11 were right.īurnett and Mills’ birth mother dated in college and decided to give Mills up for adoption when she was born. “I suddenly knew that my dad was the Flight 93 hero from the news.” “I hung up and started sobbing,” Mills said to Cosmopolitan. The four men who prevented the attack posthumously received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2002.Īll but Bingham had children or were expecting children before that fateful day, and those kids, 17 years later, are carrying on the legacies left by fathers they either barely knew or never met. The plan was for the hijackers to crash the plane into the Capitol, the Pentagon or the White House, according to published reports. Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick and Todd Beamer rightfully are forever immortalized for their role in battling a group of hijackers on United Flight 93 - a flight that ultimately took the lives of everybody on board the plane.Īfter Burnett, Bingham, Glick and Beamer, all former athletes, stormed the cockpit and battled four hijackers, the plane ended up crashing into a Pennsylvania field instead of a Washington, D.C.
Beamer attended Los Gatos High School, Wheaton Academy, DePaul University, California State University, Fresno and Wheaton College.įor the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's biography of Todd Beamer, click here.Thanks to the action of some very brave men, the world won’t ever know the additional destruction it could have seen on Sept. Wheaton College also has a building named There is also a high school (Todd Beamer High School) in Federal Way, WA, named after Beamer. They burst into the cockpit and fought with the terrorists over the controls for the plane.Ī post office in Cranbury, New Jersey, was named after him. Recording) were that the passengers on Flight 93 did not cause the plane to crash intentionally. Though it was a widely-held belief that the passengers crashed the airliner in an attempt to save the lives of others on the ground, the 9/11 Commission's findings (based on the "black box" cockpit According to Jefferson,īeamer's last audible words were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." This term would later become the war cry for those fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Later, he told the operator that some of the plane's passengers were planning "jump on" the hijackers.
Turn in a southeasterly direction, a move that had him briefly panicking. He was also on the phone when the plane made its Passenger was killed and, later, that a flight attendant had told him the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded. Beamer tried to placeĬredit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat but was routed to a customer-service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Todd and other passengers had been in communication with people via in-plane and cell phones and learned that the World Trade Center had been attacked using hijacked airplanes. nearly four months after her father's death. Survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on Janu.
He died at age 32 in the Septemattacks on board United Airlines Flight 93. Todd Beamer, who resided in Cranbury, New Jersey, was an account manager for the Oracle Corporation.
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