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United Airlines Flight 93 cockpit tape transcript

The U.S. District Court hearing the penalty phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui 9/11 trial released the transcript of the cockpit tape from the hijacked United Air Lines Flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania.  Here is that transcript.
/ Source: msnbc.com

United Airlines Flight #93 Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript
Key:  Bolded text = English translation from Arabic
Time (EDT) – Transcript

09:31:57 -- Ladies and Gentlemen: Here the captain, please sit down keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit.

09:32:09 -- Er, uh... Calling Cleveland Center ... You're unreadable. Say again slowly.

09:32:10 -- Don 't move. Shut up.

09:32:13 -- Come on, come.

09:32:16 -- Shut up.

09:32:17 -- Don't move.

09:32:18 -- Slop.

09:32:34 -- Sit, sit, sit down.

09:32:39 -- Sit down.

09:32:41 -- Unintelligible ... the brother.

09:32:54 -- Stop.

09:33:09 -- No more. Sit down.

09:33:10 -- That's it, that's it, that's it, down, down.

09:33:14 -- Shut up.

09:33:20 -- Unintelligible.

09:33:20 -- We just, we didn '1 get it clear .. . Is that United Ninety Three calling?

09:33:30 -- Jassim.

09:33:34 -- In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.

09:33:41 -- Unintelligible.

09:33:43 -- Finish, no more. No more.

09:33:49 -- No. No, no, no, no.

09:33:53 -- No, no, no, no.

09:34:00 -- Go ahead, lie down. Lie down. Down, down, down.

09:34:06 -- There is someone... Huh?

09:34:12 -- Down. down, down. Sit down. Come on, sit down. No, no, no, no, no. No.

09:34:16 -- Down, down, down.

09:34:21 -- Down.

09:34:25 -- No more.

09:34:26 -- No more. Down.

09:34:27 -- Please, please, please. .,

09:34:28 -- Down.

09:34:29 -- Please, please, don't hurt me...

09:34:30 -- Down. No more.

09:34:31 -- Oh God.

09:34:32 -- Down, down, down.

09:34:33 -- Sit down.

09:34:34 -- Shut up.

09:34:42 -- No more.

09:34:46 -- This?

09:34:47 -- Yes.

09:34:47 -- Unintelligible.

09:34:57 -- One moment, one moment

09:34:59 -- Unintelligible.

09:35:03 -- No more.

09:35:06 -- Down, down, down, down.

09:35:09 -- No, no, no, no, no, no . ..

09:35:10 -- Unintelligible...

09:35:15 -- Sit down, sit down, sit down.

09:35:17 -- Down.

09:35:18 -- What's this?

09:35:19 -- Sit down. Sit down. You know, sit down.

09:35:24 -- No, no, no.

09:35:30 -- Down, down, down, down.

09:35:32 -- Are you talking to me?

09:35:33 -- No, no, no. Unintelligible.

09:35:35 -- Down in the airport.

09:35:39 -- Down, down.

09:35:40 -- I don't want to die,

09:35:41 -- No, no. Down, down.

09:35:42 -- I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

09:35:44 -- No, no. Down, down, down. down, down, down.

09:35:47 -- No, no, please.

09:35:57 -- No.

09:37:06 -- That's it. go back.

09:37:06 -- That's it. Sit down.

09:37:36 -- Everything is fine. I finished.

09:38:36 -- Yes.

09:39:11 -- Ah. Here's the captain; I would like to tell you all to remain seated. We have a bomb aboard, and we are going back to the airport, and we have our demands. So, please remain quiet,

09:39:21 -- Okay. That's ninety three calling?

09:39:24 -- One moment.

09:39:34 -- United ninety three. I understand you have a bomb on board. Go ahead.

09:39:42 -- And center execjet nine fifty six. That was the transmission,

09:39:47 -- Okay. Ah. Who called Cleveland?

09:39:52 -- Executive jet nine fifty six, did you understand that transmission?

09:39:56 -- Affirmative. He said that there was a bomb on board,

09:39:58 -- That was all that you got out of it also?

09:40:01 -- Affirmative.

09:40:03 -- Roger,

09:40:03 -- United ninety three. Go ahead.

09:40:14 -- United ninety three. Go ahead.

09:40:17 -- Ahhh.

09:40:52 -- This green knob?

09:40:54 -- Yes, that's the one.

09:41:05 -- United ninety three, do you hear the Cleveland center?

09:41:14 -- One moment. One moment.

09:41:15 -- Unintelligible.

09:41:56 -- Oh man.

09:44:18 -- This does not work now.

09:45:13 -- Turn it off.

09:45:16 -- ... Seven thousand...

09:45:19 -- How about we let them in? We let the guys in now.

09:45:23 -- Okay.

09:45:24 -- Should we let the guys in?

09:45:25 -- Inform them, and tell him to talk to the pilot. Bring the pilot back.

