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9/11 Radio Offers Chilling Glimpse |
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CBSnews.com
Eileen Putman
June 17, 2004 |
"We have a problem here," the FAA's Boston Center told NEADS, the North East Air Defense Sector. "We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out."
"Is this real-world or exercise?" asked the incredulous NEADS officer.
"No, this is not an exercise, not a test," the FAA responded.
F-15 fighter jets were ordered scrambled from Otis Air Force Base at 8:46 a.m. Forty seconds later, Flight 11 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. |
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AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 (passenger list) |
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CNN.com
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June 0, 2002 |
"American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard." |
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Pentagon attack (list of fatalities) |
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CNN.com
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June 0, 2002 |
The Department of Defense reports a total of 125 service members, employees and contract workers died in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon building. An additional 64 people died aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the west side of the building. |
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The men who brought the world to brink of war |
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Guardian/Observer
Observer staff
September 23, 2001 |
The 19 men the FBI says hijacked the four planes were as follows... (also includes list of many key Guardian articles) |
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On Flight 77: 'Our Plane Is Being Hijacked' |
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Washington Post
Marc Fisher & Don Phillips
September 12, 2001 |
But just as the plane seemed to be on a suicide mission into the White House, the unidentified pilot executed a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver. The plane circled 270 degrees to the right to approach the Pentagon from the west, whereupon Flight 77 fell below radar level, vanishing from controllers' screens, the sources said.
Less than an hour after two other jets demolished the World Trade Center in Manhattan, Flight 77 carved a hole in the nation's defense headquarters, a hole five stories high and 200 feet wide. |
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Plane crashes into Pentagon; troops deployed in response to apparent terrorist attack |
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AP
Tom Raum
September 11, 2001 |
Authorities immediately began deploying troops, including a regiment of light infantry, in response to an attack for which they said there had been no advance warning.
Officials said two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and one lawmaker, Rep. James Moran, D- Va., said after a Marine Corps briefing that "it was apparently intended to Camp David," the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland.
The military denied shooting it down. "We have not shot down any aircraft," Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, who oversees the defense of continental U.S. airspace from NORAD, said in a statement. |
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Pentagon attack came minutes after Rumsfeld predicted: `There will be another event' |
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AP
Robert Burns
September 11, 2001 |
Rumsfeld was in his office when the aircraft hit on the opposite side of the building. He had just run there after hearing of the Trade Center attack while at a meeting on missile defense in his private dining room.
U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., also at the meeting, said Rumsfeld had just predicted that the United States would face another terrorist incident at some point.
"He said, `Let me tell ya, I've been around the block a few times. There will be another event.' And he repeated it for emphasis," Cox said. "And within minutes of saying that, his words proved tragically prophetic." |
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World Trade Center collapses in terrorist attack; Washington hit by apparently coordinated attack |
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AP
Jerry Schwartz
September 11, 2001 |
American Airlines said two of its planes, both hijacked, crashed with a total of 156 people aboard, but said it could not confirm where they went down. Two United airliners with a total of 110 aboard also crashed _ one outside Pittsburgh, the other in a location not immediately identified. Altogether, the planes had 266 people aboard. |
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