FAA recordings from morning of Sept. 11 reveal moments air traffic controllers realized hijacking...
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- SOUND UP: Hear the following recordings released by the Federal Aviation Administration from the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when air traffic controllers attempted to respond the hijackings.
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It's crazy listening to people who have been training for something but haven't encountered it yet. The disbelief that it's not fake is surreal to hear
FALSE FLAG ATTACK or real terrorist incident - you decide.
@@mogadon7foil hat.
@@mogadon7 ATC watched them take off fly. I did the radar analysis on flight 800. Keep that BS in your head.
Cool? Really?
I was on another plane (obviously) that morning flying across the Midwest. All of a sudden we started to descend way too early (and too rapidly as well). The pilot got on the intercom and said that there was a terrorist attack in New York, and we had to land at the nearest airport immediately. At the time, we (passengers) had no idea what New York had to do with us flying over the middle of the country. Of course as soon as we stepped off the plane and saw the TV monitors in the airport, the horror hit us right in the face.
You were flying over the Midwest - where most US nuclear sites and hardened facilities are located, including some major backups for federal agencies.
An attack on personnel locating to the backup site have major impact.
Also, shutting down any other traffic on that route allows for faster transit and landing of priority aircraft and less traffic nearby with unknown status
@@pteppig All air traffic across the country was landed immediately. Nothing special about the midwest there.
I gotta say, with all due respect, it was kinda dumb of you not to figure out that a coordinated hijacker series of attacks on the east coast would affect the whole country.
@@RubyBandUSA if you read the original poster's post carefully you'll realise they were told they had to land because of a terrorist attack in New York. I very much doubt the pilot told the passengers there was a co-ordinated hijack plot going on.
Perhaps you should reconsider whether it was fair to call them dumb?
A friend of mine was leaving the UK to the US that day. They had taxied out and stopped. Then the piolet said they were returning to a gate because the US was "closed". It wasn't until they got off the plane that they found out why.
Guy I went to college with was a co-pilot on United 175 (Boston to LA). Hurts to listen to this. Michael Horrocks was a good guy. RIP to all who lost their lives that day. Never forget.
I’m so sorry 😢
I knew him personally, Einstein. Why do people like going out of their way to be asses? I just don't get it.
They said "Never forget" about World War One and now maybe the majority of people wouldn't even realize it existed except World War Two is named so for a reason. Some don't even think that far.
@@stephenduke6612 went to college is a big lie.
Must be a real paper mill if he did.
@@skipads5141 I worked in a paper mill for 4 years. How did you know? I was an engineer.
That last gentleman, "Just get me somebody who has the authority.... " He understood the weight of the situation and that something had to happen fast and now.
Sounded like the only person who knew how serious it is. The rest of them were just like "uh is this real world?" ....no, genius, its a prank..
It was already too late.
This guy was at the bottom of the food chain. There was a process in place and his only part in it was to report the incident. Nobody was going to launch armed fighters over CONUS because Joe ATC from Schenectady thought we should.
How would the terrorists have known that the military was doing exercises on the same day to deliberately create confusion?
the powers of the world made this happen, the stock market plummet on sept 10 pretty much proves it@@Jason-xb2qf
I was living in Tokyo Japan at the time watching this live on the air. The entire country was. I will never forget how many random Japanese citizens in the streets had tears falling down their faces later that night. The grief and silence was so thick everywhere. They definitely felt our pain that day.
It truly affected the whole world. I was a young kid in Rome and everyone’s parents came to pick their children up from school because people believed if NYC was attacked other popular cities such as Rome could also be attacked.
You mean the pain that the biggest inside job a d in World history so they could invade Iraq. Remember that they never went into Afghanistan within 6. Months, but Iraq they were there stat. No weapons of mass destruction were found.. Shocker
There were a lot of Japanese citizens in the towers at the time too
I was in Italy when it occurred. I was very surprised how it affected the people there as well as Europe in general. I had the sense that if we were vulnerable, then no one felt safe.
@@jaquevius we were vulnerable because it was an inside job. The planes could've never been taken down from an airplane. This has been debunked by the world's leading demolition company and along with structural engineers. The leading company that blows buildings up, that pretty much has a monopoly all around the world said there's no way
It's important to note that pilots and ATC are trained not to overreact in even the most alarming situations. I listened to over an hour and a half of these transmissions from that day, just this afternoon, and there were only a handful of times where I could hear voices raised in alarm or shock
Well, they were calm and professional. It would not have made any difference if they had not even responded. The US military played absolutely no part in stopping what happened.
@@MrTruckerf Hence so many conspiracy theories! Glad that it can't happen again though!
It was a false flag attack by Israel and USA to be able to start a new war and realize the full potential of it's weapons industry
@@MrTruckerf It was a false flag attack by Israel and USA to be able to start a new war and realize the full potential of it's weapons industry
@@Orcaben1 It was a false flag attack by Israel and USA to be able to start a new war and realize the full potential of it's weapons industry
It should be mentioned that the controller who said "Cool!" did so in a time when airliners were hijacked and flown to an airport somewhere, becoming a hostage crisis that nearly always resulted in a couple of days (at most) on the news while negotiations took place. Knowing that a plane had been hijacked meant that it was still in the air, with everyone still alive, thus relatively safe. That didn't change until LATER THAT VERY MORNING. This is what the hijackers were counting on.
@@Engelbird Lockerbie wasn't a hijacking.
the planes were hijacked electronically,, this is part of the fraud.
It's wasn't an air traffic controller, it was a female coms pleb who probably serviced commanders on her way to her post. And those are Military acting like chickens with heads cut off and frat boys and girls, the Boston and New York ATC's were professional and calm at all times during this event.
@@Engelbird Lockerbie was a hoax. Setup by the government
Slow yer roll Nancys.As ex military on a guided missile crusier during desert storm it was cool to do your job you trained for...Don't think she meant it like yer making sound.
Can you imagine going to work as an air traffic controller just a normal day, and suddenlt youre having to request to scramble F16s?
The civillian air traffic controllers have nothing to do ith military planes.
I think it happened pretty often actually
@@AutoRautoscrambling F16s does not happen “pretty often” 😂
one of my football coaches in high school was one of the responders in the Boston FAA.
@@blumpkinexcalibur7523 yes it does, they intercept every other plane nowadays, just so they have something to do. I work in the field
Did anyone else find it surreal to not hear airplanes in the skies for a week after? To this day the silent skies still stick with me.
I pre-flighted our grounded DC9 6 days later in Atlanta and doing our safety checks you could hear birds chirping at ATL. You never hear anything like wildlife at airports because of the noise.
It was terrifying, as an American. I was 40 years old at the time and this was the biggest tragedy ever to occur in my country. I was living in California at the time but my parents were living in Manhattan. Everything we thought of as "normal life" came to a grinding halt for about two weeks after, when we didn't know what to do or what would happen next.
