I don’t plan on posting a lot about 9/11 on its 10th anniversary, but this caught my ear.
Raw 9-11 ATC audio recordings from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and American Airlines from the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The recordings, some of which have been published previously, are being released in a multimedia report put together originally to be part of the Sept. 11 Commission’s 2004 report.
It’s a weird combo of alarm, confusion, and utter mundanity as events unfold. While it’s easy to criticize who did what and when, I keep picturing myself on those phones or mics, trying to understand what’s going, figuring out to pass what info to, etc.
Nor is it something that, I think, lends it self to a lot of straightforward training and procedures. “Oh, well, they should have known what to do when X happened and who to notify” is easy to say, but a lot more difficult to put into place with every thing that could happen at any time.
Creepy.