United Airlines Flight 93 - Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed Al-Nami, Mark Bingham, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Let's Roll, Ahmed Al-Haznawi, Somerset County (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Nami, Mark Bingham, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Let's roll, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Newark Liberty International Airport, United 93, U.S. Route 219, Delta Air Lines Flight 1989, Flight 93, Todd Beamer, Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department, USS Somerset, Steven O'Brien, The Flight That Fought Back, Flight of Valor, I Missed Flight 93, Jason M. Dahl. Excerpt: United Airlines Flight 93 was United Airlines' scheduled morning transcontinental flight across the United States from Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport in California. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the Boeing 757-222 aircraft operating the route was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists as part of the September 11 attacks. It subsequently crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania during an attempt by some of the passengers to regain control. The hijackers breached the aircraft's cockpit and overpowered the flight crew approximately 46 minutes after takeoff. Ziad Jarrah, a trained pilot, then took control of the aircraft and diverted it back toward the east coast of the United States. Although the evidence remains inconclusive, it is widely presumed the intended target was the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. An alternative suggestion has been the White House, possibly in hopes of killing then-president George W. Bush. That morning, however, the president was visiting an elementary school in Florida. After the hijackers had taken control of the plane, several passengers and flight attendants were able to make telephone calls and learn that attacks had been made on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia. As a result, some of the passengers decided to ...