Not sure that I noticed, but we moved to a rural area where we never saw any jets of any kind.
One day a couple of military jets (not sure the kind) were returning back to their base and decided to buzz the city. We had a weird fog so they were flying even lower than normal. It literally sounded like the 9/11 jet about to crash into the tower 1. An entire little rural city citizens ran out of their houses to see if they were about to die. Will never forget that sound.
How about during covid. Airports got real quiet then too.
There were planes flying again by 9/13/01.
Lost my best friend that day Kevin Micheal Williams, he worked for Sandler O’Neil on floor 101 right below Cantor Fitzgerald, he was getting married December 1st 2001 and
I was in his wedding party. Kevin was only 23 at the time and the nicest person you could ever meet! His last phone call was at like 9:12am he told my buddy their was a fire in tower 1 and the alarms went off! He had no idea it was plane! After the 2nd plane hit his cell phone went voicemail forever! They found tiny pieces of Kevin’s DNA in March of 2022 in the Rubble. He will never be forgotten, the real hero’s where the fireman that lost their lives running into a burning building. Kevin’s boss survived as he was late to work that day dropping his son off at the dentist.
Sorry for your loss man. Life’s a trip sometimes
My condolences 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
😔🙏🙏🙏 God rest his soul
Wow!! They are still finding DNA. I’m so sorry for your loss
😔🙏🏻😔
RIP to everyone who lost their lives in these attacks. 🕊️
Watch the documentary “Come from Away,” the story of a little town in Gander, Newfoundland, that took in hundreds of stranded airline passengers after their flights were ordered to land at the nearest available airport that day. From the Gander air traffic controllers who safely guided in more planes than the airport was built to handle, to the townspeople who took in all those passengers as if they were family and fed, clothed, comforted, and wiped away their tears, it will move you to your core and restore your faith in humanity. 🙏 ❤
I watched that. Good doc
Thank you, will look for it.
A couple of moths ago, I saw "Come from away" as a musical at my local theatre here in Norway. Such a good story!
7500 plane people, it was 7500
Wow! Thank you I will watch it 💕
My dad has since retired from the airlines and I'm so lucky he was home with us that day. 20+ years later and this still makes me so emotional. I can't imagine what these people went through.
How long did your father fly for before retirement?
Attention-seeking. Safe bet that even at work, he would have come close to the ho-jacked flights. Narcissistic Personality Disorder???
@@jetpilot3714 he was Air Force for 20 years and with Delta for another 20
@@nikkozane925 huh?
@@daphnejoslyn9933 I’m sure your father is an interesting man. I had just gotten on with my first airline when 911 happened. I was still in initial training. I got furloughed and eventually laid off because of it. Tough times. Glad the airline industry is in a much better place. Cheers to your father Daphne!
I just retired after 32 years as a Federal Agent. I spent two weeks down in Ground Zero after the 9/11 incident. It was awful. God bless all who died and continue to pass based on exposure. My fingers are crossed.
Thanks for your service to our Country Steve. I hope you get many glorious days in retirement.
What was your impression of the event? Do you feel that we could have prevented it?
@@realSethMeyers I know you were asking Steve but I remember hearing that we had threats of a hijacking but no info on when or anything about going into the towers.
@Seth Meyers
The CIA knew about the hijackers previous to the attacks but they did not share the information with the FBI
@@ChristopherGray00 not true to say they knew about the hijackers taking planes out of Boston or any other airport.
I saw the plane before it hit outside of my classroom window. Close friend’s father died as a first responder. Now that I’m starting my aviation career, it’s crazy to think about all of the people involved in this operation of air traffic. A lot of lives were affected but I cannot even imagine to know what it’s like to see a threat and feel helpless or in the dark.
You saw an explosion. Then you saw the CGI plane later on TV.
My wife woke me up just after the first plane hit the tower and I came downstairs and watched the second one hit the other tower as it happened on TV. We literally stood in stunned disbelief. I had the day off work and sat transfixed in front of the TV the entire day watching in horror as events played out. Two weeks later we were in Queens, NY attending a convention at Crowne Plaza Hotel across from LaGuardia Airport while they hosted a firefighter memorial on the other side of the hotel. There was still smoke coming from the ruins at this point. It was absolutely surreal.
I think everyone who is old enough to remember that day will forever remember where they were and how they saw the second plane hit the tower.
@@xminusone1 Very true.
Shocked and awed. That was the goal.
Mission Accomplished.
I saw Superman fly on TV
Me too. I was coming downstairs as the second plane hit the second tower. I thought it was a scene from a movie at first.
This is just as painful and horrific to hear on September 24, 2022 as it was to experience live on September 11, 2001. I commend all who responded and died that day and beyond fighting for the USA.
Right?!?
I know 😫
Nah, lies are lies!
Shamefull
1:06
No it’s not…not in the least, especially when you consider our psychotic murderous response ever since.
1:07 The woman that said "cool" had no idea of the horror that would unfold in the next couple of hours. She went from "cool, the monotony of the daily grid has been placed on pause for the morning" to realizing the events that unfolded.
This was the most difficult audio recording to listen to. I was a US Navy Air traffic controller reservist that fateful day in September already on the clock in my civilian job. I happened to be on my first break of my shift just catching the live news on TV that an airplane had crashed into the WTC. CBS had a live camera on the WTC towers. As I was focused on the TV, a second plane came in to view and deliberately flew into the other tower. I stood up and told my co workers we were under attack.
The world and my life would be changed forever at this attack. By October I was on my way overseas for an unknown period of time having been mobilized to active duty in the Navy.
I am glad I stumbled on this Y-Tube audio recording and Air controllers working that day. They did their very best with sketch information at best with the limited technology available in 2001. The airspace over the US just didn’t didn’t have any real time data available or radars good enough to catch up with what i was going on the skies on 9/11/01.
I can only hope they’ve made improvements to the system since then.
It’s not very well known, but the US has a big gap in coverage between the east coast radars and the central states. It’s still an unanswered question why the hijackers waited to take over the aircraft until they reached that gap, leaving themselves to navigate hundreds of miles back to their targets.
These couple of people (besides the victims on the plane) were the very first in the entire planet to realize what was actually happening. The rest of the world only found out after the second plane hit, because the first one could've been "just" an accident. But not for the ATC. A hijacked plane disappears from the radars, and a fire is reported from the WTC.
The moment when they added two and two together must have been shocking
In the moment I imagine I'd not want to believe they were related but as the terror comes to light and the dust starts to settle, it would be a chilling realisation
I'm curious if they realised how many planes were impacted, or did they get so caught up in one hijacking that they didn't even realise there were additional ones they'd missed? How did they feel when the second plane hit, had they been anticipating it, or did they hear about the second plane & think "holy f*** where did that come from? What plane is that?"
