The Flight 93 Phone Calls-- Part III, Jeremy Glick
The quotes are from Longman, "Among the Heroes".
At 9:37am, Jeremy Glick called his wife and talked to her for at least 23 minutes. He was calling from the rear of the plane. It is not clear if he is using a cell phone or an AirPhone.
He said there were "very bad men" on the plane and that the hijackers looked Middle Easter/Iranian. The started the hijacking by putting on red headbands, then "three of them stood up and yelled and ran into the cockpit."
The hijackers "sent passengers to the back of the plane and threatened to blow it up. They claimed to have a bomb. It looked like a box with something red around it."
Glick told his wife several times: "I can't believe this is happening to me".
Glick describes the plane turning, says they are near Pittsburgh, still high in the air. He saw a rural landscape.
The local police patched into his call (seems to me they do this amazingly quickly).
Eventually, his wife tells Glick the terrorists attacked the WTC and one tower fell down (so this must be around 10 am by now).
Glick says the hijackers don't have guns, "they have knives". Glick decides he is going to attack the hijackers.
The weird things about this call:
1) the detail about the red headbands-- no one else ever mentioned this for any of the 9/11 hijackings. This detail sounds bogus to me-- like something someone would add into a script. Why the hijackers even bother with this anyway?
2) the hijackers stood up and just "ran into the cockpit"? All three of them? How did they get in? Where was the bomb box? Was anyone guarding the passengers?
I suppose we could imagine one hijacker already in the cockpit, perhaps he got in by a ruse wearing a pilot's uniform. So maybe he let the three others in. But why would all four go in? To fight the pilots? Did they subdue the pilots and then go back out with the bomb and tell everyone to move to the back?
This is plausible yet it contradicts what other calls said about the hijackings.
I should also point out that Glick's call clearly shows the passenger revolt happening after 10 am, since WTC2 had just collapsed. The 9/11 commission says flight 93 crashed at 10:03am, in part because of the passenger revolt. Yet it seems highly implausible that the passengers got organized to attack AND attacked in a time span of just three minutes, causing the hijackers to finally decide to crash the plane at 10:03am.
At 9:37am, Jeremy Glick called his wife and talked to her for at least 23 minutes. He was calling from the rear of the plane. It is not clear if he is using a cell phone or an AirPhone.
He said there were "very bad men" on the plane and that the hijackers looked Middle Easter/Iranian. The started the hijacking by putting on red headbands, then "three of them stood up and yelled and ran into the cockpit."
The hijackers "sent passengers to the back of the plane and threatened to blow it up. They claimed to have a bomb. It looked like a box with something red around it."
Glick told his wife several times: "I can't believe this is happening to me".
Glick describes the plane turning, says they are near Pittsburgh, still high in the air. He saw a rural landscape.
The local police patched into his call (seems to me they do this amazingly quickly).
Eventually, his wife tells Glick the terrorists attacked the WTC and one tower fell down (so this must be around 10 am by now).
Glick says the hijackers don't have guns, "they have knives". Glick decides he is going to attack the hijackers.
The weird things about this call:
1) the detail about the red headbands-- no one else ever mentioned this for any of the 9/11 hijackings. This detail sounds bogus to me-- like something someone would add into a script. Why the hijackers even bother with this anyway?
2) the hijackers stood up and just "ran into the cockpit"? All three of them? How did they get in? Where was the bomb box? Was anyone guarding the passengers?
I suppose we could imagine one hijacker already in the cockpit, perhaps he got in by a ruse wearing a pilot's uniform. So maybe he let the three others in. But why would all four go in? To fight the pilots? Did they subdue the pilots and then go back out with the bomb and tell everyone to move to the back?
This is plausible yet it contradicts what other calls said about the hijackings.
I should also point out that Glick's call clearly shows the passenger revolt happening after 10 am, since WTC2 had just collapsed. The 9/11 commission says flight 93 crashed at 10:03am, in part because of the passenger revolt. Yet it seems highly implausible that the passengers got organized to attack AND attacked in a time span of just three minutes, causing the hijackers to finally decide to crash the plane at 10:03am.
posted by spooked at 10:58 PM
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