Thu19Apr - 9/11 on Channel 4

[Disco_Destroyer]

9/11 the Lost Tapes next week sometime apparently

[Mark Gobell]

Channel 4: 9/11: The Lost Tapes

Channel 4 Thursday 19 April 2012 9PM

For the first time British audiences will hear newly released audio recordings which offer a unique insight and moving perspective on 9/11 and the fateful minutes that changed America forever.

On the morning of the attacks, hundreds of hours of military and air traffic control conversations were captured on tape painting a chilling and tragic picture of events spiralling inexorably out of control. With events unfolding at breakneck-speed, the tapes reveal in minute-by-minute detail, the chaos and confusion wrought by the attacks.

Revelations include how Air Force fighter jets, scrambled to protect Washington, set out in the wrong direction - ending up 60 miles out across the Atlantic ocean and that permission to shoot down hijacked passenger planes only came through after the last plane crashed.

And while air traffic controllers watched the second plane crash into the World Trade Center tower, fighter jets were still 100 miles away from New York and amid all the confusion it took 39 minutes for the news of United 93's hijack to reach the military.

With testimonies from the people who appear on the tapes, the film vividly conveys the emotion, courage and panic in the voices of air traffic controllers and military personnel whose job it was to protect America as it came under attack.

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I'm sure some of us have heard some of these recording before. They feature in the Pilots DVD releases.

They were released in September 2011.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/nyregion/911-tapes.html? hp

http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21596

http://www.rutgerslawreview.com/2011/full-audio-transcript/



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[scienceplease 2]

Why were the tapes "lost"? Ten years to fiddle with them? I suspect it will all be sanitized to fit the story the producer wants to tell...

Pardon me for not having great hopes for their authenticity...

[TonyGosling]

Is it gonna clash with the first edition of the new RT Assange chat show??


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/911-the-lost-tapes

[Shoestring]

This appears to be a British version of a documentary recently shown on the Discovery Channel, called "The 9/11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky." You can watch this already on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkCC0jUvQmI

And here are details of the documentary:
http://dsc.discovery.com/show-news/the-911-tapes-chaos-in-the-sky.html

I've seen it already. There are no major revelations in it, but it is definitely worth watching.

[Disco_Destroyer]

totally disagree. 'we going from peace time to like war time within an hour' hmm like war has a delayed reaction? lets ask the Iraqi's!
This 1 shows nothing new and 2 tries to mask the possibility of anything beyond the official story.

this comment comes at 34:19 out of 42:31

(yes I do feel for the air traffic guys on the day, but all they know is what they saw,which amounts to not a lot)

[Disco_Destroyer]

then in conclusion we learn that flight 93 didn't crash yet the shoot down order didn't come to after. Well that clarified that issue then

[Mark Gobell]

Bump.

[scienceplease 2]

"Lost Tapes" - no explanation why the tapes were lost or how they were found...

Live Blog of the Documentary...

Ben Sliney, Head of FAA Air Traffic Control - first day on the job

Mention of "Routine War Game" Vigilant Guardian. (Sim of "incoming Russian Bombers")

Betty Ong - first call recorder but not second call - couldn't record her voice

Transponder switched off. FAA cannot follow plane - not even raw radar returns. (No mention of military radar and/or AWACS).

Very little discussion of second hijack just the second crash!

Still trying to establish chain of command in military!

First indication of third hijack is the transponder signal loss. No radio contact.

Incorrect report of AA11 going towards Washington.

Third hijack. Taped from radio "Get out of here" from cockpit. Taped from radio "We have a bomb on board" from cockpit. No mention of Barbara Olson.

9.35... Military believe there are two aircraft going to Washington.

F16s flew in wrong direction: out east rather than north. Rather pathetic excuse for this.

American 77 hit Pentagon not the "Phantom AA11" - no mention of Norman Minetta's countdown

Ben Sliney makes the decision to clear the skies.

John Farmer "FAA never notified military about U93"

Mark Bingham used CELL PHONE - mother tried to call back (message that was left was played).

WTC South Tower collapses (squibs easily seen!)

Military controller sighs "Yet another plane we didn't stop"

100 minutes chasing phantoms.

ATC comments "10 years later we still have questions. These tapes give us a good idea of what happened that day"

Hmm... yet we don't see to be able to ask the questions or get responses...