This is Jockel Podcast number one 19 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

On September 11th, 400 miles from the Collapse World Trade Center towers,

three dozen passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 remained in airborne purgatory.

Starting at 9.30am for some 30 minutes, 14 of them managed to telephone either loved ones or operators on the ground.

Public Relations man Mark Bingham got through to his aunts home in California.

This is Mark, he began. I want to let you guys know that I love you in case I don't see you again.

Then I'm on United Airlines Flight 93. It's being hijacked.

Two other callers from the plane not only provided information but also gleaned vital news from those they phoned.

Tom Burnett, Chief Operating Officer for a medical devices firm, made a number of brief calls to his wife, Dina.

Speaking quietly, he asked her to contact the authorities and told her that a male passenger had been stabbed later that he had died.

A woman, perhaps a flight attendant, was being held at knife point and the hijackers claimed they had a bomb.

Jeremy Glick, a salesman for an internet services company, also managed to phone.

In a long conversation with his wife, Liz, Glick said the hijackers had put on these red headbands.

They said they had a bomb. They looked Iranian.

The bomb was in a red box, he said.

The couple told each other how much they loved each other.

Glick said, I don't want to die. And his wife assured him that he would not.

She urged him to keep a picture of her and their 11-week-old daughter in his head to think good thoughts.

Burnett's wife, who had been watching the news on television, told him that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center.

My God, he responded, it's a suicide mission.

By the time he phoned a third time after news of the crash into the Pentagon, she told him about that, too.

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