Touching history
Subtitle: the untold story of the drama that unfolded in the skies over America on 9/11
By: by Lynn Spencer.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781416559252
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.; American Airlines Flight 11 Hijacking Incident, 2001.; United Airlines Flight 93 Hijacking Incident, 2001.; American Airlines Flight 77 Hijacking Incident, 2001.
Description: In this gripping 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, the fighter jets and the military battle cabs. She makes vital corrections to the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and reveals many startling, utterly unknown elements of the story.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: American 11, do you hear me?; title: No ordinary hijacking; title: Another; title: Confusion in the cockpits; title: The unfathomable; title: A nation under attack; title: Secure the cockpit!; title: NORAD responds; title: No more take-offs!; title: The Pentagon is hit; title: Every plane out of the skies; title: Generate! Generate! Generate!; title: Chaos in the skies; title: Weapons free; title: Shoot down authority; title: A tightening grip; title: The skies belong to NORAD; title: The longest day.