He’s got it tied to his waist with a red belt of some kind. front got into the cockpit somehow there was shouting. A third one was sitting near the back of the coach section. Todd: Two of the hijackers were sitting in first class near the cockpit. Lisa: Now Todd, can you try to tell me exactly what happened? Lisa: Ok Todd….my name is Lisa…Do you know your flight number? If you can’t remember, it’s on your ticket. He said that they were meeting these men’s demands and returning to the airport… It was very broken English, and… I’m telling you…it sounded fake! He said he was the captain and to stay in our seats and stay quiet. Todd: Someone announced from the cockpit that there was a bomb on board. They sound like they’re from the mid-east. Lisa: Can you tell what country these people are from? Todd: No, these are razor knives…like box cutters. they don’t have guns….they have knives – they took over the plane with knives. Lisa: Can you see any weapons? What kind of weapons do they have? Lisa: Can you tell me how many hijackers are on the plane? Lisa: (exhaling a deep breath to herself) I understand… Can the hijackers see you talking on the phone?

We have a situation here….Our plane has been hijacked….can you understand me? I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Todd: Hello… Operator…listen to me…I can’t speak very loud.Judge’s legacy, meanwhile, is both more audacious and more complicated, as supporters redouble their efforts to have him canonized as a Catholic saint.Phone transcript of TODD BEAMER. Brendan Fay at a 9/11 Memorial where Father Mychal Judge's name is displayed. Next year’s tournament will spotlight “our shared values of inclusion, respect and athletic competition,” he added, including a summit on transgender athletes and a wheelchair rugby exhibition game.Īt a special dedication ceremony, a Canadian maple will be planted in Ottawa’s Ken Steele Park, where a plaque will officially designate a newly upgraded rugby pitch the Mark Bingham Field. “All that IGR is, and all that the Bingham Cup has become, carries on Mark’s legacy,” Laberge said. Laberge said he had several discussions with Hoagland and Mark “about the importance of ensuring the tournament not just go on but continue to thrive.” She became a mother figure to players across the globe.” “A lot of members of the IGR movement were abandoned or disowned by their families. “She was a mother to us all,” Bingham Cup President Jean-François Laberge said. Even when he first started playing in a gay rugby league in San Francisco, he had his face blurred in photos in the local press. He had come out to his fraternity brothers and his mom, but he wasn’t entirely out at work.

Like a lot of young gay men of his generation, Bingham struggled to some degree with his sexual orientation. A 2001 Advocate profile recalled Bingham drunkenly running on the field at a college football game to tackle the opposing team’s mascot.Īnd, according to those who knew them, they both went through a journey of accepting their sexualities. Courtesy Amanda Markīingham, once the president of the Chi Psi fraternity at University of California, Berkeley, “was the life of the party,” said Amanda Mark, his roommate in New York and longtime friend. Judge “had a bursting-at-the-sides sense of humor,” said Fay, who co-produced the 2006 documentary “Saint of 9/11.” “He loved to sing and was a real jokester, with a laugh that would fill a room.” Mark Bingham, right, with friends.

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