The Visitor Center was built in line with the flight path. The curving Walkway and 40 Memorial Groves circle around the bowl and wind down through the wetlands.
The Memorial Plaza at the crash site was built along the edge of the crash site, following the fence line established by the County Coroner. At the far end of the plaza, visitors can walk along the flight path, reading the names of the passengers and crew engraved on eight-foot high white marble panels.
Box Shanksville , PA Explore This Park. Flight 93 National Memorial Pennsylvania. Info Alerts Maps Calendar. Alerts In Effect Dismiss. Dismiss View all alerts. Sources and Detailed Information. Events on board Flight 11 and Flight are identified as relating to the attacks at the World Trade Center. Events on board Flight 77 are identified as relating to the attack at the Pentagon.
The events of September 11, were unprecedented and complex. The reporting of these events has been conflicting. New information about the attacks and the response to the attacks continues to be released. This timeline is based on the most complete information available at this time, and will be revised or updated as new information becomes available. United States v. Why was Flight 93 delayed in leaving the airport at Newark? The plane left the gate just one minute late, at am, and ordinarily would have taken off about 15 minutes after pulling away from the gate.
However, take-off was delayed because of the airport's typically heavy morning traffic. When Flight 93 left the ground at , the flight was running more than 25 minutes late. When and how did the authorities learn that Flight 93 had been hijacked? Who were the terrorists and where were they from?
How long had the hijacking been planned? What target did the hijackers intend to hit with Flight 93? When did the passengers and crew on Flight 93 decide to take action? Where did Flight 93 crash? How big was the crash site and what did the wreckage look like? The first responders described the crater as about 15 feet deep and about 30 feet across. It was irregularly shaped. The wreckage around and inside the crater consisted of largely unrecognizable pieces of twisted metal, pieces of the landing gear of the plane, a tire, the frames of some of the seats, bits of charred paper, and remnants of luggage and clothing.
Most of the pieces of wreckage were quite small, the size of a notebook or smaller. Many more pieces of wreckage, also quite small, were recovered during the investigation when the crater was excavated. Extensive searches through the wooded area south of the crash site, and even arborists in the tree tops found more debris from the crash. A pond about feet southwest of the crater was partially drained to recover debris.
Since Flight 93 crashed west-southwest of Indian Lake, it was impossible for debris to fly perpendicular to wind direction. The FBI lied. Theorists claim the plane was breaking up before it crashed. Human remains were confined to a acre area directly surrounding the crash site.
Paper and tiny scraps of sheetmetal , however, did land in the lake. Indian Lake is less than 1. And the wind that day was northwesterly, at nine to 12 mph, which means it was blowing from the northwest—toward Indian Lake.
I know the pilot who fired those two missiles to take down FACT: Saying he was reluctant to fuel debate by responding to unsubstantiated charges, Gibney a lieutenant colonel, not a major declined to comment. David Somdahl, Gibney flew an F that morning—but nowhere near Shanksville.
Jacoby confirms the day's events. Someone called to say an F was landing in Bozeman. From there we flew to Albany. Jacoby is outraged by the claim that Gibney shot down Flight Gibney was with me at that time.
It disgusts me to see this because the public is being misled. The wide displacement of the plane's debris, one explanation for which might be an explosion of some sort aboard prior to the crash. Letters — Flight 93 was carrying 7, pounds of mail to California — and other papers from the plane were found eight miles 13km away from the scene of the crash. A sector of one engine weighing one ton was found 2, yards away. This was the single heaviest piece recovered from the crash, and the biggest, apart from a piece of fuselage the size of a dining-room table.
The rest of the plane, consistent with an impact calculated to have occurred at mph, disintegrated into pieces no bigger than two inches long. Other remains of the plane were found two miles away near a town called Indian Lake. All of these facts, widely disseminated, were confirmed by the coroner Wally Miller.
The location of US Air Force jets, which might or might not have been close enough to fire a missile at the hijacked plane. Live news media reports on the morning of 11 September conflict with a number of official statements issued later. What the government acknowledges is that the first fighters with the mission to intercept took off at 8. Flight 93, whose menacing trajectory was made known by the broadcast media almost immediately, did not go down for another 31 minutes.
Apart from the logical conclusion that at least one Air Force F — miles away in Washington at 9. Also, there was one brief report on CBS television before the crash that two F fighters were tailing Flight Vice-President Dick Cheney acknowledged five days later that President Bush had authorised the Air Force pilots to shoot down hijacked commercial aircraft.
One telephone call from the doomed plane whose contents do not entirely tally with the hero legend and which is accordingly omitted in the Independence Day -type dramas favoured by the US media. The Associated Press news service reported on 11 September that eight minutes before the crash, a frantic male passenger called the emergency number.
He told the operator, named Glen Cramer, that he had locked himself inside one of the plane's toilets. Cramer told the AP, in a report that was widely broadcast on 11 September, that the passenger had spoken for one minute.
He was very distraught. He said he believed the plane was going down. He did hear some sort of an explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane, but he didn't know where. And then we lost contact with him. According to the information that has been made known, this was the last of the various phone calls made from the aeroplane. No more calls were received from the plane in the eight minutes that remained after the man in the toilet said that he had heard an explosion.
Eyewitness accounts of a "mystery plane" that flew low over the Flight 93 crash site shortly after impact. Lee Purbaugh is one of at least half a dozen named individuals who have reported seeing a second plane flying low and in erratic patterns, not much above treetop level, over the crash site within minutes of the United flight crashing.
They describe the plane as a small, white jet with rear engines and no discernible markings. Purbaugh, who served three years in the US Navy, said he did not believe it was a military plane.
If it indeed was not, one suggestion made in the internet discussion groups is that US Customs uses planes with these characteristics to interdict aerial drug shipments. Either way, the presence of the mystery jet remains a puzzle. How has the US government and its various agencies responded to doubts raised by the above questions?
In the following ways:. The paper debris eight miles away, the FBI says, was wafted away by a 10mph wind; the jet-engine part flew 2, yards on account of the savage force of the plane's impact with the ground.
The FBI conclusion: "Nothing was found that was inconsistent with the plane going into the ground intact. One expert expresses astonishment at the notion that the letters and other papers would have remained airborne for almost one hour before falling to earth. The Air Force jets were on their way but failed to make it on time, according to General Richard Myers, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
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