09:45:57 -- In the name of Allah. In the name of Allah. I bear witness that there is no other God, but Allah.

09:47:31 -- Unintelligible.

09:47:40 -- Allah knows.

09:48:15 -- Unintelligible.

09:48:38 -- Set course.

09:49:37 -- Unintelligible.

09:51:27 -- Unintelligible,

09:51:35 -- Unintelligible.

09:52.02 -- Unintelligible.

09:52:31 -- Unintelligible.

09:53:20 -- The best thing: The guys will go in, lift up the ... Unintelligible . .. and they put the axe into it. So, everyone will be scared.

09:53:27 -- Yes.

09:53:28 -- The axe.

09:53:28 -- Unintelligible.

09:53:29 -- No, not the

09:53:35 -- Let him look through the window. Let him look through the window.

09:53.52 -- Unintelligible.

09:54:09 -- Open.

09:54:11 -- Unintelligible,

09:55:06 -- You are... One...

09:56:15 -- Unintelligible.

09:57:55 -- Is there something?

09:57:57 -- A fight?

09:57:59 -- Yeah?

09:58:33 -- Unintelligible. Let's go guys. Allah is Greatest. Allah is Greatest. Oh guys. Allah is Greatest

09:58:41 -- Ugh.

09:58:43 -- Ugh.

09:58:44 -- Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh the most Gracious.

09:58:47 -- Ugh. Ugh.

09:58:52 -- Stay back.

09:58:55 -- In the cockpit.

09:58:57 -- In the cockpit.

09:58:57 -- They want to get in there. Hold, hold from the inside. Hold from the inside. Hold.

09:59:04 -- Hold the door.

09:59:09 -- Stop him.

09:59:11 -- Sit down.

09:59:13 -- Sit down.

09:59:15 -- Sit down.

09:59:16 -- Unintelligible.

09:59:17 -- What?

09:59:18 -- There are some guys. All those guys.

09:59:20 -- Let's get them.

09:59:25 -- Sit down.

09:59:29 -- What?

09:59:30 -- What

09:59:31 -- What?

09:59:36 -- Unintelligible.

09:59:37 -- What?

09:59:39 -- Unintelligible.

09:59:41 -- Unintelligible.

09:59:42 -- Trust in Allah, and in him.

09:59:45 -- Sit down.

09:59:47 -- Unintelligible.

09:59:53 -- Ahh.

09:59:55 -- Unintelligible.

09:59:58 -- Ahh.

10:00:06 -- There is nothing.

10:00:07 -- Is that it? Shall we finish it off?

10:00:08 -- No. Not yet.

10:00:09 -- When they all come, we finish it off.

10:00:11 -- There is nothing.

10:00:13 -- Unintelligible.

10:00:14 -- Ahh.

10:00:15 -- I'm injured.

10:00:16 -- Unintelligible.

10:00:21 -- Ahh.

10:00:22 -- Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh Gracious.

10:00:25 -- In the cockpit. If we don't, we '11 die.

10:00:29 -- Up, down. Up, down, in the cockpit.

10:00:33 -- The cockpit.

10:00:37 -- Up, down. Saeed, up, down.

10:00:42 -- Roll it.

10:00:55 -- Unintelligible.

10:00:59 -- Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest

10:01:01 -- Unintelligible.

10:01:08 -- Is that it? I mean, shall we pull it down?

10:01:09 -- Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.

10:01:10 -- Unintelligible.

10:01:11 -- Saeed.

10:01:12 -- . . . engine . ..

10:01:13 -- Unintelligible.

10:01:16 -- Cut off the oxygen.

10:01:18 -- Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen. Cut off the oxygen.

10:01:34 -- Unintelligible,

10:01:37 -- Unintelligible.

10:01:41 -- Up, down. Up, down.

10:01:41 -- What?

10:01:42 -- Up, down.

10:01:42 -- Ahh.

10:01:53 -- Ahh.

10:01:54 -- Unintelligible.

10:01:55 -- Ahh.

10:01:59 -- Shut them off:

10:02:03 -- Shut them off.

10:02:14 -- Go.

10:02:14 -- Go.

10:02:15 -- Move.

10:02:16 -- Move.

10:02:17 -- Turn it up.

10:02:18 -- Down, down.

10:02:23 -- Pull it down. Pull it down.

10:02:25 -- Down. Push, push, push, push, push.

10:02:33 -- Hey. Hey. Give it to me. Give it to me.

10:02:35 -- Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.

10:02:37 -- Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.

10:02:40 -- Unintelligible.

10:03:02 -- Allah is the Greatest.

10:03:03 -- Allah is the Greatest

10:03:04 -- Allah is the Greatest.

10:03:06 -- Allah is the Greatest.

10:03:06 -- Allah is the Greatest.

10:03:07 -- No.

10:03:09 -- Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest.

10:03:09 -- Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest