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On the morning of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial U.S. airliners departing from East Coast airports. They flew two jet airliners into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City, a third aircraft into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into an open field near rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all on board. The four aircraft strikes killed nearly 3,000 people, the deadliest attack on American soil by any foreign nation or terrorist group. Alerted to the events at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the forty unarmed passengers and crew of Flight 93 took quick and determined action, and their revolt prevented the flight from reaching the terrorists’ intended target, most likely the U.S. Capitol, where the Senate and House of Representatives were in session. Flight 93 crashed less than 20 minutes flying-time from Washington, D.C.
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