![]() Beamer attended Los Gatos High School, Wheaton Academy, DePaul University, California State University, Fresno and Wheaton College.įor the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's biography of Todd Beamer, click here. Wheaton College also has a building named There is also a high school (Todd Beamer High School) in Federal Way, WA, named after Beamer. They burst into the cockpit and fought with the terrorists over the controls for the plane.Ī post office in Cranbury, New Jersey, was named after him. Recording) were that the passengers on Flight 93 did not cause the plane to crash intentionally. Though it was a widely-held belief that the passengers crashed the airliner in an attempt to save the lives of others on the ground, the 9/11 Commission's findings (based on the "black box" cockpit Todd Beamer was one of those passengers, a hero whose voice was seared in our memories as he made a call to a GTE airphone operator, asking her to say the Lord’s Prayer with him before he and. She was born on January 9, 2002, in Princeton, New Jersey. As a result of her fathers courageous role in that incident, she and her family are well-known. Todd Beamer and his fellow passengers are true hero’s. Morgan Kay Beamer is an American woman renowned for being the family member of a heroic man Todd Beamer who did his best to not let the 9/11 attack occur. According to Jefferson,īeamer's last audible words were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." This term would later become the war cry for those fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Todd: I want you to call my wife and my kids for me and tell them what’s happened. Later, he told the operator that some of the plane's passengers were planning "jump on" the hijackers. Turn in a southeasterly direction, a move that had him briefly panicking. He was also on the phone when the plane made its ![]() Passenger was killed and, later, that a flight attendant had told him the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded. Beamer tried to placeĬredit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat but was routed to a customer-service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Todd and other passengers had been in communication with people via in-plane and cell phones and learned that the World Trade Center had been attacked using hijacked airplanes. nearly four months after her fathers death. Todd and other passengers had been in communication with people via in-plane and cell phones and learned that the World Trade Center had been attacked using hijacked airplanes. He is survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on Janu. nearly four months after her father's death. Survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on Janu. He died at age 32 in the Septemattacks on board United Airlines Flight 93. He told her to tell his wife, Lisa, pregnant with their third child, he loved his family.Todd Beamer, who resided in Cranbury, New Jersey, was an account manager for the Oracle Corporation. ![]() He asked her to recite The Lord's Prayer with him. As of 2015, there is no news that indicates that Lisa Beamer, the widow of Todd Beamer, remarried after his death on Sept. Todd Beamer, strong, competitive, athletic, traveling on business to San Francisco, told Jefferson of the plan to rush the cockpit. Here was an "independent ear witness" recalling the final moments of his life, giving the Beamers some answers that have eluded so many other 9/11 families, affirming what they already knew about their loved one. During that race across the country, he learned of the in-flight call between his son and GTE Airfone supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Published: 11:26 ET, Updated: 11:44 ET, ON September 11, 2001, 40 people on board Flight 93 were killed when a hijacked United flight crashed into a field near Stonycreek Township in Pennsylvania. The Beamers and the van Gorders intermarried in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, before spreading out across the country. Then in California, David Beamer drove coast to coast - airlines were grounded - to a New Jersey church for the memorial service for his 32-year-old son. 0 Todd Beamer is a distant relative of mine. Still, the passengers continued their assault.Īt 10:03 a.m., the plane hurtled, almost upside-down, into a field in western Pennsylvania at 580 mph, killing all 33 passengers and seven crew members on board and leaving a crater of scorched earth some 20 minutes of flying time from its presumed target in Washington. A cockpit voice recorder captured the sounds of fighting, shouting, breaking glass and plates. ![]()
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