Atta is believed to have been a ringleader of the hijackers , but it is not known whether he wrote the letter 阿塔据信是劫机者中的头目，但目前不清楚信件是否出自他手。
Passengers were ordered by the hijackers to use their mobile phones to call their families to tell them that they were going to die 乘客们被劫机者命令用他们的移动电话告诉自己的家人即将赴死。
It is widely suspected that the hijackers had used air timetables , amongst other things , to coordinate their attacks 普遍的怀疑看法是，除了其它一些东西外，劫机者还使用了航空时刻表，用以协调他们的袭击。
Authorities today released a chilling handwritten letter that investigators believe helped to prepare the hijackers for their deadly suicide mission 美国官方今天公布了一封被认为是指导劫机者进行自杀式任务的手写书信。
With great courage and resolve , the passengers and crew of flight 93 prevented their plane from reaching its likely target , the white house or the capitol building 在强大的勇气和决心下， 93号航班的乘客和机组人员成功阻止了劫机者驾驶飞机撞向可能的目标，白宫或是国会大厦。
As the armed hijackers moved through the planes , stabbing crew members to force them to co - operate , passengers also locked themselves in lavatories to frantically ring relatives and emergency services 那些武装的劫机者在穿过飞机，刺伤机组成员，命令他们合作，乘客们被关在厕所里，疯狂地打电话给亲戚们和紧急事务部门。
Homeland security department undersecretary asa hutchinson said monday such a system could have caught hijackers mohammed atta , who had overstayed his visa on a previous occasion , and hani hanjour , when he failed to show up at school as required by his student visa 美国边境和运输安全部的副部长胡特金森5月19日说，如果当初使用这样一套系统，那么签证过期的9 11劫机者穆罕默德阿塔和没能在学校出示学生签证的哈尼汉珠尔就可以被制止了。
Homeland security department undersecretary asa hutchinson said monday such a system could have caught hijackers mohammed atta , who had overstayed his visa on a previous occasion , and hani hanjour , when he failed to show up at school as required by his student visa 美国边境和运输安全部的副部长胡特金森5月19日说，如果当初使用这样一套系统，那么签证过期的9 ? 11劫机者穆罕默德?阿塔和没能在学校出示学生签证的哈尼?汉珠尔就可以被制止了。
They spent part of monday morning at a firehouse near the site before traveling to the field near shanksville , pennsylvania , where 40 people died after wresting control of hijacked plane . the bushes then returned to washington and placed a wreath at the pentagon site where a fourth hijacked plane killed 184 people upon crashing . earlier in the day , vice president dick cheney spoke during a memorial ceremony at the pentagon 周一早上，他们来到"归零地"附近的一个消防站进行悼念，之后，他们前往宾西法尼亚州的shanksville地区出席另外一个悼念活动-在9 11事件中，一架被劫持的飞机因乘客和劫机者搏斗，最终在shanksville附近的一个空旷地坠毁，机上40人全部遇难。
By this theory , the people who chose to jump from the world trade center rather than burning to death were not suicidal ; neither were the passengers on flight 93 who courageously fought the hijackers for control of the plane that ultimately crashed into a pennsylvania field ; and neither were the hijackers who flew the planes into the buildings 根据这个理论，宁愿选择从纽约世贸大楼跳下也不愿烧死的人，并不是自杀； 93航班上那些为了夺回飞机控制权而与劫机者搏斗、最终坠机死于宾州田野的英勇乘客，也不是自杀；就连驾驶飞机撞击世贸大楼的劫机者，也不是自杀。
