Chilling tapes capture horror of 9/11 attacks

PLEAS of “mayday” made by police officers just moments before their deaths in the World Trade Center appear on transcripts released of calls made on September 11 to emergency services before the Twin Towers collapsed.

A judge ordered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade centre site, to release the nearly 2,000 pages of transcripts after a lawsuit was filed by The New York Times.

The transcripts record radio dispatches made by Port Authority officers and employees at the scene and telephone calls made to Port Authority police stations.