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The Story of Flight 93

The Flight of United Airlines Flight 93 is an Incredible Story of Courage
and Heroism from the Morning of September 11th, 2001.

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Flight 93 Heroes & Mysteries
Editor's Comments
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There is little doubt that the passengers on Flight 93 became aware that their hijacked plane was likely to be
used as a terrorist's weapon. The numerous heart-wrenching, last-minute calls are evidence of the passenger's
knowledge of the hijacker's intentions and the subsequent passenger plan to overthrow the hijackers.

The courageous acts of the Flight 93 passengers represent a remarkable story of human bravery.

However, there remains some lingering doubts as to the final minutes of Flight 93.

Why is the FAA withholding the release of portions of the black box recordings? On December 7, 2001, on
CNN's Larry King Live, several Flight 93 family members expressed their frustration at attempts to hear
the unreleased portions of the Flight 93 cockpit tapes.

Why are there no known pictures of the Flight 93 wreckage? The only pictures available of the crash site
show rescue workers peering into a crater, but there is no wreckage to be seen.

September 11 News.com - Flight 93 - The story of courage and heroism by the passengers of Flight 93 on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Why was the FBI still considering evidence that Flight 93 was shot down several days after the crash? And
why did several eye-witnesses report seeing a fireball in the sky? Witnesses also say that pieces of the Flight
93 plane were found as far away as eight miles from the impact crater. How could parts of the plane be eight
miles away if the plane was intact prior to crashing into a Pennsylvania field?

The force of a high speed, nose-diving jet impacting from thousands of feet above is likely the cause of the
tiny fragmented wreckage, and it is likely the wind carried the crash debris great distances. However, there
remains a degree of uncertainty as to the many unanswered questions surrounding Flight 93.

Questions also remain as to the intended target of the four Flight 93 hijackers. It is apparent that Washington
was the likely city, but where in Washington may only be known by the dead hijackers. Speculation is the
hijackers were targeting key U.S. leaders by striking at either the White House, Capitol Hill, or at Camp David.

In the weeks following the hijacking of Flight 93, U.S. President George W. Bush has indicated several times
that he would not hesitate in giving the orders to shoot down a commercial aircraft that was a known threat.

Editor's Note: In late May, 2002 the press reported that U.S. government officials had determined that the
intended target of Flight 93 was likely the White House in Washington D.C..
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Flight 93 crater in a field in Pennsylvania. Where is the wreckage from Flight 93?
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Flight 93 Hijackers
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United Airlines
Flight 93
Rescue Workers
Take a Break
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Flight 93 Crater
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Flight 93 Crater
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Zacarias Moussaoui
The Suspected Fifth
Hijacker of Flight 93
and the First 9/11
Terrorist Suspect
 to be Charged
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December 11, 2001
Shanksville Memorial
Near Impact Site
The Story of Flight 93 Reported 24 Hours After the Crash.
Reported by Reuters News Service.
Wednesday September 12 9:45 AM ET
© Reuters
Passengers on Flight 93 May Have Struggled with Hijackers

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - Passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 may have struggled with hijackers aboard
the only one of four hijacked airliners not to hit a U.S. landmark during Tuesday's deadly assault on New York
and Washington, a victim's relative said on Wednesday.

Alice Hoglan of San Francisco said her 31-year-old son, Mark Bingham, called her by air-phone 15 minutes
before the Boeing 757 crashed and said the plane had been taken over by three men claiming to have a bomb.

"We have it from other people, another man on the aircraft who called his wife, who said he and some other
passengers were hoping to get at these guys somehow,'' Hoglan, a United Airlines flight attendant who has
been questioned by the FBI, told NBC's ''Today'' show.

"This was the only flight of the four that did not reach its target, which they believed to be Camp David, and
that gives us reason to believe that perhaps Mark was able to help save the lives of people on the ground.''

Hoglan said her conversation with her son took place soon after three other jetliners plowed into the World
Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington.

"The FBI asked us if we heard Mark mention anything besides a bomb. He made no mention of knives or box
cutters or guns or any other weapons,'' Hoglan said.

"He was forward in the aircraft, could probably be in full view of everything that was going on, probably saw
what happened in the cockpit.''

