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Who was the youngest victim Flight 93?

At age 20, Deora Frances Bodley of San Diego, California was the youngest person aboard Flight 93.



The youngest victim of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, was Christine Lee Hanson, who was just two and a half years old. She was traveling with her parents, Peter and Sue Kim Hanson, on a trip to Los Angeles to visit relatives and visit Disneyland. While Christine is famously remembered as the youngest victim of the overall 9/11 attacks, she was actually aboard United Flight 175 (which struck the South Tower), not Flight 93. On Flight 93 specifically, the youngest passenger was Deora Bodley, a 20-year-old college student from Santa Clara University who was returning home after visiting friends in New Jersey. The confusion often arises because the names of the victims are collectively honored, but Flight 93's passengers were primarily adults, many of whom are hailed as heroes for fighting back against the hijackers to prevent the plane from reaching its intended target in Washington, D.C.

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In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the valor of the passengers and crew has become central to the history of 9/11. On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 had forty passengers and crew members on board, travelling non-stop from Newark to San Francisco. The passengers ranged in age from twenty to seventy-nine.

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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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The sole survivor of the crash was Cecelia Cichan, a four-year-old girl from Tempe, Arizona, who was returning home alongside her mother, Paula, father, Michael, and a six-year-old brother, David, after visiting relatives in Pennsylvania. Romulus firemen found Cichan still belted in her seat, which was faced down.

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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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The plane crashed in an open field next to a wooded area in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania at 10:03:11 am. The nearest town is Shanksville. Flight 93 struck the ground at a 40 degree angle almost upside down, hitting right wing and nose first, at a speed of between 563-580 miles per hour.

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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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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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I liked Flight 93 much better than United 93 because the cinematography was done much better. I know this might sound bad, but watching United 93 was like watching the Blair Witch Project. Everything was done like zoomed in, and the camera was going back and forth real fast.

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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — The remaining wreckage of United Flight 93 has been buried near the Pennsylvania memorial marking where it crashed on 9/11.

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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 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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