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==American Airlines Flight 11== On September 11, 2001, Sweeney, who had been a flight attendant for 12 years, was asked by [[American Airlines]] to take an extra shift because the other crew member, who was assigned to the position, was ill.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Dan |date=2011-09-09 |title=Ten years later, 9/11 still resonates in hockey |url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=588024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101080843/https://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=588024 |archive-date=2016-01-01 |accessdate=2011-09-10 |website=NHL.com |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Normally, she would only work part-time on weekends. At approximately 7:15 a.m., before the plane had taken off, Sweeney made a [[cellular telephone]] call to her husband Mike, from the plane β which he deemed to be "highly unusual".<ref>{{cite web |last=Federal Bureau of Investigation |title=T7 B17 FBI 302s of Interest Flight 11 FDR - Entire Contents |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/14094215/T7-B17-FBI-302s-of-Interest-Flight-11-Fdr-Entire-Contents |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611040914/https://www.scribd.com/doc/14094215/T7-B17-FBI-302s-of-Interest-Flight-11-Fdr-Entire-Contents |archive-date=2016-06-11 |accessdate=2014-01-18 |website=Scribd |language=en-US}}</ref> She was feeling low about being at work and missing out on a chance to see their five-year old daughter Anna, a kindergartener, off to school.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lopez |first=Steve |date=2011-09-11 |title=A decade later, returning to the scene of something unfathomable |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/11/local/la-me-0911-lopez-10yearslater-20110908/2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219143352/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/11/local/la-me-0911-lopez-10yearslater-20110908/2 |archive-date=2014-02-19 |accessdate=2014-01-18 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Mike comforted her by saying she would have plenty of days ahead to see their kids off to school.<ref>{{cite web |author=Zuckoff |first=Mitchell |date=2019-04-11 |title='We have some planes': Inside the hijacking of Flight 11 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2019/04/11/have-some-planes/dEKJunooWAfmrJuffHtMYI/story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509154811/https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2019/04/11/have-some-planes/dEKJunooWAfmrJuffHtMYI/story.html |archive-date=2021-05-09 |accessdate=2021-07-12 |website=[[Boston Globe]] |language=en-US}}</ref> After the plane was hijacked, she relayed a report on the phone with manager Michael Woodward of the seat numbers of the hijackers, which later helped investigators to determine their identities. Sweeney said that one of the hijackers had shown her a device with red and yellow wires that appeared to be a bomb.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sheehy |first=Gail |date=2004-02-15 |title=Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show |url=http://www.observer.com/node/48805 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207153421/http://www.observer.com/node/48805 |archive-date=2007-12-07 |access-date=2010-09-30 |work=[[The New York Observer]] |language=en-US}}</ref> At 8:46 a.m., Sweeney was on the phone with Woodward when the plane crashed into the North Tower: "I see water. I see buildings. I see buildings! We are flying low. We are flying very, very low. We are flying way too low. Oh my God we are flying way too low. Oh my God!"<ref>{{cite news |date=2004-07-23 |title=Extract: 'We have some planes' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3919613.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125210104/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3919613.stm |archive-date=2009-01-25 |accessdate=2009-09-11 |work=[[BBC News]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=2004-02-21 |title=Calm Before the Crash |url=http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/attack/abc_calmbefore.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929215908/http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/attack/abc_calmbefore.html |archive-date=2014-09-29 |accessdate=2013-09-18 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=obit/>
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