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United 93 · 2006 — 第 5 / 17 章 · 3'19" · B2

FAA Command Center Goes on Alert, Explained：battle stations

The hijacking reaches the FAA command center as a rumor and leaves as a national emergency. Controllers are told, “This is real world. Possible hijack,” then ordered to track the plane and call the FAA. A flight attendant's call confirms the worst: “the aircraft is being hijacked and one or more people have been stabbed.”

あらすじ

At the FAA's command center, a controller reports a possible hijacking out of Boston. The room goes to work: tracking the plane, calling the FAA for its last known position, and putting Otis on battle stations. Then a call from American Airlines confirms a flight attendant reported the plane was hijacked and people had been stabbed.

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注目の表現

NORDOcrapget in touch withcall sign

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このシーンの表現

battle stations

combat readiness

The command center orders Otis Air Base to battle stations for the hijacked plane.

The base went to battle stations within minutes.

このシーンの他の表現

  • NORDO

    no radio contact

  • crap

    junk or nonsense

  • get in touch with

    contact someone

  • call sign

    a radio identifier

  • stabbed

    wounded with a knife

このシーンのメモ一覧

60 行のセリフに 20 件のメモ

表現 · B2a possible hijack

a suspected hijacking

We got a possible hijack in progress out of Boston.
表現 · B2tracking techs

tracking operators

Surveillance, get your tracking techs on scopes.
表現 · B1pop up

appear again

I wanna know if he pops up again.
表現 · B2last known position

the latest confirmed location

ID, get on the phones with the FAA. Let's get his last known position.
発音aircraft is

The is reduces to a short, faint s sound.

And now the aircraft is NORDO.
スラング · B2crap

junk or nonsense — Casual put-down; keep it out of formal speech.

We get a lot of that crap.
文法 · B1If it's not confirmed

if-clause: The if-clause sets a condition, and the main clause offers a likely explanation.

If it's not confirmed, it's probably a lost radio call or something.
表現 · B2a ground delay program

ground delay schemes

Yesterday, we had two ground delay programs.
表現 · B1on the floor

in the operations room

Ben, we need you on the floor.
表現 · A2take care of something

deal with it

...and, folks, I'm gonna go out and take care of this.
文法 · B2is being hijacked

present continuous passive: Is being hijacked is the present continuous passive, stressing the hijack is happening now.

Apparently, a flight attendant onboard the aircraft via telephone called the company and she said that the aircraft is being hijacked and one or more people have been stabbed.
発音one or more

Run one or together before the next word.

Apparently, a flight attendant onboard the aircraft via telephone called the company and she said that the aircraft is being hijacked and one or more people have been stabbed.
表現 · B1be on course

following the route

Is the aircraft still on course? The last I heard.
表現 · B1on the line

connected by phone

This is Boston on the line right now. Yeah.
表現 · B1pull the tapes

retrieving recordings

There was a suspicious transmission, the controller heard it, and they're pulling tapes to see exactly what was said on the frequency.
スラング · B2oddball

strange or eccentric — Spoken word for something odd; not for formal writing.

Boston thought it may have been a... They heard some kind of oddball Yes. Transmission.
表現 · B2go ghost

vanish from the screen

And I see our track has gone ghost on it, but they do say he's heading southbound.
表現 · B2head southbound

flying south

And I see our track has gone ghost on it, but they do say he's heading southbound.
表現 · B1get in touch with someone

contact someone

Someone proposes briefing headquarters, and a colleague takes the call at once.

Maybe we should get in touch with headquarters and start briefing them on this now. Yeah, I'll call immediately.
発音get in touch

Link get in and blend touch with the next word.

Maybe we should get in touch with headquarters and start briefing them on this now. Yeah, I'll call immediately.

「FAA Command Center Goes on Alert」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is about institutions catching up to a disaster in real time. Much of the room reaches for the milder reading — a phony transmission, a lost radio call, "We get a lot of that crap" — because the system is built for routine delays, not for this. Two things strip away the caveats: "This is real world. Possible hijack," and the flight attendant's call that people "have been stabbed." The language becomes pure procedure — battle stations, last known position, heading southbound. What makes it chilling is how calm the room stays while the information gets worse, each order delivered in the same flat voice.

Theme

DutyControllers move through checklists and commands as the situation escalates, doing their jobs while the crisis grows.
CourageThe matter-of-fact orders and the refusal to dismiss the warning show a steady nerve under pressure.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Orders here are short because everyone shares the same script.
  • Copy that is how the room confirms without adding words.
  • A NORDO plane is more alarming than a loud one.
  • The details get worse one phone call at a time.

発音のポイント

  • aircraft is — The is reduces to a short, faint s sound.
  • one or more — Run one or together before the next word.
  • get in touch — Link get in and blend touch with the next word.
This is real world. Possible hijack.

The line that ends the hedging: this is not a drill or a routine delay, it is a genuine hijacking in progress.

We get a lot of that crap.

A controller's weary first reaction, treating the warning as one more nuisance before the scale of it becomes clear.

They're not even my delays. I started today.

A comic aside about inherited problems, dropped just before the room is pulled into the real crisis.

Somebody's making phony transmissions on the radio...

The early, cautious reading of the intercepted voice, showing how hard it is to accept a hijacking before it is confirmed.

Maybe we should get in touch with headquarters and start briefing them on this now. Yeah, I'll call immediately.

The moment the response shifts from tracking to notifying, setting the machinery of a national emergency in motion.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the room treat the first report as routine?

The command center handles delays and lost radio calls every day, so the early warning sounds like one more problem. Only the phrase about the real world, and the call from the flight attendant, change that.

Why is the FAA command center involved in a hijacking?

It controls the airspace, so when a plane goes off course and stops responding, the center has to track it, warn other facilities, and clear the way for whatever comes next.

What finally confirms the plane has been hijacked?

A flight attendant calls American Airlines from onboard and reports that the aircraft is being hijacked and people have been stabbed. That report reaches the command center and removes the doubt.

What do they do once they know the plane is heading south?

They call New York Center and TRACON, clear traffic out of the plane's path, and start briefing headquarters, moving from tracking the flight to preparing a national response.

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