#United dlight 93 series#

The memorial features were dedicated in three phases. The winning design was awarded to Paul Murdoch Architects of Los Angeles, CA with Nelson Byrd Woltz of Charlottesville, VA in 2005.

#United dlight 93 series#

The memorial provides a series of visitor experiences beginning with a three-mile journey through a landscape that still hints at its mining past, leading visitors to an overlook located on the Flight Path, along with a Visitor Center and Learning Center down to the crash site. The design for Flight 93 National Memorial was chosen from more than 1,000 entries in an international competition that included submissions from 48 states in this country and 27 countries. The Act 'Established a Memorial at the September 11, 2001, crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, designating the final resting place to honor the passengers and crew of Flight 93.' The Act also designated the National Memorial as a unit of the National Park system.

On September 24, 2002, Congress unanimously passed the Flight 93 National Memorial Act (P.L. Countless lives were spared thanks to their heroic actions, but all on board Flight 93 were lost.Ī common field was transformed into a field of honor. As a result of phone calls made from on board Flight 93 and from the cockpit voice recorder recovered at the crash site, we learn of the struggle the passengers and crew members had with their hijackers which began in the skies over Western Pennsylvania, and ended with the high-speed crash of the plane in a reclaimed strip mine near Shanksville, just 18 minutes flying time from Washington, DC. Pushed to the back of the plane by hijackers, the passengers and crew took a vote – and decided to fight back to try and regain control of their airplane. Through their phone conversations, they learned of the first two attacks, and subsequently took quick action. When Flight 93 was hijacked, the passengers and crew members used airfones on the plane to contact the authorities and their loved ones.Ī total of 13 passengers made 37 phone calls. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when the hijacked planes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon near Washington, DC, and when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside outside of Shanksville, PA.įlight 93 did not arrive at the hijackers' intended target - the Nation's Capital - because of the selfless and courageous actions of the 40 passenger and crew members on board. But, in less than two hours' time, this seemingly routine day was transformed when 19 terrorists boarded and hijacked four commercial airplanes to attack America.

As the sun rose, fair weather and blue skies prevailed over much of the country and thousands of commercial airliners prepared for flight. Septembegan as an ordinary, late-summer day.