On 9/11/2001, United Flight 93 was set to fly from Newark to San Francisco—but at 10:06 a.m., the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field. Cell phone conversations and interviews reconstruct that tragic, inspiring journey.
At around 7:20 A.M. on September 11, 33 ordinary people began boarding United Flight 93, a milk run from Newark to San Francisco: Salesmen, students, executives, and retirees. Wives, husbands, and parents. By 10:06, when the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field, they were destined to become symbols of extraordinary heroism.
Drawing on cell-phone conversations and interviews with aviation insiders, friends, and relatives, BRYAN BURROUGH reconstructs that terrifying, tragic, and inspiring journey, from its humdrum start, through the awful realization that their plane was being used as a guided missile, to the decision to rush the hijackers—an act that has changed the way fliers see themselves
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