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United 175 passengers may have planned to retake the plane

Mar 10, 2004 4:29AM PST
Widow: 9/11 passengers planned to resist

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Passengers on one of the planes terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, planned to resist the hijackers, according to the widow of one of the passengers.

About three-and-a-half minutes before the doomed United Airlines Flight 175 struck the trade center's south tower, Brian David Sweeney, a 38-year-old former U.S. Navy pilot from Barnstable, Massachusetts, made two phone calls.

Sweeney left a message for his wife, Julie, on his home answering machine, then he called his mom.

"We assume he was calling from the back of the plane, because he said, 'They might come back here. I might have to go. We are going to try to do something about this,' " Julie recalled.

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I guess we all know that the passengers on the plane that crashed
Mar 10, 2004 5:53AM PST

in Pennsylvania also attacked the hijackers.

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And I still think they all deserve medals for it
Mar 10, 2004 10:15PM PST

They most likely prevented an attack on the White House or Capitol building.