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United 93 · 2006 — 第 8 / 17 章 · 2'29" · B2

Controllers Spot a Second Hijacking, Explained：take care of it

An untracked target drifts across the radar and New York Center cannot find it at any airport. Then United calls back: “I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.” The controllers watch two flights close in, one voice repeating, “This is another hijacking,” half certainty and half plea.

あらすじ

At New York Center, controllers chase an untracked target and call the airports, hoping it simply landed. Then United reports that it thinks there is another hijacking, and this plane has switched off its transponder. As two aircraft close in on the scope, the room argues over whether it is a mistake, and one controller insists it is not.

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注目の表現

light loadstake care of itstand bygive me a chance

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このシーンの表現

take care of it

handle the problem

One controller is drowning, so a colleague steps in twice to say they will handle it.

Don't worry about the paperwork, I'll take care of it.

このシーンの他の表現

  • light loads

    flights with few passengers

  • stand by

    wait ready for orders

  • give me a chance

    let me have a go

  • manifest

    official list of passengers

  • get close to

    move nearer to

このシーンのメモ一覧

36 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · B2a copy of something

a copy of the list

Hey, can I get a copy of the manifest?
表現 · B1I appreciate it

thanks a lot

I appreciate it.
表現 · A2no problem

not a problem

Yeah, no problem.
表現 · B1a light load

flights with few passengers

A pilot chats with a colleague about a half-empty flight, enjoying the easy shift.

I love these light loads.
表現 · A2have a reservation

have a booking

We have reservations there.
表現 · B1the last we heard

the latest news we had

That's the last that we heard. Roger.
表現 · B2an untracked target

a target not being tracked

Hey, Dave, you got an untracked target five miles east of Allentown.
文法 · B1must've landed

modal deduction: Must have plus a past participle marks a confident guess about the past.

Paul, neither airport had one. Maybe... He must've landed.
表現 · B1try the towers

the control towers

Try the towers again. I'll try again.
表現 · A2have got to be somewhere

must be somewhere

He's gotta be somewhere. He's gotta go somewhere.
発音gotta be

Gotta is got to said fast, with the t swallowed.

He's gotta be somewhere. He's gotta go somewhere.
スラング · A2gotta

have got to — Everyday speech; keep it out of formal writing.

He's gotta be somewhere. He's gotta go somewhere.
スラング · B29 o'clock

to the left of the nose — Pilot clock-position jargon; not for daily talk.

Traffic's 9 o'clock and seven.
表現 · B2drop something off

switched off the transponder Here drop off means switching off, not setting down.

Paul, United. I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.
文法 · B1has dropped

present perfect: The present perfect stresses a finished action whose result matters right now.

Paul, United. I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.
発音dropped his

The d in dropped often drops straight into his.

Paul, United. I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.
スラング · B2transponder

a radar identity device — Aviation jargon; keep it inside the trade.

Paul, United. I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.
表現 · B1take care of something

handle the problem

One controller is drowning, so a colleague steps in twice to say they will handle it.

He's busy enough. We'll take care of it. We'll take care of it.
表現 · B1get close to someone

move nearer to

Two blips on the screen drift together, and a controller warns that one is closing on the other.

He's starting to get close to him. You see that?
文法 · B1a chance to work

infinitive modifier: The infinitive to work describes the chance: a chance for working.

Give me a chance to work. Just stay back!
発音Give me a

Give me a links up, close to a gimme sound.

Give me a chance to work. Just stay back!

「Controllers Spot a Second Hijacking」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene turns a radar screen into dread. The controllers begin with procedure — find the target, call the towers, assume it landed — because the alternative is unthinkable. “He's gotta be somewhere. He's gotta go somewhere” sounds like confidence and is actually denial. Then United confirms the pattern: “I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.” From there the room splits between people who can still work and people who cannot stop saying what they fear, until the line “This is another hijacking” is repeated like a fact everyone is forcing themselves to accept.

Theme

DutyControllers keep working through the crisis, even as one admits, “I can't take any more airplanes.”
CourageThe repeated insistence that this is another hijacking is how the room pushes past denial into action.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Small talk dies fast when a target goes untracked.
  • Taking care of it is how one worker relieves another.
  • A dropped transponder is the first sign of a hijack.
  • The human limit gets said out loud here.

発音のポイント

  • gotta be — Gotta is got to said fast, with the t swallowed.
  • dropped his — The d in dropped often drops straight into his.
  • Give me a — Give me a links up, close to a gimme sound.
I knew you were gonna say that, so I've planned.

A light, domestic aside before the crisis: one controller has already planned the trip they will take when the shift is over.

He's gotta be somewhere. He's gotta go somewhere.

The controller's attempt to sound calm: the plane must have gone somewhere, which is hope rather than evidence.

Paul, United. I think we got another one. The guy has dropped his transponder off.

The line that turns one emergency into a pattern: a second plane, its tracking deliberately switched off.

I can't take any more airplanes.

The quiet admission of overload — too much traffic, too little time, and no way to stop what is coming.

Give me a chance to work. Just stay back!

A controller begging for space to do the job as the room's panic starts to crowd the people who have to act.

I'm telling you right now. This is another hijacking.

The insistence that removes doubt: not a lost signal or a mistake, but a second hijacking underway.

このシーンについての質問

Why do the controllers keep calling the airports?

They are trying to explain away an untracked target by assuming it landed somewhere. If an airport confirms it, then nothing has gone wrong, which is the outcome they want.

What does United tell New York Center?

United reports that it believes there is another hijacking and that the plane's transponder has been switched off, which confirms the controllers' worst fear.

Why does one controller say he can't take any more airplanes?

He is already handling too much traffic under extreme pressure. The line is not a refusal to work but a burst of honest exhaustion as the crisis multiplies.

Why does the controller insist it is another hijacking?

Because the evidence fits: a target that cannot be found, a transponder switched off, and a flight closing on another. He needs the room to stop treating it as a mistake.

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