You hear the one guy say "are you serious?" he figured it out pretty quick@@MaskedMenace830
@@mehere8038they'd have watched it fly on a course it wasn't supposed to be on, non communicative, for some time. it would not have been a surprise, it would have been harrowing.
With the WTC having been a previous target and the perfect weather conditions it really was just a question of if you're a pessimist or
There used to be a complete recording from the time the first plane went missing clear to where flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, but I'm not sure it is still on here. It lasts around 3 hours and is very eerie to say the least. It proves how unprepared we were for such an attack. Everyone, and I do mean, everyone, was completely confused and took forever to make significant moves to prevent the second plane hitting the WTC, third plane into the Pentagon, and Shanksville.
I remember hearing those tapes too. Of the different phone calls that took place from the plains? The really creepy ones that still gives me goosebumps is when the lady, at the end of the call, muttered it's a fix. What's truly horrifying though is how cell phones back then we're not able to operate that high in the sky for longer than it took to fly between towers. You know? 🤔😔
@@constitutionalli7522 You don't understand telephony. But in your defense, not that you deserve a defense, most people don't understand how any telephones work... much less how cellular telephones work.
and also, the nearest military planes were at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod.... way too far away.... they should have A-10's stationed at nearby airports like Sikorsky Airport in Stratford, CT that could be scrambled and in NYC area within minutes...
there was no attack ya idiot it was and inside job by the sudis and the us gov
@@TonyT6825 those are A-10's.... They are ground attack aircraft and not suitable for interception..... know why? because they're *slow*.. they only go around 570km/h whilst the average airliner can go 700-900km/h or even 1000km/h with tailwind at altitude
The subtitle talks about an "EOT." They actually said "ELT," which is the Emergency Locator Transmitter that goes off automatically in the event of a crash.
Thanks for clearing that up. I googled EOT and couldn't find anything relevant.
@@capenjck me too. Thanks OP
@@capenjck same
3:44, for anyone curious about this interaction here. "Huntress" is the callsign for the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) controller. Here he is scrambling F-15s, PANTA 45 and 46, from Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod Massachusetts. These aircraft were ordered to intercept American Airlines flight 11, unfortunately they didn't make it in time.
Three F-16s of the Dakota ANG were later scrambled from Langley, callsigns QUIT 25 and 26, armed with missiles, and a reserve plane with guns only. These aircraft are ordered to get above DC. Due to series of errors they end up 150 miles east of DC when American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. Interestingly a ANG C-130 "Gofer 86" was following flight 77 after they instructions to ID the aircraft from Reagan Nation Airport. They witnessed the plane strike the Pentagon and radioed “OK, We are down to two thousand. And, uh, this is Gofer 86, it looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, sir”. It's unclear what the F-16s could have done had they been over Washington, shooting the aircraft down over a major city wouldn't have minimized damage.
Thanks for the explanations. I agree the US couldn't have shot down the planes over NYC, but I suppose they hoped getting eyes on the planes would help figure out what the hijackers were up to.
@@oldauntzibby4395 I think they were assuming the terrorists were rational & could be herded or threatened away from the buildings. Scenario was just too foreign to them, they just weren't prepared for taking on suicide bombers
@@mehere8038 Every hijacking before then had also been to take hostages and maybe also demand ransom or blow an empty plane up, not to actually use the plane itself as a weapon. 9/11 was the first time that approach had ever been executed, and it counted on this precedent to take decisionmakers by surprise.
6:35 that was the eeriest moment of all. The ATC sounded like he was reading the report of the crash as it came it and couldn't believe it
the "are you serious" and the recurring "this is real world?" shows how shocking this was
"Mode C" (not "Mode 3") is a transponder that returns & amplifies radar signals and includes the plane's squawk code and altitude.
"Primary target" means they're only getting radar reflections from the plane, not that other stuff.
ATC isn't getting Mode C because the hijackers turned the transponder off.
@vibratingstring Because they didn't have transponders.
@@jeffjansen582 huh?
@vibratingstring I wouldn't like to count on that lady in an energency! Funny the way he didn't repeat the line "there's been some threats from the cockpit" when she re-asked it. I would have liked to hear her reaction. And it also seemed like she expected him to be able to read the mind of the hijacker in order to be able to answer where the plane is going.
@@jeffjansen582they did have transponders, it’s been mandatory since 1994. The problem was the hijackers had turned them off.
@@MysteriousGamingTv You are right, but we will never know if they were there or not. Cheers
I never considered what it was like for the air traffic controllers that day. It’s a perspective I’d like to see made into a movie. That day I was so focused on the tragedy in NYC and The Pentagon I never considered how hard it must have been to get everyone traveling on airplanes safely out of the sky.
United 93 contains lots of real world dialogue from ATC and NORAD, plus its a fantastic movie. Very sobering.
ATC is a very stressful job in the best of circumstances. Their stress levels were surely off the charts on that day.
I've always been curious about 911 dispatch that morning. What happened with people who had medical emergencies, women who were going into labor, or crimes? All emergency personnel in the city must have been at Ground Zero.
3 months prior to 911 we changed our return flight from France to 910. Never could we have imagined this day. Listening to this was hard. I don't have the right to feel as emotional as I do as I did not know anyone who perished on this day and cannot truly imagine the pain families continue to live with.
You have a right to feel however you feel. I feel for all those families affected by these awful attacks.
You have the right to your emotions
It's good to have those emotions it means you care, It would be worrisome if you didn't have any emotion towards it.
Not only do you have the right, it’s properly human to have empathy and compassion for others.
Everything changed that day. The last 21 years has been unbelievable.
You ain't seen nothing yet
It's hard to track down when exactly US society collapsed but I reckon it was either the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 or around 9-11.
@@topendrunner What do you mean by that?
ignoring wtc7 for 21 yrs has me hating ,my fellow americans guts
@@federalreservebrown2507 americans are truly some of the most easily manipulated saps on the planet
Haunting, absolutely haunting. Still, in 2022. R.I.P. all who lost their lives.
absolutely. I feel bad for all families. can't believe a government would do this to its own people.
@@bbm1077 DC is run from tel aviv,, more than 4 planes got hijacked that day,, it is not our gov;t,,, kanye is right
@@bbm1077 I also believe it was an inside job.
America deserved it
Agree 100% with that!😢
I was in kindergarten when this happened, and I remember my teachers reaction perfectly. The classroom phone rings, which it never did before and never did again for the remaining 8 years I attended that school (k-8). The teacher stood up with a perplexed look because the phone never rang and answered it hesitantly, "Yes? This is Teacher." She was quiet for a few moments, then her face went pale, and she just hung up the phone without saying goodbye or anything polite like that she was trying to teach us. She turned her back to us for a few seconds, probably controlling herself, and sat back down a lot more stiffly than usual. All she said next was, "Your parents will be here to pick you up shortly. You are going home." Normally, if you tell a room of 25 kindergarteners they were leaving school early, they would cheer. But not that day. Everyone was quiet until after almost a minute of tense silence, someone couldn't take it anymore and began to cry. That inspired several others who mostly remained crying until their parents came. No one was brave enough to ask the teacher what happened. We all just knew it was horrible.
