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At 9:39, the FAA's Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center overheard a second announcement indicating that there was a bomb on board, that the plane was returning to the airport, and that they should remain seated.
The flight had taken off just as American 11 was being hijacked, and at 8:42 the United 175 flight crew completed their report on a "suspicious transmission" overheard from another plane (which turned out to have been Flight 11) just after takeoff.
(Gingrich was incommunicado the day the report was unexpectedly delivered to Congress, even as an overheard remark of Barney Frank's enraged a Republican representative, leading him to introduce a motion to make the report public.)
I remarked on this once at a party in London and was overheard by Noel Malcolm, who said: Do you want him to double his anti-Semitism?
Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.