Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: New York air traffic controllers attempt to contact aircraft, Fact2: Sliney and staff order military to be on lookout for American Airlines Flight, Fact3: American Airlines Flight is reported missing and presumed to have also been hijacked, Fact4: Jarrah appears to have second thoughts of initiating hijacking plan, Fact5: al-Haznawi assembles fake bomb out of clay and plastic during breakfast
Output (English): On the morning of September 11, 2001, passengers board United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco, at Newark Liberty International Airport, including Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Richard Guadagno, Louis J. Nacke, II, William Joseph Cashman and Patrick Joseph Driscoll. Four alQaeda terrorists Ziad Jarrah, Saeed alGhamdi, Ahmed alNami, and Ahmed alHaznawi also board the flight. Meanwhile, newly promoted FAA National Operations Manager Ben Sliney is in a meeting when it is reported that American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles has been hijacked after Mohamed Atta is overheard on the radio saying We have some planes. Minutes later the aircraft crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Much to Sliney and his staffs horror, they learn that a second flight, United Airlines Flight 175 also from Boston to Los Angeles, has been hijacked, and after New York air traffic controllers attempt to contact the aircraft, it is seen live on CNN plowing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Sliney and his staff realize they are dealing with several hijackings and order the military to be on the lookout for American Airlines Flight 77, which is reported missing and presumed to have also been hijacked. On United 93, a hesitant Jarrah appears to have second thoughts of initiating the hijacking plan. Impatient, the other three hijackers prepare for invasion themselves. alHaznawi assembles a fake bomb out of clay and plastic during breakfast, then alGhamdi makes the first move and grabs hold of flight purser Debbie Welsh at knifepoint. After a passenger is fatally stabbed and the bomb is revealed, causing mass panic among passengers, alNami and alHaznawi force the firstclass passengers to the back of the plane. Meanwhile, Jarrah and alGhamdi threaten Welsh and wrestle their way into the cockpit. The pilots send out a mayday call but are killed and dragged from the cockpit. Welsh is also killed. Jarrah takes the planes controls and changes its course, intending to crash the plane into the United States Capitol. Sliney, still debating on what to do about the unfolding disaster, is in shock when American 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and he orders the closure of US airspace and the grounding of all commercial flights until further notice. Aboard United 93, the passengers become aware of the dead bodies of the crewmembers, and learn from family members via airphone of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; they decide to take action, organizing a revolt against the hijackers. Their plan is empowered by the knowledge that passenger Don Greene has experience in flying aircraft. After passengers arm themselves, pray, and make final phone calls to loved ones, Todd Beamer says Lets Roll! The group begin their counterattack, rushing down the aisle and overpowering Ahmed alHaznawi; Mark Bingham crushes alHaznawis skull with a fire extinguisher, killing him. Seeing this, alNami alerts Jarrah and alGhamdi in the cockpit of the ongoing assault. Jarrah shakes the plane violently to throw the passengers off balance, but they continue their assault, overpowering alNami who is killed by Jeremy Glick snapping his neck. Seeing the passengers getting nearer, alGhamdi and Jarrah debate whether to take the flight down, realizing that their plan to reach their intended target will not succeed. The passengers then breach the cockpit with the food cart, and alGhamdi orders Jarrah to crash the plane. The passengers finally gain entrance into the cockpit and attack the two hijackers over the controls. As the passengers and hijackers struggle for control of the yoke, the plane goes into a nosedive and turns upside down as the screen cuts to black. Title cards explain that the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone on board.