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May 7, 2024 · On March 29 2006, New York Supreme Court justice Richard F. Braun ordered the release of 28 identified 9-1-1 phonecalls of individuals trapped in the burning World Trade Center to their families, and the release of the dispatchers' half of all 130 conversations to the general public. Chris Hanley, NYPD, FDNY - 8:57:02 [1] [ edit] [1]
SpeakerTranscriptMelissa Doi( muttering to herself in distressed ...NYPD Dispatcher 86958695, good morning, unintelligible good ...unidentifiedHi, what's your number again please?911 Dispatcher 86958-6-9-5- 10 Madeline Sweeney: “We Are Flying Way Too low.”
- 9 Jim Gartenberg: “Take It easy.”
- 8 Rob Sibarium: “I Thought We Were Going Into The ocean.”
- 7 Sean Rooney: Fatal Decision
- 6 Brad Fetchet: “I Saw A Guy Fall… All The Way down.”
- 5 South Tower Intercom: “Please Remain at Your desks.”
- 4 Christopher Hanley: “Please hurry.”
- 3 Melissa Doi: “I’m Going to Die, Aren’T I?”
- 2 Ceecee Lyles: “I’m So Sorry, Baby.”
- 1 Tom McGinnis: “You Don’T understand. There Are People Jumping.”
Madeline Sweeney was an American Airlines flight attendant for over a decade. On September 11, 2001, she covering for a sick colleague on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Before takeoff, she called her husband from the plane. She was sad about being unable to take her daughter, who had recently started kindergarten, to school that morning. At a...
September 11th was supposed to be Jim Gartenberg’s last day working at the World Trade Center. His employer, commercial real estate firm Julien J. Studley Inc., had transferred him to its Midtown Manhattan offices. In fact Gartenberg, 35, was cleaning out his desk on the 86th Floor of the North Tower when American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into it...
For many near the impact zones, location meant everything. Despite being three floors above Jim Gartenberg, MetLife Insurance employee Rob Sibarium survived that day – but only through the actions of two noteworthy 9/11 heroes. Sibarium and about a dozen colleagues were on MetLife’s 89th floor offices when the first plane struck the North Tower jus...
For family members of those in the South Tower – the second one hit – calls had potential to be double-edged swords. Beverly Eckert received multiple calls that morning from her husband, Sean Rooney, a vice president with Aon Corporation. They first spoke around 8:50am, following the impact on the opposite tower. He reported that an accident had ha...
Many of the victims lost in the South Tower align with Sean Rooney’s relatively calm demeanor. While in hindsight their decision to remain on the upper floors of a skyscraper whose twin was profusely smoking and smoldering seems terribly misguided, at the time many didn’t realize the explosion in the neighboring tower was a plane crash – or, if the...
Why did folks like Rooney and Fetchet remain? Well, partly because they were instructed to. Audio of the South Tower’s intercom system from 9/11 is difficult to find but, as dramatized in “Inside the Towers” (about 8:50 into this video), workers in the unaffected tower were told to stay put immediately following the North Tower explosion – even whi...
For those trapped in the towers, the two most repeated words to emergency response workers may have been “please hurry.” Many of the day’s audio recordings showcase a terrible truth: Assessing the deteriorating conditions and sheer height of the building, many of those trapped displayed doubt that firefighters could reach them in time, if at all. O...
Melissa Doi, 32, was a manager at IQ Financial Systems on the 83rd floor of the South Tower, the second impacted. The plane sliced through swaths of floors 77-85. With Doi’s offices so near the strike zone, it didn’t take long for the situation to deteriorate into desperation. She called in the emergency (the number, ironically, is 9-1-1) at 9:17am...
United Airlines Flight 93 was the only hijacked plane that didn’t hit its target. The largest reason for that was a 45-minute delay at the airport prior to takeoff, which gave passengers time to learn of the attacks and surmise, correctly, that their only chance of surviving was retaking control of the aircraft. Though the plane crashed, their effo...
When the planes hit the Twin Towers, the area’s cell phone bandwidth and land lines became overwhelmed with calls. As a result, some people trapped on the upper floors had extreme difficulty getting through to a worried loved one. Trapped on the North Tower’s 92nd floor, Carr Futures stock trader Tom McGinnis was unable to reach his wife Iliana unt...
Oct 14, 2001 · It´s only been in a recent year that I learned that Chris perished in the attacks on 9/11. Chris was a fellow "classmate" in training class for new Bloomberg sales people. I remember Chris...
Mar 31, 2006 · Sept. 11 tapes: An article in Section A on Friday about the release of emergency calls made on Sept. 11, 2001, from the World Trade Center said that victim Chris Hanley had been 34. He was 35.
- Ellen Barry
Mar 31, 2006 · 911 Operator: 'It's Got To Be Hell' March 31, 2006 / 10:49 AM EST / CBS/AP. City 911 operators caught up in the chaos of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks offered calm compassion but little help to...
Sep 11, 2021 · Christopher James Hanley N-22 Sean S. Hanley S-12 Valerie Joan Hanna N-9 Thomas Paul Hannafin S-5 Kevin James Hannaford, Sr. N-50 Michael Lawrence Hannan N-10 Dana Rey Hannon S-19 Christine Lee ...
Christopher James Hanley Age: 34: Residence: New York, NY, United States Occupation: manager of business development, Radianz: Location: World Trade Center, Tower 1, 106th floor
