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Maybe the Most Poignant Phone Call Ever
Phone transcript | September 11, 2001 | Todd Beamer

Posted on 09/11/2021 5:14:56 PM PDT by TBP

Todd: Hello… Operator…listen to me…I can’t speak very loud. – This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco.. We have a situation here….Our plane has been hijacked…..can you understand me? Lisa: (exhaling a deep breath to herself) I understand… Can the hijackers see you talking on the phone? Todd: No Lisa: Can you tell me how many hijackers are on the plane? Todd: There are three that we know of. Lisa: Can you see any weapons? What kind of weapons do they have? Todd: Yes…. they don’t have guns….they have knives – they took over the plane with knives. Lisa: Do you mean…like steak knives? Todd: No, these are razor knives…like box cutters. Lisa: Can you tell what country these people are from? Todd: No…..I don’t know. They sound like they’re from the mid-east. Lisa: Have they said what they want? Todd: Someone announced from the cockpit that there was a bomb on board. He said he was the captain and to stay in our seats and stay quiet. He said that they were meeting these men’s demands and returning to the airport… It was very broken English, and… I’m telling you…it sounded fake! Lisa: Ok sir, please give me your name. Todd: My name is Todd Beamer. Lisa: Ok Todd….my name is Lisa…Do you know your flight number? If you can’t remember, it’s on your ticket. Todd: It’s United Flight 93. Lisa: Now Todd, can you try to tell me exactly what happened? Todd: Two of the hijackers were sitting in first class near the cockpit. A third one was sitting near the back of the coach section. The two up. front got into the cockpit somehow; there was shouting. The third hijacker said he had a bomb. It looks like a bomb. He’s got it tied to his waist with a red belt of some kind. Lisa: So is the door to the cockpit open? Todd: No, the hijackers shut it behind them. Lisa: Has anyone been injured? Todd: Yes, ..they…they killed one passenger sitting in first class. There’s been lots of shouting. We don’t know if the pilots are dead or alive. A flight attendant told me that the pilot and copilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded. Lisa: Where is the 3rd hijacker now Todd? Todd: He’s near the back of the plane. They forced most of the passengers into first class. There are fourteen of us here in the back. Five are flight attendants. He hasn’t noticed that I slipped into this pantry to get the phone. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor in the rear of the plane……….oh Jesus.. Help! Lisa: Todd….are you ok? Tell me what’s happening! Todd: Hello…..We’re going down….I think we’re going to crash……Wait – wait a minute. No, we’re leveling off….we’re ok. I think we may be turning around…..That’s it – we changed directions. Do you hear me….we’re flying east again. Lisa: Ok Todd…. What’s going on with the other passengers? Todd: Everyone is… really scared. A few passengers with cell phones have made calls to relatives. A guy, Jeremy, was talking to his wife just before the hijacking started. She told him that hijackers had crashed two planes into the World Trade Center……Lisa is that true?? Lisa: Todd…..I have to tell you the truth…..it’s very bad. The World Trade Center is gone. Both of the towers have been destroyed. Todd: Oh God —help us! Lisa: A third plane was taken over by terrorists. It crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC. Our country is under attack….and I’m afraid that your plane may be part of their plan. Todd: Oh dear God. Dear God…….Lisa, will you do something for me? Lisa: I’ll try….if I can….Yes. Todd: I want you to call my wife and my kids for me and tell them what’s happened. Promise me you’ll call.. Lisa: I promise – I’ll call. Todd: Our home number is 201 353-1073…….You have the same name as my wife…Lisa….We’ve been married for 10 years. She’s pregnant with our 3rd child. Tell her that I love her…….(choking up)..I’ll always love her..(clearing throat) We have two boys.. David, he’s 3 and Andrew, he’s 1…..Tell them……(choking) tell them that their daddy loves them and that he is so proud of them. (clearing throat again) Our baby is due January 12th…..I saw an ultra sound…..it was great….we still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy………Lisa? Lisa: (barely able to speak) I’ll tell them, I promise Todd. Todd: I’m going back to the group—if I can get back I will… Lisa: Todd, leave this line open…are you still there?…… Lisa: (dials the phone..) Hello, FBI, my name is Lisa Jefferson, I’m a telephone supervisor for GTE. I need to report a terrorist hijacking of a United Airlines Flight 93….Yes I’ll hold. Goodwin: Hello, this is Agent Goodwin.. I understand you have a hijacking situation? Lisa: Yes sir, I’ve been talking with a passenger, a Todd Beamer, on Flight 93 who managed to get to an air phone unnoticed. Goodwin: Where did this flight originate, and what was its destination? Lisa: The flight left Newark New Jersey at 8 A.M. departing for San Francisco. The hijackers took over the plane shortly after takeoff, and several minutes later the plane changed course – it is now flying east. Goodwin: Ms. Jefferson…I need to talk to someone aboard that plane. Can you get me thru to the planes phone? Lisa: I still have that line open sir, I can patch you through on a conference call…hold a mo….. Todd: Hello Lisa, Lisa are you there? Lisa: Yes, I’m here. Todd, I made a call to the FBI, Agent Goodwin is on the line and will be talking to you as well. Todd: The others all know that this isn’t your normal hijacking. Jeremy called his wife again on his cell phone. She told him more about the World Trade Center and all. Goodwin: Hello Todd. This is Agent Goodwin with the FBI. We have been monitoring your flight. Your plane is on a course for Washington, DC. These terrorists sent two planes into the World Trade Center and one plane into the Pentagon. Our best guess is that they plan to fly your plane into either the White House or the United States Capital Building. Todd: I understand…hold on……I’ll…….I’ll be back.. Lisa: Mr. Goodwin, how much time do they have before they get to Washington? Goodwin: Not long ma’am. They changed course over Cleveland; they’re approaching Pittsburgh now. Washington may be twenty minutes away. Todd: (breathing a little heavier) The plane seems to be changing directions just a little. It’s getting pretty rough up here. The plane is flying real erratic….We’re not going to make it out of here. Listen to me….I want you to hear this….I have talked with the others….we have decided we would not be pawns in these hijackers suicidal plot. Lisa: Todd, what are you going to do? Todd: We’ve hatched a plan. Four of us are going to rush the hijacker with the bomb. After we take him out, we’ll break into the cockpit. A stewardess is getting some boiling water to throw on the hijackers at the controls. We’ll get them….and we’ll take them out. Lisa, …..will you do one last thing for me? Lisa: Yes…What is it? Todd: Would you pray with me? They pray: Our father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive our trespassers, And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory Forever…..Amen The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want… He makes me to lie down in green pastures He leads me beside the still waters He restores my soul He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me….. Todd: (softer) God help me…Jesus help me….(clears throat and louder) Are you guys ready?…….. Let’s Roll……………………


