‘I don’t know, but I think we’re getting hijacked’

THE flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 seemed calm and professional beyond reason as she reported a ghastly scenario during a 23-minute telephone call just before the plane slammed into one of the World Trade Center towers.

A hijacking was under way, she knew three people had been stabbed and she couldn’t tell what was happening in the cockpit.

The Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States heard portions of flight attendant Betty Ong’s 23-minute conversation with the operations centre on the second of a two-day hearing Tuesday.