The 4th Airliner Shot Down?

Matthew Gaylor freematt at coil.com
Wed Sep 12 08:31:39 PDT 2001


[Note from Matthew Gaylor:  Are any sound files of this 911 call available?]

http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0109120251sep12.story

 From the Chicago Tribune

911 call preceded fiery Pennsylvania crash

Frantic passenger relates hijacking via cell phone
By Julia Keller and Jon Yates, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune news 
services contributed to this report

September 12, 2001

LAMBERTSVILLE, Pa. -- The call came at 9:58 a.m., a frantic message 
from a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, on a wayward path 
over western Pennsylvania.

[...]

Dan Stevens, spokesman for the Westmoreland County Department of 
Public Safety, said a dispatcher received a 911 call from a man 
aboard the flight just before 10 a.m. EDT. The man, calling from a 
cell phone, told the dispatcher the plane had been hijacked.
"He repeated that phrase several times," Stevens said.

The man told dispatchers the plane "was going down," said Glenn 
Cramer, a dispatching supervisor at the call center. "He said he 
heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the 
plane." Officials said the call cut off after about one minute.

[...]

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