That's pretty much how it went in my first grade class on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Our teacher answered the phone (which only happened a couple of times during my school years) and turned pale and started crying. We didn't know what was happening and how to react to our teacher crying, but we knew something terrible had taken place. They kept us for another hour or two and then sent us home.
I was in grade 9, and there was some chatter about the first plane before school started so people were talking about it in the halls before first period. People wondered how a plane managed to hit the trade center, people talking about the time it happened with the empire state. Then the 2nd plane hit, news got to us slowly (no one had smartphones). By the time the first period ended everyone was "dismissed" for the day but most kids couldn't get home so we went to the computer labs and tried to spell "talaban" into search engines. By 3rd period we knew a lot of kids' dads would be going to Afghanistan.
I was in first grade. I participated in a “gifted” program and it just happened to be our free time because that’s how or mornings started before lessons. One of the things our teacher allowed us to do with that time was watch the morning news. She would have it muted with captions on. I will never forget what I saw. As the reporting started to trickle in and some of us noticed the television, she actually went over and turned the volume on so we could all hear and see. She was just as frozen and confused as we all were. At that time we had no clue what was really happening or that we were about to see the second plane and have everything suddenly become so terrifyingly clear that we were being attacked.
I will never forget how we all felt. Just a room full of kids and their teacher watching the most awful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I still cry when I think about that day. My grandfather worked for Delta Airlines in Atlanta at the time. All I could think about was him. Of course, he was okay, and Atlanta was not a target. But, he took an early retirement soon after. This day changed the world in so many ways. May we always remember the lives lost and the families that were forever torn apart.
@@plaidmoon5642 you pretty much copy and pasted his comment...
My son was also in kindergarten. When I found out and ran to his school. The school had not heard yet so I broke the news( of course they did not believe me) and when I had my son safely with me, I calmed down. But.. none of our American people, will ever be the same..
That morning was a huge blunder for NORAD. 8:24 is when Boston heard Atta's voice over the radio. But 5 minutes earlier Betty Ong contacted American Airlines from onboard the plane and notified them of the Hijacking. At 08:37 NORAD was notified and 2 F15s at Otis were put on Standby. 8:45 they were ordered to Scramble, 8:46 AA11 hit the WTC and the jets were airborne at 8:53. The F15s were ordered to fly supersonic to Long Island this time to locate the now missing United 175, United 175 cashed into Tower 2 at 9:03, the F15s arrived over New York at 9:25, they then established a Combat Air Patrol due to fear of more hijacked planes.
At 9:03 F15s at Langley were put on alert, NORAD received a call that said American 11 was not the same plane that hit the World Trade Center and was heading to Washington, this call was made by Boston controller Colin Scroggins. At 9:24 3 F15s were scrambled and flew North to locate the phantom flight 11, at 9:34, 40 minutes after hijacked, NEAD were informed of American 77's hijacking, the F15s were ordered to turn around and head back to Washington, 3 minutes later the Pentagon was hit, with the F15s 150 miles away.
At 9:32 Cleveland became aware of United 93 heading towards Washington at which point F16s were in the air and hunting it down, UA93 crashed at 10:11, 120 miles from Washintgon
The attacks exposed a major flaw in the US and it was the lack of agency communication, specifically between the FAA, FBI, NORAD and the Air Force
Lets not forget NORAD had two exercises going on that day "Global" (nuclear command validation drill ) and "Vigilant Guardian" (bomber attack from Russia scenario drill) as well as the NRO simulating an aircraft with "mechanical failure" hitting one of their HQ towers. This lead to the confusion and the repeated questions "real world or exercise?"
@@drunkrumjack Definitely other factors going into it. It was unprecedented, but it still took way too long to scramble jets from Otis
Another problem is that no airplanes hit the towers, phillip marshal and his family were murdered for this info. He wrote a book and was killed after. Good luck finding his book.
INSIDE JOB GHWB
@@ey7290 agreed. They were so confused.
I live right next to a small city airport, it was eeriely quiet when they grounded all the planes. Even walking outside, there wasn't a single car on the road either. Everybody was frozen in time watching this tragedy unfold. I'll never forget that day. Don't think any of us will
I had moved to Va Beach the week before 9/11 & was used to hearing Navy jets flyingb all the time. That day, the silence was eerie
Yes....that's one of my most vivid memories. Driving home from work about 4 pm and not seeing another car moving during the entire 20 minute ride home.
As a relatively new aviator who works in this airspace, there is so much more going on here and I know that I'm only recognizing because of my chosen skillset. Someone outside of the aviation industry can't be getting the full picture here and I wish I could communicate it. There are flows of actions and checklists that I'm following along by memory as I listen. Someone of them require you to check with or notify other people, and some are just done. There are pauses between moments of conversation where I know 'they're doing X now' and that extra insight paints a very active and professional scene.
I just find it amazing how active a picture this audio chatter paints. This is a moment that the rest of the world remembers freezing and listening. These people and working, and they're doing it extraordinarily professionally, even if their audio chatter portrays disbelief or sarcasm, their actions, the order of them, and the timing of them, indicate a very different situation.
This is 7 minutes of a four hour event
That plane flew over our place 2 blocks from the Hudson River. I will never forget the house shaking as the plane flew over head. I will never forget.
Wow, scary and sad!😔
Copied comment and total BS. Stop lying!
1:08
@@aeroAdvocate Yeah I thought I seen another person say that on here, lol
Don't get mad. Get even. Elect really patriotic senators and congress members.
I was stranded in Anchorage, Alaska when this happened. I was going to fly back home to Tampa, Florida that morning but I was told about what happened in New York and that all flights were cancelled. I couldn't believe it, until I saw it for myself on the televisions in the various restaurants inside Anchorage Airport. It was about two weeks later until I was able to fly back home. I will truly never forget that day. Ever.
I was here in my home town, on the Canadian prairies. It was so shocking, even from this far away. I couldn't imagine such a thing happening. Everyone I knew felt the same. We couldn't believe this happened to the US - our neighbour and our friend.
You should have taken the bus: If there was bus service down the the Alaska Hgy then all the way to Florida. It would have been an adventure, but you might have been back sooner.
@@leechjim8023 Nope, I couldn't even do that either. I tried, but the border between Canada and Alaska was closed down because of 911. There was no way out. I was truly trapped there for a while.
❤
It all still feels surreal, even as someone from a totally different country. I still remember walking through the door when I got home from school that day. We hadn’t heard the news yet at school. My mum wasn’t waiting at the door like she usually was. I walked into the living room and she was sitting on the floor, right in front of the TV, silhouetted by images of a smouldering manhattan skyline. Silent in absolute shock and disbelief.
