Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Nation & World

Final words from Flight 93

Family members share the painful calls from the passengers who fought back

By Angie Cannon
Posted 10/21/01
Page 4 of 4

(1) Todd Beamer and son Andrew. Beamer said the Lord's Prayer before rushing the hijackers. (2) Lou Nacke, with his arms around his wife, Amy, had a Superman tattoo. (3) Flight attendant Sandy Bradshaw with her husband, Phil, and her daughter Alexandria.

(4) Mark Bingham on a trip to France. "He had no fear," says a close friend. (5) Jeremy Glick and his wife, Lyzbeth, were high school sweethearts. (6) "I'm on the plane that's been hijacked," Tom Burnett told his wife.

[Drawing of plane interior]

[labels on plane]

Approximately 110 feet from row 34 to the cockpit; First class; Economy class

Mark Bingham and Tom Burnett sat side by side in the fourth row at takeoff.

Twenty-seven passengers were herded into rear seats by the hijackers. There they hatched the plan to fight back.

Hijackers in cockpit

Injured or dead pilot and copilot

First class

Economy class

[Pilot]

Capt. Jason Dahl

Hijackers

Ahmad Al Haznawi

Saeed Alghamdi

Ziad Samir Jarrah

Ahmed Alnami

What happened and when

Scheduled departure 8:00 a.m.

Actual departure 8:43

North tower hit 8:46

South tower hit 9:03

Flight 93 U-turn 9:35

Flurry of phone calls 9:31-9:53

Flight 93 crash 10:10

[inset map labels]

New York

Ohio

Cleveland

Pennsylvania

Shanksville

W.Va.

N.J.

Newark

Washington, D.C.

0 Miles 50

Stephen Rountree--USN&WR

With Janet Rae-Dupree, Suzie Larsen and Cynthia Salter

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