The fourth was 38-year-old Tom Burnett, a former high school football star from Bloomington, Minn. Todd was not going to be sitting in his seat while somebody was trying to crash the plane." "I knew, when I saw what happened," says his dad, David, "that Todd would be part of that. The third was Oracle salesman Todd Beamer, 32, a former shortstop at Wheaton (Ill.) College, a basketball star, and a soccer player. He'd have been definitely been kickin' ass and takin' names." "He told me, 'Dad, we lost the match, but we won the fight.' I know how he was. "I remember Mark and his buddies got thrown off an entire island once," says his dad, Jerry. He was huge, fierce, funny and, incidentally, gay. He'd won two national club rugby titles with Cal-Berkeley. Mark Bingham, 31, was back there with Glick. With him being so strong, and with his experience in martial arts and judo, he's going to unleash some terrible force. Horrified, she pictured the hijackers having machine guns.Īnd Lyz says, "I was thinking, 'OK, Jeremy can handle a man with a knife, no problem. "We're going to rush the hijackers," Glick told Lyz. The World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon had already been hit. They were on board a 150,000-pound missile, bound for some unthinkable end. It wasn't long before he and the others - talking to their families - realized that nobody was going back to Newark. Glick, a muscular 1993 national collegiate judo champion, scampered back to the second-to-last row and called his wife, Lyz. They told the 33 passengers and seven crew members they were hijacking the plane and returning to Newark. He was supposed to go the day before, but a fire at Newark Airport forced him to re-book for the next day, one of the bloodiest in American history.Ībout 45 minutes into the flight, four radical Islamic terrorists stormed the cockpit, sliced the throats of the pilots and took charge. United Flight 93 was supposed to go from Newark to San Francisco that Tuesday morning, but 31-year-old Jeremy Glick wasn't supposed to be on it. It was four athletes, pushing a food cart. 11, 2001.Īnd it wasn't soldiers who led the battle.
It was held 32,000 feet above Pittsburgh, on Sept. The first battle in the renewed war against terrorism wasn't waged in Fallujah or Kandahar or Tikrit.
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Lyzbeth and Lisa, both residents of New Jersey, say they know their husbands did everything they could to stop the hijackers.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser The nation is still waiting to hear the information gathered on the black boxes, which may help reveal how the plane crashed and if there was an on-board struggle between passengers and hijackers. But without question, the attack would have been much worse if it hadn't been for the courageous acts of those individuals on United 93," Cheney said. Vice President Cheney said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that he telephoned Lyzbeth and called the men courageous. The flight was originally bound from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco. Their actions may be what prevented the hijackers from reaching their final destination.ĪBCNEWS learned that shortly before the plane changed direction, someone in the cockpit radioed the FAA and asked for a new flight plan with a final destination of Washington, D.C. Passengers' families who received calls before the crash said Beamer, Glick and a few other passengers, including Thomas Burnett, tried to overcome the hijackers.
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