![]() “Ladies and Gentlemen: Here the captain, please sit down and keep remaining sitting. On a subsequent call a few minutes later, he told her the passenger had died.ĩ:32 a.m.: Hijacker Ziad Jarrah threatens the passengers via the intercom On the call, Burnett told his wife, Deena, that a passenger had been knifed in front of the other passengers. Tom Burnett, a first-class passenger on the flight, called his wife from the back of the plane at 9:30 to report the hijacking. Sometime before 9:30 a.m.: Hijackers kill a passenger in first class In the cockpit, the captain or first officer could be heard shouting “Mayday!” and “Get out of here!” into a radio transmission. While flying 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly lost 7,000 feet as the terrorists rushed the cockpit. With multiple hijackings unfolding across the country, United Airlines dispatcher Ed Ballinger sent a text message warning to pilot Jason Dahl: “Beware any cockpit intrusion-two a/c hit World Trade Center.”ĭahl, seemingly confused, wrote back, “Ed, confirm latest mssg plz-Jason.” While all 44 people aboard the plane were killed, countless people who might’ve perished in Washington were spared because of a passenger revolt-a heroic struggle undertaken with whatever low-tech weapons they and the cabin crew members could muster.įlowers are placed along the Wall of Names dedicated to Captain Jason Dahl at the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pensylvania, on September 10, 2011. ![]() But instead of hitting its intended target, the United jet went down in a field in rural Pennsylvania. Like the three other planes hijacked on September 11, Flight 93 was overtaken by al-Qaeda operatives intent on crashing it into a center of American power-in Flight 93’s case, likely the White House or the U.S. Within hours, thousands had died, including hundreds of first responders who’d rushed to the scenes to help.īut after the events quieted and the scope of the damage came into relief, it became clear that there was at least one element of the al-Qaeda terrorist plot where the damage had been mitigated-with the fatal crash of United Airlines Flight 93. Sixteen minutes later, a second jet hit the South Tower. At 8:46 a.m., the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The coordinated terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, unfolded at nightmarish speed.
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