Airborne in an F-15 on 9/11 with "Opus"

Fighter Pilot Podcast

Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot

Leisure, History, Aviation, Technology, Personal Journals, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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An F-15 pilot's reflection on flying over Boston and New York City as the terrorist events of 9/11/01 unfolded. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0	We understand that there has been a plane crash on the southern tip of Manhattan.
0:09.8	You're looking at the World Trade Center.
0:12.0	We understand that a plane has crashed into the
0:15.1	World Trade Center. We don't know anything more than that.
0:19.2	Okay, ma'am, I got an aircraft that is east of the way out.
0:25.0	It's walking back to forth.
0:27.0	Number 5, 6, 865, 555, you stay away from that aircraft go north as fast as you can.
0:34.0	United 9.3. Have you got information on that yet?
0:37.0	Yeah, he's down.
0:38.0	He's down?
0:39.0	Yes. When did he land?
0:40.0	He did not land.
0:41.0	I land.
0:42.0	There are days in our lives that forever change us, whether as individuals or as nations.
0:48.4	The tragic events of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a day when terrorists used commercial airliners as weapons to attack
0:56.5	our financial and government facilities, killing thousands of civilians, is such a day. And we will never forget.
1:05.0	None of us will ever forget this day.
1:07.0	Yet we go forward to defend freedom
1:10.0	and all that is good and just in our world.
1:15.0	Hello, my name is Vincent Iello.
1:20.0	I am the founder and host of the Fighter Pilot Podcast and I recently had the opportunity
1:25.2	to chat with Martin Richard, a now retired Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15 Eagle
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