INDEPTH: SEPTEMBER 11
Final words from the cockpit
CBC News Online | April 12, 2006
The transcript of the tape from hijacked Flight 93
A transcript from a flight recorder on United Airlines Flight 93 – one of the four U.S. airliners that were hijacked and turned on American targets on Sept. 11, 2001 – was made public for the first time on April 12, 2006. It was played at a court hearing where jurors were trying to decide whether al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui should be executed for his role in planning the attacks. The cockpit voice recording reveals the final 31 minutes on the plane as al-Qaeda members take control, some of the 40 passengers and crew members beg for their lives, and passengers struggle with the hijackers. That battle foiled al-Qaeda's attempt to use the plane as a human bomb and forced it to crash in a field in Pennsylvania.
9:31:57: Ladies and gentlemen: Here [is] the captain, please sit down, keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit.
09:32:09: Er, uh … calling Cleveland Center. You're unreadable. Say again slowly.
09:32:10: Don't move. Shut up.
09:32:13: Come on, come.
09:32:16: Shut up.
09:32:17: Don't move.
09:32:18: Stop.
09:32:34: Sit, sit, sit down.
09:32:39: Sit down.
09:32:41: [Unintelligible] … the brother.
09:32:54: Stop.
09:33:09: No more. Sit down.
09:33:10: That's it, that's it, that's it, down, down.
09:33:14: Shut up.
09:33:20: [Unintelligible.]
09:33:20: We just, we didn't get it clear. …Is that United Ninety-Three calling?
09:33:30: Jassim.
09:33:34: In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
09:33:41: [Unintelligible.]
09:33:43: Finish, no more. No more.
09:33:49: No, no, no, no, no.
09:33:53: No, no, no, no.
09:34:00: Go ahead, lie down. Lie down. Down, down, down.
09:34;06: There is someone. …Huh?
09:34:12: Down, down, down. Sit down. Come on, sit down. No, no, no, no, no. No.
09:34:16: Down, down, down.
09:34:21: Down.
09:34:25: No more.
09:34:26: No more. Down.
09:34:27: Please, please, please.
09:34:28: Down.
09:34:29: Please, please, please.
09:34:30: Down. No more.
09:34:31: Oh, God.
09:34:32: Down, down, down.
09:34:33: Sit down.
09:34:34: Shut up.
09:34:42: No more
09:34:46: This?
09:34:47: Yes.
09:34 47: [Unintelligible.]
09:34:57: One moment, one moment.
09:34:59: [Unintelligible.]
09:35:03: No more.
09:35:06: Down, down, down, down.
09:35:10: [Unintelligible.]
09:35:15: Sit down, sit down, sit down.
09:35:17: Down.
09:35:18: What's this?
09:35:19: Sit down. Sit down. You know, sit down.
09:35:24: No, no, no.
09:35:30: Down, down, down, down.
09:35:32: Are you talking to me?
09:35:33: No, no, no. [Unintelligible.]
09:35:35: Down in the airport.
09:35:39: Down, down.
09:35:40: I don't want to die.
09:35 41: No, no. Down, down.
09:35:42: I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
09:35:44: No, no. Down, down, down, down, down, down.
09:35:47: No, no, please.
09:35:57: No.
09:37:06: That's it. Go back.
09:37:06: That's it. Sit down.
09:37:36: Everything is fine. I finished.
09:38:36: Yes.
09:39:11: Ah. Here's the captain. I would like to tell you all to remain seated. We have a bomb aboard, and we are going back to the airport, and we have our demands. So, please remain quiet.
09:39:21: Okay. That's Ninety-Three calling?
09:39:24: One moment.
09:39:34: United Ninety-three. I understand you have a bomb on board. Go ahead.
09:39:42: And center exec jet nine-fifty-six. That was the transmission.
09:39:47: Okay. Ah. Who called Cleveland?
09:39:52: Executive jet nine-fifty-six, did you understand that transmission?
09:39:56: Affirmative. He said that there was a bomb on board.
09:39:58: That was all that you got out of it also?
09:40:01: Affirmative
09:40:03: Roger.
09:40:03: United Ninety-Three. Go ahead.
09:40:14: United Ninety-Three. Go ahead.
09:40:17: Ahhhh.
09:40:52: This green knob?
09:40:54: Yes, that's the one.
09:41:05: United Ninety-Three, do you hear the Cleveland centre?
09:41:14: One moment. One moment.
09:41:15: [Unintelligible.]
09:41:56: Oh, man.
09:44:18: This does not work now.
09:45:13: Turn it off.
