Click2Disasters - September 11: America Attacked - Chapter 6 - The Attack - Flight 93

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000>SEPTEMBER 11</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 6 - THE ATTACK - FLIGHT 93</font></b></p> </div> <font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000>  </font> </font> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">At 08:01 EDT, a Boeing 757 took off from Newark, New Jersey with 44 people onboard, including two <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/JasonDahl.html" target="_blank"><b>pilots</b></a> and five flight attendants. United Airlines Flight 93 was en route to San Francisco when <a href="http://www.nandotimes.com/ips_rich_content/536-Flight93hijackers.JPG" target="_blank"><b>hijackers</b></a>, likely armed with knife-like instruments and a box they said was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537692_passenger8_bingham_vi.ram" target="_blank"><b>a bomb</b></a> (as reported by <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/BinghamWPost.html" target="_blank"><b>Mark Bingham</b></a>) took control of the plane.</p> <p>Using his cell phone, passenger <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/Glick.html" target="_blank"><b>Jeremy Glick</b></a> called his wife to say he and some other passengers had voted to tackle the hijackers. <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/BurnettWPost.html" target="_blank"><b>Thomas Burnett</b></a> told his wife, "I know we’re all going to die...There’s three of us who are going to do something about it." And <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/StoryMSNBCnodate.html" target="_blank"><b>Todd Beamer</b></a>, in his now-famous statement, said, "Let’s roll."</p> <p>The heroic actions of Flight 93's passengers averted another strike on a Washington, D.C. target - most likely the <a href="http://www.hq.navy.mil/nnrpb/U.S.%20Capitol%20Building.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Capitol</b></a>. Instead, at <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/FlightPath.html" target="_blank"><b>10:10 EDT</b></a> the plane crashed in <a href="http://www.flight93legacy.org/EssayWhatShanksville0922.html" target="_blank"><b>Shanksville</b></a>, Pennsylvania - about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/americas/2001/day_of_terror/the_four_hijacks/flight_paths_map.gif" target="_blank"><b>Four planes</b></a>, which left American cities within 12 minutes of each other, had caused the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1535000/video/_1537766_wtc00_robbins_vi.ram" target="_blank"><b>worst attack</b></a> on U.S. soil since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. (Be patient as this incredible BBC video loads.)</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="america_attacked_ch5.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="america_attacked_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="america_attacked_ch7.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>