordings have been released previously, but not the complete "audio monograph", as it was described by the September 11 Commission. The recordings were originally intended to be part of the Commissions' 2004 report on the terrorist attacks, but were not ready in time for a legal review before the Commission finished its work. They have now been released in their entirety.

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Such a sad day. Interesting to hear about it first-hand and people's initial reactions. Some of the the sound isn't very clear but that's to be expected from radio comm chat. Good book 👍

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Hearing the actual recordings from air traffic control and from the flights themselves, makes this a most interesting and harrowing audio book.
Sounds strange to say, yet this is an excellent insight to the events.

Harrowing, yet excellent

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It's not a comfortable listen, probably won't listen again but it gives a good insight to what they were faced with that day I'd not considered before. It highlights the professionalism and work of the people desperately trying to understand what was happening. I don't think I'd e ver appreciated how impossible it must have been to organise, locate and ground thousands of planes, when several have been hijacked and others are not responding. Sounds understandably hard to understand in sections.

Daunting and chilling, worth a listen

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through all the technical jargon you can hear the fear and confusion of the various people recorded here. A very real and chilling record of a terrible day in the history of the world.

chilling

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This was a fascinating insight into the tragic events of 9-11. An eye-opening experience of what the ATC staff were doing to try and figure out what was happening.

eye opening

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