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