"We're young men, we're not ready to die."
Kevin Cosgrove, one of the hardest 911 calls to listen to; his scream at the end as he disconnects is unbelievable
This may be one of the eeriest - and frankly, most terrifying - 9/11 reconstructions I’ve seen.
The simulation recreates the final moments of American Airlines Flight 11 from the cockpit, essentially showing what hijacker Mohamed Atta would have seen as the North Tower rapidly filled the windshield.
But the audio you’re hearing is real.
Flight attendant Betty Ong, aboard Flight 11, was calmly reporting what was happening inside the hijacked aircraft - crew members stabbed, mace in the cabin, the cockpit inaccessible, and the realization: “I think we’re getting hijacked.”
American Airlines operations specialist Nydia Gonzalez was monitoring Ong’s call and relaying her reports to the airline’s operations center as Flight 11 raced toward New York.
At 8:46 a.m., the aircraft struck the North Tower.
Watching a reconstruction of what the hijacker would have seen while simultaneously hearing the actual voices of the people trapped aboard that aircraft is deeply unsettling.