Tape of ATC talking to flight 93!

If you’ve got broadband (or a lot of patience, its 4MB!) listen to it here.

Pretty creepy. Thinking he’s only talking over the plane’s PA when actually he’s transmitting over the radio, you can actually hear the hijacker’s thickly arab-accented voice telling the passengers to stay in their seats.

When was this released? Did I miss it or did it not get much publicity?

When was it released? It wasn’t, that I can find.

The families were allowed to listen to it in April, but…
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/18/rec.flight.93/index.html

From http://www.airdisaster.com/cvr/ :

So.

But DDG it isn’t the CVR it is from ATC.

and ATC tapes are regulated differently than CVR tapes.

http://www.faa.gov/avr/aai/Chap10.htm