User:Sherurcij/phonecalls

Flight 11

Madeline Amy Sweeney(f.a.)

8:21am - phoned Michael Woodward, her supervisor in Boston on a cell phone. Reported that 1 passenger had their throat cut and 2 others had been stabbed. Gave seat numbers that did not correspond to the seats later announced to have been registered to the hijackers. Gave wrong flight number.

[1]

Madeline: I see water and buildings. Oh my God! Oh my God!

[2]

Madeline: A hijacker cut the throat of a business-class passenger, and he appears to be dead

Madeline: ...just gained access to the cockpit...

Betty Ong (f.a.)

8:21am - phoned Vanessa Minter, a clerk at American Airlines reservations office.

Flight 175

Peter Hanson

8:52am - phones his father Lee Hanson from a cellphone

[3]

Peter: I think they've taken over the cockpit. An attendant has been stabbed and someone else up front may have been killed. The plane is making strange moves. Call United Airlines. Tell them it's Flight 175, Boston to LA.

9:00 - a second phone call to his father

Peter: It's getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. They seem to have knives and Mace. They said they have a bomb. It's getting very bad on the plane. Passengers are throwing up and getting sick. The plane is making jerky movements. I don't think the pilot is flying the plane. I think we are going down. I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building. Don't worry, Dad, if it happens, it'll be very fast. My God, my God...transmission is ended as the plane hits the tower at 9:03am

Brian David Sweeney

8:59am - leaves a message for his wife Julie Sweeney, then phones his mother Louise Sweeney and

Flight 77

Renee May

9:12am - phones her mother Nancy May, claims that six men had hijacked the plane and moved the passengers to the rear.

Barbara Olson

unknown time - phones her husband Ted Olson from an airphone

[4]

Barbara: They had knives... they rounded up the passengers and the pilots in the back of the plane

Barbara: What do I tell the pilots to do?

Flight 93

Mark Bingham

9:42 or 9:44am - phones his mother Alice Hoglan, using an airfone

[5]

Mark: Mom, this is Mark Bingham. I want to let you know that I love you. I'm calling from the plane. We've been taken over. There are three men that say they have a bomb.

or other reports suggested that Alice and Mark actually spoke.

[6][7]

Mark: I want you to know that I love you very much and I'm calling from the plane. I'm in the air. I'm calling on the air phone of the airplane. We've been taken over, there are three men that say they have a bomb.

Mark: You believe me, don't you?

Alice: Yes, Mark. I believe you. But who are these guys?

Mark: I don't know who they are (repeats that he loves her)

Edward Felt

9:58am - After locking himself in the washroom dials 911 on his cellphone and reaches Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania emergency services dispatcher John Shaw and tells him the plane had been hijacked. Conspiracists point to the claim by Shaw's supervisor Glenn Cramer that Felt reported hearing an explosion and seeing white smoke just before the connection died. Shaw and Felt's brother Gordon who heard a recording of the tape however deny he mentioned an explosion or smoke.

[8]

Edward: We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked, this is not a hoax.

Tom Burnett

Phoned his wife Deanna Burnett

[9]

Deanna: Are you okay?

Tom: No, we've been hijacked. They've knifed a guy; there's a bomb on board; tell the authorities, Deena.

[10]

Tom I know we're all going to die - there's three of us who are going to do something about it. I love you honey.

CeeCee Ross-Lyles (f.a.)

unknown time - phones her husband Lorne, says she wants to see his face again, asks God to forgive her and welcome her into heaven[11]

[12]

CeeCee: We've been hijacked

Sandy Bradshaw (f.a.)

unknown time - phoned her husband Phil Bradshaw on a cellphone, Phil was watching the news about the hijackings at the time

[13]

Sandy: Have you seen what's happening? Have you heard? We've been hijacked.

Phil: (disbelief, asks her to repeat)

Sandy: We've been hijacked.

Sandy: He had an Islamic look

Sandy: We're all back here getting hot water together and getting ready to take over the plane

Sandy: We're all running to first class, I've got to go. Bye.