United's Flight 93, bound for San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey, crashed near a strip mine at 10:06 a.m.
Tuesday in a wooded section of Somerset County, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, apparently killing all
45 people on board.

Eight minutes earlier, emergency officials in neighboring Westmoreland County said they received a cell phone
call from another passenger who said the plane had been hijacked.

The impact was so powerful that police investigators who cordoned off the site as a crime scene on Tuesday
reported finding no pieces of debris larger than a phone book, and no bodies.

ALL-OUT SEARCH FOR FLIGHT DATA RECORDERS

Emergency officials said 150 FBI agents and a team from the National Transportation Safety Board were due
on Wednesday to mount an all-out search for the aircraft's voice and flight data recorders that may have
recorded what happened on board the plane.

The so-called black boxes could include the voices of the alleged hijackers and provide evidence of who was
flying the plane.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that leaders of Congress were told at a briefing by the Capitol
Police that the hijacked plane might have been bound for the Capitol or Camp David, the presidential retreat
in Thurmont, Maryland, 85 miles southeast of the crash site.

The newspaper said participants discussed a possible shoot- down of the aircraft. But the congressional leaders
soon learned that the plane had already crashed.

United Airlines said in a release posted on its Web site that it would advance an initial sum of $25,000 to the
families of victims on board two flights involved in Tuesday's tragedy.

The Story of Flight 93 Reported 50 Hours After the Crash.
Reported by Reuters News Service.
Thursday September 13 12:01 PM ET
© Reuters
FBI Does Not Rule Out Shootdown of Pennsylvania Plane


SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - Federal investigators said on Thursday they could not rule out the possibility that
a United Airlines jetliner that crashed in rural western Pennsylvania during this week's attacks on New York
and the Pentagon was shot down.

"We have not ruled out that,'' FBI agent Bill Crowley told a news conference when asked about reports that a
U.S. fighter jet may have fired on the hijacked Boeing 757. "We haven't ruled out anything yet.''

"It's kind of a loaded question. We're basically at the infancy (of the investigation),'' Crowley added. "We
haven't certainly come to that conclusion either.''

The Defense Department on Tuesday vigorously denied reports suggesting the U.S. military could have
downed the hijacked flight in an effort to prevent it from reaching a target, perhaps in Washington.

United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed with 45 people on board, had been en route to San Francisco from
Newark, New Jersey, when it veered off course over northeastern Ohio and headed back southeast toward
Pittsburgh. It crashed 80 miles southeast of that city.

Pennsylvania state police officials said on Thursday debris from the plane had been found up to 8 miles away
in a residential community where local media have quoted residents as speaking of a second plane in the area
and burning debris falling from the sky.

Crowley said authorities have not yet found the plane's crucial voice and flight data recorders, but that teams
were still searching. "We've not located the black box,'' he said. ''We're confident and we will keep working
on it.''

The wooded crash scene was likely to provide investigators of Tuesday's deadly airliner attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon with their best chance of recovering working data recorders.

The data recorders could provide an invaluable account of what occurred in the plane's cockpit after the flight
turned southeast on Tuesday morning.

Flight 93, which crashed near a strip mine, was the only one of four hijacked aircraft not to hit a U.S. landmark.

Federal officials believe hijackers planned to crash the plane into the Camp David presidential retreat in
Maryland or a target in Washington. But passengers who managed to call out on cellular phones and
on-board airphones suggested they were about to thwart any such plan.

"I know we're all going to die -- there's three of us who are going to do something about it,'' passenger Thomas
Burnett told his wife Deena just before the crash, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

He then said, 'I love you, honey,' and that was the end of conversation,'' the Burnett family's priest, Rev. Frank
Colacicco, told the newspaper.

The National Transportation Safety Board was expected to conduct a flyover of the scene to verify the full extent
of the debris field, which was sealed off to outsiders and the media by an army of Pennsylvania state troopers.

The Story of Flight 93 Reported 57 Hours After the Crash.
Reported by Reuters News Service.
Thursday September 13 7:19 PM ET
© Reuters / By David Morgan
Flight Data Recorder Found at Pennsylvania Crash Site

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - A search crew found the flight data recorder on Thursday from the hijacked
United Airlines plane that crashed in Pennsylvania after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, raising hopes of important new clues to what happened aboard the Boeing 757.

