So I've been looking for the last half hour on google and even altavista, for the text of the cockpit to control towers for the four planes involved in the 911 assault on Wash and NY. The best I've found merely says that, as of 9/14/01, the cockpit voice recorders from the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the one that hit the pentagon appear to be "damaged and unusable" for gathering information.

Have any of you folks been more successful in tracking down this info?

Doesn't it seem almost certain that there would have been some sort of notification by at least one of these pilots that his plane was being hijacked?

And even if the pilot was never able to broadcast this info, wouldn't there have been recordings of the attempts by the air traffic controllers to contact the pilots to see what the hell was going on, after it was noticed that they were flying in the wrong direction?

One site DID mention that the Air Force was about to shoot down the plane that crashed in Penn, but the plane crashed beforet they had to do so.

JOJ

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

Answers

Joe, here's a story from ABC news about American Airlines Flight 11 communications with the tower. Apparently one of the flight crew was holding down the microphone button and an unidentified voice was heard telling people to stay in their seats. Flight 11 Transcript

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

Thanks, Sherri, that's the best info given on any forum where I made the request.

JOJ

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2001

Hi Joe Over at ABCnews.com today they have cockpit voice recordings from Flight 93. You can hear the struggle as the hijackers break into the cabin and an American voice shouting "Get out of here!". Later an foreign voice makes an announcement that he is the captain, the passengers should remain seated because there is a bomb on board and they are returning to the airport to negotiate.

Air traffic controllers in Cleveland tried to contact the plane over 20 times but got no answer.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001