Pennsylvania September 11. 2001 USA

On the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial airliner were hijacked shortly after takeoff in a planned attack against the United States. Two of the flights were deliberately flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. A third plane was flown into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, taking the lives of 125 in that building, and all 64 on board the plane. A fourth plane, flight 93, did not leave the airport on schedule. After a forty-one minute delay on the runway, the flight left Newark (NJ) Airport al 8:42 a.m. and began ist journey to San Francisco. But at 9:36 a.m., as the Boeing 757 was nearing Cleveland, Ohio, it abruptly changed course, turning southeast towards the nation´s capital. Shortly before 10 a.m it was observed flying low and erratically over southwestern Pennsilvanya. Just after 10 a.m. the plane crashed, at an estimated speed of more than 500 miles per hour, into a reclaimed strip mine at the edge of the wood in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Emergency responders arriving at the scene minutes after the crash found no survivors. All thirty-three passengers, seven crew members, and the four hijackers were killed. Photographed 06 April 2005.

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