ESTABLISHED: SEPTEMBER 24, 2002
Pictures are not allowed in the visitor center, I was OK with that. Put the phone away and focus on what you are seeing. Emotionally this park hit me harder than any others we visited. Maybe because it was one of the few that happened in my lifetime. All of the memories came rushing back.
- FLIGHT 93 TIMELINE
- 8:01 a.m. (or 8:42 a.m.): United Airlines Flight 93 departs Newark International Airport for San Francisco with a 25-minute delay, carrying 33 passengers, 7 crew members, and 4 hijackers (44 total on board).
- 9:28 a.m.: Hijackers breach the cockpit over Ohio and take control of the aircraft, turning it southeast toward Washington, D.C..
- 9:32 a.m.: The first bomb threat is transmitted from the aircraft to air traffic control.
- 9:57 a.m.: Passengers and crew members—having learned via phone calls about the other terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—begin their assault on the cockpit to retake the plane.
- 10:03 a.m.: The hijackers crash the plane upside-down (travelling 563 mph) into an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
At the visitor center you can listen to phone calls made by passengers to their loved one’s.
The walls follow the flight path before the crash.
The wall lists the names of all the innocent passengers on board that were just trying to live their lives the best they could.
Just seeing his name was emotional to me. Faced with certain death he and other passengers decided to storm the cockpit and crash the plan. “Are you ready? Okay. Let’s roll.”
Through this fence you can see the crash aite.
Flight 93 crash site.
NEVER FORGET THE PAST, STEVE