Caller offered me $1m to get wife out of World Trade Centre on 9/11, says police dispatcher

A POLICE dispatcher taking calls on 9/11 has told how the husband of a woman trapped in the World Trade Centre offered her a million dollars to get his partner out alive. Speaking publicly for the first time, Gladys Mitchell, now 62, said: “It’s like a nightmare. It will never go away.” SWNSSpeaking for the first time police dispatcher Gladys Mitchell said: ‘It’s like a nightmare. It will never go away’[/caption] SWNSGladys at work as a NYPD 911 dispatcher said: ‘The first caller said, ‘Don’t think I’m crazy but I just saw a plane go into the World Trade Center’[/caption] Based at the emergency dispatch centre in Brooklyn, the keen singer was due to perform the national anthem that day at an official ceremony. She was told to “look busy” and take calls as she waited. Gladys told The Sun: “The first caller said, ‘Don’t think I’m crazy but I just saw a plane go into the World Trade Center’. “We’re supposed to take everything at face value but I was thinking, ‘It’s too early in the morning for this craziness!’ Then mayhem broke out behind me.” What she heard on later calls affects her to this day. Gladys said of one desperate caller: “He told me his wife was in the building Most read in World News FRANKENSTEIN ROBBERY Brains of people who hoped to be brought back to life stolen from lab SAVAGED TO DEATH Elephant knocks man out with its TRUNK before crushing him to death BACK FROM THE DEAD 'Lions of Panjshir' resistance fighters ‘seize 3 districts from Taliban’ DEATH PITS Horror as 150 dogs are found buried alive after barks are heard from mass grave ALIEN INVASION Eerie moment ‘UFO tractor beam’ appears over airport freaking out locals GREAT FRIGHT Moment great white bursts through shark-proof cage trapping terrified diver “She’d called him and she couldn’t get out. He said, ‘I’ll give you any amount of money — a million dollars, whatever you want — to get her out safe’.” The mum of three, who retired in 2008 and is now pursuing a singing career, said: “I kept hearing a thump (while talking to officers) and I asked what it was. “They told me, ‘Those are bodies hitting the ground. They’re jumping out of windows. We can’t get them to stop’ “Those things haunt me.”