Same here. I was at secondary school in Cornwall, UK. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. It's such a visceral feeling that's traumatic to revisit.
Same here. I got home from school, completely unaware. My mother was on the phone, crying, while watching the news. Only then did I realize something horrible was going down.
I was in primary school class, year 4, I think (I was 7yo at the time). The teacher left suddenly after the morning register, came back half hour later and explained to all of us what had happened.
Never hit me how serious it was until I got home and my parents were watching the news, I think my dad was on the phone talking to somebody about it.
Don't remember much more but I definitely realised it was serious and opened my eyes a little bit.
I was in AP US History class, second period, sophomore year of high school.
Ms Frankowski took us quietly to the library to watch it on the TVs. We were all quiet for a while
The woman who said ‘cool’ will carry that forever.
I thought the same thing.
I thought the same thing.
I thought something else but now I think the same thing...
Yeah that was weird af. “A real world hi jacking? Cool!” WTF
No one knew the severity
Im sure a lot of the fireman were excited to run in those buildings and save people. The outcome was unimaginable at the time
It's hard to believe that I can have so much grief and pain again from just listening to this horrific recording.
I am always astounded at how complicated the whole air traffic control system is and how incredibly gifted the people are that run it.
My brain feels pea-sized compared to those of atcs.
Thank you for all you do and you deserve more money and fewer hours….x
I speak on behalf of all us worldwide when I say *thank you*! Not many people really know what we do and it’s a very under appreciated job, but we’re all immensely passionate about it
Just the multitasking in managing what planes come and go, depending on the weather and terrain thay day, the type of aircraft, speed of each, one error could cost you significantly so. I admire ATCs, pilots and flight crew and everyone involved that allow such operations. Thank you for your work. Pilots and crew are guided by ATCs, without them they'd not be able to do their job too.
Ronnie Reagan did them terrible damage.
I tried to become an ATC, those guys are so talented, there were so so many tests and steps to get through to become one. I got through hurdle 6 of about 30 😂
Well they failed so not so good at their jobs
Watched this unfold in the UK, during the afternoon - everyone stopped work, seeing it unfold in shock, sharing the helplessness over there. ❤ We’ve learnt never to be nonchalant, never give in
I think the fall of the Soviet Union lulled the west into complacency. The 90’s were a time of ignorant bliss.
I was home from the office that day and was watching "The Today Show" on NBC just as it all happened. My wife was a 2nd grade teacher at work - I called and the school staff had no idea what was happening. Someone tuned into NBC or CNN and of course everyone was horrified. This, JFK assassination, the moon landing, and killing Osama Binladen are moments that are burned into my memory as though they happened last week. RIP all those who died on 9/11/01.
Pretty soon you will become aware that every single event you just mentioned is a lie perpetrated by our own government.
In Australia it was night time when it happened. I was watching an episode of "the west wing" (with a terrorist plot) & then in the ad break they had a news break with the tower on fire, then returned to the fictional west wing terrorist story, then next ad break was another news update, then returned to the west wing, then they cut into it before another ad break with another news update & then the second plane hit & they never returned to the episode. Was very bizarre though to be mixing fiction & fact like that on something so extreme that it felt like it HAD to be fiction.
Princess Diana's death is the other big one for me. Osama was a nothing here, the others you speak of were before my time (moon landing was certainly a big one here though, given the footage was coming from Australia, so it was a very special moment of pride here for that generation I know)
I was watching The Today Show that day too. Their cameras stayed on and we saw the 2nd plane. Just horrifying
Amazing how traumatic it is to hear still. I saw the second tower get hit on TV and that moment of impact is when it was clear it was terrorism and a massive event that's about to change everything. Love and thoughts still to the families devastated on that day.
Rest in peace to everyone who never made it home that sad horrible Day.
Respect to all the good police ambulance service n fire brigade across the world. 🌍✌️❤️
I was working as a paramedic in Orlando that day. There were multiple reports of attacks everywhere, not just New York and the pentagon. It was absolute chaos even 2,000 miles away. All the hospitals went on alert and locked down, as far as we knew we were at war and it was a massive attack (which it was) but not nationwide as some rumors had said.
There were rumors n Minnesota there was going to be an attack at the mall of America too
yeh, I was on the old "audiogalaxy" forums & there were people from all over the US, but particularly Boston who were reporting bomb threats happening there & totally freaking out over it, was very surreal to be communicating with people in real time who didn't know if they were about to die - and that was the genuine emotion a lot of them felt! Even the trolls stopped trolling! (you know things are bad when that happens)
Yes I remember they thought they were going to hit the power plant in my town. Waretown NJ.
Even in the UK there was panic, the area I lived in had a power cut that day which freaked people out!!
@@ianmanfren1003 meanwhile in Australia, it was nighttime, so hard to know if that had an influence, but it was just seen as something we all felt for the people involved in, but not even for consideration it could occur here, I mean there were changes after it, such as 2 security guards assigned to walk back & forward over the Sydney Harbour Bridge 24/7 to prevent similar happening here (or at least to give tourists a sense of security, really don't think they had the capacity to do much) but never any thoughts it would actually happen here, even after the Bali Bombings that targetted Australians, we never felt it was going to come home to us.
Apparently foreign visitors are still surprised to learn that they still don't need ID or anything to board domestic flights here, saw a video about that recently where a person was really shocked that they could book & pay for a ticket online & turn up & give the name they booked under & be boarded without having to show any sort of proof they were who they said they were. There's scans of people & luggage of course, but probably more focus on not carrying fruit that could spread fruit fly than carrying a bomb.
I'm guessing it would have been really different for you guys though, due to your "troubles" & how that had impacted your culture long term. I remember a few weeks later on that same forum I spoke of & things were going back to normal, but one guy from the US was lashing out & saying how "no-one else knows what it feels like to have a terrorist attack on their country" & someone from the UK replied with "3 letters, IRA". I think the UK was in a near unique position to really be able to empathise & support the US when 911 happened because of experiencing so many years of living with it personally
I was 18 when this happened and was shipping out to Marine Corps boot camp in 2 months. My dad (a former Marine) woke me up and said, "Get up, you're going to war." He was right
Did you end up getting deployed later?
@@indiantiger699 Yep, 3 times
@PatrickS.Tomlinsonyou good? You have no proof he is a liar.
@PatrickS.Tomlinson yeah sure you did lmao
On that day and time I was mid-Atlantic on an AA flight from Zurich to Chicago. The aircraft did a 180 degree turn and then the captain announced that we were returning to Zurich due to an ATC problem (!) in the USA. It was only after we landed and taxiing that he hit us with the basics of the true story. Police vehicles followed us to the terminal. All flights headed to the USA were obviously under suspicion that day.
