Supports· moderateSEP-E027
The recordings behind the corrected chronology
- what the source states
- Reporting built on roughly thirty hours of air-defense operations-floor recordings obtained from the Pentagon, the article documents that "the fact that the fighters have been launched in response to the phantom American 11—rather than American 77 or United 93—is referred to six more times on Nasypany's channel alone," and that by the time the sector learned of a bomb report on United 93, "everyone on board is already dead."
- what we infer
- Independent corroboration from the primary recordings that the phantom pursuit was pervasive on the operations floor rather than an isolated misunderstanding, and that the aircraft had already crashed before the sector had actionable information about it.
- limitations
- Journalism: the recordings are the primary source and this article is the route to them.
- The summary phrase often attributed to this piece — that the military never had a hijacked airliner in its sights — does not appear in it and is not quoted as the author's words.