Officials Release Final Set of WTC Transcripts [View All]

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Officials Release Final Set of WTC Transcripts

Dec 29, 2003

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) Minutes after hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center, police contacted airport control towers to say it was considered "a criminal act," according to newly released Port Authority transcripts.

The agency on Monday released the final set of transcripts from emergency communications during the Sept. 11 terror attack. The disclosure comes four months after the Port Authority released 2,000 pages of documents detailing what was said in thousands of other emergency calls that day.

In the newly disclosed transcripts, a caller from the Port Authority police desk tells Chris McCary, a La Guardia Airport control tower employee, that "they are considering it a criminal act."

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The Port Authority, which owns the trade center and operates its own police force, had initially sought to withhold the transcripts, fearing it could traumatize families of those who died.

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