steven push s wife lisa raines was on board. she was going on a business trip, a one-day business trip to california. at 8:54, american 77 began deviating from its flight plan, first with a slight turn toward the south. two minutes later it disappeared completely from indianapolis radar. the controller who lost flight 77 assumed it crashed. he believed american 77 had experienced serious electrical and/or mechanical failure and was gone. meanwhile in new york, an air traffic control manager tracking united flight 175, tried to report its hijacking to her superiors. she was turned away. the manager tried to notify the regional managers and was told that the managers were discussing a hijacked aircraft,
down as well. once it did begin to clear after that, several minutes of pitch darkness what did you see in the streets? a very deep gray smoke. it looked like a bit of a nuclear winter. the type of thing you see in the movies with ash all over the ground, on top of cars, on police karkss on windcars, on windows. i made my way into a building and stayed there until a couple of police officers and a few others in the building were able to get into a vehicle. we picked up a few injured people along the way and dropped them off at the hospital. one policeman had a deep gash in his forehead. he was all right. and the young lady had shrapnel in her arm. don t know whether it was part of a building or glass from another building. it was truly the most intense and frightening experience i ve ever had in my life. it was literally pitch black on the streets. and people were you know, obviously, inhaling a great deal of this material. so many folks having difficulty breathing and wearing fa
being hijacked. i think my first thing was, come on, peter. he said, no, it s being hijacked. he said, don t think the pilot is flying the plane even now. he said, you ought to call united airlines and let them know, he says, because they may have turned off the equipment that can warn them of a hijacking. and he said, i ll get back to you. the controller responsible for flight 175 was looking for the already-crashed american flight 11. he didn t notice that united 175 had now veered offcourse. within ten minutes of united 175 s hijacking, a third plane, american flight 77, traveling
flight 175 had taken off from boston to los angeles. at 8:14 a.m., pilot victor saracini overheard the hijackers on flight 11 on his radio. two minutes later, united flight 175 was hijacked. in easton, connecticut, lee and eunice got a phone call from their son peter who was aboard the plane. when i first heard lee answer the phone say, hi, peter, i said, what s he calling for? and then i heard silence on his part. he said, dad, the airplane s
from dulles to los angeles came under attack. steve s wife lisa was onboard. she was going on a business trip, a one-day business trip to california. at 8:54, american 77 began deviating from its flight plan, first with a slight turn toward the south. two minutes later it disappeared completely from indianapolis radar. the controller who lost flight 77 assumed it crashed. he believed american 77 had experienced serious electrical and/or mechanical failure and was gone. meanwhile in new york, an air traffic control manager tracking united flight 175, tried to report its hijacking to her superiors. she was turned away. the manager tried to notify the regional managers and was told that the managers were