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What are the features of the Flight 93 Memorial?

The memorial site is managed by the National Park Service. The memorial encompasses 2,200 acres and the “Tower of Voices,” a 93-foot-tall tower with 40 wind chimes. Features include the Memorial Plaza, 40 Memorial Groves and the Allée, a formal walking path.



The Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is a 2,200-acre site designed to honor the 40 passengers and crew who thwarted a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. A key feature is the Tower of Voices, a 93-foot tall structure near the park entrance that contains 40 uniquely tuned wind chimes, representing the eternal voices of the heroes. The Memorial Plaza follows the actual flight path and features a white marble "Wall of Names" where each individual's name is inscribed on a separate panel. At the end of the plaza, visitors can look out over the Sacred Ground, the actual crash site which is protected by a hemlock grove and remains closed to the public out of respect for the families. The Visitor Center is situated between two massive concrete walls that align with the flight trajectory, offering interactive exhibits that detail the events of the day. The entire landscape, which was once a reclaimed strip mine, has been transformed into a place of "environmental and symbolic healing," featuring 40 memorial groves of trees and a peaceful "Field of Honor."

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The hijackers inside the cockpit are heard yelling No! over the sound of breaking glass. The final spoken words on the recorder were a calm voice in English instructing, Pull it up. The plane then crashed into an empty field in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania, about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C.

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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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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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The Flight 93 National Memorial is a 2,200-acre national park to commemorate the heroic actions of the 40 passengers and crew who prevented a terrorist attack on our nation's capital.

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The impact killed hundreds, including everyone on the plane and many more inside the South Tower. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 people survived the crash, but were trapped by the catastrophic damage done to the skyscraper as well as the heat, fire, and smoke filling its upper levels.

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Message left by Lauren Grandcolas from United 93. Grandcolas's name and her unborn child are memorialized on Panel S-68 of the South Pool of the National September 11 Memorial.

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DENVER -- Sandy Dahl, wife of the pilot who captained United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field after being taken over by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, has died at age 52. A fundraising group she founded to honor her husband's memory, the Captain Jason M.

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The North Tower lasted around 46 minutes longer than its twin, having been struck 17 minutes before the South Tower was attacked and standing another half-hour after the South Tower collapsed.

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