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Thursday, September 13, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

Flight attendant made call on cell phone to mom in Las Vegas

Renee May, a flight attendant who a source said made a call on a cell phone from the hijacked American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon, left behind a mother in Las Vegas.

Linda Campbell, a spokeswoman for the Community College of Southern Nevada, confirmed Wednesday that flight attendant Renee May was the daughter of college employee Nancy May.

Nancy May works as a clerk in the admissions and records office on the community college's Charleston Boulevard campus.

Campbell said Nancy May had asked college officials not to release information about her or her daughter.

Information about the age and hometown of Renee May was not available.

Nancy May could not be reached for comment.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a colleague of Nancy May's said the woman was devastated.

The mother, according to the source, received a phone call Tuesday from her daughter after 6 a.m. Renee May asked her mother to call American Airlines to let them know Flight 77 had been hijacked. Her mother called the airline, the source said.

"She told her mother they were all told to move to the back of the plane," said the source, who declined to share other personal details about the phone call.

Pat Nelson, a spokeswoman for the Clark County School District, said she was unable Wednesday afternoon to retrieve student graduation records that could show whether Renee May went to school in the Las Vegas area.