The so-called black box, which was quickly transported to the National Transportation Safety Board in
Washington for analysis, could shed light on what happened aboard San Francisco-bound Flight 93 before
it crashed on Tuesday near a wooded area 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

All 45 people on board the flight lost their lives.

FBI agent Bill Crowley could not say whether the data recorder was in working order. The device, discovered
in the crash-impact crater at about 4:20 p.m., is designed to monitor and record the operations of in-flight
systems.

The voice recorder, which investigators hope will reveal conversations and events that occurred in the plane's
cockpit, was still missing.

We're trying to determine what happened, and this development that just occurred is going to help a lot. I think
it will answer a lot of questions,'' Crowley said.

Meanwhile, search crews began moving human remains from the debris field to a makeshift morgue set up in a
nearby armory.

Every piece of tissue that's there will be given a unique number and put into the computer,'' said Dennis
Dirkmaat, a forensic anthropologist from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania.

He was reluctant to say whether DNA analysis, dental records and fingerprints would identify everyone on
board the flight, and noted that identifying the remains of the hijackers would depend on the availability of
usable records.

Families of the victims were expected to begin arriving soon in western Pennsylvania.

Flight 93, which crashed soon after three other jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, was the only hijacked plane not to hit a U.S. landmark. That fact has brought intense speculation
about what brought the plane down.

Earlier this week, Pentagon officials vigorously denied initial reports that a military fighter had shot down the
United Airlines jet.

At a news conference on Thursday morning, Crowley told reporters that FBI investigators had not ruled out
the possibility. But he later retracted the statement, saying unequivocally ``there was no military involvement
in what happened here.''

Several passengers managed to telephone people on the ground to report the hijacking. Accounts described
three hijackers claiming to have a bomb and a plan by passengers to overpower them. There were also
reports that one man heard an explosion.

If they are going to take the plane down, then we are going to have to do something,'' Deena Burnett of San
Ramon, California, quoted her husband as saying during a cellular phone conversation moments before
the crash.

The Pennsylvania state police said debris from the crash had shown up about 8 miles away near a residential
area where local media quoted some residents as seeing flaming debris from the sky.

But investigators were unwilling to say whether the presence of debris in separate places evinced an explosion.
State Police Major Lyle Szupinka said debris found in the residential area was small enough to have been
carried by air currents after impact.

In fact, much of the debris recorded at the crash site so far was said to be in pieces no larger than a briefcase.
A team of archeologists were at work digging for evidence in the huge crater left by the crash, using their skills
to uncover pieces of evidence from mounds of dirt.

- Exactly Three Weeks After Flight 93 Crashes -
The Story & Phone Calls of the Heroes of Flight 93
The pilot on United Airlines flight 93 was Jason Dahl, 43, who lived in Denver, Colorado.
 Jason Dahl (43)
The Pilot on
United Airlines
Flight 93
September 11 News.com - Flight 93 - The story of courage and heroism by the passengers of Flight 93 on the morning of September 11, 2001.
The Passengers on Flight 93 who confronted the hijackers on 9/11/2001.

On October 2, 2001 The Seattle Times Reported the Following Story:
© Seattle Times

The heroes of Flight 93: Interviews with family and friends
detail the courage of everyday people.

By Kim Barker, Louise Kiernan, and Steve Mills © Chicago Tribune


They waited, the way people wait on a plane.


You can picture them spreading out inside this mostly empty flight to San Francisco, the smokestacks and
cranes of the Newark skyline looming outside their windows.

You can hear them working their cell phones, calling their friends, their offices.

For 41 minutes they waited on the tarmac to take off. Two pilots, five flight attendants and 37 passengers.
Among them, four men knew they were all waiting to die.

When United Flight 93 finally took off, it began a journey that would end not in San Francisco, as planned, or
smashing into some Washington target, but in an aching glory.

Since Sept. 11, the story of the passengers who fought their hijackers on Flight 93 has become an icon of
good thwarting evil, a story of sacrifice and courage that a nation has embraced in a time of fear and
uncertainty.

No one will ever know exactly what happened on that plane. But new interviews with the family, friends and
co-workers of passengers who made last-minute calls give a more complete account of their desperate
struggle.

