Flight 175: As the World Watched
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Flight 175: As the World Watched is an American television documentary film
that premiered in August 2006 on TLC. It covers the final moments of the passengers and crew on board United Airlines Flight 175
, which was the second commercial airliner to strike the World Trade Center
, impacted with the South Tower, and was the most visually documented (both photographed and filmed) flight during the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The documentary features interviews with a variety of people, including:
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
that premiered in August 2006 on TLC. It covers the final moments of the passengers and crew on board United Airlines Flight 175
United Airlines Flight 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was United Airlines' daily scheduled morning transcontinental flight, from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California...
, which was the second commercial airliner to strike the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
, impacted with the South Tower, and was the most visually documented (both photographed and filmed) flight during the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The documentary features interviews with a variety of people, including:
- relatives of the passengers and crew members,
- air traffic controllers who responded to the doomed flight, and
- the two F-15 fighter pilotFighter pilotA fighter pilot is a military aviator trained in air-to-air combat while piloting a fighter aircraft . Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and dogfighting...
s scrambledScrambling (military)In military aviation scrambling or a scramble is the act of quickly getting fighter aircraft airborne to intercept hostile aircraft.-Historical use:...
from Otis Air National Guard BaseOtis Air National Guard BaseOtis Air National Guard Base is an Air National Guard installation located within the Massachusetts Military Reservation , a military training facility, located on the western portion of Cape Cod, in western Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States...
who flew in the airspaceAirspaceAirspace means the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere....
over Lower ManhattanLower ManhattanLower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York...
during the event.