“Nobody was prepared for this,” Bulling said. Tell them I’ll see them tonight.”Īnother bid was made to scramble aircraft. As Deena recalls in the documentary, Tom told her, “No. She asked if he wanted to speak with their children. A decision to scramble - in which fighter jets surround an airplane and may shoot it down - was still not reached. al-Haznawi, Saeed Alghamdi and Ziad Samir al-Jarrah Getty ImagesĪll 4,500 aircraft in flight at that moment were ordered to land immediately. (Clockwise from top left) Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Jarrah shut off most mechanisms that would allow it to be tracked - save for what one air traffic controller calls “bleeps on a radar scope” that provided minimal information. Bye bye.”Īt 9:41, the plane was 34 minutes from the Capitol. Try to overpower these guys … I love you, sweetie.
They are planning to use the plane … to probably hit some site on the ground. Passengers began formulating a plan as relatives despaired.Īlice Hoagland, the mother of passenger Mark Bingham, left a final voicemail message: “You’ve been hijacked by terrorists. They were encouraged to call loved ones - “I suspect it was a way of showing were in control,” said Bulling.
Meanwhile, on the ground, there was talk about sending a military airplane to “scramble” the United flight.īy 9:37, passengers were corralled past row 33. He turned the plane around, heading toward Washington, DC, and the Capitol building, which, according to Bulling, captured terrorists have identified as the target. Representing himself as the plane’s captain, he announced that he had a bomb. Deena Burnett A+E NETWORKSįive minutes into the takeover, terrorist Ziad Samir Jarrah (who had recently completed a piloting course) was in the cockpit and at the controls. “I was trying to think who you call for a hijacking,” she says in the documentary. He asked his wife to call authorities and report a hijacking. and told his wife, Deena, that a fellow passenger, Mickey Rothenberg, had been stabbed and murdered. They were both trained by al Qaeda in unarmed combat.įirst-class passenger Tom Burnett called home at 9:30 a.m. The forcefulness of the takeover leads Bulling to believe that Saeed al-Ghamdi and Ahmed al-Nami infiltrated the cockpit. “And then, radio silence.” Audio forensics specialist Ed Primeau A+E NETWORKS “It sounds like the pilot has been moved away from the controls,” Primeau says in the doc. “The Final Minutes” maintains that terrorists could have breached the locked cockpit with an extra key kept near the door. According to Primeau, two terrorists were struggling to take control of the cockpit. Minutes later, though, there were frantic calls of “Mayday! Mayday!”
In short order, all planes were grounded, but Flight 93 was already en route to San Francisco.Īt 9:27, when Captain Jason Dahl checked in with Cleveland’s air traffic control, all was well. A+E NETWORKSįour minutes after Flight 93 had taken off - at 8:42 a.m., following a 40-minute delay - the first airplane flew into the World Trade Center. The 40 passengers and crew members, all of whom died, will be honored Friday when President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden both pay their respects at the site of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.Īs laid out in the documentary, here is a minute-by-minute chronicle, with freshly revealed details, of what took place aboard an airplane set on a collision course with the heart of our nation. “They fought against the odds to stop an airplane from crashing into the Capitol building.” “What those people did was such an amazing act of courage,” Bulling told The Post.
Instead, as they fought for control, the plane crashed into a field near rural Shanksville, Pa., at 10:03 a.m.ĭuncan Bulling, director of the documentary, worked with audio forensics specialist Ed Primeau to analyze cockpit recordings that give a fuller picture of what happened. Heroic Americans, they stopped terrorists from flying into the Capitol building. on History, the bravery of passengers and crew aboard the United Airlines flight from Newark to San Francisco prevented death, heartache, destruction. As chronicled in “ History 9/11: The Final Minutes of Flight 93,” airing Friday at 8 p.m. Prince Charles secured over $1M donation from bin Laden family: reportįour commercial jets were hijacked on September 11. 'Betrayed': Sick 9/11 first responders on brink of losing jobs despite law NYC's 9/11 Tribute Museum to close: 'It's a huge loss'Īdams cites '9/11 hero' as he tries to wave off criticism of hiring ex-casino pal
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