Ateges sin klair.
Remember my mom waking me up for Zero Period (west coast). Her voice scared the life out of me. That whole day class was stuck on the tv. Through the good and the bad, I root for America. Sadly I feel that since 9/11 we lost our way.
Me too. I firmly believe that the state we find our country in today-where we are fighting amongst ourselves and literally fighting our own people to simply remain a democracy-began on 9/11. Bin Laden was successful whether we have the guts to admit it or not-he turned against each other and here we are…breaks my heart. (💙)
@@marthawall3318 It's your government that turned on you.
Air traffic controllers did a heroic job on 9/11 protecting people in the air and their pilots are extreme professionals. America has a lot to be proud of with these folks.
Agreed. America deserves better than governance by traitors.
Most of the communication heard in the video has been streamlined since then. ATCs were pretty much independent so a lot of extra steps back then for pulling basic info. The systems were their own issue. Built by Howard Hughes' corporation most famous for War Games movie from the early 80's when they were actually new. (They weren't replaced until 2005 unfortunately.) Also, primary only means the hijackers turned off transponders on purpose to avoid detection. Atta going out to ATC instead of the internal cabin radio was their biggest mistake. That was only proof before the attack's impacts of what was going on in the air. The requests for military assistance were very crude on these calls. The hijackers exploited us badly that day as we, military, were still in outdated Cold War mindset of mostly just looking outward for Russian aircraft. Thankfully, the limited radars then of just borders/coastlines changed after 9/11 and we have numerous interior radars now.
Radar was irrelevant. ATC's radar was working fine. They had the plane on both primary and secondary. Had an air traffic controller not broken ranks and picked up the phone to call NORAD himself no fighter planes would have been in the air at all. And even if the fighter jets had made it to American 11 the plane still would have been flown into the WTC. The fighter pilot said so.
@@roquefortfiles Fighter pilots don't call NORAD... ATCs don't call NORAD... stop with your BS already. You clearly have no clue.
@@R__K Yes ATC don't call NORAD. Absolutely. But ATC picked up the phone and asked for fighter intervention that day. Had they not done so no fighter jets would have been in the air at all. Look it up bud!!! You should also look up the interviews with the fighter pilots. Because you have no idea what you're talking about.
@@roquefortfiles I was actually working there, dude. You have no idea what you are talking about. Transponder was turned off early (no secondary radar). As I recall, both Boston Center and TMU/Flow (Dulles) called for military assistance within minutes of each other. Why do I get sucked into youtube commentary replies with morons? Yes, Air Traffic notified the military--who else would?
@@Dvy383 Of course i have no idea what I am talking about. I've only watched a documentary interviewing all the ATC's that day. The point being that no call was made for a good 15 or 20 mins because ATC thought they might be dealing with a NORDO. So nobody hit the panic button immediately. That played directly into the hijackers plans.
The end of the video when the realization hits… gives me chills
I still remember where I was, what I was doing and where I ended up watching live coverage for hours. Most of us old enough will never forget.
Me too. I can even remember the clothes I wore that day and what I ate for breakfast. I remember walking to work that morning. It was a beautiful, crystal-clear day (I lived in Massachusetts at that time).
The 2000s were not a good decade, at all. We had 9/11, the Iraq War,
a bad economy, then the subprime
mortgage crisis to cripple the economy even further.
@@sean2015 Very sad. And unfortunately some of that is sounding like today. :-(
@@manac2334 no, whatever problems we have today, I think nothing can compare to how bad the 2000s were
@@sean2015 No offense Sean, but you don't have a clue.
@@stephenduke6612 there’s no offense taken Stephen, because I don’t take offense to insults from kids like you who were still in their father’s nut sack by the time I finished college
On the morning of september 12th 2001 i walked into my local newsagent and bought a newspaper which obviously was completely filled with images and stories about what had happened the day before. I still have it and every now and then i take it out to have a read and it is so surreal to see that date printed at the top of the pages. RIP to all who died as a result of that day ❤❤❤
I know a gentleman who has a one of a kind item from 9/11. He has an unused ticket from UA175. His business changed his plans at the last minute. Before 9/11 he always got a window seat. After 9/11 he always got a aisle seat. He said he wanted easy access because he wasn't going down without a fight.
Oh ok Rambo. Lol
@@wreckitjaxThis is one of those “everyone knows someone who missed their 9/11 flight” moments lmfao.
"Real world hijacking? Cool!" I bet she regrets that now...
i think she was being sarcastic.
@@Cervidae It doesn't seem that why - and why would sarcasm be appropriate?
She was excited at being able to apply years of drill training into real world action. The gravity of the situation didn't hit her or anyone yet.
I was thinking same. How embarrassing .
In her defense, no one could’ve possibly predicted how bad it really was with as little information as they had. A hijacking can be anything from an organized attack by a terrorist group like (9/11) or some dude trying to make a wave with no real intention to hurt anyone.
If you remove her role from the context we all have now it makes way more sense. All she knows is she is now involved in a very rare occurrence that she’s been trained for her whole career despite never using it. My dad is a surgeon and when he talks about rare procedures or diagnoses he often uses words like “cool”, “awesome” or “fun”. To the patient it is emphatically not awesome but he has a different context and when he’s not interacting with the patient it doesn’t matter. But if he lost that patient I highly doubt he would come home and talk with the same enthusiasm. Context matters.
Plus, none of this was really meant to be public the only reason it is is because of what happened afterward. I’d bet money that you’ve said some questionable things to your coworkers when no one was listening. She still did her job the way anyone else would.
Wow. I was NOT expecting the immediate emotional reaction I had. My god. So painful.
We’ve never been the same since. I was 15 when it happened and it took me growing all the way up to realize the gravity of the situation and the sprawl of the effects it had on everything.
My Mom talked about Pearl Harbor being bombed as she lived thru World War 2. I didn't understand for years why she had such a distaste for Japanese until 9/11 happened. I understand her distrust of evil people.
I am French born and was working for AOL in Dublin, Ireland at the time... a sunny Tuesday afternoon. Colleagues were coming back from their cigarette break and would start talking about a plane crash in NYC. We never thought it would disrupt our work day. I called my boyfriend at the time, whom I knew was home, and told him to turn the TV on. Then I came home and could sense a feeling of sadness. People had been work, knew something had happened, but were not sure what. I came home, my ex boyfriend was in tears. Then I saw for myself... I did not cry right away because something in me was like in denial. Something like this could not happen. I mean, who would do this? In movies maybe, but not for real. The Irish were profoundly affected, because to them, they built New York City. That city is theirs! Not many know or remember this, but Ireland was the only country in Europe to declare Friday, September 14 2001 a national day of mourning. This is how I remember exactly where I was on that day, like we all do, even thousands of miles away. I live in New Hersey now. I know this country is divided, but I still love the USA. This country is amazing and I love it. And we must never forget 9.11.2001.
we have always felt close to our westerly neighbour,....."nextParish is America".....
