AnkooshGawande BCAG UA 93 ATC Contact Lyrics

[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 dark cloud like a puff of black smoke.
[Tape ends]