ABC airing angers airline pilots: News magazine plays traffic-control tape of hijacked plane. (TOP OF THE WEEK).(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 2001 by Trigoboff, Dan

ABC was criticized by a pilots group last week for airing a tape of pilots' final moments on United Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed in Pennsylvania Sept. 11. The head of the Air Line Pilots Association said the group's members were appalled and outraged" by ABC's airing of "pilots' voices and the sounds of their death struggles" from the cockpit of United Flight 93.

ABC aired the tape on Primetime Thursday, the network said, after determining that the tape was part of the historical record of an act of war against the U.S. The plan from the outset was to restrict the tape's use in the future, the network said. Capt. Duane Woerth, president of ALPA, acknowledged that his group has no legal claims hut called the broadcast "repugnant...

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