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Flight 93 Memorial
The last messages from United flight 93:
After a long pause, the recording device then picks up the sound of banging on the cockpit door.
"There is something, a fight?" one of the hijackers asks.
Another replies: "Yeah."
Some of the passengers have by now made cell phone calls to their loved ones, telling them they are going to try to take back control of the airplane rather than let innocent people on the ground be included in the carnage.
At least one person on board Flight 93 apparently thought at this point that the group could successfully overpower the hijackers and save their fellow passengers, the transcript suggests.
"Shall we finish it off?" a hijacker says in English.
"In the cockpit! If we don't, we die," someone shouts in English.
An individual says in Arabic: "Should we put it down?"
Sounds then indicate a struggle in the cockpit as the plane vibrates violently.
Someone yells in English: "Pull it up!"
"Shall we put it down?" one hijacker asks. Another replies: "Yes, put it down."
An Arabic speaker says: "Allah is the greatest."
In English comes the shout: "No!"
The recording ends with the repeat of the words "Allah is the greatest."
Then there is silence.
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