Their fight to gain control of the Boeing 757 culminated in a fiery crash in a field on a mountaintop plateau that had once been a strip mine. They will remember how on the worst day of their lives, 40 people made a plan, took a vote and mounted an assault on four hijackers in the sky above Western Pennsylvania as the plane soared toward the nation’s capital. On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, they will mark the story of how 40 everyday people - 33 passengers and seven crew members - met on a flight from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two decades later, the unlikely coalition of Flight 93 family members, residents of Somerset County and the National Park Service that worked for years to preserve the story of what happened aboard that United Airlines jetliner will meet this week at the Flight 93 National Memorial, just outside of Shanksville in Stonycreek Township.
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