SEP 11, 2009

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PENNSYLVAINA FIELD - 9/11

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In keeping with standard airline practice after disasters, the flight number "93" was discontinued by United Airlines after the hijacking. United's early-morning nonstop from Newark to San Francisco is now Flight 91 using an Airbus A319.^[103]

        AIRPORT DIAGRAM     INSIDE NEWARK AIRPORT     A flag flies over Gate A17     TARMAC FOR NEWARK AIRPORT  

Aerial View from a departing plane

  The plane crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles (130 km) southeast of Pittsburgh and 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Washington, D.C., killing all on board including 40 passengers and crew and four hijackers. Many witnessed the impact from the ground and news agencies began reporting on the event within an hour. The plane fragmented upon impact, leaving a crater, and some debris was blown miles from the crash site. The remains of everyone on board the aircraft were later identified. Subsequent analysis of the flight recorders revealed how the actions taken by the passengers prevented the aircraft from reaching the hijackers' intended target, thought to be either the White House or United States Capitol. A permanent memorial is planned for construction on the crash site. The chosen design has been the subject of criticism, but the memorial is scheduled to be dedicated in 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93        

Aftermath

 

PLEASE ASK YOURSELF AS YOU VIEW THE FOLLOWING PICTURES WHERE IS THE BLACKEN GROUND THAT IS SUPPOSE TO BE AROUND THESE AIRPLANE PARTS!!!!

 

Further information: Reactions to the September 11, 2001 attacks

 

 

Flight 93 fragmented violently upon impact. Most of the aircraft wreckage was found near the impact crater.^[70] Investigators found some very light debris including paper and nylon scattered up to eight miles (13 km) from the impact point in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania.^[71] Other tiny aircraft fragments were found 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away at Indian Lake, Pennsylvania.^[72] All human remains were found within a 70 acre (28 ha) area surrounding the impact point.^[72] Somerset County Coroner Wally Miller was involved in the investigation and identification of the remains. As he walked through the wreckage, the only recognizable body part he saw was a piece of spinal cord with five vertebrae attached.^[73] Miller later found and identified 1,500 pieces of human remains totaling about 600 pounds (272 kg), or eight percent of the total.^[74] The rest of the remains were consumed by the impact.^[75]

 

Investigators identified four victims by September 22 and eleven by September 24.^[76][77] They identified another by September 29.^[78] Thirty-four passengers were identified by October 27.^[79] All the people on board the flight were identified by December 21.^[80]

 

 Human remains were so fragmented, investigators could not determine if any victims were dead before the plane crashed. Death certificates for the 40 victims listed the cause of death as homicides and listed the cause of death for the four hijackers as suicides.^[80]

 

The remains and personal effects of the victims were returned to the families.^[81] The remains of the hijackers, identified by the process of elimination, were turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as evidence.^[82]

 

 

 

Investigators also found a knife disguised as a cigarette lighter.^[83] They located the flight data recorder on September 13 and the cockpit voice recorder the following day.^[84][85] The voice recorder was found buried 25 feet (8 m) below the crater.

 

The FBI initially refused to release the voice recording, rejecting requests by congresswoman Ellen Tauscher and family members of those on board.^[86] The FBI subsequently allowed the relatives of the Flight 93 victims to listen to the recording in a closed session on April 18, 2002.^[87] Jurors for the Zacarias Moussaoui trial heard the tape as part of the proceedings and the transcript was publicly released on April 12, 2006.^[88]

  

The intended target of Flight 93 has never been decisively confirmed.^[89] Before the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, and Mohammed Atef developed a list of potential targets.^[8] Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon. Sheikh Mohammed wanted to strike the World Trade Center and all three wanted to hit the Capitol. No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.^[8]

 

Bin Laden told 9/11 planner Ramzi Binalshibh to advise Mohamed Atta that he preferred the White House over the Capitol as a target.^[90] Atta cautioned Binalshibh that this would be difficult, but agreed to include the White House as a possible target and suggested they keep the Capitol as an alternate in case the White House proved too difficult. Eventually, Atta told Binalshibh that Jarrah planned to hit the Capitol.^[90] Atta briefly mentioned the possibility of striking a nuclear facility, but balked after the other attack pilots voiced their opposition.^[90] Based on an exchange between Atta and Binalshibh two days before the attacks, the White House would be the primary target for the fourth plane and the Capitol the alternate.^[27]

 

 

Immediately after the attacks, there was speculation that Camp David was the intended target.^[91]

 

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U.S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.^[92] A post-9/11 interview with Sheikh Mohammed and Binalshibh by Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda revealed that Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol.^[93]

