hijacking by this point. At 09:16, passenger Barbara Olson made a call to her husband, United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson, reporting that the airplane had been hijacked and the assailants were armed with knives and box cutters. She revealed that everyone, including the pilots, had been moved to the back of the cabin and that the call was being made without the knowledge of the hostage takers. The connection dropped a minute into the conversation. Theodore Olson contacted the command center at the Department of Justice, and tried unsuccessfully to contact Attorney General John Ashcroft. Five minutes later, Barbara Olson called again, informing her husband that the "pilot" had announced the flight was hijacked. Who she was referring to when using the term “pilot” is unclear, but since the crew were spared it has been speculated that it could have either been one of the actual pilots or Hani Hanjour, who may have made announcements over the cabin's PA system without making the mistake of broadcasting his messages to controllers on the ground by keying the wrong switch, an error made by Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah on Flights 11 and 93 respectively. Olson asked her husband, "What do I tell the pilot to do?" Inquired of her whereabouts, Barbara replied saying that they were flying low over a residential area. In the background, Ted overheard another passenger mentioning that the plane was flying northeast. He then made his wife aware of the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center, causing her to go quiet; Ted wondered if this meant she had been shocked into silence. After expressing their feelings and reassuring one another, the call cut off for the last time, at 9:26 a.m. Crash At 9:29 a.m., one minute after United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked, the terrorists aboard Flight 77 disengaged the autopilot and took manual control of the plane. Turning and descending rapidly as it made its final approach toward Washington, the airplane was detected again on radar screens by controllers at Dulles, who mistook it for a military fighter at first glance due to its high speed and maneuvering. While Flight77 was west-southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, it made a 330-degree spiral turn clockwise. By the end of the revolution, the 757 was descending , pointed toward the Pentagon and downtown Washington. Advancing the throttles to full power, Hanjour rapidly began