Touching history : the untold story of the drama that unfolded in the skies over America on 9/11 / by Lynn Spencer.

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...

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Main Author: Spencer, Lynn
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, [2008], ©2008.
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Physical Description:ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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. 
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