LET'S ROLL
41 minutes behind schedule, Flight 93 left Newark international Airport at 8:42 a.m. on September 11, intended to land in San Francisco. According to air traffic control communication, the plane was hijacked at 9:27. Evidence suggests that the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) had warned the North American Aerospace Defense Command at 9:16 that there may have been a hijacking. Three minutes later transmission died and the plane is thought to have turned around. A lot of the passengers called their friends and family members, expecting their lives would end shortly. One, Todd Beamer used the Airfone at 9:45 and was connected to Lisa Jefferson, a verizon supervisor.
The conversation between the two was ended with the words, "Let's roll". Proceeding that now legendary saying were sounds of glass breaking. Presumably, the man who was heard was instructing fellow passengers to aid him in pushing food carts into the terrorists and either purposely crashing or attempting to regain control of the vessel. With this story, civilians aboard Flight 93 became idols of American culture and worshipped during the grieving period following that day. Nevertheless, witness accounts indicate that the plane was in fact shot down by another jetliner. Potentially, government officials who had been informed of the incidents earlier that morning regarding the Twin Towers, knowing that 93 had been overtaken chose to take it out before it could get to any destination and kill hundreds of more innocent people. Whether or not this plane crashed in a field or into a heavily populated building everyone inside of it was going to die on impact. Therefore, air force powers most likely determined that killing some of their own people, who were going to die that day anyway, was worth it in prevention of potentially more massive death tolls. Of course, admitting to shooting down a plane full of their own people would cause riots amongst Americans especially if they had lost family members on that flight. So, without confessed evidence, it is proposed by many that the passengers on Flight 93 did not purposely take down their own plane. In any case, they put up a fight.
The conversation between the two was ended with the words, "Let's roll". Proceeding that now legendary saying were sounds of glass breaking. Presumably, the man who was heard was instructing fellow passengers to aid him in pushing food carts into the terrorists and either purposely crashing or attempting to regain control of the vessel. With this story, civilians aboard Flight 93 became idols of American culture and worshipped during the grieving period following that day. Nevertheless, witness accounts indicate that the plane was in fact shot down by another jetliner. Potentially, government officials who had been informed of the incidents earlier that morning regarding the Twin Towers, knowing that 93 had been overtaken chose to take it out before it could get to any destination and kill hundreds of more innocent people. Whether or not this plane crashed in a field or into a heavily populated building everyone inside of it was going to die on impact. Therefore, air force powers most likely determined that killing some of their own people, who were going to die that day anyway, was worth it in prevention of potentially more massive death tolls. Of course, admitting to shooting down a plane full of their own people would cause riots amongst Americans especially if they had lost family members on that flight. So, without confessed evidence, it is proposed by many that the passengers on Flight 93 did not purposely take down their own plane. In any case, they put up a fight.
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Later, at 9:58, Edward Felt called to tell operator Glenn Cramer that the plane was going down after he had seen an explosion followed by smoke. Near Somerset, Pennsylvania, the flight crashed at 10:06 with debris flung as far as 8 miles away and no survivors.
A total of forty-four people died in the suicide flight, four of them terrorists. Based on intelligence provided by al-Queda leader, Abu Zubaydah, the plane was most likely aimed for the White House. The video on the left shows the aftermath of the crash scene with a giant crater and a large number of small debris scattered everywhere. Since there were no significantly sized remnants of the air craft, it appears likely that it exploded at collision. |
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