![]() ![]() Other pilots visually help verify Flight 93's position because the hijackers have not responded to Cleveland. Heard is Cleveland speaking to other pilots who state they had overheard "yelling" and "screaming" over the airwaves. The tape starts with Cleveland Center attempting to reach the crew of Flight 93, as they were in Cleveland's zone at the time. To protect his source, Quinn would not say who gave it to him, but it apparently is genuine. This morning, Jim Quinn, host of "The War Room" (WRRK 96.9 FM Pittsburgh & ) played an audio tape made at Cleveland Center (flight control) on the morning of 9-11. Flight 93 Actual Audio Tape Here - Hijacker Told Cleveland Center There Was a Bomb on Board In response, Jarrah tried to cut off the oxygen and began pitching the plane left and right, to knock the passengers off balance.ĩ:58 a.m.: Jarrah instructed another hijacker to block the door.ĩ:59 a.m.: Jarrah began pitching the plane up and down, again hoping to neutralize the passenger assault.Skip to comments. The cockpit voice recorder captured the sound of passengers attempting to break through the door: yelling, thumping and crashing of dishes and glass. “Are you guys ready?” one of the passengers, Todd Beamer, could be heard saying to the others while on a call with a telephone operator. Flight attendant CeeCee Lyles called her husband, told him she loved him, and asked that he take care of her children. Those on the flight who couldn’t get through to their loved ones left heart-wrenching voicemails instead. “I have my butter knife from breakfast,” he reportedly joked.īurnett told his wife that the passengers were going to wait until they were above a rural area before attempting their action.įlight attendant Sandra Bradshaw boiled water, to throw on the hijackers. Passenger Jeremy Glick told his wife Lyz that passengers were voting on whether or not to storm the cockpit in an attempt to take back the plane. The passengers knew they were staring down a similar fate. Planes had, by this point, struck both the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. So, sit.”ĩ:35 a.m.: Jarrah redirects the jet’s autopilot toward Washington, D.C.Īt approximately the same time, recordings from the cockpit capture the sound of a flight attendant pleading for her life, then falling silent.ĩ:35–9:55 a.m.: Passengers and crew call their loved onesįor approximately 20 minutes, passengers and crew relayed information about their hijacking…and received word of the grim news on the ground. “Ladies and Gentlemen: Here the captain, please sit down and keep remaining sitting. On a subsequent call a few minutes later, he told her the passenger had died.ĩ:32 a.m.: Hijacker Ziad Jarrah threatens the passengers via the intercom ![]() On the call, Burnett told his wife, Deena, that a passenger had been knifed in front of the other passengers. Tom Burnett, a first-class passenger on the flight, called his wife from the back of the plane at 9:30 to report the hijacking. Sometime before 9:30 a.m.: Hijackers kill a passenger in first class In the cockpit, the captain or first officer could be heard shouting “Mayday!” and “Get out of here!” into a radio transmission. While flying 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly lost 7,000 feet as the terrorists rushed the cockpit. ![]() With multiple hijackings unfolding across the country, United Airlines dispatcher Ed Ballinger sent a text message warning to pilot Jason Dahl: “Beware any cockpit intrusion-two a/c hit World Trade Center.”ĭahl, seemingly confused, wrote back, “Ed, confirm latest mssg plz-Jason.” While all 44 people aboard the plane were killed, countless people who might’ve perished in Washington were spared because of a passenger revolt-a heroic struggle undertaken with whatever low-tech weapons they and the cabin crew members could muster.įlowers are placed along the Wall of Names dedicated to Captain Jason Dahl at the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pensylvania, on September 10, 2011. But instead of hitting its intended target, the United jet went down in a field in rural Pennsylvania. Like the three other planes hijacked on September 11, Flight 93 was overtaken by al-Qaeda operatives intent on crashing it into a center of American power-in Flight 93’s case, likely the White House or the U.S. Within hours, thousands had died, including hundreds of first responders who’d rushed to the scenes to help.īut after the events quieted and the scope of the damage came into relief, it became clear that there was at least one element of the al-Qaeda terrorist plot where the damage had been mitigated-with the fatal crash of United Airlines Flight 93. Sixteen minutes later, a second jet hit the South Tower. At 8:46 a.m., the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The coordinated terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, unfolded at nightmarish speed.
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