Why did the passengers of Flight 93 fight back?

Through their phone conversations, they learned of the first two attacks, and subsequently took quick action. Pushed to the back of the plane by hijackers, the passengers and crew took a vote – and decided to fight back to try and regain control of their airplane.



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The passengers fought the four hijackers and attempted to break through to the cockpit. Despite the heroic efforts of these passengers, the plane crashed in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at 10:10 AM. All 40 crew members and passengers died that morning.

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Those remains have been kept in an above-ground crypt for the last 10 years by the Somerset County coroner, Wallace Miller, awaiting a final resting place. They will be laid to rest in three steel coffins at the patch of earth — sodden now from endless rains — where the plane rammed into the ground.

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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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In each tower, 99% of the occupants below the crash survived. At the impact area and above, survival was limited to just a handful of people in the south tower who made an amazing escape.

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Four airliners were turned into weapons of mass destruction on 9/11; a fifth may have been targeted.

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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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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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On September 11, 2001, why was Flight 93 the only hijacked plane not to reach its target? They were grounded and unable to operate for several days.

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