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Did they ever find the black box from flight 93?

On Friday, September 14 at 8:30 pm, the CVR was recovered from the crater at a depth of 25 feet. Again, the FBI assumed custody of the box, and flew it to NTSB headquarters in Washington, DC. Flight Data Recorder as recovered at the Flight 93 crash site on September 13, 2001.



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The passengers and crew were forced to the back of the plane and told to be quiet. Using airfones, passengers and crew began making calls to report the hijacking. They soon learned the shocking news about the other hijacked planes and quickly realized that Flight 93 was part of a larger attack on America.

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Any plane debris there was mixed with hundreds of floors of concrete and steel, office furnishings and materials, and bodies — all of which complicated the case, investigators have said. Flight 93 wasn't lost to the crash. It was just buried, McCall said.

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I'm not going to.” She then points dramatically toward the back of the plane to an unseen passenger and declaring, “That motherfucker is not real,” the camera cutting to confused passengers in the back of the plane.

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Tim Lambert's family owned part of the tree-filled land where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Tim Lambert, weary from a long day of reporting on Sept. 11, 2001, checked his answering machine.

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A new documentary explores the theory that hijackers planned to take down a fifth plane on 9/11. But the theory raises many questions, not least why neither the FBI or the US government's landmark investigation into the disaster ever mentioned anything about United 23.

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The hijackers intended to crash into a federal government building in Washington, D.C. The operation partially failed when the passengers fought back, forcing the terrorists to crash the plane in a Pennsylvania field, thwarting their main objective, but killing everyone aboard the flight.

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The oldest passenger on Flight 93, Hilda Marcin was traveling to spend the winter with her daughter in California. Marcin grew up in Irvington, New Jersey, married, and had two daughters.

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It had come back from the brink of one nose dive when the fatalsecond descent began, a plunge of 18,000 feet in 75 seconds intothe Pacific Ocean. “Ah, here we go” were pilot Thompson's last words.

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Rescuers spent months scouring the seabed and the southern Indian Ocean but efforts were eventually stood down.
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A technician for Alaska Airlines performed two breathalyzer tests that showed the pilot had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.134 percent and 0.142 percent – both of which were well above the federal limit of 0.04.

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