At the same time, questions emerge about the role of the fourth hijacker and raise the possibility that instead
of a single plot to overcome the terrorists, passengers and flight attendants in different parts of the plane may
have hatched separate plans. While most attention has focused on a group of tall, athletic men who apparently
planned to rush the hijackers, at least one flight attendant told her husband she was boiling water to use as a
weapon.

The clues from the wreckage are small: a knife concealed inside a cigarette lighter, a manual of prayers and
instructions written in Arabic, a cockpit-voice recorder, still under analysis, that reportedly holds a garble of
American and Arabic voices.

But the key to whatever took place on Flight 93 may be the 41 minutes it sat on the ground.

It gave the passengers enough time to hear about the three other hijacked planes that smashed into the
World Trade Center and Pentagon that morning.

The delay took the plane off the precise schedule the terrorists had likely relied upon and put it on one that
gave the passengers and crew knowledge, knowledge that incited them to fight back and to say goodbye to
loved ones before the jet plunged into a reclaimed strip mine in Pennsylvania, taking with it everyone aboard.

It was 5 a.m. Tuesday and still dark when Deborah Welsh's husband carried her bag down the stairs of their
second-floor walkup in Hell's Kitchen in New York.

Welsh, who had been a flight attendant for more than 25 years, usually avoided early-morning flights, but she
had agreed to trade shifts with another worker.

Her husband, Patrick, wasn't even sure where she was going when she set off for the bus, wearing her
uniform and the navy cap that he jokingly said made her look like the sailor on the Cracker Jack box.

At a friend's home in New Jersey, public-relations executive Mark Bingham, scrambling to pack his old college
rugby duffel bag after oversleeping the 6 a.m. alarm, forgot his belt.

Nicole Miller, carrying a purple backpack stuffed with her textbooks, set off with her boyfriend, Ryan Brown,
hoping to switch their separate flights back to California, so they could fly together.

And so it began, people making their way to Newark International Airport, Terminal A, Gate 17.

There was the Japanese college student and the German wine expert. The refuge manager for the Fish and
 Wildlife Service, flying home from his grandmother's 100th-birthday party. The Good Housekeeping magazine
marketer, on her way back from her grandmother's funeral.

There was the advocate for the disabled, who stood less than 4 feet tall and carried herself like a giant. The
retired restaurant worker, flying to San Francisco to claim the body of his son, killed in a car crash on his
honeymoon. The toy-company executive who sported a Superman tattoo on his shoulder.

Almost one-third of the people on Flight 93 were there by the slimmest of chances: cancellations, bad weather
and simple changes of plan. The pilot, Jason Dahl, who had learned to fly before he could drive, rescheduled to
get home to Colorado early so he and his wife could fly to London for their anniversary.

Among the passengers and crew, authorities say, were four young men who had trained for months and
perhaps years for this moment, learning how to fight in small spaces and fly jets, lifting weights and reciting
prayers.

They all sat on the plane, delayed by the airport's heavy morning traffic, as American Airlines Flight 11 and
United Airlines Flight 175 left Boston. They sat there as American Airlines flight 77 left Washington.

At 8:42 a.m., Flight 93 took off, light with passengers, heavy with 11,000 gallons of jet fuel for its
cross-country flight. Nicole Miller's boyfriend watched it leave from his own plane, as it sat on the tarmac.

Six minutes later, the north tower of the World Trade Center erupted in flames.

For the next 30 minutes, it appears, Flight 93 soared west across Pennsylvania as havoc erupted behind it.
Flight attendants, passenger accounts suggest, poured coffee and served breakfast.

One of the attendants, CeeCee Ross Lyles, was at the beginning of her career. She had dreamed of being a
flight attendant since she took her first plane trip at age 6 but had just realized her dream a year ago, leaving
after six years of work as a police officer. Another, Sandra Bradshaw, was thinking about leaving her job so
she could stay home with her children.

At some point, before the plane reached Cleveland, the hijackers took over the plane, armed with knives and
the threat of a bomb.

Around 9:30 a.m., air traffic controllers in Cleveland heard someone in the cockpit say, "Hey, get out of here!"
a source said. Then a voice, in what was described as a thick Arabic accent, was heard that appeared to be
addressing passengers, even though it was radioed to air traffic control.

