“Where were you on 9/11?” Ask just about anybody and they can tell you exactly where they were when the Twin Towers were struck and fell. For most, this is where the tragedy started to unfold, but in fact, the day’s events began long before the first plane hit. In advance of the 11thanniversary of the attack, Discovery Channel presents THE 9/11 TAPES: CHAOS IN THE SKY, premiering Sunday, September 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. This one-hour special reveals the stories – through first-person audio recordings – from people who were caught in the centre of the attack.
At the chilling heart of THE 9/11 TAPES: CHAOS IN THE SKY, viewers will hear for the first time actual recordings from air traffic controllers as they watched the first plane fly into the World Trade Center; listen to audio taken from flight UA93 before it crashed into a Pennsylvania field; and discover how defence teams raced to send fighter jets to intercept any incoming planes to the Pentagon, but unfortunately arrived too late.
The story of 9/11 has primarily been told through visual accounts and reflections of the events that took place on that fateful Tuesday morning. These images and firsthand testimonies reveal a captivating picture of a situation that quickly spiralled out of control. Now, hundreds of hours of audio recordings reveal the emotion and panic from those who were responding to each attack, in real time. Told with the voices of those on the ground and in the air, THE 9/11 TAPES: CHAOS IN THE SKY reveals the chaos, confusion and courage of frontline civilians and military who were caught on tape reacting to the moments that changed the world.
