Honor Elizabeth Wainio
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Honor Elizabeth Wainio was one of the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth was one of the passengers who managed to call loved ones. Elizabeth called her stepmother, Esther Heymann, in Baltimore, from the plane before it crashed.
"Mom, we're being hijacked. I just called to say good bye," she said. "Elizabeth, we don't know how this is going to turn out. I've got my arms around you," Heymann said.
Wainio told her stepmother she could feel them.
"Let's look out at that beautiful blue sky. Let's be here in the moment," Heymann told her. "Let's do some deep breathing together."
They passed a few quiet moments.
"It hurts me that it's going to be so much harder for you all than it is for me," Elizabeth said.
Elizabeth ended the call by telling her mother that everybody was getting ready to go to the cockpit.
Elizabeth and 43 other passengers (including the four terrorists) were all instantly killed in the crash.
A scholarship fund has been created at Elizabeth's alma mater, Towson University, where she was a 1995 Mass Communication graduate.
