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Proof: Chilling audio captures moments before Boston-bound plane vanished

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T22:11:01Z","headline":"Chilling audio captures moments before Boston-bound plane vanished","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nypost","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/us-news/audio-captures-moments-before-boston-bound-plane-vanished/","v":1}

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1d564c6579ba770c2dfe53e180305e51a903b0f4147e12fa171b998b42110f82

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969771, mined 2026-10-03 22:38 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-1d564c6579ba.json prints 1d564c6579ba770c2dfe53e180305e51a903b0f4147e12fa171b998b42110f82. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-1d564c6579ba.json and headline-1d564c6579ba.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-1d564c6579ba.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.