Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
United 93 is a 2006 film written and directed by British filmmaker Paul Greengrass. The film largely chronicles the events aboard the eponymous hijacked flight, [3] one of the four hijacked flights during the September 11 attacks on America. Flight 93 was the only plane to not hit its intended target due to the intervention of passengers and crew.
United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a federal government building in the national capital of Washington, D.C.
Todd Morgan Beamer (November 24, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an American passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The event has been explored in a fictionalized 2006 feature called “United 93,” while the documentary “9/11: The Final Minutes of Flight 93” provides newly unclassified evidence that ...
The Flight 93 National Memorial is a memorial built to commemorate the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was one of four aircraft hijacked during the September 11 attacks in 2001. The memorial is located in Somerset County , Pennsylvania , with the vast majority in Stonycreek Township , [ 2 ] and with a small portion in Shade Township ...
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.
The Langley fighters arrived over Washington at approximately 10:07 and were geographically in position to stop Flight 93, but the 9/11 Commission was doubtful that they would have been successful due to the pilots being unaware of why they were scrambled, the lack of accurate information on the location of Flight 93, and the lack of a ...
Federal officials believe that 9/11 hijackers planned to crash one of the planes, United 93, into the U.S. Capitol before passengers stormed the cockpit and forced it to crash in rural Pennsylvania.