Thank you, Valerie. We didn't talk about this for almost ten years, but my play on the Irish Famine was to open in the NJ State Auditorium on Sept 15th, 2001. I wanted Sept 8th, but was outvoted. So much work, heart, love, hope from our great cast and crew and investment, all cancelled on 9.13. as it would be a "security risk." All the pols and celebs were booked, lovely publicity, all voided. But we knew people who died, such horrible, gruesome deaths, and people who lost loved ones, so how could we "complain." People would walk into my practice area covered in dust, like "zombies..." and hold out their arms to the first people they saw as they came out of the elevator. They were in shock. They would talk about their pets...many from Battery Park, not allowed to return to their homes, having to abandon their pets...I have another play, based on verbatim reports...but it was too soon... I think it killed my co-producer...he just never recovered...
Thanks for sharing! I didn't know Ireland has a national day of mourning for 9/11. Thank you!
@@LaLadybug2011 No, they don't have a national day of mourning. It was that year only and it was on the Friday of the week of 9/11, so on 9/14/2001.
I was active duty military stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC when this happened. I happened to be at home that day waiting on my household goods to arrive from my previous duty station. My girlfriend got a phone call and said that a plane hit the WTC. I remember thinking it was probably an accident but when the second hit we knew it was no accident. It was later that day that my entire unit was told to report to post. I recall lots of confusion and lots of standing around. Everything changed after that in our training and it wasn't long before the first units at Bragg were heading to the Middle East.
Exactly to plan, 3.5 trillion of taxpayer money evaporated and we are headed where? The information on the missing 2.3 trillion was in the pentagon where? When you know the plan, you can see where this is going. Stay safe.
Did it feel COOL?
The man/controller who popped on and the end of this video knew the threat was serious and was impressed that he realized the threat was not over despite there not being any other active threat mentioned. Serious skill and training!
I'm pretty sure at that point news was coming through from other air traffic controllers that other planes had been hijacked. That's why he said: "We have several situations going on here." For all we know that guy was talking AFTER he realised the second plane hit.
There's never just one kamikaze.
Rest In Peace to every victim and my deepest sincere condolences to each one of there families and friends 🙏
I was at a tiny gas station here in Ontario Canada when it first started to unfold. I heard it there on the radio. I was 35 years old, and hated what had happened to television already by that time, so I didn't even have one plugged in at home. I tore home, ran upstairs, dug a TV out of our unused spare bedroom that was just full of junk, and didn't even bring it downstairs. I plugged it in in the hallway upstairs; the nearest accessible outlet. My 83 year Dad and I watched the day's events stunned beyond measure. It just couldn't be happening... And what's coming next?? And from where to where???...
I commend the airtrafic controllers for their heroism and professionalism.
They have not been given enough creditn
Credit for saving the entire USA airspace.
There was total confusion about the exact number of terrorists in the sky that Septembre year 2001.
Mist unorofessilnal liege if tac i have heard
@@ShuFFle2207 Says someone whose comment isn't even readable.
it was a security failure
@@ShuFFle2207 blagicht moffita gibby cooku
I live in the Seattle area, close to Boeing and another small airport. Those first few nights were eerily quiet. The normal sounds of air traffic was replaced with F-15s patrolling overhead, which was scary, comforting & heartbreaking all at the same time. We will NEVER forget!! 🇺🇸
My husband was a captain flying east coast that day - flying the sane equipment - didnt gear from him until about 6:30 that evening - was a nervous wreck all day - glued to tv - a day i will never forget
I remember my father and I watching the news that night. I was a teen. My father usually had a lot of feelings to share but this night all we could do is just look at each other in disbelief.
I don't care how many times I listen to anything involving 9/11 .. and instant brings it all back ...heartbreaking beyond words...
Hearing Atta's voice in that clip always gets to me. Because he was saying "stay in your seats, you'll be okay" knowing he was going to fly that plane into the WTC, murdering so many people. He was so calm. And that is haunting.
I agree with you !! Just the audio of his horrible voice does something to me !! God Bless those innocent people that perished that horrible day !!! 🙏🏼
na it was COOL
The voice of pure evil.
Have you ever seen the movie "animal kingdom"? there's a scene in that where one of the guys is suffocating a woman to death & he's just sitting there, calmly doing it, while "shhh'ing" her & telling her "it's ok". Reminds me of that. Some people are just pure evil & just freaky on another level to the norms amongst us
Consider the possibility that the plane was being controlled remotely and “Atta” (we don’t know to this day who he actually was, the real Atta has been found alive and well) had no more idea that he was on a suicide flight than anyone else.
Initially I was upset at the woman who said “cool” when she was told it was a real world hijacking but then I can’t blame her. We were so incompetent, unprepared, and caught off guard it’s horrible
As others have mentioned, up to that point, hijacked planes usually landed, negotiated, and released the hostages. She, nor any of them, had any way of knowing what was to come, as it was unprecedented. 9/11 changed that.
@@Kelly_BenThat somehow makes it ok to call a hijacking "cool"? Got it.
At first I was like wtf but I think she used the word just as like a ok. Probably not the best word choice
@@44dperez It's just one of those things you say. When someone comes to you with some unfolding disaster you just say "OK, cool", and then get on with the things you need to do.
@@pwnz0redn00bshe sounded way too cheery though. (And the overreacting pants that followed) kinda sounded like a dog given a bone for the first time
In a way.. it was innocence lost on so many levels. Our would became smaller and will never be the same. The people of NY made me so proud how they rose up after 9/11.
Much of the world responded well. I remember some tribesmen in Africa offered to send some cattle. Cattle are very valuable there.
@@MrTruckerf I attended as many Masses as possible for the firemen... empty coffins with their uniform hat...fire-fighters from every corner of the globe; fire-trucks from every fire-house in the US, it seemed...but the children, the children following the coffins...a heartbreak...then when the coffins left, we applauded, only to express sorrow, not joy, and Giuliani would jump in so the cameras would show HIM being applauded. Sickening. No one applauded him when he got up to talk or left the microphone... "stolen valor!"
Professionals even though there's nothing any of them could've realistically done hats off to these people.
To be faur this dude tried getting the military involved
We just didnt have the ability to scrambke fast enough
Except for the idiot who thought it was "cool".
As a New Yorker, and now as an Air Accident Investigator, I have listened to the full recording. It haunts me now more so, than the actual day, when I heard someone say, turn around and run, an aircraft flew into the building. The guy on the bike must have been same age as me, around 16. I called him stupid! Thinking in my head planes don't fly into buildings!
During my training, one of my instructors was the actual Air Accident Investigator who picked up the pieces on his hands and knees. I had to leave the class. I broke down.
