Hijacker Ziad Jarrah phones his girlfriend, Aysel Senguen, about an hour before he boards Flight 93, according to the Los Angeles Times. Senguen is currently recovering from a minor operation in a hospital in Germany, where she lives. (Williams 10/23/2001; Bennett 8/22/2004)
Senguen will later recount: "[H]e was very brief. He said he loved me three times. I asked what was up. He hung up shortly afterwards.... It was so short and rather strange him saying that repeatedly." (Blenkinsop 11/19/2002; Vasagar 11/20/2002)
Some accounts will say Jarrah makes this call from his hotel, the Days Inn in Newark. Other accounts will claim he makes it from a payphone at Newark Airport, although he does not actually check in at the airport until later on, at 7:39 a.m. (PBS 1/17/2002; 9/11 Commission 7/24/2004, pp. 532; Bennett 8/22/2004; Crichton 8/22/2004; 9/11 Commission 8/26/2004, pp. 35)