Words and Their Stories: Voices From 9-11 Tell Story of Fast-Moving Events
10 September 2011
The new One World Trade Center, formerly called Freedom Tower, is shown at dawn Saturday, a day before ceremonies to mark the tenth anniversary of the attacks
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
Today, we tell the story of the 9-11 attacks through some of the words spoken that morning ten years ago. A newly released document includes recordings of air traffic controllers, military pilots and others reacting to the fast-moving events.
On September eleventh, two thousand one, nineteen al-Qaida members hijacked four passenger planes in the eastern United States. They crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, destroying the Twin Towers.
A third plane hit the Pentagon, the Defense Department headquarters outside Washington. The fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
The document is known as an "audio monograph." It begins with normal radio calls shortly after eight o'clock. American Airlines Flight 11 had just left Boston for Los Angeles with ninety-two people.
AA11: "Boston Center, good morning, American 11 with you passing through one niner zero for two three zero."
CONTROLLER: "American 11, Boston Center, roger, climb, maintain level two eight zero."
Soon radio contact is lost. A flight attendant on the plane, Betty Ong, called a company office to report the hijacking.
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