United 93 Page #4

anything. I'll watch him.

He's not squawking 7500.

So just keep it normal.

No, he's not doing anything.

I'll keep an eye on him.

I got it.

Just keep an eye on him. Will do.

What's going on?

We got a hijack.

It might be a hijack, I

don't know. It's American 11.

It's going down.

You got a hijack?

We haven't had a hijack

in 20 years. I don't know.

Listen, I don't know. What

do you want me to tell you?

I just gotta watch him.

That's all.

Chris, you got that? Thumbser.

United 175 heavy,

New York, go ahead.

...west of Kennedy by 15 southbound

descending, it's American 11.

We're not sure

what the problem is yet.

Possible

hijacking, we're not sure.

Passenger said something

about they're up front.

Roger, United 175 heavy.

Well, I'll pass it along.

Wait, I'll talk to him.

Paul!

Hold on.

Paul,

United 175 heavy just called.

He said he heard a suspicious

transmission on the radio

as he was climbing

out of Logan.

He said something about,

"Everybody stay in your seats. "

He doesn't know who it

came from, but it came out

and he said it was...

He just heard it as he was

climbing out... United 175?

United 175 heavy, yes.

And what about American 11?

American 11's still... It's nothing.

He's just still

going slow, you know.

He might be going into Newark

or Kennedy or something,

I don't know.

You know, I have no idea.

Continental 1002,

Newark Tower. Good morning.

Why don't you try

the next one down?

An arctic fish.

How about "char"?

Ladies and gentlemen,

Captain Dahl.

As we make this turn, those of you

on the left side of the airplane

have a beautiful view of lower

Manhattan and the New York City skyline.

Looks nice out there.

Huh?

Looks nice out there.

What do you mean there's no one there?

Well, you guys must have a backup.

Whatever information they got, they

got to give it to us right away.

All right, good.

Hijack controller, no one

at the desk. No backup.

Looks like they're on

vacation. No backup?

There's no backup.

There's no one at the desk.

Who were you

talking to downstairs?

I'm talking to this guy.

He's in the conference room.

There's nobody else in there.

I'm relaying the information,

and then he's moving...

We got it. We got the tapes.

Boston Center got the tapes pulled.

They said, "We have

some planes. " Hold on.

That's what he said,

"We have some planes. "

That was the

suspicious transmission.

Was there

any voice recognition?

I'm tracking it.

Jesus Christ.

Med Express 77,

maintain 10,000.

The Kennedy altimeter's 2996.

Keep an eye on it. Now watch.

Delta 351, altimeter 2992.

Chilean 4369,

New York altimeter, 2996.

Paul, what do you got?

Hey, Mike, how you doing?

American 11. Possible

hijacking on American 11.

He's southbound, 767.

Nobody's talking to him.

I just called the room up

and let them know about it.

They're not tracking

him either, right now.

Where was

the target last time?

Last time it was tracked

in New York at Kennedy.

He's heading for the south.

American 11, New York.

What do you want me to check?

Target's gone.

Paul. Paul, the target for

American 11 just disappeared.

Just disappeared where?

Right around Manhattan.

It just disappeared?

It was right there.

It just disappeared.

I was talking to the other aircraft.

The target just disappeared.

Call Kennedy up. Find out if they have it.

We don't know where American is, all right?

Call Kennedy tower up, see

if they have him down there,

and call Newark tower and

see if they have him there.

Okay.

What do we got, boys?

Anything?

All right, sir, you need me to go

ahead and start a recall for you?

Yes, initiate that.

Okay, great.

What's the status with Otis?

Are those planes ready?

Foxy, what you got?

You got anything?

MCC, battle stations

call made 0838.

Otis attained

battle stations at 40.

slams at battle stations.

Otis at battle stations. Copy.

Get me something.

Nothing's squawking.

MCC, Boston lost American 11.

They don't see him anymore

on their scopes.

They think maybe he went

below radar coverage.

They have no idea where he is.

We've got Otis.

Have the battle ready.

We need scramble authority.

Copy that.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Copy that.

Okay, let's get those

Otis birds in the air!

Scramble Otis!

This is Huntress with an

active air defense scramble.

I repeat, active

air defense scramble.

Time is 0846.

I authenticate

November-November.

Greg, look at the World

Trade Center. What?

Look at the Trade Center, man.

Bob, you see that?

Man, that's a lot of smoke.

I can't believe that.

Yeah, take a look

at the World Trade Center.

No, I have no idea.

I'm getting reports from numerous

aircraft about smoke in Manhattan.

A lot of smoke.

A lot of smoke coming out

of the North Tower.

Thumbser, go ahead.

The American

was over Manhattan

A small plane? Is that confirmed?

when I lost any sign of...

Ben, I just got...

New York called. Yeah?

They got smoke out of

the World Trade Center.

Smoke? They think a small plane

A small plane?

has crashed into it.

Small plane.

I don't know.

That's what

they're telling me.

A small plane went into

the World Trade Center.

You might want to have a look. Okay.

Sir.

Sir.

CNN's reporting a light civil aircraft

has just hit the World Trade Center.

MCC?

MCC, CNN has just reported a light

aircraft has hit the World Trade Center.

Bill, get me CNN

up on screen three, will you?

Ben?

Yeah.

New York Center called.

They were tracking the primary

target, they've lost it.

They said they'd

lost American 11.

Where did they lose it at?

Somewhere over the city.

Over the city?

Yeah.

He's down over the city?

They don't know

if he's under the radar

coverage out there or not.

All right. Get in touch with the

metro towers, see if they got a visual.

Hey, it's coming up now.

I'll call TRACON, see if...

Jesus.

Oh, my...

...we're getting reports

this morning, that a plane

has crashed into one of the

towers of the World Trade Center.

CNN Center right now is just

beginning to work on this story.

Obviously calling our sources and trying

to figure out exactly what happened.

But clearly something relatively

devastating happening this morning there

in the south end of the

island... I don't know.

I'll tell you what, that is

not a small plane. No way.

It's huge.

A Cessna would have bounced off

that. Look at the size of that hole!

Look at all them

people sitting...

I got a bad feeling about

this. I'll tell you right now.

Is that American 11? Is

that who they were tracking?

Nobody's telling us anything.

No info. I have no info.

Well, which way are we looking

here? If we're looking...

It looks like the sun's on that side

of the building, so we're looking north.

He came from our left.

He had to come from the west.

That aircraft came in from

the west into that building.

Who could it be?

Now where's American 11?

You know what I want you to

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