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

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.