Final words from Flight 93
Family members share the painful calls from the passengers who fought back
(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
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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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