"I wanted him to know I was thinking of him and the kids if that was my last thought," Vallie said. "I didn't want this time of ambiguity of 'Was she on it? Was she not?'"
After Steve got the message, he said his heart stopped.
"[It was] an almost out of body experience not knowing whether she's alive or hurt or dead... Then she calls, she's borrowing a Port Authority person's phone. Then it was great," he said.
During that time of terrifying silence before her call, Vallie said she did what she could to help another mother after water started pouring into the back of the plane where she was sitting and got the little girl off the plane.
"I put myself in that mother's position and said 'I would want help if my kids were on the plane,'" Vallie said. "She helped keep me calm, that little girl did. As a mother I thought 'I have to keep it together so she's not more scared than she already was.'"
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