Early morning |270x270px On the morning of 11 September 2001, Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi, and Ahmed al-Nami were in New Jersey to board United Airlines Flight 93, scheduled to depart
Newark International Airport for
San Francisco International Airport. They likely planned to crash the plane into either the
U.S. Capitol Building or the
White House in
Washington, D.C. He made a similar call to Atta, planning to board
American Airlines Flight 11—but not to the other hijacker-pilot,
American Airlines Flight 77's
Hani Hanjour, who was in Virginia. Jarrah also called Şengün, and told her he loved her three times. She asked what was up with him, and he hung up soon after. Around 9:28, 46 minutes after take off, Jarrah's group hijacked the plane, and he took over its controls. They tied red scarves around their heads. At 9:31, Jarrah spoke in English into a voice recorder in the cockpit, attempting to message the cabin: "Ladies and gentlemen: here the captain. [
sic] Please sit down, keep remaining seating. [
sic] We have a bomb on board. So sit." However, the recorder was for the plane's
airband radio
frequency, meaning his audio instead went to the air traffic controllers at
Cleveland ARTCC. He or the other hijackers continued sounding on the frequency. At 9:34, a warning bell was heard, indicating Jarrah was trying to disconnect the plane's
autopilot to change the plane's destination. He instead reset the autopilot so he could tell it to turn Flight 93 east to Washington, D.C. At 9:42 a.m., in response to the hijackings of Flights 11, 77, and 175, the
Federal Aviation Administration ordered a
ground stop on almost all planes nationwide, and for flights in progress to land at the closest available airport. Those in the air were monitored for suspicious activity. At the start of the hijacking, Jarrah had turned off the plane's
transponder, thinking it would stop air traffic control from monitoring his turn towards Washington D.C. However, he left on other devices that broadcast the plane's
flight path and altitude, so Cleveland noticed Flight 93's turn, and started tracking it. Meanwhile, at 9:37, Flight 77 crashed into
the Pentagon near Washington, D.C. Flight 93 then descended 20,000 feet (from a peak of 40,700 feet) until stabilizing at 9:46. Apparently worried it was losing
altitude too quickly, Jarrah jerked the plane's
nose upward, then began another gradual descent. At 9:45, another hijacker asked him whether to open the cockpit door to the other two hijackers; Jarrah replied: "Inform them, and tell him to talk to the pilot; bring the pilot back". The hijackers began preparing for the revolt, either overhearing the plan or sensing it. At 9:57, some passengers started trying to break into the cockpit, but had trouble getting through the door; for the next six minutes, they fought some of the hijackers, excluding at least Jarrah, who stayed inside. He started rolling the plane left and right to knock the passengers and crew off balance, causing the plane to leave its Washington, D.C. course. The revolt nonetheless continued. Jarrah then learned how many people were involved in it, exclaiming, "there are some guys; all those guys"; he instead decided to
pitch the plane's nose up and down. Inside, the passengers and crew started using a
food cart as a
battering ram against the door. A minute later, the pitching stopped, and Jarrah yelled at him to cut off
the oxygen in the cabin. Jarrah then repeated "give it to me!" in Arabic, possibly referring to the plane's
yoke. Moments later, at 10:03, the plane crashed at into a field in
Stonycreek Township in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania. All the people onboard who were still alive died instantly. It is likely that the hijackers intentionally crashed the plane into the ground as a response to the revolt. == Aftermath ==