Jeremy Glick was a passenger on Flight 93. He called his wife Lyz to report the hijacking, a call that was covered in this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.
Jeremy Glick picked up a GTE Airfone just before 9:30 a.m. and called his in-laws in the Catskills. His wife, Lyz, and daughter, Emerson, were visiting. The family had been transfixed in front of a television, watching news coverage of airliners smashing into the World Trade Center in New York.
Glick's mother-in-law, JoAnne Makely, answered.
"Jeremy," she said, "Thank God. We're so worried."
"It's bad news," Glick replied. He asked for Lyz.
Lyz recalls no background noise. No commotion. He described the men as Arabic-looking, wearing red headbands, carrying knives. One told passengers he had a bomb. Most passengers had been forced to the rear of the cabin. Glick's mother-in-law went to another phone and dialed 911. As Jeremy and Lyz spoke, New York state police patched in on the call.
Glick asked his wife: Was it true that planes had been crashed into the World Trade Center?
Yes, she said. Glick thought so. Another passenger had been on the phone home and heard the same thing.
...
Lyz Glick was still on the phone with Jeremy. She stood in her parents' living room while the television screen filled with the sight of two burning towers.
"You need to be strong," she said.
State police, on the other line with Glick's mother-in-law, relayed a question: Did Glick know where his plane was? Glick didn't know, but he sensed they had changed direction.
Lyz and Jeremy spoke of their love for each other.
"I need you to be happy," he told her, "and I will respect any decisions that you make."
Then he told her the passengers were taking a vote: Should they try to take back the plane?
"Honey, you need to do it," Lyz told him.
Glick wondered what to use for a weapon. "I have my butter knife from breakfast," he joked.
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93mainstoryp7.asp
Joanne Makely
Liz Glick was with her parents when Jeremy called. Her mother, Joanne Makely, called the police and was able to relay information to them. Makely's call was recorded and a transcript recently became available. Details included:
- "He's on the plane and it's been hijacked and they're going to crash it into another building"
- "He's not on his cell phone. He's on the airline plane phone"
- "They don't know he's making this call"
- "There's three men going to fly the plane into the World Trade Center"
- "He thinks there's a bomb on the plane"
- "They want to know whether they should attack these three guys"
- "There's a man with a knife... And he has a red box... Or... He's said he's either going to blow it up or crash it into the World Trade Center"
- "Iranian man. Iranian looking man"
- "They have everybody in the back of the plane"
- "Some guys are rallying together and they want all the men to go and attack these... Jeremy doesn't know whether it's a good idea"
- "The men have decided they're going to try and attack the people"
- "He's left the phone on but they've gone to attack the people"
- "He doesn't hear anything"
- "He doesn't know whether he's connected or disconnected"
- "There was some screaming"
- "He says he doesn't hear anything"
- "He still says he has nothing"
Read the full transcript here (apologies in advance for the terrible formatting, it was that way in the original document).
Phone records
This summary records details of all Flight 93 calls.