![]() Judge Brinkema must pronounce whatever punishment the jurors decide upon. Moussaoui was a terrorist hanger-on whose mental instability makes him deserving of life in prison, not execution. Prosecutors are trying to show that, even though he was in jail by that day, he deserves to be put to death because he concealed his knowledge about Al Qaeda's plans.ĭefense lawyers hope to show that Mr. ![]() Moussaoui, 37, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with the Sept. Moussaoui's lawyers try to portray him as a pathetic, unstable figure who should spend the rest of his life in prison rather than be put to death. Brinkema are to begin hearing the defense's case as Mr. On Thursday, the jury and Federal District Judge Leonie M. The long-awaited playing of the cockpit recorder, which has never been heard in public before, came as the prosecution neared the end of its case. Moments later, the jet crashed, with such force that there was little left but ashes. "If we don't, we'll die."Īs some of the passengers are trying to break into the cockpit, the chant "Allah is the greatest!" is uttered nine times in Arabic. Hold."Ī minute or so later, a hijacker says in Arabic, "When they all come, we finish it off." "They want to get in here," a hijacker says in Arabic. Near the end of the recording, as the plane is pitching up and down wildly and descending fast, there are sounds of the attempted takeover by rebellious passengers. "Two passengers have had their throats cut," Ms. "They'll probably take you to another country." Britton told her the plane had been hijacked. One that did was from Marion Britton, a passenger, to a friend. While it may never be certain what that exchange hinted, a chilling possibility was offered on Tuesday, when information was offered about the nearly 40 telephone calls that Flight 93 passengers attempted during the ordeal. Moments later, about six minutes after the plane was seized, a hijacker says in Arabic, "Everything is fine. Down, down, down, down, down, down," another voice says. "I don't want to die," says one person, apparently a woman. "No, no, no, no." someone says moments later. ![]() "In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most compassionate," a hijacker says early on. In some cases, the hijackers' words in Arabic are accompanied by printed English translations.īut despite the confusion, and despite what is already known about the fate of Flight 93 from the dozens of calls from people on board to relatives and friends, the recording heard today reawakened the pain of a September morning. ![]() In some instances, it is hard to tell if a speaker is American or Arab, man or woman. "No more! No more!" someone says in the background. and a few minutes past 10, when it went down near Shanksville, Pa. The recording, played before a rapt federal court jury that will decide whether the terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui should be put to death or spend the rest of his days in prison, offered a partial but still harrowing picture of what went on between 9:31 a.m. 11, 2001, after passengers made a heroic but futile attempt to retake it. The 31-minute recording follows the route of the doomed plane from its hijacking over Ohio to the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania, where it crashed on the morning of Sept. ![]() "Please sit down, keep remaining seating. "Ladies and gentlemen: here the captain," a heavily accented voice begins over a constant crackle. Timeline of the transcript and the plane's flight is also at the bottom of this pageĪLEXANDRIA, Va., April 12-Sounds of panic, chaos and violence filled a courtroom today as the last minutes of United Airlines Flight 93 were relived through the jetliner's cockpit voice recorder. Transcript of the tape is available at the bottom of this page The cockpit voice recorder of Flight 93, recovered from the wreckage. 9/11: Flight 93 Flight Recorder Transcript ![]()
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