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...class seat 4D, public relations executive Mark Bingham used an airplane phone to call his mother. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham," he said, so rattled that he included his last name. "Three guys have taken over the plane, and they say they have a bomb." Back in coach, Jeremy Glick phoned his wife Lyzbeth to say, "Three Arab-looking men with red headbands" had taken over the cockpit...
Investigators have recovered Flight 93's black boxes, and they may tell us something definitive. But those closest to Burnett, Bingham and Glick say they don't need confirmation. "You'd have to know Mark," says Bingham's aunt Kathy Hoglan. "I'm sure he and the others did something to stop this." "He knew that stopping them was going to end all of their lives," says Jeremy Glick's brother-in-law Douglas Hurwitt. "But that was my brother-in-law. He was a take-charge guy." Deena Burnett says, "I know without a doubt that the plane...
...similarities of these three passengers that makes the portrait of them as confederates perfectly imaginable. All three were large, athletic, decisive types. Bingham, 6 ft. 5 in., played rugby when at the University of California, Berkeley, and still played for the San Francisco Fog, a gay amateur team. Glick, 6 ft. 4 in., was a national collegiate judo champion, according to the website of the software firm for which he was a sales manager. Burnett, 6 ft. 1 in., was a former high school football player and an executive of a medical-devices firm. All three were nimble, successful, charismatic...
...like to think they did it. We may never know. Yet Glick's last words to his wife Lyzbeth, like Burnett's vow of action to his wife, make us want to believe they prevailed, taking Flight 93 down in a Pennsylvania coalfield far from any metropolis. "We're going to rush the hijackers," said Glick. Then he put down the phone. --By Josh Tyrangiel...
DIED. JULIUS EPSTEIN, 91, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Casablanca and author of more than 50 produced screenplays; in Los Angeles. Epstein was the inspiration for the naive Julian Blumberg, whose stories are plagiarized by Sammy Glick in Budd Schulberg's Hollywood novel, What Makes Sammy...