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 911; beamer; dsj03; letsroll; toddbeamer; united93; unitedflight93
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To: TBP

I never read the transcript before.

What tear jerker.

What a brave man along with the others who did not take this lying down.

I cannot fathom knowing you have about 20 minutes left to live and you’re going to die in a fiery plane crash.

Those people were real heroes.


21 posted on 09/11/2021 5:48:58 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: TBP

The guy Jeremy he referred to was Jeremy Glick, from my home town.


22 posted on 09/11/2021 5:50:04 PM PDT by jerseyman
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To: TBP

On my, I’m crying now. I had never read the entire conversation.


23 posted on 09/11/2021 5:52:45 PM PDT by sneakers (It's not the democraTIC party! It's the demoCRAT party! )
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To: Paladin2

I guess the vid I saw I couldn’t make out. I’m not doubting it at all. With my old eyes...just trying to get a clearer vision.


24 posted on 09/11/2021 5:53:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: Paladin2

And 8’m trying to view on a phone.


25 posted on 09/11/2021 5:54:01 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: TBP

I don’t remember ever seeing that. May God bless them all.


26 posted on 09/11/2021 5:59:17 PM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: TBP

Thanks for sharing... Let’s Roll!!!


27 posted on 09/11/2021 6:08:28 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: TBP

Powerful!


28 posted on 09/11/2021 6:15:56 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984. The Gulag Archipeligo is not far behind.)
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To: TBP

Somebody hijacked the White House.


29 posted on 09/11/2021 6:17:01 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: TBP

BTTT


30 posted on 09/11/2021 6:17:17 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: TBP

God Bless them all!


31 posted on 09/11/2021 6:19:04 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: TBP

I’ve never read the transcript, thank you for posting
So heartbreaking
He knew! God bless his brave soul..


32 posted on 09/11/2021 6:23:39 PM PDT by rainee (Trump won! )
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To: TBP

Let’s roll, Todd.


33 posted on 09/11/2021 6:25:27 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: TBP

They were brave men.


34 posted on 09/11/2021 6:28:12 PM PDT by Mark was here (Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she certainly puts the "vice" in "Vice President.")
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To: TBP
Todd: (softer) God help me…Jesus help me….(clears throat and louder) Are you guys ready?…….. Let’s Roll……………………

Gets me every time. Thank you for posting.

35 posted on 09/11/2021 6:29:52 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: grumpygresh

air phone on the plane.


36 posted on 09/11/2021 6:31:00 PM PDT by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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To: grumpygresh
Wow, in 2001, he had one hell of a good cell phone.

It was an Airphone. They were installed equipment on airliners back then. Quite common.

37 posted on 09/11/2021 6:31:12 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (It's Winnie-the-Flu / Put the blame where it belongs / On Winnie-the-Poo)
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To: grumpygresh
Wow, in 2001, he had one hell of a good cell phone.

Not a cell phone.

38 posted on 09/11/2021 6:45:19 PM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TBP

We need to be preparing to Roll. The world will not wait for more people to wake up. It may take a few to get started and get this plane on the ground.

Thank you Todd and all the others who gave it all.


39 posted on 09/11/2021 6:47:59 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Smartphones hadn’t been invented yet.


40 posted on 09/11/2021 6:51:02 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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