Sept. 11 tapes were destroyed

*Mods, I just heard this on the morning news, googled and found this, not sure if it has already been posted, and it's on the brink of the 12 hr timeframe..but here it is anyway*


WASHINGTON - At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, made a tape recording that day describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it, the Transportation Department said Thursday.

The taping, made at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center, was destroyed by an FAA quality-assurance manager, who crushed the cassette in his hand, cut the tape into pieces and dropped them into trash cans around the building, according to a report made public Thursday by Kenneth Mead, inspector general of the Transportation Department.

Mead was asked by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to look into how well the Federal Aviation Administration had cooperated with the 9/11 commission.

The quality-assurance manager told investigators that he had destroyed the tape because he thought making it was contrary to FAA policy, which calls for written statements, and because he felt that the controllers "were not in the correct frame of mind to have properly consented to the taping," Mead reported


http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=1088994

I wonder how long it will be before people realize that all was not as it seemed on that day.

posted at least 4 times. What was on the tape was written down. It was well after the attack. If the tape had been in real time(during the attack) it might mean something. Just another BS story in the press.