Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer
M ILLBROOK -- Flight 93 was soaring across Pennsylvania when Jeremy Glick picked up a GTE Airfone. State Police dispatcher Robert Weingaertner was 90 minutes into his day shift at Troop K headquarters near Poughkeepsie.
It would be the last call of Glick's life. The 31-year-old computer executive had just watched another passenger get knifed when four hijackers took control of the cockpit. Troopers were huddled around a television set down the hall as Weingaertner settled in at his desk to field 911 calls at Troop K headquarters, less than a mile from the Taconic Parkway in Dutchess County. He knew that two commercial airliners had hit the World Trade Center.
His third call of the day was a woman on a cellphone -- Glick's mother-in-law at her home in the Catskills.
JoAnne Makely told Weingaertner that her son-in-law was aboard a jet from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco that had been hijacked. He was on the other line with their daughter. What can they do?
``Everything probably played out in seconds, but it seemed like an …

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