Todd Beamer

Todd Beamer's name inscribed on the South Fountain of the National September 11 Memorial

Todd Morgan Beamer (born November 24, 1968 in Flint , Michigan , † September 11, 2001 in Shanksville , Pennsylvania ) was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 . This machine was hijacked as part of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 . Beamer was one of the passengers who tried to thwart the kidnapping. The plane crashed into a field in Shanksville.

biography

Todd Beamer attended Los Gatos High School , Wheaton Academy , DePaul University , California State University, Fresno, and Wheaton College . In 2001 he was budget manager for Oracle and lived with his wife Lisa Beamer and his two sons David and Drew in Cranbury ( New Jersey ). His daughter Morgan Kay was born on January 9, 2002. Beamer and his wife had been teaching at their church's Sunday School for 6 years.

Flight 93

Flight UA 93, a Boeing 757 aircraft , took off from Newark at 8:01 a.m. The destination was San Francisco . After the flight United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked by 4 men, projectors and other passengers tried to communicate with people on the ground. At the same time, they learned that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had also been attacked with the help of hijacked aircraft. Beamer tried to speak to GTE Corporation (General Telephone & Electronics Corporation) using the phone built into the aircraft. He was referred to the manager Lisa Jefferson and told her that a passenger had been killed and that later the captain and co-pilot had been forced to leave the cockpit and were wounded. He was still on the phone when the plane turned south-east. He later said that some passengers wanted to "jump on" the kidnappers and prevent them from doing their thing . The passengers intended to land the plane themselves. Beamer recited Psalm 23 by heart with Jefferson . According to Jefferson's report, Beamer's final words were, “Are you ready guys? Okay, let's roll ” . The plane crashed shortly after 10 a.m.

heritage

Four places were named after Todd Beamer:

• a post office in Cranbury,
• Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way (Washington),
• the Todd M. Beamer Student Center at Weathon College, Illinois and
• Todd Beamer Park in Fresno, California.

The post office in Cranbury was named after Beamer on May 4, 2002 as a result of "Art of Congress" by Rush D. Holt jr. It was initiated by US President George W. Bush . The passengers on Flight 93 received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award posthumously in 2002 . In the National 9/11 Memorial (at the South Pool, Panel S-68) both projectors and other passengers were honored.

Web links

Commons : Todd Beamer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shanksville
• Cranbury Post Office