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• United Airlines Flight 93 was one of the planes hijacked by radical Muslim terrorists on September 11, 2001. Passengers rushed the cockpit, resulting in the plane going down in a Pennsylvania field before it could reach its intended target, believed to be a Washington, DC, landmark.

• Fast Facts

  1. Origin: Newark Liberty International AirportNational Park Service: Flight 93
  2. Destination: San Francisco International AirportNational Park Service: Flight 93
  3. Crash Site: Near Shanksville, PennsylvaniaNational Park Service: Flight 93
  4. Passengers and crew members learned of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks through cell phone calls to friends and family
  5. Flight 93 was the plane hijacked on September 11, 2001 that failed to hit its intended target Flight 93 Memorial: [1]
  6. Fatalities: 44National Park Service: Flight 93
  7. The design for the Flight 93 National Memorial was selected through an international design competitionFlight 93 Memorial: [1]
  8. The temporary Flight 93 memorial, a 40-foot-long section of fence decorated with flowers, handwritten messages and artwork, overlooks the crash siteFlight 93 Memorial: [1]

• Hijackers

  1. Ziad JarrahPost-Gazette: Flight 93: Forty lives, one destiny (October 28, 2001)
  2. Ahmed al-HaznawiPost-Gazette: Flight 93: Forty lives, one destiny (October 28, 2001)
  3. Ahmed al-NamiPost-Gazette: Flight 93: Forty lives, one destiny (October 28, 2001)
  4. Saeed al-GhamdiPost-Gazette: Flight 93: Forty lives, one destiny (October 28, 2001)

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