09:45:17: Seven thousand.
09:45:19: How about we let them in? We let the guys in now.
09:45:23: Okay.
09:45:24: Should we let the guys in?
09:45:25: Inform them, and tell him to talk to the pilot. Bring the pilot back.
09:45:57: In the name of Allah. In the name of Allah. I bear witness that there is no other God, but Allah.
09:47:31: [Unintelligible.]
09:47:40: Allah knows.
09:48:15: [Unintelligible.]
09:48:38: Set course.
09:49:37: [Unintelligible.]
09:51:27: [Unintelligible.]
09:51:35: [Unintelligible.]
09:52:02: [Unintelligible.]
09:52:31: [Unintelligible.]
09:53:20: The best thing: The guys will go in, lift up the [unintelligible] and they put the axe into it. So, everyone will be scared.
09:53:27: Yes.
09:53:28: The axe.
09:53:28: [Unintelligible.]
09:53:29: No, the axe.
09:53:29: [Unintelligible.]
09:53:29: No, not the …
09:53:35: Let him look through the window. Let him look through the window.
09:53:52: [Unintelligible.]
09:54:09: Open.
09:54:11: [Unintelligible.]
09:55:06: You are … one ….
09:56:15: [Unintelligible.]
09:57:55: Is there something?
09:57:57: A fight?
09:57:59: Yeah?
09:58:33: [Unintelligible.] Let's go, guys. Allah is greatest. Allah is greatest. Oh guys. Allah is greatest.
09:58:41: Ugh.
09:58:43: Ugh.
09:58:44: Oh, Allah. Oh, Allah. Oh the most Gracious.
09:58:47: Ugh. Ugh.
09:58:52: Stay back.
09:58:55: In the cockpit.
09:58:57: In the cockpit.
09:58:57: They want to get in there. Hold, hold from the inside. Hold from the inside. Hold.
09:59:04: Hold the door.
09:59:09: Stop him.
09:59:11: Sit down.
09:59:13: Sit down
09:59:15: Sit down
09:59:16: [Unintelligible.]
09:59:17: What?
09:59:18: There are some guys. All those guys.
09:59:20: Let's get them.
09:59:25: Sit down.
09:59:29: What?
09:59:30: What.
09:59:31: What?
09:59:36: [Unintelligible.]
09:59:37: What?
09:59:39: [Unintelligible.]
09:59:41: [Unintelligible.]
09:59:42: Trust in Allah, and in him.
09:59:45: Sit down.
09:59:47: [Unintelligible.]
09:59:53: Ahh.
09:59:55: [Unintelligible.]
09:59:58: Ahh.
10:00:06: There is nothing.
10:00:07: Is that it? Shall we finish it off?
10:00:08: No. Not yet.
10:00:09: When they all come, we finish it off.
10:00:11: There is nothing.
10:00:13: [Unintelligible.]
10:00:14: Ahh.
10:00:15: I'm injured.
10:00:16: [Unintelligible.]
10:00:21: Ahh.
10:00:22: Oh, Allah. Oh, Allah. Oh Gracious.
10:00:25: In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die.
10:00:29: Up, down. Up, down, in the cockpit.
10:00:33: The cockpit.
10:00:37: Up, down. Saeed, up, down.
10:00:42: Roll it.
10:00:55: [Unintelligible.]
10:00:59: Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.
10:01:01: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:08: Is that it? I mean, should we pull it down?
10:01:09: Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.
10:01:10: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:11: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:12: …engine…
10:01:13: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:16: Cut off the oxygen.
10:01:18: Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen.
10:01:34: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:37: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:41: Up, down. Up, down.
10:01:41: What?
10:01:42: Up, down.
10:01:42: Ahh.
10:01:53: Ahh.
10:01:54: [Unintelligible.]
10:01:55: Ahh.
10:01:59: Shut them off.
10:02:03: Shut them off.
10:02:14: Go.
10:02:14: Go.
10:02:15: Move.
10:02:16: Move.
10:02:17: Turn it up.
10:02:18: Down, down.
10:02:23: Pull it down. Pull it down.
10:02:25: Down. Push, push, push, push, push.
10:02:33: Hey. Hey. Give it to me. Give it to me.
10:02:35: Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.
10:02:37: Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.
10:02:40: [Unintelligible.]
10:03:02: Allah is the greatest.
10:03:03: Allah is the greatest.
10:03:04: Allah is the greatest.
10:03:06: Allah is the greatest.
10:03:06: Allah is the greatest.
10:03:07: No
10:03:09: Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.
10:03:09: Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.
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