A clip recording the conversation between the TYSON sector ATC and the C-130 pilot who saw Flight 77 shortly before it hit the Pentagon. Extracted from files obtained by John Farmer (original link now dead).
(The original recording isn't clearly time coded, so please regard these times as approximate only.)
9:36:41 - ATC: GOFER zero 6, traffic is 11 o'clock and five miles northbound fast moving, type and altitude unknown.
9:36:49 - GOFER06: GOFER zero 6 we have the traffic in sight >unintelligible<
9:36:52 - ATC: Ah, you have the traffic, do you know what kind it is, can you see?
9:36:54 - GOFER06: Looks like a 757 sir.
9:36:59 - ATC: A 757. Can you estimate his altitude?
9:36:59 - GOFER06: Ah, looks like he's at low altitude right now sir.
9:37:04 - ATC: GOFER eight [sic] six, thank you.
>crosstalk<
>pause<
9:37:17 - GOFER06: That, ah, traffic from GOFER zero 6 is still in a descent now, and, uh, looks like he's strolled [?] out north east [?]
9:37:24 - ATC: All right. Thank you.
>crosstalk<
9:37:30 - ATC: GOFER eight [sic] six, climb and maintain, uh,
9:37:32 - ATC background: You getting the military?
9:37:33 - ATC: Yeah. Stand by. GOFER eight [sic] six,
9:37:35 - ATC: GOFER eight [sic] six, turn right and follow the traffic, please.
9:37:40 - ATC: GOFER eight [sic] six, turn right heading zero eight zero, we're going to vector you for the traffic.
9:37:44 - GOFER06: Okay, zero eight zero, GOFER zero six it's...
9:37:47 - ATC: Dulles, I'm keeping GOFER eight six, uh, zero six with me for a while.
>crosstalk<
>ATC interacts with another flight<
>pause<
9:38:23 - GOFER06: Washington, this is GOFER zero six.
9:38:25 - ATC: GOFER zero six, go ahead.
9:38:26 - GOFER06: [?] ... aircraft is down, he's in our [a?] twelve o'clock position, looks like it's just a, uh, north, west of the airfield at this time sir.
9:38:36 - ATC: GOFER eight [sic] six, thank you, descend and maintain two thousand
9:38:39 - GOFER06: Okay, we're down to two thousand
9:38:53 - GOFER06: And uh, this is GOFER zero six, it looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, sir.
9:38:59 - ATC: GOFER eight [sic] six, GOFER zero six, thank you.
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