Atlanta air traffic controller remembers 9/11 from inside the control tower: "It was an eerie silence"

Smyrna resident David Gibson remembers the silence nearly 25 years ago as if it were yesterday.For an air traffic controller at William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, later renamed to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, that kind of silence was almost unheard of.There was usually a chatter inside the tower. The controllers talked to the pilots and to each other. They joked between calls while keeping one of the nation's busiest airports moving.But on the morning of Se