Touching history the untold story of the drama that unfolded in the skies over America on 9/11

In this moment-to-moment narrative, based on groundbreaking reporting, Lynn Spencer brings the inspiring true drama of the heroic response of American pilots and controllers on the morning of 9/11 vividly to life for the first time, taking us right inside the airliner cockpits and control towers, th...

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Main Author: Spencer, Lynn
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, c2008.
Edition:1st Free Press hardcover ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • American 11, do you hear me?
  • No ordinary hijacking
  • Another
  • Confusion in the cockpits
  • The unfathomable
  • A nation under attack
  • Secure the cockpit!
  • NORAD responds
  • No more take-offs!
  • The Pentagon is hit
  • Every plane out of the skies
  • Generate! Generate! Generate!
  • Chaos in the skies
  • Weapons free
  • Shoot down authority
  • A tightening grip
  • The skies belong to NORAD
  • The longest day.