 

The 9/11 Commission Report cited the actions of the crew and passengers that prevented the destruction of either the White House or the Capitol.^[21] According to another testimony by Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden preferred the Capitol over the White House as a target and Sheikh Mohammed revealed that the interview to Fouda was a lie to make the 9/11 attacks seem larger than they were.^[27] Salim Hamdan, bin Laden's driver, told interrogators that he knew the flight was headed for the Capitol.^[94]

The 9/11 Commission found that North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the FAA gave inaccurate testimony.^[95]

 

NORAD insisted that fighters would have intercepted Flight 93 before it reached its target in Washington, D.C., but the commission disagreed concluding that "had Flight 93 not crashed in Pennsylvania, it would have arrived in the Washington area 10 to 20 minutes later".^[96] The 9/11 Commission Report stated that NEADS fighters pursued Delta Air Lines Flight 1989, a flight thought to be hijacked.^[21] All passengers and crew on board Flight 93 were nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2001.^[97] Congressman Bill Shuster introduced a bill to this effect in 2006,^[98] however as of 2008 these awards have not been granted.^[99]

Beamer's final words, "let's roll," became a national catchphrase.^[44] The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey changed the name of Newark's airport from Newark International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport.^[100] Flight 93 has been the subject of various films and documentaries including The Flight That Fought Back, Flight 93, and United 93.^[101][102

       

CRASH

The plane crashed into a reclaimed coal strip mine in Stonycreek Township at 10:03:11.^[53] The National Transportation Safety Board reported that the flight impacted at 563 miles per hour (906 km/h) at a 40 degree nose-down, inverted attitude.^[18] The impact left a crater eight to ten feet deep, and thirty to fifty feet wide.^[54]

 

None of the 44 people on board survived.^[55] Many media reports and eyewitness accounts cited the time of the crash at 10:06,^[56][57] as did an analysis of seismographic data in the area^[58] but which the 9/11 Commission report states was not definitive.^[59] Other media venues and the 9/11 Commission reported the time of impact as 10:03,^[60][61] based on when the flight recorders stopped, analysis of radar data, infrared satellite data, and air traffic control transmissions.^[21]

Kelly Leverknight was watching news of the attacks when she heard the plane. "I heard the plane going over and I went out the front door and I saw the plane going down. It was headed toward the school, which panicked me, because all three of my kids were there. Then you heard the explosion and felt the blast and saw the fire and smoke."^[62]

 

Another witness, Eric Peterson, looked up when he heard the plane, "It was low enough, I thought you could probably count the rivets. You could see more of the roof of the plane than you could the belly. It was on its side. There was a great explosion and you could see the flames. It was a massive, massive explosion. Flames and then smoke and then a massive, massive mushroom cloud."^[63]

 

Val McClatchey had been watching footage of the attacks when she heard the plane. She saw it briefly, then heard the impact. The crash knocked out the electricity and phones. McClatchey grabbed her camera and took the only known picture of the smoke cloud from the explosion.^[64][65]

 

Conspiracy theorists have accused her of manufacturing the photograph.^[66]

 

The first responders arrived at the crash site after 10:06.^[46] Cleveland Center controllers, unaware the flight had crashed, notified the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) at 10:07 that Flight 93 had a bomb on board and passed the last known position. This call was the first time the military was notified about the flight.^[19]

 

Ballinger sent one final ACARS message to Flight 93 at 10:10: "Don't divert to DC. Not an option." He repeated the message one minute later. The Herndon Command Center alerted FAA headquarters that Flight 93 had crashed at 10:13.^[19] NEADS called the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center for an update on Flight 93 and received notification that the flight had crashed.^[67]

 

At 10:37, CNN correspondent Aaron Brown, covering the collapse of the World Trade Center, announced, "We are getting reports and we are getting lots of reports and we want to be careful to tell you when we have confirmed them and not, but we have a report that a 747 is down in Pennsylvania, and that remains unconfirmed at this point."^[68]

 

 He followed that up at 10:45 by reporting that, "We have a report now that a large plane crashed this morning, north of the Somerset County Airport, which is in western Pennsylvania, not too terribly far from Pittsburgh, about 80 miles or so, a Boeing 767 jet. Don't know whose airline it was, whose airplane it was, and we don't have any details beyond that which I have just given you." In the confusion, he also erroneously reported there was a second hijacked plane heading for the Pentagon.^[69]

 

 

 

 

              

 

 

Wreath-laying ceremony near the site of the crash of Flight 93 on the first anniversary of its hijacking

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