Deena and Tom married in 1992. She described him as 'confident, capable, and a natural leader'Tom had been away for almost three weeks when he boarded the flight home from Newark to CaliforniaThe Minnesota native began by telling Deena that the hijackers were now in the cockpit, and the person that they'd stabbed was dead. He also said he believed they had a bomb and a gun on board.
"He was just irritated now there was one more thing: he was trying to get home and they had hijacked his plane." "He asked about the kids and I told him they were having their breakfast and wanted to talk to him. And he said, 'Tell them I'll talk to them later. I'll be home tonight, I may be late, but I'll be home.'"
"I couldn't hear anything in the background [of the call]," she said. "It was quiet. I could hear the hum of the engine and that was it. It just sounded like a normal flight otherwise.""Pray, Deena. Just Pray," he told her."And then he hung up the phone and led the passengers and crew members down the aisle.""That was it. Those were his last words to me," she said.
The terrorists took control of the cockpit and turned the plane southeast on a course directed toward Washington, DC. CeeCee Lyles, another member of the cabin crew, told her husband: "Hi baby, I’m – you have to listen to me carefully. I’m on a plane that’s been hijacked. I’m on the plane, I’m calling from the plane.
Jarrah tried to deter the passengers by cutting off the oxygen to the cabin and pitching the plane from left to right in an attempt to knock them off balance.Around 20 minutes from Washington the hijackers discussed crashing the plane early. Her husband, whom she described as "confident, capable, and a natural leader", had never told her goodbye in any of their three calls.
"So that was just, you know, what I heard in his voice. When he said, everything was going to be okay, I believed him," she said.Deena met Tom in Marierra, Georgia in 1989 when she was a flight attendant with Delta Airlines. "He was intense, like just an intense leadership kind of personality. You just knew the guy was going places.
"I just began to search on the TV screen for parts of the airplane for people for luggage for anything that could have survived. And there was nothing.
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