#Todd beamer 911 phone call series#

courtesy Bingahm Familyġ0:00:25 - In the cockpit. Mark was one of the four who led the charge on the cockpit of hijacked Flight 93 on Sept.11, 2001. Oh gracious.) Mark Bingham, left, wtih his father, Jerry. All those guys.)Ġ9:59:42 - (Trust in Allah, and in him.)ġ0:00:07 - (Is that it? Shall we finish it off?)ġ0:00:09 - (When they all come, we finish it off.)ġ0:00:22 - (Oh Allah.

courtesy Glick FamilyĠ9:59:18 - (There are some guys. Flight 93 passenger Jeremy Glick at 26 years old, five years before Sept. (Words in parenthesis are translated from the Arabic.)Ġ9:58:57 - (They want to get in here. Excerpts of the cockpit voice recorder tape are chilling. Officials believe that the terrorists, being buckled in, rocked the plane up and down violently, trying to fling the passengers against the ceiling. Then it all sounded like a roller coaster, up and down.

#Todd beamer 911 phone call series#

'My dad said first he heard a series of screams,' Lyz recalls. Using a food-service cart as a battering ram, the attackers raced up the aisle and smashed through the cockpit door. She heard Beamer say to the others, 'Let's roll.' It's a phrase that would later be stenciled on jet fighters, NASCAR rides and above locker room doors. When it was time, he let the phone dangle so he could keep the line open in case he made it back alive. She handed the phone to her dad and walked into a different room.īeamer revealed the same plan to the operator, Lisa Jefferson, who was sitting in a call center in Oakbrook, Ill. What she was hearing was sending her body into convulsions. All of them with the physical and mental training to rise up when all seems lost. There certainly were more passengers among the 33 on board who planned the insurrection and stormed the cockpit, but we know about these four. 'Some of us are going to do something about it.' 'I know we're going to die,' Burnett told his wife, Dina. These men became convinced that they had to stop the plane, even if they had to stop it with their lives. The fourth was 38-year-old Tom Burnett, a former high school football star from Bloomington, Minn. Todd was not going to be sitting in his seat while somebody was trying to crash the plane.' 'I knew, when I saw what happened,' says his dad, David, 'that Todd would be part of that. The third was Oracle salesman Todd Beamer, 32, a former shortstop at Wheaton (Ill.) College, a basketball star, and a soccer player. He'd have been definitely been kickin' ass and takin' names.' 'He told me, 'Dad, we lost the match, but we won the fight.' I know how he was. 'I remember Mark and his buddies got thrown off an entire island once,' says his dad, Jerry. He was huge, fierce, funny and, incidentally, gay. He'd won two national club rugby titles with Cal-Berkeley. Mark Bingham, 31, was back there with Glick. With him being so strong, and with his experience in martial arts and judo, he's going to unleash some terrible force. Horrified, she pictured the hijackers having machine guns.Īnd Lyz says, 'I was thinking, 'OK, Jeremy can handle a man with a knife, no problem. 'We're going to rush the hijackers,' Glick told Lyz.

The World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon had already been hit. They were on board a 150,000-pound missile, bound for some unthinkable end. It wasn't long before he and the others - talking to their families - realized that nobody was going back to Newark.

Glick, a muscular 1993 national collegiate judo champion, scampered back to the second-to-last row and called his wife, Lyz. They told the 33 passengers and seven crew members they were hijacking the plane and returning to Newark. He was supposed to go the day before, but a fire at Newark Airport forced him to re-book for the next day, one of the bloodiest in American history.Ībout 45 minutes into the flight, four radical Islamic terrorists stormed the cockpit, sliced the throats of the pilots and took charge. United Flight 93 was supposed to go from Newark to San Francisco that Tuesday morning, but 31-year-old Jeremy Glick wasn't supposed to be on it. It was four athletes, pushing a food cart. 11, 2001.Īnd it wasn't soldiers who led the battle. It was held 32,000 feet above Pittsburgh, on Sept. The first battle in the renewed war against terrorism wasn't waged in Fallujah or Kandahar or Tikrit.