Manders

love that journey for me

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Madeline Amy Sweeney knew the plane had been hijacked. Instead of panicking, she started gathering information.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the 35-year-old American Airlines flight attendant was working aboard Flight 11, a Boeing 767 traveling from Boston to Los Angeles.

Not long after takeoff, something was terribly wrong.

The cockpit stopped responding.

Passengers were being attacked.

Crew members were injured.

The aircraft was no longer under the control of its pilots.

As chaos unfolded around her, Sweeney managed to connect to an American Airlines operations center using an Airfone. On the other end was supervisor Michael Woodward.

What followed would become one of the most important eyewitness accounts from inside a hijacked aircraft.

Sweeney didn't waste precious moments focusing on her own fate.

Instead, she began relaying information.

Carefully.

Clearly.

Methodically.

She described the men who had taken over the plane.

She gave their seat assignments.

She reported injuries among passengers and crew.

She explained that a passenger had been stabbed.

Every detail mattered.

Even as she faced the reality that she might never leave the aircraft alive, she continued feeding information to authorities.

According to later accounts, Woodward was struck by how calm and composed she remained. Her voice was steady. Her descriptions were precise.

Then she provided information that would later prove critical to investigators.

She identified Mohamed Atta as one of the hijackers and supplied details about the others involved.

As Flight 11 headed toward New York City, Sweeney stayed on the line, continuing to report what she could see.

At 8:46 a.m., the plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Everyone on board was killed.

Sweeney was just 35 years old.

The information she provided during those final minutes became some of the earliest and most valuable evidence available to investigators trying to understand what had happened.

She couldn't regain control of the aircraft.

She couldn't stop the hijackers.

She couldn't save herself.

But she could help others understand what was unfolding.

And she did.

Until the very end.

Madeline Sweeney left behind her husband and two young children—her son, Jack, who was four, and her daughter, Anna, who was seven.

They never saw her again.

Yet in the face of unimaginable circumstances, she chose to remain focused, courageous, and selfless.

Trapped aboard a hijacked plane with no way out, Madeline Amy Sweeney spent her final moments ensuring that the world would know exactly who had taken control of Flight 11—and what was happening inside it.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Come back and live forever….Dolly.

[Swolecialist @BlackLanterrn]

Never heard this before yesterday and now I cant stop jamming it

[mama(to-be) strawberry 🍼🍓 @honeybunwife]

we are lowkey in a weddingguestzilla epidemic, no one ever wants to attend any event that isn’t 100% about them. there’s so many grown adults that were raised with the “and on your sisters birthday you get to open a present to!” mentality

[𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 @mileywrld]

“Just sixteen but we felt so old”

[. @virgosgroovie]

their boho chic era was everything to me

[Fly Nashville @Fly_Nashville]

Today, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport® (BNA®), announced their intent to name BNA in honor of Dolly Parton.

Read more here: https://t.co/x1DLDKrNNC

[✨ 𝓗 𝓞 𝓛 𝓛 𝓨 𓆙 @hollyhollssss]

the cars on Lyft are guitars and butterflies for Dolly omfg

[Mia♡ @luxemiaa]

My son came to me with some news.

He told me Dolly Parton had died and I said I knew.

And then he got quiet for a second and said she loved me. She used to send me a lot of books.

I had to just look at him for a moment.

He was talking about the Imagination Library. The program where Dolly sends books to children every month from birth until they start school. Millions of kids across the country get these books.

My son believed that Dolly Parton personally knew him. That she had specifically selected each book, thought about him individually, put it in an envelope, and mailed it to our house every single month because she loved him specifically.

Not as part of a program. Not as one of millions of children. But because she and my son had a personal relationship and she was devoted to his literary development specifically.

And honestly when you think about it from a child's perspective that's not even an unreasonable conclusion. Books showed up every month with her name attached. She clearly cared. Why wouldn't she know him personally.

I didn't have the heart to fully correct him in that moment.

Because also he wasn't entirely wrong. She did love him. She loved all of them. She just loved a lot of children at once and had a very efficient system for showing it.

Rest easy Dolly. My son misses you personally.

[street lifer @streetlifer1]

Gave a dad on the subway a look once, his toddler was eating a donut at 7am, seemed like a lazy breakfast choice, none of my business but I judged anyway.

Heard him on the phone a few stops later, talking to what sounded like a nurse, confirming an appointment time, mentioning the donut was the only thing that stayed down before infusions.

Kid had leukemia. The donut wasn't a lazy choice. It was the one food that gave him enough calories to survive a treatment that made everything else come back up.

Sat there the rest of my ride replaying the look I'd given him.

Try to remember that now anytime something looks careless from the outside. Usually just means I don't have the whole picture yet.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Dolly Parton was the #1 most-streamed artist on Spotify in the U.S. yesterday.

She was the #2 most-streamed artist globally.

[Tallow Twins | Skincare @Tallowtwins]

Now THAT is an icon.

[TheGrandeTop10 ꕤ @TheGrandeTop10]

Dolly Parton becomes the only artist in history to occupy the entire Top 10 of US iTunes with different songs 🩶

[Niagara Falls USA @NiagaraFallsUSA]

#NiagaraFalls will be illuminated pink from 10:15-10:30 p.m. tonight in honor of @DollyParton. 🩷

📸: Instagrammer NiagaraFalls_StatePark

[Miley Stats @StatsOnCyrus]

Miley Cyrus in today in L.A. 🇺🇸

[Ashley Carter @AshleyLCarter1]

In 2021, Tennessee lawmakers wanted to put a statue of Dolly Parton at the state capitol. Her response is a shining example of her humility.

Now that she's gone, Tennessee, you know what to do.

[Jacob deNobel @Jacob_deNobel]

Just sharing Vin Diesel’s Dolly tribute for anyone who doesn’t follow him on Instagram

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Dolly Parton tried to withdraw from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame because she thought an actual rock musician deserved the spot more.

When Parton was nominated in 2022, she publicly asked to bow out, explaining that she did not feel she had "earned that right" and worried her nomination might take votes from artists who had devoted their lives to rock. The Hall declined to remove her, explaining that induction recognized musical influence beyond strict genre boundaries. She was ultimately elected.

Dolly accepted, but apparently decided there was only one proper response.

She would earn it.

In 2023, at 77, she released Rockstar, the first full rock album of her career. The enormous 30-track project featured Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Stevie Nicks, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett and other rock legends. Parton later explained that her Hall of Fame induction was what finally pushed her to make it.

Most people celebrate getting into a Hall of Fame.

Dolly Parton gave herself homework.

#archaeohistories

[Hoosier Hammer 🔨🦬🏆🏈 @Brentonmfender]

This video of Dolly Parton covering Stairway to Heaven is going around. Here's a higher quality version for you to enjoy. RIP to the Queen of Country and an absolute angel on Earth.

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

Miley singing ‘Islands in the Stream’ directly at Dolly Parton 💔