Page 20 - The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper - September 2009

20 The Story of Flight 93 20 The Story of Flight 93 The heroes of Flight 93: Interviews with family and friends detail the courage of everyday people. Continues from Page 19 At nearly the same moment, from the plane's bathroom, someone called 911, repeating that Flight 93 had been hijacked, that this was not a hoax. Then, Marion Britton called a longtime friend, Fred Fiumano, at his New York City auto shop. Britton, crying, told him the plane was turning around. It was going to go down. "Don't worry about it," Fiumano said, trying desperately to reassure her. "They're only taking you for a ride." He heard yelling and screaming in the background, and then the phone went dead. He tried to call the cellular-phone number back, but no one answered. A few of the passengers expected they would win the battle. Before Lyzbeth Glick turned over the phone to her father because she couldn't bear to listen anymore, her husband told her, "Hang on the line. I'll be back." At 10:03 a.m., a black crater bloomed in the soft earth of a field 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The wife in California, the father-in-law in New York, the operator in suburban Chicago still held onto their phones. They held on, waiting and hoping in the silence. []