Legacyīeamer was survived by his wife Lisa, and their children Morgan and David, who were three and one at the time of his passing. Bush had ordered the plane to be shot down if it had continued on to Washington. Vice President Dick Cheney said that President George W. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., were the plane’s presumed targets, both of which were 20 minutes away by air. One of the passengers shouts, “Let’s get them!” The hijacker yells “Allahu akbar.” The passengers continued to harass Jarrah despite her repeated attempts to knock them off their feet, and at 10:02:17, a male passenger exclaimed, “Turn it up!” Pull it down! a hijacker said a split second later.Īt a speed of 563 mph (906 km/h), the plane fell upside down into a barren field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone inside. The voice data recorder of the aircraft was found to have recordings of English-language screams and shouting as well as banging and crashing noises against the cockpit door, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. These were Beamer’s final remarks, which Lisa Jefferson overheard. Jefferson then overheard a hushed conversation, followed by Beamer clearly asking, “Are you ready? Okay. Others joined in as Beamer and Jefferson recited the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. They eventually stormed the cockpit and took control of the aircraft.īeamer informed Jefferson that the team intended to “jump on” the hijackers and bring the aircraft down before they could carry out their plan.
Cell phone conversation recordings claim that Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, and Jeremy Glick came up with a strategy to retake the plane from the hijackers. The crew and passengers then made the decision to take action. Beamer attempted to use a phone on the back of an airplane seat to contact a credit card but was connected to a customer service agent who then connected him to Lisa Jefferson, the GTE airphone supervisor. Many of the passengers dialed their loved ones and told them about the two planes that had struck the World Trade Center in New York City and the third that had struck the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. The aircraft reversed its trajectory and headed toward Washington, D.C., in less than six minutes. Beamer and the rest of the passengers were pulled into the plane’s tail. A short while later, the hijackers, who were commanded by the Lebanese Ziad Samir Jarrah, took control of the aircraft, deactivated the autopilot, and instructed passengers to remain seated. Screams may be heard over the open aircraft microphone three minutes later by Cleveland controllers. Flight 93’s pilot called Cleveland controllers at 9:25 am to ask about an alert that had flashed on his aircraft computer screen warning him to “beware of cockpit intrusion.” At that time, the plane was flying over eastern Ohio. United 93 was traveling west over New Jersey and into Pennsylvania at 9:03 a.m., 17 minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower. American Airlines Flight 11 collided with the North Tower of the World Trade Center four minutes later. United Flight 93 was supposed to take off at 8:00 am, however, due to runway traffic delays, the Boeing 757 did not take off until 42 minutes later. He then intended to fly back that evening on a red-eye flight. The following day, he departed from his house at 6:15 am in order to catch an early flight from Newark to San Francisco and meet with representatives of the Sony Corporation at 1:00 pm. Beamer had the option of leaving that evening for a Tuesday business conference in California, but he chose to stay with his wife who was expecting their third child in January. He was a high sales performance in 2001, earning a five-day trip to Italy for himself and his wife. Flight 93īeamer had to travel for work up to four times a month, sometimes for a week. The main reason for his death was the plane hijacked and crashed. Todd Beamer took his last breath on September 11, 2001, in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, United States. In addition to his basketball captaincy as a senior, he continued to play baseball. He first majored in medicine at Wheaton College before moving to business. He transferred to Wheaton College, a Christian liberal arts college, after going back to his native Illinois. However, the injuries he suffered in a vehicle accident put an end to these dreams.
Beamer majored in physical therapy while playing baseball at California State University, Fresno, with the intention of playing professionally.
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