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1st transcript

courtesy of Joe Vialls via Memory Hole

[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]

A US court deciding on a sentence for convicted 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui has released a full transcript from the cockpit voice recorder of one of the planes hijacked on the day.
Here is a second trnascript of the last moments of United Airlines flight 93, recorded before it crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. from the BBC
0931:
"Ladies and Gentlemen. Here the captain, please sit down keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit."
0932:
"Er, uh... Calling Cleveland Centre... You're unreadable. Say again slowly."

"Don't move. Shut up."

"Come on, come."

"Shut up."

"Don't move."

"Stop."
"Sit, sit, sit down."
"Sit down."
"(In Arabic:) [Unintelligible]... the brother."
"Stop."
0933:
"No more. Sit down."
"(In Arabic:) That's it, that's it, that's it. (In English:) Down, down.
"Shut up."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"We just, we didn't get it clear... Is that United 93 calling?"
"(In Arabic:) Jassim."
"(In Arabic:) In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most compassionate."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Finish, no more. No more."
"No. No, no, no, no."
"No, no, no, no."
0934:
"Go ahead, lie down. Lie down. Down, down, down."
"(In Arabic:) There is someone... Huh?
"Down, down, down. Sit down. Come on, sit down. No, no, no, no, no. No.
"Down, down, down."
"Down."
"No more."
"No more. Down."
"Please, please, please....
"Down."
"Please, please, don't hurt me..."
"Down. No more."
"Oh God."
"Down, down, down."
"Sit down."
"Shut up."
"No more."
"(In Arabic) This?"
"Yes."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) One moment, one moment."
"[Unintelligible.]"
0935:
"No more."
"Down, down, down, down."
"No, no, no, no, no, no...."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Sit down, sit down, sit down."
"Down."
(In Arabic:) "What's this?"
"Sit down. Sit down. You know, sit down."
"No, no, no."
"Down, down, down, down."
"Are you talking to me?"
"No, no, no. [Unintelligible.]"
"Down in the airport."
"Down, down."
"I don't want to die."
"No, no. Down. down."
"I don't want to die. I don't want to die."
"No, no. Down, down, down, down, down, down."
"No, no, please."
"No."
0937:
"(In Arabic:) That's it. Go back."
"(In Arabic:) "That's it. (In English) Sit down."
"(In Arabic:) "Everything is fine. I finished."

0938:
"(In Arabic:) Yes."
0939:
"Ah, here's the captain. I would like to tell you all to remain seated. We have a bomb aboard, and we are going back to the airport, and we have our demands. So, please remain quiet."
"Okay. That's 93 calling?"
"(In Arabic:) One moment."
"United 93. I understand you have a bomb on board. Go ahead.
"And centre exec jet 956. That was the transmission."
"Okay. Ah. Who called Cleveland?"
"Executive jet 956, did you understand that transmission?"
"Affirmative. He said that there was a bomb on board."
"That was all that you got out of it also?"
0940
"Affirmative."
"Roger."
"United 93. Go ahead."
"United 93. Go ahead."
"Ahh."
"(In Arabic:) This green knob?"
"(In Arabic:) Yes, that's the one."
0941:
"United 93, do you hear the Cleveland centre?"
"(In Arabic:) One moment. One moment."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Oh man."
0944:
(In Arabic:) "This does not work now."
0945:
"Turn it off."
"(In Arabic:) Seven thousand."
"(In Arabic) How about we let them in? We let the guys in now."
"(In Arabic:) Okay."
"(In Arabic:) Should we let the guys in?"
"(In Arabic:) Inform them, and tell him to talk to the pilot. Bring the pilot back."
"(In Arabic:) In the name of Allah. In the name of Allah. I bear witness that there is no other God but Allah."
0947:
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) Allah knows."
0948:
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Set course."
0949:
"[Unintelligible.]"
0951:
"[Unintelligible.]"
"[Unintelligible.]"
0952:
"[Unintelligible.]"
"[Unintelligible.]"
0953:
"(In Arabic:) The best thing - the guys will go in, lift up the [unintelligible] ... and they put the axe into it. So, everyone will be scared.
"(In Arabic:) Yes."
"(In Arabic:) The axe."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) No, not the...."
"(In Arabic:)Let him look through the window. Let him look through the window.
"[Unintelligible.]"
0954:
"(In Arabic:)Open."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"You are... one..."
0956:
"[Unintelligible.]"
0957:
"(In Arabic:) Is there something?"
"(In Arabic:) A fight?"
"(In Arabic:) Yeah?"
0958:
"[Unintelligible.] (In Arabic:) Let's go, guys. Allah is greatest. Allah is greatest. Oh guys. Allah is greatest."
"Ugh."
"Ugh."
"(In Arabic:) Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh the most gracious."
"Ugh. Ugh."
"Stay back."
"In the cockpit."
"In the cockpit."
"(In Arabic:) They want to get in there. Hold, hold from the inside. Hold from the inside. Hold."
0959:
"Hold the door."
"Stop him."
"Sit down."
"Sit down."
"Sit down."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) What?"
"(In Arabic:) There are some guys. All those guys."
"Let's get them."
"Sit down."
"(In Arabic:) What?"
"(In Arabic:) What."
"(In Arabic:) What?"
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) What?"
"[Unintelligible.]"
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) Trust in Allah, and in him."
"Sit down."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Ahh."
"[Unintelligible.]"
1000:
"(In Arabic:) There is nothing."
"(In Arabic:) Is that it? Shall we finish it off?"
"(In Arabic:) No. Not yet."
"(In Arabic:) When they all come, we finish it off."
"(In Arabic:) There is nothing."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Ahh."
"I'm injured."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Ahh."
"(In Arabic:) Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh gracious."
"In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die."
"(In Arabic:) Up, down. Up, down, in the cockpit."
"(In Arabic:) The cockpit."
"(In Arabic:) Up, down. Saeed, up, down."
"Roll it."
"[Unintelligible.]"

1001:
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down?"
"(In Arabic:) Yes, put it in it, and pull it down."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) Saeed."
"Engine."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) Cut off the oxygen."
"(In Arabic:) Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"[Unintelligible.]"
"(In Arabic:) Up, down. Up, down.
"(In Arabic:) What?
"(In Arabic:) Up, down.
"Ahh."
"Ahh."
"[Unintelligible.]"
"Ahh."
"Shut them off."
1002:
"Shut them off."
"Go."
"Go."
"Move."
"Move."
"Turn it up."
"(In Arabic:) Down, down."
"(In Arabic:) Pull it down. Pull it down."
"Down. Push, push, push, push, push."
"(In Arabic:) Hey. Hey. Give it to me. Give it to me."
"(In Arabic:) Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me."
"(In Arabic:) Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me."
"[Unintelligible.]"
1003:
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest."
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest."
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest."
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest."
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest."
"No."
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest."
"(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest."