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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

Lynn Spencer

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A moment to moment chronicle of the drama that unfolded in N. American skies on 9/11 as the FAA, the military & thousands of commercial pilots called on all of their training & courage to improvise a response to the first attacks on American soil since Pearl Harbor & contend with a new kind of aerial war.
Foreword
Preface
Prelude: Skies Severe Clear
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
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Free Press (NY et al.)

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 1416559256

ISBN13:: 9781416559252

kindle Asin:: B0015DYJT4

Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

Lynn Spencer

4.30/5 (586 ratings)

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A moment to moment chronicle of the drama that unfolded in N. American skies on 9/11 as the FAA, the military & thousands of commercial pilots called on all of their training & courage to improvise a response to the first attacks on American soil since Pearl Harbor & contend with a new kind of aerial war.
Foreword
Preface
Prelude: Skies Severe Clear
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
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Free Press (NY et al.)

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 1416559256

ISBN13:: 9781416559252

kindle Asin:: B0015DYJT4

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