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January 27, 2006
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The Centre for Cooperative Research on WWW reported that United Airlines Flight 93 bound for San Francisco, California took off at 8.42 a.m. from Newark International Airport, 41 minutes behind schedule. As per the protocol the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) "automatically targets passengers for additional screening based on suspicious behavior such as buying one-way tickets or paying with cash. If a passenger is selected, their bags are thoroughly screened for explosives, but their bodies are not searched." The CAPPS did select Ahmad Alhaznawi of flight 93 and searched the bag for explosives, but was not stopped. UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93 on WWW reported that the United Airlines Flight 93 carried 33 passengers and 7 crew members, whereas sadnews.net on WWW reported that there were 2 pilots, 5 flight attendants and 38 passengers. The plane was captained by Jason Dahl, 43 along with another pilot LeRoy Homer, 36. The crew members consisted of Lorraine Bay, Sandra Bradshaw, Wanda Green, CeeCee Lyles and Deborah Welsh.
The Centre for Cooperative Research on WWW stated that Ed Ballinger a flight dispatcher for United Airlines sent warning signals of the first WTC crash a few minutes after 9.00 a.m., content of the message was not known obviously still not advising the pilots to bar entry into cockpit.
Tonya Buell stated that at 9.02 a.m. one of the pilots of United Airline 's flight 93 confirmed the flashing of message "Beware, cockpit intrusion" on its computer screen. At 9.26 a.m. voices were heard in the United Airlines flight 93 cockpit – "Get out of here! Get out of here!"
The Centre for Cooperative Research on WWW reported that at 9.27 a.m. Tom Burnett a passenger called up his wife Deena Burnett and informed of hijack of United Airlines flight 93. The time of hijacking being a contentious issue NORAD claimed that the hijack had taken



Cited: Bill Gertz. Breakdown: How America 's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11. September 25, 2002. ISBN 0895261480. Paul Thompson. "Complete 911 Timeline: United Airlines Flight 93" Center for Cooperative Research. Page retrieved on January 26, 2006. Stefan M. Aubrey. "The New Dimension of International Terrorism" August 2004. ISBN 3728129496 Tonya Buell. "The Crash of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001" January 1, 2003. ISBN 0823938573. United Airline Boeing 757, Flight 93, Newark to San Francisco, Sept. 11, 2001. Page retrieved on January 27, 2006. UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93. Page retrieved on January 27, 2006.

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