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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(1/2)
Thanksgiving is an American holiday.
I’d prefer if people with names like “Abdul” and “Hong” who behave like they are fresh off the boat don’t chime in about American holidays that actual Americans cherish.
You are far from American if your name is Abdul. To be honest, I don’t even want you in my country if your name is Abdul.
Should be common sense immigration policy tbh.
When you have a really old, grey senior dog - you’re the luckiest dog owner alive.
They’ve been a part of your family for so long, you cherish every single day with them.
The love I have for old Pedro can’t be explained in words.
I cooked the old boy a ribeye today. You never know when today is the last day, and I’m so thankful for each day that I still get to be with him.
He’s my best boy.
President Trump reportedly had to switch planes when flying back from Turkey because Iran was trying to kill him. Yet the media is more focused on making Donald Trump the villain of this story.
Repeat after me:
Islamic terrorists in Iran who plotted to assassinate the President are the bad guys. Plotting to kill a President is worse than switching planes.
Mhmmkay?
🚨WOW!!!
A college student is being praised as a HERO after she saw 3 little girls drowning in Lake Washington, jumped in, and saved ALL THREE GIRLS.
The last one was UNCONSCIOUS, underwater, tangled in a rope, only her hair was still floating.
All 3 SURVIVED!!!! ❤️
Her name is Lillie Vehling.
She is an engineering student at UC Davis and an attacker on the women's water polo team.
She was in Seattle for a summer internship and went to Seafair for the very first time, sitting at Genesee Park waiting on the Blue Angels with a book in her hands.
Then she scanned the water.
Three girls were out past the buoy line, bobbing, screaming, going under. She is a certified lifeguard who started her own swim lesson program, so she knew exactly what she was looking at.
One of the girls was pushing the other two under just to get a breath.
That is when she went in.
She grabbed that girl first, to stop her from taking the other two down with her. Got her to shallow water. Went back for the second one.
Then she went back a third time.
By then the third girl was already gone under.
Lillie: "I just saw her black hair in the water barely floating."
The child was unconscious AND tangled in the rope of a buoy she had been clawing at to save her own life.
Lillie got an arm under her, lifted her head out of the water, and hauled her to shore.
The little girl coughed up the lake and came back.
Seattle Fire paramedics met them on the beach. One girl went to Seattle Children's Hospital in stable condition.
All three lived.
Seafair's president found her that same day. Her first question was whether Lillie was okay. Her second was whether she could give her a hug.
That night they brought her to the gala and knighted her "Lady Guardian of Lake Washington."
Admirals lined up to meet her.
And Lillie? She is chasing a career in the nuclear Navy.
Seafair's president says she hopes the next time Lillie comes back to that lake, it is in a Blue Angels cockpit.
"To save three people, I didn't think twice about myself."
GOD BLESS Lillie Vehling, and GOD BLESS the firefighter who raised her.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Two aerial firefighting pilots were killed last week when their helicopter crashed while battling a wildfire in central Utah.
On Friday, August 7, Christopher Andersen, 64, and Miles Elliott, 50, died when their Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane went down in rugged terrain near Three Creeks Reservoir, while supporting crews fighting the Widemouth 2 Fire in the Fishlake National Forest. Andersen was the chief pilot. Both worked for Helicopter Transport Services under contract with the U.S. Forest Service.
The helicopter crashed under unknown circumstances shortly after 10:30 a.m. The crash sparked a separate fire, which, along with steep terrain, kept crews from reaching the wreckage until the next day. The NTSB and FAA are investigating.
Rest in peace, Christopher Andersen and Miles Elliott
Hello @FBI@FBILosAngeles
I’d like to report a Muslim Communist streamer named Hasan Piker @hasanthehun who abused his dog while he was streaming. Hasan Piker lives in Los Angeles.
In the video below, you can see Hasan Piker screaming at his dog and electrocuting his dog Kaya with a shock collar because she got up to stretch her legs while he was streaming.
He then screamed “I FING HATE THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH”
If I get the reward, I will donate it to a no kill animal shelter in honor of Kaya.
@FBI_Response@FBILosAngeles
The next time you feel like giving up, remember this photo of Elon Musk
This was after SpaceX’s third rocket failed. He had already put around $100 million of his own money into the company, and things were looking terrible.
SpaceX was running out of money. Tesla was struggling too. People were telling him to quit, the media thought he was crazy, and another failed launch could have been the end of SpaceX.
But he kept going.
He put everything he had left into one more launch.
And this time, it worked.
Falcon 1 reached orbit on its fourth attempt, and that one success changed everything.
Today, SpaceX is one of the biggest forces in the space industry.
Sometimes you can be one failure away from giving up, while also being one attempt away from changing everything.
Elon didn’t stop.
That’s the difference between almost making it and actually making it.