"This is your captain," the man said. "There is a bomb on board. Remain in your seats. We are returning to the
airport."

How the hijackers overpowered the pilots remains unclear. One passenger would report in a telephone call
that two people lay on the floor in the first-class cabin, either injured or dead. They appeared to be the pilot
and co-pilot, he said, relating information from a flight attendant. Another told a friend that two people's
throats were slit but didn't identify them. A third saw only one injured.

At least five passengers and flight attendants described the hijackers in their calls in similar terms: three
men, wearing red bandannas, one with some sort of box strapped around his waist that he claimed was a
bomb. One passenger reported that two of the hijackers were in the cockpit and a third guarded passengers
in first class from behind a curtain.

None of the callers mentioned a fourth hijacker, although the FBI has identified four men in connection with
the hijacking.

Those men are Saeed Alghamdi, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, Ahmed Alnami and Ziad Jarrah.

It may be that the people who made calls were unable to see the fourth hijacker. Some news reports have
suggested one may have already gained access to the cockpit, as an uniformed guest pilot sitting in the spare
jump-seat. Or, some terrorism experts suggest, he may have played a role as a backup, perhaps remaining
unidentified among the other passengers or hiding in the bathroom until he was needed.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said Friday that their "best information" shows that four were involved.

By 9:36 a.m., United Flight 93 had suddenly changed course, according to flight-path information provided by
Flight Explorer, a firm that supplies real-time radar tracking data. The plane had made a U-turn and headed
back toward Washington.

In the cabin, passengers frantically began making calls, 23 from the seat-back phones alone from 9:31 to
9:53 a.m. Others passed cell phones to people who had been strangers just minutes before.

Why so many people were able to make calls while apparently under guard by hijackers could be that, as
one passenger reported, there was no hijacker among the passengers in coach.

Some of the telephone calls were short — no more than a few rushed words of fear or love.

Lauren Grandcolas, flying home to San Rafael, Calif., from her grandmother's funeral, left a message for her
husband saying her flight had been hijacked but she was "comfortable, for now."

Linda Gronlund and Joe Deluca, on their way to San Francisco for a vacation together, took turns. She called
her sister to say she would miss her. He called his father.

"The plane's been hijacked," he said. "I love you."

Andrew Garcia, an Air National Guard air traffic controller and plane buff, only managed to get out his wife's
name, "Dorothy," before his phone went dead.

Other passengers, though, managed to conduct fairly lengthy, even repeated conversations during the plane's
final minutes, constructing a jumbled puzzle of what was happening inside the Boeing 757.

Deena Burnett was feeding her three daughters breakfast and watching the news in horror when the
telephone rang in her home in San Ramon, Calif.

"Are you OK?" she asked her husband, Tom, 38.

"No," he said. "I'm on the airplane and it's been hijacked."

He told his wife the hijackers had stabbed someone. He told her to call the authorities, and he hung up.

When he called back, she was on the line to the FBI. She told him about the World Trade Center, the first
he knew of the attack. He paused. "Were they commercial airplanes?" he asked.

Deena Burnett didn't think so. Cargo or private planes, she said.

"Do you know anything else about the planes?" No, she said.

"Do you know who was involved?" Again, she said no.

He told her the man who was stabbed had died.

The hijackers are talking about running the plane into the ground, he said. Then he said he had to go.

His third call came about 9:41 a.m., shortly after a plane had hit the Pentagon. "OK," he said. "We're going
to do something."

In his fourth and final call, just before 10 a.m., Burnett said he was sure the hijackers didn't have a bomb,
that he thought they had only knives.

"There's a group of us who are going to do something," he repeated.

Deena Burnett thought about her years of training as a flight attendant. She was taught to appease hijackers,
to meet their demands, to stay in the background. She told her husband to sit down. "Don't draw attention to
yourself," she said.

She told him she loved him. She felt he thought he was coming home that night. This was simply a problem
that he was going to solve, as he had solved many others.

As Burnett talked with his wife, three other men who may have joined him in whatever plans were being
hatched made calls of their own.

Across the aisle in Seat 4D, Mark Bingham, 31, called his mother. He was so rattled that when Alice Hoglan
got on the line, her son told her, "This is Mark Bingham."

