Flight 93 Transcript with CARTC
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| Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center and UA93 |
| This is a transcription of the recording of the CARTC's conversations surrounding the errant flight, and subsequent discovery of hijacking, of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11th attacks. It references the announcement of a bomb, the near 360° turn over Ohio and its eventual crash into a Pennsylvanian field. |
| September 11th attacks | |
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| Transcripts | |
| Flight 93 Cockpit Transcript | |
| Flight 93 Transcript with air control | |
| Aftereffects | |
| 9/11 Commission Report | |
| Office of Special Counsel release | |
Cleveland: ...Cleveland, United ninety-three, check in when flight level three-five-oh – enter midflight south...unintelligible.
United 93: United ninety-three check in three-five-oh.
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.
Uncertain: Negative contact, we’re looking at United ninety-three.
Unknown: Somebody call Cleveland?
Cleveland: United ninety-three verify three-five-zero...United ninety-three verify your level...er, three-five-zero...United ninety-three verify is three-five-zero...United ninety-three Cleveland...United ninety-three Cleveland...United ninety-three do you read Cleveland Center at all 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, I, uh, we couldn’t tell what it was either.
United 797: Okay.
Cleveland: United ninety-three Cleveland, if you hear the center, ident.
American 1060: American ten-sixty, er, ditto also on the uh, other transmission.
Cleveland: American ten-sixty, you heard that also?
American 1060: Yes sir, twice.
Cleveland: Roger, we heard that also. 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: Uh, we're just answering your call. We could hear that, er, yelling too.
Cleveland: Okay, thank you, we’re just trying to figure out what’s going on.
United 93: unintelligible...we have a bomb on board, so... unintelligible
Cleveland: Uh, calling Cleveland Center, you’re unreadable, say again slowly.
Executive 956: Sir, did you hear the transmission unintelligible..sounded like he said he had a bomb on board.
Cleveland: Uh, say again, uh, is that United ninety-three?
Executive 956: In the transmission unintelligible was reasonable, sounded like someone said they had a bomb on board.
Cleveland: That’s what we thought, we just, er, we...we...we didn’t get it clear. Is that United ninety-three calling? Executive nine fifty-six, aircraft is moving away (unintelligible) is transmitting at twelve o’clock one-five miles. Turn to west heading two-two-five. I’ll get you away from him. Okay, he’s climbing so I want to keep everybody away from him.
Executive 956: Okay, 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 while hitting three-six-zero.
United 93: This is the captain. We would like you all to remain seated. We have a bomb on board, and we are going back to the airport, and they have our demands, so remain quiet. unintelligible.
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, that was all you got out of it also?
Executive 956: Affirmative.
Cleveland: Ninety-three, go ahead.
Executive 956: Is that aircraft you can't get ahold of, is he turned to the eastbound?
Cleveland: He’s just turned to the east unintelligible. 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, please stand by.
Cleveland: You have a visual on it now?
Executive 956: Uh, we did, but we lost it in the turn.
Cleveland: Please 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, north-west of you, 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 north-west 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: (female controller) Do you see any, uh, activity on your right side, smoke or anything like that?
American 1060: Negative. We’re searching...Yeah, we do have a smoke puff now at about, er, oh probably two o’clock. There appears to be just a uh, dark cloud like a puff of black smoke.