![]() ![]() Oh, Jesus, please help us.”Stone Phillips: Those were all his words?Jefferson: Yes. At this point, “I don’t know where we’re going. And at that point his voice went up a little bit because he said, ‘We’re going down. Todd Beamer picks up one of the onboard air phones and dials “0.” He’s connected with GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson, who told Stone Phillips about the call. And they have our demands so please remain quiet.Īt 9:44 a.m. ![]() There is a bomb aboard, and we are going to turn back to the airport. Two minutes later, at 9:39 a.m., Cleveland control picks up another transmission from a hijacker in the cockpit. And he said, ‘okay,’ and he hung up again, said that he had to go. He asked if it was a passenger airline, and I told him I didn’t know. Tom Burnett makes a second call to his wife.ĭeena Burnett: He asked me about the World Trade Center. I didn’t hear any commotion.īut by now, passengers on the phone with friends and family are hearing about what’s happening on the ground, and the news is spreading across the cabin. I was surprised by how calm it seemed in the background.Pauley: You didn’t hear-Lyz Glick: I didn’t hear any screaming. I was a little bit, I think, surprised by the aura of what was going on the plane. Lyz Glick: I asked him if the pilots had been in contact with them to tell them what was going on and he said that no contact had been made by the pilots, it seemed that the men had taken over the plane.Jane Pauley: So he was free to talk with you? Or was he trying to speak to you surreptitiously?Lyz Glick: He was free to talk to me. just as American Flight 77 is crashing into the Pentagon, Jeremy Glick calls his wife, Lyz. ![]() So many, in fact, some speculate, the hijackers may have encouraged it to ramp up the terror.Īt 9:36 a.m., a flight attendant calls United’s maintenance facility in San Francisco to say the hijackers have killed a flight attendant. On board Flight 93, the hijackers herd most of the passengers to the back of the plane, where, strangely enough, the passengers and crew start to make phone calls- dozens. His wife, Lyz, had taken their three-month-old baby, Emmy, to her parents’ home while he was away on business. So he decided to try to crunch his travel in the morning. Lisa Beamer, Todd Beamer's wife: He and I had just gotten back from Italy Monday afternoon, and he decided he wanted to spend some time with the kids that night and have a little more time before he flew out. Todd Beamer wasn’t normally one to wait ‘til the last minute to fly out for a same-day company meeting. Grandcolas message: So, I get to San Francisco at about 11:00 and I’ll be at the ferry terminal probably a little before 12:00. Good news: She got a standby seat on an earlier flight. Lauren Grandcolas message: Hey, I just want to let you know I’m on the 8:00 instead of the 9:20. Her husband, Jack, was still asleep when she called to leave a message just before5 p.m. It was a book to give women guidance on how they could learn new things in life that would bring them greater self-esteem, courage, and self-confidence. Jack Grandcolas, Lauren's husband: She actually had a publisher interested. Lauren Grandcolas was traveling from her grandmother’s funeral, but she had reason to be happy: after years of trying, she was pregnant with her first child and was about to write a book. ![]()
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