9:39 a.m. — Passengers and crew aboard United Airlines Flight 93 begin calling 911 and loved ones after the plane is hijacked. The Boeing 757 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco.
Passenger Lauren Grandcolas calls her husband, Jack, and leaves a voicemail: “I just wanted to tell you I love you. We’re having a little problem on the plane. … I’m totally fine.
“I just love you. Please tell my family I love them, too.”
9:42 a.m. — For the first time in history, the Federal Aviation Administration grounds all civilian flights and orders all commercial traffic over America to land. At one point, Air Force One is the only passenger jet in the air, transporting Bush to an undisclosed location.
Around this time, the U.S. Capitol and White House are evacuated once it became clear high-value locations were being targeted.
10:03 a.m. — Passengers and surviving crew members on board Flight 93 disrupt the hijackers’ plans after learning about the other planes hitting the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The voice recorder on the plane catches what sounds like passengers using a food cart to break into the cockpit. The hijackers are heard discussing whether to intentionally crash the plane, short of their reported intended target in Washington.
As the hijackers and passengers struggle for control, the plane crashes in a field in Stonycreek Township in southwest Pennsylvania. The 9/11 Commission later concluded that Flight 93 probably was headed for the U.S. Capitol.
I sent an email of condolence to Deena Burnett, wife of Tom Burnett, Jr. I didn’t know what else to do; I just knew I had to do something to acknowledge their sacrifice.
Deena Burnett was watching television when two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center. Tom called her and said he was on a third hijacked plane (United Flight 93), on which one passenger had already been knifed by a terrorist. He also told her to call the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Tom called back to ask questions about the World Trade Center. Then he made a third call to tell her that passengers were trying to overtake the plane. On his fourth and final call, he told Deena the passengers were waiting until the plane was over a rural area before moving in on the hijackers. Forty passengers and crew died when the flight crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
Ten years later:
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I’m so proud of them all. Can you imagine the guts it took to bring it down themselves?
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I can’t even imagine. Their bravery is awesome.
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I just took about a half hour to tell my grandson about 9/11, and show him a history video made for children about the day, as well as videos about the dogs, and about Fr. Mychal Judge. I had intended to tell him about Gander, but he was crying so much that we talked more, and prayed, and stopped for awhile.
Later when his older sister and brother get here from school I’ll talk to them about it, if they are here long enough, and then we can talk about Gander, and the wonderful things the people there did.
I know it was hard for my little guy, even though I tried to soften it some. But, at 9 years old, he needs to know, and learn. Sometimes the lessons even children have to learn are hard. To shelter them completely from history and reality is not the right thing to do.
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It is the right thing to tell them. That day my older grandson was just a baby, and his brother wasn’t yet born. My daughter was so scared! Fortunately she was home that day because they were supposed to close on a remortgage. She drove into the city to pick up her husband because all of the big buildings in the city were shutting down and sending everyone home.
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