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...events were a devastating human tragedy. Two hijacked planes, together carrying more than 100 passengers, were crashed intentionally into each of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the face of the Pentagon building in Washington, and a fourth went down 80 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Authorities have resisted reporting the number of possible victims, but it is likely to be in the tens of thousands—each a father or a mother, a friend or child...
...passengers aboard the jets used in the attacks were killed, with an unknown number--most likely ranging in the thousands--killed in the three targeted buildings. A fourth hijacked jet crashed near Pittsburgh, Penn., killing an additional 45 people...
...news of multiple hijacked planes trickled out, the FAA shut down the nation's airports and airspace. At approximately 10:00 a.m. EST, United flight 93, en route from Newark to San Francisco crashed near Pittsburgh. The airplane, a Boeing 757, was apparently hijacked, and experts speculate that Camp David might have been its ultimate target. Wednesday afternoon, the Washington Post reported that passengers on United flight 93 may have tried to overtake the hijackers, crashing the plane into the countryside, rather than allowing it to hit its intended mark...
...that was not all; there was a third front as well. At 9:58 the Westmoreland County emergency-operations center, 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, received a frantic cell-phone call from a man who said he was locked in the rest room aboard United Flight 93. Glenn Cramer, the dispatch supervisor, said the man was distraught and kept repeating, "We are being hijacked! We are being hijacked!" He also said this was not a hoax, and that the plane "was going down." Said Cramer: "He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane. Then...
...flight had taken off at 8:01 from Newark, N.J., bound for San Francisco. But as it passed south of Cleveland, Ohio, it took a sudden, violent left turn and headed inexplicably back into Pennsylvania. As the 757 and its 38 passengers and seven crew members blew past Pittsburgh, air-traffic controllers tried frantically to raise the crew via radio. There was no response...