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Law. Enforcement Sensitive (LES) At approximately 8:42 AM, UA Flight 93 departed Newark International Airport en route to San Francisco with 37 passengers and seven crew members. A review of the cockpit voice recorder, text messages between the plane and UA flight operations at JFK Airport, and the fight siraulation provided by the Nationa! Transporfation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed the following sequence of events: (LES) UA Flight 93 reached a cruising altitude of more than 35,000 feet and the automatic pilot was engaged by 9:15. AM. At#:20 AM, a time by which both WTC towers had been bit and AA 77 had been hijacked, UA Flight 93 received a text message from UA’s flight operations center inquiring about the co-pilot. Neither the pilot nor co-~mlot responded to this message. A second message warning of possible cockpit intrusions in view of the World Trade Center attacks was sent at 0:24 AM and acknowledged by the pilot at about 9:26 AM. The NTSB simulation showed a manual override to change altitude and direction at about 9:28 AM. Initially, the airplane climbed to more than 40,000 feet and turned from west to east. While the autopilot did remain on for the rest of the flight, the hijackers caused the airplane to descend gradually from approximately 40,000 feet to approximately 5,000 feet. (LES) The aircrait’s cockpit voice recorder was on a 30 minute taping cycle, therefore the initial hyacker assault on Flight 93 was not captured on audio tape. Shortly after the apparent takeover of Flight 93, air traffic controllers in Cleveland received a distress call in English. Shortly thereafter, at approximately 9:31 AM, the cockpit voice recorder picked up. (LES) Interviews with the surviving relatives and friends of the United Airlines Flight 93 victims revealed a number of pre-crash telephone calls which pertained to the takeover of the aircraft. At approximately 9:37 AM, passenger Mark Bingham spoke with Hiaan onbeard air phone. Bingham told ha he was ona fight from Newark to San Francisco and that three men had taken over the plane, stating that they had a bomb. (LES) At approximately 9:37 AM, passenger Jeremy Glick spoke wi é Richard Makel, Glick told his family that three dark-skinned males wearing bandanas had hijacked bis flight. The hijackers were armed with knives and one claimed to have a bomb. Glick said that the hijackers herded the passengers to the rear of the plane. Glick said that the hijackers had indicated if they were unable to crash the plane into the World Trade Center, they were going to blow up the plane. One of the hijackers told the passengers to call their loved ones. According to Glick, all three hijackers entered the cockpit. Glick told____khat four other male passengers were contemplating tushing the hijackers. Glick then said he had to go and asked her notte hang up the phone. who advised that he heard alternating periods of silence followed by high-pitched screaming sounds which were subsequently followed by wind sounds, and then silence. 76 Law Enforcement Sensitive MISC. REQ. #44 000003914 omnes