Thursday, September 11, 2008

9/11 - 7 Years

Here are several videos from Dateline NBC interviewing the air traffic controllers of the air space of those fateful planes.

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Hearing the voice of hijackers
Controllers activate a hotline to the Secret Service—and within seconds, agents are frantically evacuating the White House. Soon after, the controller working United Flight 93 hears a series of horrifying transmissions from the cockpit.




The air traffic controllers in charge of the skies over America on the morning of 9/11 saw the nightmare coming. What they witnessed, even now, is hard to fathom and what they did was extraordinary.
It was a beautiful day to fly
It was a beautiful day to fly



American Flight 11 makes another dramatic turn south towards New York City, as the air traffic controllers hear a chilling voice leading them to believe it was hijacked.
Hijacked planes
Hijacked planes




There are now two hijacked airliners in the skies over the East coast— American 11 and United 17. From their control towers, Newark Air traffic controllers realize what is happening when they see the fire coming out of World Trade Center
Unthinkable scenarios
Unthinkable scenarios



This exclusive piece aired in 2002, where news about a near mid-air collision was revealed.
A near mid-air collision
A near mid-air collision


Four hours from when controllers lost contact with the first airliner, they have accomplished their mission—they diverted all planes over the U.S. skies to land at the nearest possible airports. For the first time in the history of air traffic control, there is not a single civilian plane over the sky in the U.S.
Landing over 3,000 planes
Landing over 3,000 planes

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