Command Center
Updates FAA Headquarters on UA 93
September 11,
2001
10:08 AM: Command
Center updates FAA Headquarters on UA 93 [4th
impact, PA] hijacking, 5 minutes after it has crashed:
COMMAND CENTER: O.K. Uh, there is now on that United 93.
FAA HEADQUARTERS: Yes.
COMMAND CENTER: There is a report of black smoke in the last position I gave you, fifteen miles south of Johnstown.
FAA HEADQUARTERS: From the airplane or from the ground?
COMMAND CENTER: Uh, they're speculating it's from the aircraft.
FAA HEADQUARTERS: Okay.
COMMAND CENTER: Uh, who, it hit the ground. That's what they're speculating, that's speculation only.
The aircraft that spotted the "black
smoke" was the same unarmed Air National Guard cargo
plane that had seen American 77 crash into the Pentagon
26 minutes earlier. It had resumed its flight to Minnesota
and saw the smoke from the crash of United 93, less than
two minutes after the plane went down.