[Lecie]

If memory serves, Mrs. Olson made two phone calls. I seem to remember that Mr. Olson said the second one was the collect call because Mrs. Olson may have given her cell phone to other passengers to use to call home.

[miamimark]

"What do I tell the pilot to do?" were cited as the epitome of her courage and leadership. But as time goes by, Ted keeps changing his story. On 9-11, he told CNN and the NY Times that she called him from her cellphone. On 9-12, he told the London Telegraph, "She called and said she was locked in the toilet." On 9-14, the Telegraph wrote: "She had locked herself in the lavatory and had to call 10 times before she could persuade the operators to accept the call charges." But on 3-5-02, Ted told the Telegraph: "She had had trouble getting through, because she wasn't using her cellphone, she was using the phone in the passengers' seats. I guess she didn't have her purse, because she was calling collect..."