![]() ![]() "Let's roll," someone said, the oft-quoted signal from a passenger who led the revolt. ![]() "Are you ready?" someone asked in the background. The phone operator could hear commotion and Beamer shouting, "The plane is going down!" He reported three males with knives and "one wearing a bomb." He believed the pilot and co-pilot were dead or injured on the floor in first class. Their idea was to first rush "the little guy with the bomb." But he said he was only able to "arm himself with a breakfast knife." He said that they "all had knives" but that three passengers "about as big as" him were planning to try to take back the plane. dark-skinned and with red bandanas on their heads." Guidetti said Glick also told her that "two hijackers were in the cockpit, and a third had a red belt with a box that constituted some kind of a bomb." He told her the plane had been hijacked by "three males appearing to be Iranian. Others, however, did think it worthwhile to try to fight back, and famously stormed the cockpit in a desperate bid to seize control - or to at least prevent the hijackers from flying the plane into another target. She reported there were only two hijackers, one in the cockpit, the other in first class.īradshaw said the plane was flying very unevenly, that it "seemed to be taking a few dives." She was boiling water in the rear of the plane "to throw on one of the hijackers." In another call to her husband she expressed her love for him and their children and, said Guidetti, "she knew she was going to die." Sandra Bradshaw three times speed-dialed a United Airlines office. He reported the plane had been "hijacked by three men with a bomb." Then he sent his love "in case he did not see them again."įlight attendants also were calling. He feared they planned simply to "fly it into the ground," Guidetti said. expected the hijackers to just ditch the plane. She knew the trade center had been attacked and was "afraid the hijackers were going to take this one down as well," Guidetti said. ![]() Linda Gronlund called her sister and left a voice-mail message. "But she had to go, because everyone was running toward the cockpit." "She realized she was going to die," Guidetti said. He was assigned to a special FBI anti-terrorism task force in Newark, and he methodically led the jury through what law enforcement has pieced together of the last minutes of the flight. Ray Guidetti of the New Jersey State Police to the witness stand. ![]() To document the Flight 93 calls for the jury, prosecutors brought Detective Sgt. A voice, apparently that of the pilot, can be heard exclaiming, "Mayday!" and then, "Get out of here!" On Tuesday, prosecutors played an air traffic control tape of the moment when hijackers took over the cockpit. Its airing for the Moussaoui jury will mark the first time the public will hear how some passengers dealt with the hijackers in the cockpit. That recording has been played only for relatives of the dead passengers and crew. Prosecutors plan to wrap up their case today by playing the cockpit recording tape that was recovered from the strip mining field near Shanksville, Pa., where the plane crashed. Prosecutors said 37 phone calls were made by 13 passengers and flight attendants, most of them using air phones. The calls were summarized by a police officer testifying in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial. The calls also showed that most of the passengers were confused about how many hijackers had commandeered the plane, where they came from or whether their weapons were knives or a bomb, or both.Īnd their chance at survival seemed all the more futile when they learned through the phone calls that two other planes already had been flown into the World Trade Center, and so they expected that their hijackers "were going to take this one down as well." ![]()
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