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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2001 U.S. UNDER ATTACK THE FINAL MOMENTS from doomed lassemgers, I a few words CHICAGO TRIBUNE SECTION 1 "She was screaming, 'We've been and he could hear all the screams throughout the airplane," said Frances Watson, Ross' aunt in Ft. Pierce. "She told him, 'I love you, I love the and then the phone went dead. It was devastating." Lyles frantically dialed her cell phone, but it went instantly to voice mail.

The flight, a Boeing 757, had left Newark at 8:01 a.m., headed for San Francisco with 38 passengers, two pilots, Ross and I i I i i i 1 At i-. i it- i I i 5 'Don't worry about us a son tells his father By David Heinzmann Tribune staff reporter In the first of the final two phone calls he would ever make, Peter Hanson told his father that his flight, United 175, had been hijacked and he had just witnessed the murder of a flight attendant. Moments later, on a second call the 32-year-old software salesman placed from the jet that terrorists apparently had commandeered and put on a collision course with the World Trade Center, Hanson said goodbye. According to an account relayed through members of his father's church at a prayer service in Easton, Tuesday night, he predicted to his horrified father that he was about to die, along with his 35-year-old wife, their 3-year-old daughter and the other 62 people on board. Even then, he tried to reassure his parents.

"Don't worry about us, it's going to be quick," he said, according to the account. "He realized they weren't going to make it and was able to say his goodbyes to his father," said Jeffrey Wong, chairman of board of the Congregational Church of Easton, where Peter Hanson's father, Lee, is church treasurer. In a story that would ring all too familiar by day's end, the man from Groton, had clearly recognized that he and all those around him were doomed. On a morning sure to live in infamy, the terrified voice of Peter Hanson was only one of the thousands to cry out. People who would die, along with those who would live to never forget Sept.

11, 2001, would speak enduring words from the bellies of condemned airplanes. AP photo the World Trade Center towers Tuesday morning, a crash that later Planes involved in Tuesday's attacks 11 American Airlines (Boeing 767-200ER) Scheduled route: Boston to Los Angeles On board: 81 passengers, 1 1 crew 175 United Airlines (Boeing 767-200ER) Scheduled route: Boston to Los Angeles Onboard: 56 passengers, 9 crew 77 American Airlines (Boeing 757-200) Scheduled route: Washington, D.C, to Los Angeles On board: 58 passengers, 6 crew All times Eastern Washington D.C Arlington- St VIRGINIA Route) not "aa available) 10 MILES MASS. Manhattan 10TmiLS CeeCee Ross spent six years as a Ft. Pierce, police officer but always yearned to fly, turning in her badge for a flight attendant's job when she moved from Ft. Pierce to Ft.

Myers, with her husband and two sons last year. Tuesday morning, just after Ross' husband, Loren Lyles, had gotten 7-yearold Jevon and 15-year-old Jerome off to school, Lyles received a panicked phone call from his wife aboard United Airlines Flight 93. 'She told him, 7 love you, I love the children, and then the phone went dead. Frances Watson, aunt of victim four other flight attendants. It crashed near Pittsburgh.

Ross wasn't the only one to make a frantic call from Flight 93. Dan Stevens, spokesman for the Westmoreland Emergency Operations Center outside Pittsburgh, announced Tuesday afternoon that a man believed to be a passenger called authorities by cell phone to say the plane had been hijacked. "We believe he was a passenger on board the United Airlines flight. He stated that the plane was being hijacked," said Stevens. The phone call came into the emergency center at 9:58 a.m.

from a caller who claimed he was locked in a bathroom on board United Airlines Flight 93, which was bound for San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey. "We are being hijacked! We are being hijacked!" the man said, according to a transcript of the conversation. Before the dispatcher could get more details, the man's phone went dead. A couple hundred miles away another plane was in trouble, and another person was crying for help. Barbara Olson, the former federal prosecutor who became a prominent TV commentator during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, called her husband twice in the final minutes.

Her last words to him were "What do I tell the pilot to do?" "She called from the plane while it was being hijacked," said Theodore Olson, the U.S. solicitor general. "I wish it wasn't so, but it is." 3348 2222 4150 4318 publicedltor9trlbune.com clasudinf60tribune.com Jwhlsleretribune.com http:chicagotrlbune.comcustomerservka Michigan Sept. 1 1 Daily 3 Sept. 11 Dally 4 Sept.

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The two conversations Olson had with her husband each lasted about a minute, said Tim O'Brien, a CNN reporter and friend of the Olsons who is acting as family spokesman. In the first call, Barbara Olson told her husband, "Our plane is being hijacked." Olson's first call was cut off, and her husband immediately called the Justice Department's command center, where he was told officials knew nothing about the Flight 77 hijacking. Moments later, his wife called again. And again, she wanted to know, "What should I tell the pilot?" "She was composed, as composed as you can be under the circumstances," O'Brien said. But her second call was cut off too.

"Incidentally, she wasn't even supposed to be on this flight," O'Brien added on CNN. "She was booked on a flight yester day, but today is Ted's birthday, so she wanted to be here this morning to have breakfast with him before she left." Lauren Grandcolas had taken a few days off from her sales job at Good Housekeeping magazine in San Francisco to attend her grandmother's funeral in New Jersey. She was on her way home from Newark when her husband received the call. "We have been hijacked," she told her husband, Jack, from United Airlines Flight 93. "They are being kind.

I love you." Then she hung up. Stacy Wong of the Hartford Cou-rant and Tribune wire services contributed to this report. CALL FOR SUPPORT (0) Departure: 8:1 0 a.m. from Dulles International i Crashed: Struck Pentagon at 9:45 a.m. Departure: 7:58 a.m.

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2 Chicago TribuneJoe Knowles and Phil Geib his support behind Bush. "Like all Americans, I strongly support President Bush's statement that we will use every resource at our disposal to find out who did this and hold them accountable," Gore said in a statement. "It is an unspeakable tragedy, and my heart goes out to the victims and their families." Clinton praised Bush for taking the advice of the Secret Service and flying from Florida to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska since the tragedy. "Nobody should be questioning any decisions he makes," Clinton said. "We ought to be hanging in there, giving his national security team the time it takes." ft.

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publication of an advertisement shall constitute Copyright 2001 Chicago Tribune Company. All final acceptance. rights reserved as to the entire content. Clinton: Americans must rally behind president By Ron Fournier Associated Press WASHINGTON Former President Clinton, who led the nation through the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, urged Americans to rally behind President Bush in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. "We should not be second-guessing.

We should be supporting him," Clinton said in a telephone interview while traveling in Australia. Clinton, who left office in January after serving two terms, said he was stunned and angered by the attacks in New York and Washington. "The most important thing is, we all hjjve to be strong, calm ment in February 1993, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others. He also dealt with the April 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, where 168 people died. Timothy McVeigh was executed this year for the crime and conspirator Terry Nichols faces the death penalty.

On Bush and his team, Clinton said: "We're going to have to give them some time. They're going to have to work on this I know they're going to work overtime. I know they're going to do a good job." Former Vice President Al Gore, who has kept a low profile since losing the 2000 presidential election to Bush, also threw WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS Illinois Midday Sept. 11 Pick 3 '4 Sept il Pick 4 6056 Evening 174 2985 Sept 1) Little Lotto 10 11 22 23 28 Sept 12 Lotto Jackpot S4.S million Sept. 11 Big Game 03 11 33 41 49 21 Sept.

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