United 93 Page #3

He's due westbound.

He's climbing...

I'm going back to the

airport. That's it.

That's it right here.

Somebody's got to pull

these f***ing tapes right now.

Pull the tapes

now from 0800 on.

To all personnel, NORAD exercise

commencing in five minutes.

Huntress. Weapons.

Sergeant Powell.

Okay, and remember

this is a NORAD exercise.

Right now we have Russian Bears

penetrating the ADIZ up off Alaska,

so you'll want your tracker

techs keeping their eyes open.

Okay, stand by, one second.

Dawne, go out and see what

Powell's so excited about.

Yes, sir.

Powell,

what do you got?

Hey, I got a hijack

on the phone. Boston.

Is this a sim?

No, real world.

Come on, where's EET?

No, it's a no-sh*t hijack.

It's Boston.

Serious?

Yes.

All right.

Okay, thanks.

Well, okay,

give them a call.

Yeah, we have

a possible hijack.

General update. Tell them

we're ready here. Okay?

Can do, sir.

Sir?

Yeah.

We have a real world

situation here.

We have American Airlines flight 11.

It's a 757 out

of Boston to LAX.

Ninety-two passengers on it,

and it's at 7500.

Still squawking?

No, sir.

Okay. Get Nasypany

to the floor!

All operational personnel

to the floor!

Major Nasypany, report to the

operations floor immediately.

All operations personnel

report to the ops room...

This is Colonel Marr here.

Get me General Arnold.

Here you go.

Folks, Captain Dahl

again with an update.

We're making

some progress now.

We're about number four

for departure.

I'll get with you when we're number

one. Thanks for your patience.

We just want to take your order

for breakfast after take-off.

You're gonna get it.

We have a hot breakfast,

which is, like,

an omelet, roll and fruit.

I'll take that. Thanks very much.

Okay, great.

I'm sorry for the delay. We'll

be out of here as soon as we can.

I understand. Thank you.

Would you mind bringing me

some water with my breakfast?

I have to take some pills.

Sure. No worries.

I'd just as soon stay out

of the more populated areas.

Well, here are the falls.

If we go up there, we'll be all right.

I'd like to get up in that high country.

Go ahead, sir.

Good morning, Major.

We got a possible hijack

in progress out of Boston.

American Airlines 757. They're

not squawking. Let's find them.

Copy that.

All right, let's go.

Listen up, everybody!

All right, look,

we got a possible hijack.

This is real world.

Possible hijack.

Surveillance, get your

tracking techs on scopes.

I want two on a scope.

Copy that.

I wanna know

if he pops up again.

ID, get on the phones with the FAA.

Let's get his last known position.

Copy.

Weapons.

Otis to battle stations.

Copy that.

Do you have a call sign or

anything? Battle stations. Copy.

American Airlines 11.

American Airlines 11

is the call sign.

Sir, it's confirmed.

And now

the aircraft is NORDO.

We get a lot of that crap.

Somebody's making phony

transmissions on the radio...

If it's not confirmed, it's probably

a lost radio call or something.

Command Center. Tony.

Stand by one second.

Yesterday, we had

two ground delay programs.

One at Atlanta

and one at O'Hare.

And we had 850

aircraft delayed.

Hit a 56-minute average

and a very modest

Benny, that is like, $2,000

a minute we are talking about.

You are into

a hole already for...

No, no, no.

... 90 million bucks, Ben.

They're not even my delays.

I started today.

Ben, we need you

on the floor.

We're getting more information

on that American 11.

Oh, all right. Listen,

excuse me, John... Yeah.

...and, folks, I'm gonna go

out and take care of this.

We're getting some more updates Okay.

and I'll brief you as soon as

I get some more information.

What do you got?

American Airlines

contacted Boston Center.

Apparently, a flight attendant

onboard the aircraft

via telephone called the

company and she said that

the aircraft is being hijacked and

one or more people have been stabbed.

Stabbed on the plane?

Yeah. Just confirm...

American Airlines gave this

information to Boston who called us.

Is the aircraft still on

course? The last I heard.

Let's get an update

from Tony. All right.

All right, stand by.

This is Boston on the

line right now. Yeah.

They don't know anything more.

There was a suspicious transmission,

the controller heard it,

and they're pulling tapes to see

exactly what was said on the frequency.

And American Airlines

is the one that called them.

Who is it? The ops

manager of Boston Center.

Hi, this is Ben Sliney.

Boston thought it may

have been a... They heard

some kind of oddball Yes.

transmission.

Right.

So she called the company,

she said their airplane

was being hijacked...

All right.

Has he changed altitude?

...don't know if it's a person

or people who've been stabbed.

All right.

All right, we're pulling

it up now, and, listen,

if you get any further information on

the track or the altitude, let me know.

All right. Keep me advised.

Thanks. Yeah. Thanks.

All right, look, the...

That aircraft has made

a turn southbound

and they're not

tracking him any longer.

They're not getting any

Mode C altitude information.

And I see our track has gone ghost on it,

but they do say he's heading southbound.

I want us to get in touch

with New York Center

and let them know he's coming.

Let's get everything out of its way

and even give

New York TRACON a call

because he may be trying to head

for one of the New York airports.

Okay, right.

Information's

that American 11...

Maybe we should get in

touch with headquarters

and start briefing them on this

now. Yeah, I'll call immediately.

Thanks.

Folks, Captain Dahl

with some good news.

We're currently

number one for departure.

We'll be airborne shortly.

Flight attendants,

prepare for take-off, please.

You know, I try and drop

as many trips as I can.

I like to be home with my babies. Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you bring some good

magazines to keep yourself awake?

I don't think I've gotten through a

magazine in I can't tell you how long.

We have some planes. Just

stay quiet and you'll be okay.

We are returning

to the airport.

We have some planes. Just

stay quiet and you'll be okay.

We are returning

to the airport.

Planes.

We have some planes.

Yeah, it's Bob here. It's

"planes. " Planes. Plural.

Definitely, yeah.

United 93, wind 050 at 6.

Runway four-left.

Clear for take-off.

take off. Four-left. United 93.

Welcome to New York Center.

Altimeter is 2996.

Maintain speed 310...

...speed of 300 knots

or greater.

Maintain flight level 220 and

maintain a speed of 300 knots.

Roger, you got it.

New York. Thumbser.

Yeah, Boston.

New York. United 175.

All right, thank you.

I got it. All right.

Hey, Dave?

Yeah?

American 11 looking

as a possible hijacking.

It may be going back

into Kennedy. Hijack?

They say they heard something,

that there might be intrusion

into the cockpit.

All right, just let me know

if you hear anything,

anything unusual or

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