posted on September 18, 2001 10:37:49 AM new
Toke - Thank you. Yes, I did see that interview with Barbara Olson's husband. She was an attorney who was often a commentator on Fox News.
I did a search on F/Ns but couldn't find anything.
The same day I watched Barbara's husband share, many other family members shared their stories of speaking to their loved ones before crashing. I was overwhelmed with their pain, and the stories seemed to go on and on. All sharing their pain.
I had heard what I shared, but it came from another victims family member. Still on flight 93. I apologize to all that I mixed my HEROS up. They were all heros to me.
The story I was speaking about, but putting together with Barbara Olson's story, was when a passenger on flight 93 was sharing with his wife before the crash.
Here are some of the other families stories about their conversations.
"There's three of us who are going to do something about it," he reportedly told Deena Burnett. Minutes later, the plane crashed, 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, just after 10 a.m. ET. The aircraft had been scheduled to fly from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco. Deena Burnett says her husband told her three men had taken control of the plane, and that the hijackers had fatally stabbed one person on board, the family's priest told the San Francisco Chronicle. Burnett told his wife, "I love you, honey," then the line went dead,
posted on September 18, 2001 11:33:34 AM new
Linda...I think we're all on overload, at least I am. I've heard several versions of what happened on the PA plane...can't even begin to keep them all straight. Too much misery...
posted on September 18, 2001 12:32:11 PM new
I agree we know enough to know they were intending to overcome the hijackers. Good for them. We really don't know what happened though. And if you think something like this can't be kept quiet you have little understanding of the threats the military can bring to bear on their people. The military shot down a civilian airliner over the Med back about '67 and kept it quiet for a couple decades.
They have kept huge programs secret for years. For example the SR-71 Blackbird flew for years with no public knowledge although there were hundreds of support people and it flew in and out of bases from Nevada to Turkey. That is until one of the pilots fell asleep and missed a navigation point at which he should have turned South and flew into British air space and was intercepted by two of their F-4 Phantoms that could barely match speed on full burner with the Blackbird in it's economy cruise mode.