His message was brief: The plane had been hijacked by three men and he loved her.

In the rear of the plane, Jeremy Glick, also 31, a sales manager for a Web site firm and former judo
champion, called his wife from a seat-back phone. He described three Middle Eastern men brandishing knives
and a red box.

His wife told him about the attacks at the World Trade Center. He tried to grasp the hijackers' plans — to blow
up the plane or fly it into a target?

The passengers had taken a vote among themselves, he said. They had decided to try to take back the plane.

"I told him to go ahead and do it," Lyzbeth Glick said on "Good Morning America. "I trusted his instincts, and I
said, 'Do what you have to do.' I knew that I thought he could do it."

Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, called a stranger. He picked up a seat-back phone and hit "0,"
and at 9:45 a.m., he was connected first to a dispatcher for GTE Airfone, and then to Lisa Jefferson, the
operator's supervisor.

For 13 minutes, Beamer told Jefferson everything he could, passing along information he gleaned himself and
from a flight attendant. The passengers remained in their seats, she said he told her, and the flight attendants
were forced to sit in the back of the plane.

He told her how much he loved his pregnant wife and two sons, and he asked her to call them. He asked her
to recite the Lord's Prayer and 23rd Psalm with him.

Moments later, Beamer told Jefferson about the plan, that the passengers were going to run up the long,
narrow aisle to the first-class cabin and attack the hijacker there.

"I'm going to have to go out on faith," Beamer said.

He turned to someone else, and he said, "Are you ready?" Then, in the last words Jefferson would hear from
him, "OK. Let's roll."

Sandra Bradshaw, the flight attendant, also identified three hijackers when she called her husband in
Greensboro, N.C. She had been moved to the back of the plane, she said, but she and other passengers
had a plan. They were going to rush their captors; she was boiling water to throw on them.

Another passenger, Elizabeth Wainio, also apparently talked of a plan to rush the hijackers. In a call she made
to her stepmother in Baltimore, using the cell phone lent to her by Lauren Grandcolas, she said, "I've got to
go now, Mom, they're breaking into the cockpit," according to the mother of another passenger, who said she
spoke with family members about the call. Wainio's parents declined comment.

The accounts of these calls — if accurate — would indicate that at least four people were somehow plotting to
attack the hijackers. If Beamer's report is accurate, they were seated in different sections of the plane, with
Bingham and Burnett up front, while the others were in the back.

It may be there were separate plans to take the plane or that somehow, amid all the telephone calls, chaos
and fear, the passengers were able to communicate with each other.

If they did, they may have known they had another pilot among them, Donald Greene, chief executive officer
of Safe Flight Instrument in New York. Greene, according to his family, knew anything and everything about
airplanes.

At about 9:54 a.m., the plane started flying erratically. In Oak Brook, Ill., Jefferson heard screams in the
background.

Two minutes later, the plane's flight plan changed. The destination airport was changed from San Francisco
International to Ronald Reagan National Airport. Estimated time of arrival: 10:28 a.m.

At nearly the same moment, from the plane's bathroom, someone called 911, repeating that Flight 93 had
been hijacked, that this was not a hoax.

Then, Marion Britton called a longtime friend, Fred Fiumano, at his New York City auto shop.

Britton, crying, told him the plane was turning around. It was going to go down.

"Don't worry about it," Fiumano said, trying desperately to reassure her. "They're only taking you for a ride."

He heard yelling and screaming in the background, and then the phone went dead. He tried to call the
cellular-phone number back, but no one answered.

A few of the passengers expected they would win the battle. Before Lyzbeth Glick turned over the phone to
her father because she couldn't bear to listen anymore, her husband told her, "Hang on the line. I'll be back."

At 10:03 a.m., a black crater bloomed in the soft earth of a field 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

The wife in California, the father-in-law in New York, the operator in suburban Chicago still held onto their
phones.

They held on, waiting and hoping in the silence.

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Shanksville
Fire Hall
America Remembers Flight 93
September 11, 2002
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May God bless the many souls who lost their lives, on September 11, 2001, at
the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on airline flights 11, 175, 77, & 93.
The courage and sacrifice shown by the FDNY firefighters, the NYC Police, and
other NYC EMS will never be forgotten. History will remember  9/11/2001.
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