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This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
Jeremy Logan Glick (September 3, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks. Aware of the earlier attacks at the World Trade Center , Glick and some of his fellow passengers attempted to foil the hijacking.
At the Heroes Walk over the Sept. 11th observance this weekend, park officials spoke of plans to for another plaza to the Flight 93 National Memorial.
They never reached Flight 93 and did not learn of its crash until hours afterwards. [153] A fighter pilot based at Andrews Air Force Base, Billy Hutchison, claimed that while in the air he spotted Flight 93 on his scope and planned to first fire his training rounds into the engine and cockpit, and then ram the airplane with his own jet.
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.
Volunteers are needed to help maintain the extensive garden, which serves as a tribute to the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93, which crashed nearby on Sept. 11, 2001.
Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 is the only one that did not reach the hijackers' intended target, presumed to be the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. [7] Several passengers and crew members made cellular telephone calls from the plane and learned about the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington ...
Two fighter pilots scrambled into their F-16s on 9/11, knowing that it might be their last mission.