Did flight 93 hero know his fate before 9-11?
Little Rock, Ark., May 10, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).- When Thomas Burnett stepped onto the ill-fated United flight 93 on September 11th, 2001, the California businessman may have already had a premonition that he was going to do something singularly unique with his life. Burnett is believed to have led a group of his fellow passengers in overtaking terrorists who had planned to fly the Boeing 757 into the White House. Instead, the plane went down in a rural Pennsylvania field. Thomass widow, Deena Burnett recently told Spirit Daily that prior to that fateful day, her husband had begun to delve much deeper into his Catholic faith, frequenting daily Mass and praying the rosary often. “I’ve often thought about the prayers he must have said on that airplane, she said, and I think that he was praying to the Virgin MaryI think that his last prayer would have been a Hail Mary.” A few years before, Thomas had begun skipping lunch to attend daily Mass. Deena told Spirit Daily that “He said, ‘I fee
