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
The FBI has asked the families not to discuss the tape with the media. It is expected the tape will be used as evidence in the terrorism conspiracy trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, a 33-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent who prosecutors allege may have been the intended fifth hijacker aboard Flight 93.
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Access to cockpit voice recorders is usually restricted to government crash investigators and parties suing over plane crashes.
Neither the tapes nor transcripts are expected to be made public anytime soon.
From http://www.airdisaster.com/cvr/ :
It is illegal for the National Transportation Safety Board, who regulates these recordings, to release them to the public. The recordings presented here were obtained from other legitimate sources. The airlines, who own the original recording, are legally allowed to release it if they so choose. Several others come from lawsuit settlements in which release was mandated by a court order, and yet others come from various independent investigators who chose to release the information.
So.
Ell
August 6, 2002, 3:42am
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But DDG it isn’t the CVR it is from ATC.
Ell
August 6, 2002, 3:52am
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and ATC tapes are regulated differently than CVR tapes.
http://www.faa.gov/avr/aai/Chap10.htm
After completion of the field phase of an aircraft accident investigation (except military accidents), transcripts and tape copies of AT radio transmissions and other communications shall be considered identifiable records of the FAA and may be released to the public upon payment of the appropriate fee as described in the latest edition of FAA Order 1200.23. For the purpose of the above provision, an NTSB field accident investigation shall be considered complete when all NTSB personnel leave the scene. However, transcripts and tape copies will not be released until the NTSB IIC officially returns custody of such items to the FAA facility.