NYDIA GONZALEZ
What's going on, Betty? Betty, talk to me. Betty, are you there? Betty? [Inaudible] Do you think we lost her? O.K., so we'll like - we'll stay open. We - I think we might have lost her.
AAL
O.K.
8:24 AM0 minute, 38 seconds
A Boston F.A.A. controller hears an American 11 hijacker saying “We have some planes,” and “We are returning to the airport.”
BOSTON
Is that American 11 trying to call?
MOHAMED ATTA
[Inaudible] We have some planes. Just stay quiet and we’ll be O.K. We are returning to the airport.
BOSTON
And, uh, who’s trying to call me, here?
BOSTON
American 11 are you trying to call?
MOHAMED ATTA
Nobody move, everything will be O.K. If you try to make any moves, you will injure yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.
8:37 AM0 minute, 26 seconds
An Air traffic controller named Joseph Cooper at F.A.A.’s Boston Center calls Sgt. Jeremy W. Powell of North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad)’s Northeast sector (NEADS), alerting them of a suspected hijacking of American 11.
