Cockpit transcript is chilling

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial heardlast week the tape from the cockpit voice recorder of United Airlines Flight 93. The transcript is chilling. Here are some excerpts from the final minutes before the airplane crashed in a Pennsylvania field, killing everyone on board.
09:58:57 (Terrorist) They want to get in there. Hold, hold from the inside. Hold from the inside. Hold.
10:00:25 (A passenger) In the cockpit. If we don’t, we’ll die.
10:01:08 (Terrorist) Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down?
10:01:09 Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.
10:01:16 Cut off the oxygen.
10:02:18 Down, down.
10:03:09 Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

25 Comments

  1. J M Walker
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 8:19 am | Permalink

    Why are you opening this up? It has been written about in every paper in the country. While the transcript should be available to the public, I, for one, find it to be an intimate look at something that, if it wasn’t real, should be on some reality show. There is already a movie about it: Hollywoods’ way of making money off an American tragedy.

    The real story is Zacarias Moussaoui, and whether or not he deserves the death penalty.

  2. writerdog
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    (this is a quote from a piece I wrote shortly after 9-11 call “Your really do not know me”)

    You really do not know me, your martyrs die to kill the innocent, ours die to save the innocent. Look to those who died on flight 93, who’s do you think will be welcome to heaven with open arms?

  3. Outlander
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    What the passengers did on that flight is, in my opinion, the greatest story to come out of 911. They would not be intimidated. They went down fighting and died heroically.

  4. Joe Williams
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 10:01 am | Permalink

    If anybody has been following the Zacarias Moussaoui trial, you should understand that he is not an isolated or unusual person of circumstance. There are thousands of Zacarias Moussaouis in the Islamic World who think exactly what he says in that courtroom about Americans.

    NPR does a great job giving updates and transcripts of the trail.

  5. Rom Lewis
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 10:08 am | Permalink

    Wait till they find out that Allah is gay…that will twist their turbins

  6. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    No, the real story is NOT why Zacarias Moussaoui should or should not die, the real story is why these people on flight 93 were herded into a war created by Zionist Jews murdering Arabs, Palestinians is particular, and why the truth of the matter is being hidden away.

    Unless you’re too stupid read Haaretz.com or the Jerusalem Post.com, and find out how many Palestinians were murdered in-cold-blood today, then maybe that old, but not so familiar light-bulb will appear over your heads.

    But, by the way you fail to address this very real and obvious problem, you must be a party to it.

  7. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    Haaretz:

    Last week Defense Minister Shual Mofaz reduced the safety range down from 300 meters in an effort to put a stop to Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

    Attorney Michael Sfarad claimed on behalf of the human rights organizations that Mofaz’s decision deliberately endangers Palestinian lives because the shells are known to land within a 100-meter spread from their targets.

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/706309.html

  8. Outlander
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 12:37 pm | Permalink

    Ed the one trick pony.

  9. Joe Blow
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

    Somebody take that lame old pony out back and shoot it, put it out of our misery!

  10. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 4:24 pm | Permalink

    You Zionists are a gas.

  11. Ben Huie
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

    Ed, while I agree with you on many things I also have to agree that you are far too much a “Johnny one-note”. The evil of the occupation does not justify the evil of the hijackings.

  12. RD
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    So these Arabs were shouting, “Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest.” And, “Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down?”

    Their English was excellent. Especially that “I mean” part.

  13. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

    60 Minutes just showed Palestinians in jail serving time for organizing suicide bombings. They watch cable TV and are delivered newspapers.

    My, my, my, I had no idea that the Zionists Jews were being so sweet to their captives.

    Goody, goody, now somebody flush it, it’s starting to stinking-up the room.

  14. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

    already.

  15. XXX
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    Well Ed, there’s another one who wants to shoot you. Why is it always conservatives who want somebody shot? I don’t believe I’ve heard a lib talk about shooting another blogger.

  16. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Ed,

    Maybe next week 60 minutes will do an expose of the Lavon Affair, or the attack on the USS Liberty or the murder of Rachel Corrie, or … never mind, don’t hold hold your breath waiting for any of that.

    Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!

  17. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

    XXX, Actually that’s interesting, that they’d want to shoot me. Evidently, I’ve painted them back into a corner where’s there’s no argument left…..time for war….

    They’re fearful of an opinion, not some action, not retribution for being wronged, just an opinion.

    That’s interesting.

  18. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

    Ian, The 60 minutes bit was so staged for exaggerated propaganda as to be a bit funny. The Zionists are outside lobing artillery shells into helpless civilians and depicted as treating these captured Palestinians as though they were in Las Vegas. Do the Zionists think we are that dumb? I guess because we’ve been so gullible in the past as not to be able to see through their staging, even now that we know better.

    Holding themselves as victims from day one, with us buying into it, has added arrogance to their act.

  19. brown
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 11:07 pm | Permalink

    I think it seems odd that for as much as they hated America and everything that it stands for, they at least knew english. That is more than I can say for the illegal immigrants that seem to be taking over these days.

  20. Posted April 16, 2006 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

    We’re they speaking English on the tape?

    Because it’d be really bizarre for an Arab to be yelling “God is Great” in English.

    Even I know it’s “Allah Akhbar” in Arabic because I’ve heard them say it so much.

  21. Rage
    Posted April 16, 2006 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

    No, if memory serves, it was a translation. I read the 9-11 report.

  22. Posted April 17, 2006 at 12:20 am | Permalink

    Right . . . I just “googled” it. The original is in Arabic.

    Funny, everyone was speculating about the crash for months going on years.

    I wonder why they didn’t tell us before it was the terrorists who deliberately crashed the jet?

  23. RD
    Posted April 17, 2006 at 1:43 am | Permalink

    Tru, maybe because it isn’t polite to ask questions about dead heroes?

    Okay, don’t anybody jump on me. I enjoy playing devil’s advocate sometimes…and I have a very suspicious nature. :)

  24. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 17, 2006 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

    Ian, My post: ” You Zionists are a gas”…..April 16, 2006 at 04:28 PM

    It went right over their crooked little heads…yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa

    I thought that one might smoke-out “bullet Boy.”

  25. Ian Santiago
    Posted April 18, 2006 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Ed,

    That was funny. I think that CruX has flown the coup, so to speak. :)

    V.L.R.B!!