Then, from several English speakers in unison, "Hold the door." And from a single English speaker, "Stop him," followed repeatedly by "Sit down! Sit down!" Then, again from an English speaker, "Let's get them."įlight 93, now down to 5,000 feet, had begun rolling left and right. In the cockpit."įollowed by a voice exclaiming, in Arabic, "They want to get in there. O guys! Allah is greatest.O Allah! O Allah! O the most gracious!" Then, loudly, "Stay back!"Ī male voice, a native-English-speaking voice that Tom Burnett's wife has recognized as that of her husband, is heard saying, "In the cockpit. Then, in Arabic, "Let's go, guys! Allah is greatest. At just before 9:58, a hijacker asks, "Is there something?.A fight?" There is a knock on the door, followed by sounds of fighting. The cockpit voice recorder registered the moment the hijackers realized what was happening. On the phone to her husband, she signed off quickly. I'm going to leave it here and I'm going to come right back to it." Lyz handed the phone to her father, ran to the bathroom, and gagged.įlight attendant Sandra Bradshaw was in the galley, boiling water for the passengers to throw on the hijackers. "Okay," Jeremy Glick told Lyz, "I'm going to do it." His wife told him he was strong and brave, that she loved him. Then, "Are you guys ready?" and Todd Beamer's voice saying, "Let's roll!" - a phrase that, in family life, he liked to use to get his children moving. Operator Jefferson heard the sounds of an "awful commotion": raised voices, more screams. "I'm going to have to go out on faith.I don't have much of a choice." Todd Beamer, continuing his conversation with GTE supervisor Jefferson, told her that he and a few others were getting together "to jump the guy with the bomb." Was he sure that was what he wanted to do? "Yes," came the response. He was heading, it indicated, for Washington, D.C. At 9:55, the hijacker pilot set a navigational aid relating to the plane's direction. "Our Father, who art in heaven." Just before Beamer and the operator had begun talking, Cleveland control lost Flight 93's transponder, the signal that indicates an airplane's location and altitude. Shaken, Beamer asked Jefferson to say the Lord's Prayer with him. Instead, explaining that he did not want to upset his pregnant wife, he asked phone supervisor Lisa Jefferson to pass on a loving message.Īs they talked, Beamer suddenly exclaimed, "Shit!.O my God, we're going down.Jesus help us." From the passengers around Beamer came prolonged shrieks of terror. He first dialed his home number, but either failed to get through or thought better of it. Todd Beamer, a star Oracle software salesman, was married with two sons, and his wife was expecting again. She felt that "maybe someone had organized a plan."Īt 9:42, a GTE-Verizon supervisor based near Chicago began handling a call from yet another powerfully built Flight 93 passenger. His mother got the impression, as he talked from Flight 93, that her son was talking "confidentially" with a fellow passenger. A few years earlier, he had fended off a mugger who had a gun. Mark Bingham was a huge man, 6-foot-4, and at 31 still playing rugby. Burnett, at 6-foot-2, had played quarterback for his high school football team. He was 6-foot-1 and a former college judo champion. Glick and others were equipped in more ways than one to confront the hijackers. So began the minutes of brave resistance, the clearly defined act of courage that has lived on in the national memory.
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