Saturday, March 24, 2007

Air Traffic Control Recording Of 9/11 Flight 93

Transcript Of Recording:

Courtesy Of: TheMemoryHole

[Not 100% accurate, but as close as possible with tape distortion]

Cleveland: United ninety-three, check in when flight level three-five-zero – [unintelligible].

United 93: United ninety-three check in three-five-zero.

Cleveland: United ninety-three, three-five-zero, Roger. United ninety-three, you have traffic to your one o’clock, twelve miles eastbound three-seven-zero.

United 93: Negative contact, we’re looking United ninety-three.

Cleveland: Somebody call Cleveland? [No noise on this Cleveland tape, must be a different frequency being monitored by Cleveland on another tape.] United ninety-three verify three-five-zero, United ninety-three verify your flight level, er, three-five-zero. United ninety-three verify your flight level is three-five-zero. United ninety-three Cleveland, United ninety-three Cleveland. United ninety-three do you read Cleveland Center please?

United 797: United fifteen twenty-three, did you hear the company, er, did you hear some other aircraft on a frequency a couple of minutes ago, screaming?

United 1523: Yes I did, seven ninety-seven, and, ah, we couldn’t tell what it was either.

United 797: OK.

Cleveland: United ninety-three Cleveland, if you hear the center, ident [command for United 93 to send secondary radar transponder positive identification]

American 1060: American ten-sixty, er, ditto also on the other transmission.

Cleveland: American ten-sixty, you heard that also?

American 1060: We heard it twice.

Cleveland: Roger, we heard that also. [No noise on Cleveland tape.] Thanks. We just wanted to confirm that wasn’t some interference.

Executive 956: Executive nine fifty-six.

Cleveland: Executive nine fifty-six, go.

Executive 956: Just answering your call. We could year that, er, yelling too.

Cleveland: OK, thank you, we’re just trying to figure out what’s going on.

United 93: [unintelligible] this is captain, please sit down, remain sitting, we have a bomb on board. [Signal strength 5, readability 1.]

Cleveland: Uh, calling Cleveland Center, you’re unreadable, say again slowly.

Executive 956: [unintelligible] sounded like he said he had a bomb on board.

Cleveland: Uh, say again, you there, United ninety-three?

Executive 956: [unintelligible] was reasonable, sounded like someone said they had a bomb on board.

Cleveland: That’s what we thought, we just, er, we didn’t get it clear. United ninety-three calling. Executive nine fifty-six, aircraft [unintelligible] transmitting at twelve o’clock one-five miles. Turn left heading two-two-five. I’ll get you away from him. OK, he’s climbing so I want to keep everybody away from him.

Executive 956: OK, I think we got him in sight.

Cleveland: Nineteen eighty-nine, I have traffic for you in your eleven o’clock, fifteen miles southbound forty-one climbing, looks like he’s turning east wide at three-six-zero.

United 93: [unintelligible] this is the captain. We have a bomb on board [unintelligible] - I am going back to the airport, they have met our demands [unintelligible]. [Signal strength 5, readability 1]

Cleveland: United ninety-three calling. United ninety-three, understand you have a bomb on board, go ahead. Executive nine fifty-six, did you understand that transmission?

Executive 956: Affirmative. He said there was a bomb on board.

Cleveland: And that was all you got out of it also?

Executive 956: Affirmative.

Cleveland: Ninety-three, go ahead.

Executive 956: Is that aircraft you’re talking about eastbound?

Cleveland: He’s just turned to the east of you. United ninety-three, do you hear Cleveland Center? American ten-sixty and Executive nine fifty-six, we just lost the target on that aircraft.

Executive 956: Executive nine fifty-six, we had a visual on it, just stand by.

Cleveland: You have a visual on it now?

Executive 956: We did, but we lost it in the turn.

Cleveland: You can make a turn back to two-twenty heading. Let me know if you can see him.

Executive 956: He’s still there. We’ve got him, from nine fifty-six.

Cleveland: He’s still there, er, what, about twenty-five miles?

Executive 956: Affirmative from nine fifty-six.

Cleveland: Vector nine fifty-six, turning one-eight-zero.

Executive 956: Er, negative, turning nine fifty-six, he appears to be heading right towards us.

Cleveland: American ten-sixty, do you see anybody northwest of you, can you see back that far there?

American 1060: We’re looking now, sir.

Cleveland: United ninety-three Cleveland, do you still hear the Center? United ninety-three, do you still hear Cleveland? United ninety-three, United niner-three, do you hear Cleveland? United ninety-three, United ninety-three Cleveland. United ninety-three, United ninety-three, do you hear Cleveland Center?

Cleveland (2): [Voice changes to female, apparently second Cleveland controller.] Do you see any, ah, activity on your right side, smoke or anything like that?

American 1060: Negative. We’re searching [two second pause]. Yeah, we do have a smoke puff now at about, er, oh probably two o’clock. There appears to be just a spire up like a puff of black smoke.

[Tape ends]

Air Traffic Control Recording of 9/11 Flight 93:

Added July 26, 2006
RunTime: 03:58
By: TULSATRUTH.ORG

Video of Air Traffic Control Recoring:

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