Those passengers of Flight 93 were real American heroes.Īt MCI-H that year, we had a music show in which inmates and staff raised some $5,000. Voice recordings from the recovered black box of the plane suggest the hijackers panicked and crashed the plane at some 563 miles per hour into a field near Shanksville, Pa.Ī few weeks ago, I traveled to this location and although the skies were mostly blue, the few gray clouds hovering above the wildflowers that now serenely cover that field seemed to convey the sorrow that remains even today for those families left behind.īeamer left two sons and a pregnant wife, Lisa, who gave birth to a daughter in the aftermath of the crash. Todd Beamer, one of the apparent leaders of the passengers, was overheard saying, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” Although the situation was desperate, a plan was devised by the passengers to charge the cockpit and attack the hijackers. The passengers, who had made some 37 phone calls from the plane, knew of the other hijacked planes. Forty minutes after Flight 93 was airborne, four hijackers took control of the plane and directed its flight path toward Washington, D.C. As the news reporters tried to keep up with all the tragedies making the next day’s headlines, there was yet one more story to be told.Īnother plane was 25 minutes late taking off from the Newark airport on its way to California.
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