Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, the final moments of a family aboard United Airlines Flight 175 are once again being remembered – including a heartbreaking phone call.
Peter Hanson was flying from Boston to Los Angeles with his wife, Sue, and their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Christine Lee Hanson, on what was supposed to be an exciting family vacation.
The family planned to visit relatives before heading to Disneyland. It was Christine’s first time on an airplane.
Instead, the toddler became the youngest person killed in the September 11 attacks.
At 8:52 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Peter called his father, Lee, from aboard the hijacked plane.
“Dad, we’ve been hijacked,” he told him, according to a transcript of the calls published on Substack.
“Don’t worry, Dad”
Peter said the cockpit appeared to have been taken over and told his father that a flight attendant had been stabbed. He asked Lee to contact United Airlines and report the incident. Lee instead called police in Easton, Connecticut.
Peter called his father again around 9 a.m.