Seeing the evidence, horrifies me. My heart goes out to all the families who lost family and who had people injured, and to the Emergency Crews who still suffer from nightmares from those days.
love hearing the totally competent military personnel fumble the situation like absolute geniuses - "In real life? Oh wow cool!" "Are you requesting military assistance?"
firstly, when something completely unexpected hits almost EVERYONE is ill prepared, even them. But to your other, the word "cool" was totally unacceptable.
You aren't a serious person and don't deserve my time
That's because there were many drills happening that day including feeding false radar blips of hijacked aircraft
I remember that morning I was about to go to work over at my boss man house... We was about to load up that morning and we ended up staying glued to the radios and tv ... I couldn't believe that was real at the time ... God bless those people I still get teary eyed about this subject to this day
As soon as the first plane crashed, I turned on the VCR to record the news for the rest of the day. Still have that VCR tape and the newspaper from the next day
I did the same and stillmhave them as well as Howard Stern's show that morning.
Imagine how many survivors have PTSD just from witnessing this
I just lived that nightmare, just like as if it happened a few minutes ago.. I will never forget.
Its amazing how so many in various positions grasped the situation immediately and maintained a high level of proficiency and professionalism while others acted like they were missing some brain cells. The woman asking if they know where a hijacked aircraft is going and the guy at the end giving a hard time about scrambling fighters.
Before 9/11 hijackers used to announce destinations: saying exactly where they wanted to land. This is why she asked twice.
I was in Los Angeles and happened to turn in the tv to see a plane crash into the tower. I yelled for my husband and we watched in disbelief. One of the saddest days of my life.
Col Karen Wagner, 1979 graduate of Judson HS, Converse, Texas. She died in the Pentagon that day. The next HS built in the Judson district was named Wagner. I remember her on the Judson girls basketball team with my sister..
RESPECT, and NEVER FORGET!!!
Unfortunately I can replay everything I did this day. The crazy thing was that I was at work about 15 miles from Logan Airport, crazy to know that a plane came from there. I visited the 911 Museum in New York City last month, and it was probably the most moving experience I ever had. It even moved my 15 year old son to tears, and he wasn't alive when this happened.
Both planes - AA Flt 11 and UA Flt 175 - that struck the WTC towers departed from Logan.
i can’t imagine what was going through the traffic controllers’ minds. and to find out that the planes crashed.
You can kind of tell as they talk about losing track of one aircraft near the WTC. They obviously hasn’t figured out yet it had crashed into the building.
For those wondering, the transcript is good but a little off.
Mode C (transponder). Basically they're asking if the aircraft is actively pinging their location or if center is only able to see them as a radar contact (hard target). Transponders can be actuated from the cockpit, so no transponder is a sign of something wrong.
ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter). Basically a little box on the aircraft that only transmits a VHF signal if hard impact is felt (I mean real hard, like so hard you break the landing gear off), or it can also be actuated by the crew. You could compare this to a modern day SOS flare gun.
As a post-911 pilot, I find the lack of urgency by both center but especially the AFB contact (presumably the on-duty ABM or dispatcher) to be a little surprising.
Part of the lack of urgency, from my understanding, is probably that they assumed this hijacking would be like the ones before - the hijackers were simply taking the aircraft off-course to land at another airport
@@moonman239 yes, the 70’s-90’s made people complacent about hyjackings because they usually ended up just wanting money.
There were a few incidents before that really should have heightened alert though. Once those 9/11 dudes turned it into effectively a missile it changed everything as far as considered possibilities.
@@moonman239 There were other homicidal hijackings, such as the TWA jet over Greece.
What's incredibly sad is these people are working as hard as they possibly can and there's absolutely nothing they can do.
Woke up for school, saw my father and mother cry and stare at the TV. Horrible day for everyone. RIP.
1:08 pretty sure she says "cool" makes me remember the world when stuff like didn't happen... or at least not to this scale.
Speak for yourselves. Britain had endured 30 years of terror. This was the point at which Americans stopped believing that funding terrorism was noble
@@granitesevan6243 I’m from Australia so we were probably more sheltered from terrorists.
@@krashdown102 Most of the people who say these things are anti-immigration fools who are very thinly veiled racists. Not saying that's you, just always is a red flag for me.
I was actually talking about the Irish Troubles. From 1969 until about 1998 murder was almost an everyday occurrence - shootings, bombings, torture... Plenty of Irish Americans decided it was a good idea to raise money for the IRA. It made their outrage over 9/11 seem a bit rich, however justified.
@@Lilith218 as she should
@@granitesevan6243 Terrible comparison. The IRA campaign took place in light of heightened discrimination against Catholic (Irish) civilians and many centuries of oppression.
It all seems so disorganized...
What an evil day that was 😢😢
I remember watching the second plane crash on my TV screen
RIP 🙏
Love from the UK 🇬🇧
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It's sad knowing this recording has now changed the world forever after knowing there was nothing they could do. Peace to all lost and love from me to the families who lost their loved ones during this and at war. ✌️
You can't blame any of the ATC staff for their handling of the situation. Back then, security screening was minimal and nobody was trained for a hijacking situation, where the hijackers were suicididal.
I was in Dublin that day, working for Compaq, the world has been very different since that day.
and for the worse as well...
Thank you. Compaq was the best computer I ever had. Did great work on it. Miss it. Vandalised in Knock, Co Mayo!
Oh God. Even in 2022, this chills my soul
there is something very touching about how everyone works so well with each other in these times.
Even though this happened years ago listening to this is absolutely chilling!
The whole world changed that day…
They aren't talking about an EOT near the end there, they're talking about the ELT or Emergency Locator Transmitter (the beacon in a plane that is set off during a crash)
1:07 O.K., when people told this woman that this was no exercise but a real world hijacking did she say, "Cool!" Am I hearing that right? Seriously?
The generations following 2001 will never really understand the event like those of us who were around at the time.
You make the assumption that a terrorist attack of this scale won't happen again. I'm very sceptical of that stance.
@@collinslfc I made no such assumption. I was talking about the singular event. Don't put words in other people's mouths.
@@collinslfc He did not make any such assumption. You are just making conclusions.
yes, they will understand. Just we understand Pearl Harbor and we we were not there.
@@RubyBandUSA It isn't the same.
Can’t help but bring tears to my eyes, hearing this fateful day and beyond unfolding some 21 years later.
BRINGS TEARS EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO IT.
You never ever Jay "cool" to an adverse situation. Whether that be an accident, or getting hurt or seeing somebody else getting hurt or whatever else there is to indicate an adverse situation. These things are not cool.
I never listened to this or the calls from flight attendants. Even knowing the outcome and time frame it's frustrating hearing the time taken to collect details and repeat questions. I'm not doubting the actions of anyone, it's just hard to hear knowing what's happening.
I can just imagine the air traffic controllers what they must be dealing with since this day happened and hearing the last words from these planes