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Learn more about the 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93, whose brave actions ended the 9/11 terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Click on the images to read their biographies. Source: National Park Service.
All the people on board the flight were identified by December 21. Human remains were so fragmented that investigators could not determine whether any victims were dead before the plane crashed. Death certificates for the 40 victims listed the cause of death as homicide and listed the cause of death for the four hijackers as suicide. [122]
U.S. flag flies over the crash site of United Airlines flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. View a collection of photos captured after the Sept. 11th attack, during rescue and recovery, and anniversary memorials.
Sep 10, 2021 · A look back at the last twenty years at the Flight 93 Memorial crash site through 50 photos. Emergency crews respond to the scene of an airplane crash Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001, near...
- September 11 Attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.
- Flight 93 Comes Under Attack
- Flight 93's Passengers Fight Back
- Flight 93: The Shanksville Crash Site
- Remembering Flight 93
- List of Crew and Passengers of Flight 93
At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping many more on the building’s higher floors. Eighteen minutes later, a second Boeing 767 appeared out of the sky, turned s...
United Airlines Flight 93, a regularly scheduled early-morning nonstop flight from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, departed at 8:42 a.m., just minutes before the first hijacked plane struck the World Trade Center. The flight’s takeoff had been delayed for nearly 45 minutes due to air traffic at Newark International Airport. The pl...
Huddled in the back of the plane, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 made a series of calls on their cell phones and the in-flight Airfones, informing family members and officials on the ground of the plane’s hijacking. When they learned the fate of the three other hijacked flights in New York City and Washington, D.C., the passengers realized th...
The fireball from the plane, which was carrying 7,000 gallons of fuel, scorched hundreds of acres of earth and set the surrounding trees ablaze for hours. The crash site in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shansksville, was littered with the wreckage from the fragmented plane, with a debris field scattered nearly eight miles away fro...
In the weeks following the September 11 attacks, temporary memorials to the victims of United Flight 93 were erected at the Pennsylvania crash site and elsewhere, and in 2002 Congress established the Flight 93 National Memorialto create a permanent tribute to the plane’s passengers and crew. The first phase of the memorial was completed in time for...
Crew: Captain Jason M. Dahl First Officer LeRoy Homer Lorraine G. Bay Sandy Waugh Bradshaw Wanda Anita Green CeeCee Ross Lyles Deborah Jacobs Welsh Passengers: Christian Adams Todd M. Beamer Alan Anthony Beaven Mark Bingham Deora Frances Bodley Marion R. Britton Thomas E. Burnett, Jr. William Joseph Cashman Georgine Rose Corrigan Patricia Cushing J...
Sep 11, 2011 · Biographies of the victims on Flight 93 during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Sep 10, 2021 · United 93 plummeted seven hundred feet, over eastern Ohio. A hijacker, one of four, was heard announcing that there was a bomb on board.
