Tuesday: 8:42 A.M. - United
Airlines Flight 93 departs Newark International Airport bound for San
Francisco. 9:45 A.M. - A passenger dials 911 and reports the plane has been hijacked. 10:37 A.M. - United
Airlines Flight 93 crashes into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
about 85 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Thursday: 4:20 P.M. - Voice
Recorder found at crash site.
Saturday: 4:57 P.M. - Officials request hair and toothbrushes from families to
acquire DNA samples for identification of remains at Pennsylvania
Crash Site.
After flying west near Cleveland, Ohio, the flight turned back and started fliying
toward Washington, D.C or possibly Camp David, Maryland. Family members related
to those onboard received cellular phone calls that the plane had been hijacked
and were asked for information concerning the other airplanes that had been
hijacked. A Pennsylvania police department received a 911 call from a man who
claimed to be locked in the airplane's lavatory and screamed that the flight
had been hijacked.
After witnessing the murder of one flight attendant and an attack on another,
several men onboard the flight decided to fight back. They were aware of the
fate of the two planes that had crashed into the World Trade Center and refused
to be party to another such attack.
As the plane flew over Pennsylvania, it was seen to be flying at low altitude
(approximately 2000 feet). Witnesses saw it make a sharp left turn, then a sharp
right turn. Another witness then saw it flying even lower (approximately 500
feet). It seemed to be gaining altitude and then dive to the right. Another
witness picks up from there and saw it dive behind a hill. Both witnesses felt
the concushion of the crash and then smoke. Another witness saw a fireball after
it disappeared below the treeline.
