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Who owned the land Flight 93 crashed on?

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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Lambert is now the news director at WITF in Harrisburg and recently finished a project with NPR, speaking to families of the passengers and crew that died during their heroic efforts to take back the plane after it was hijacked by terrorists.

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The rest of the aircraft buried itself in dirt that had been transported to the abandoned strip mine for reclamation efforts in the 1990s. The fuselage and wings shattered as they burrowed into the earth.

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The federal government has reached final agreements with landowners to purchase 1,400 acres at the Flight 93 crash site in southwestern Pennsylvania yesterday, clearing the way for construction to begin on the 9/11 memorial park this fall.

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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 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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For 10 years, the unidentified remains of the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93 waited in three caskets stored away in a mausoleum.

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