plan together to take back the airplane, that there was a group of them. he told me they were waiting until they were over a rural area. i just remember being an old flight attendant. that training kind of kicked in, and i just said, you need to sit down, be still, be quiet, and not draw attention to yourself. reporter: and when you told him as a previous flight attendant yourself to stay in your seat and not draw attention to yourself, did you suspect even in saying that, that was not going to work? i knew as the words were coming out of my mouth that it was the wrong thing to say, because he yelled back into the phone. he said, no. no. if they re going to drive this plane into a building, we re going to do something. reporter: they had a plan. had a plan. reporter: other loved ones would call home too. flight attendant ceecee lyles calling her husband, lauren.
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10 Chilling Voices From 9/11
Most sudden calamities – murders, car crashes, natural disasters – don’t offer a chance to say goodbye. But in a terrifying twist of fate, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 offered exactly that for thousands trapped in towers and stranded on hijacked airliners.
As the situation deteriorated, many victims realized that their chance of survival was approaching zero. So after desperately searching for exits, many spent their final moments speaking or leaving messages for loved ones. Their last words are mortifying and heartbreakingly human.
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Madeline Sweeney was an American Airlines flight attendant for over a decade. On September 11, 2001, she covering for a sick colleague on a flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Before takeoff, she called her husband from the plane. She was sad about being unable to take her daughter, who had recently started kindergarten, to school that morning.
safety they rushed forward to save lives. they were mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. sons and daughters from every walk of life from every background. mark bingham was on his way to be an usher in his college friend s wedding. ceecee lyles was looking to be a flight attendant. lauren grandcolas, three months pregnant and bill cashman himself a former army paratrooper with the 101th airborne had helped to build the world trade center with his own two hands and there were so many others whose names we just heard echo into the wind this morning. they were ordinary people but on that day they became