Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
Sep 2014 · Rowman & Littlefield
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United Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but there’s so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax. Amazingly, the definitive account of this seminal event has yet to be written.
The book offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard Flight 93 – from its delayed takeoff in Newark to the moment it plunged upside-down at 563 miles per hour into an open field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Flight 93 provides a riveting and complete narrative of the lead-up, event, and aftermath of the flight, based on interviews, oral histories, personal tours of the crash site and evidence recently made public. It examines the lead-up to that horrific morning; the stories of the victims who were launched into the center of history; the revolt that saved untold amounts of carnage on the ground and likely, the US Capitol; the eyewitnesses and first responders who rushed to the crash scene; the impact on family members; the effort to uncover evidence at the site; and the legacy the story leaves for future generations.
The book offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard Flight 93 – from its delayed takeoff in Newark to the moment it plunged upside-down at 563 miles per hour into an open field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Flight 93 provides a riveting and complete narrative of the lead-up, event, and aftermath of the flight, based on interviews, oral histories, personal tours of the crash site and evidence recently made public. It examines the lead-up to that horrific morning; the stories of the victims who were launched into the center of history; the revolt that saved untold amounts of carnage on the ground and likely, the US Capitol; the eyewitnesses and first responders who rushed to the crash scene; the impact on family members; the effort to uncover evidence at the site; and the legacy the story leaves for future generations.
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Ducati Dave
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July 19, 2015
There's no cell phone reception in a plane. Especially in the middle of the mountains in 2001. Especially with the plane that's supposedly inverted before impact. Especially when hardly anyone had cell phones then. There was no wreckage, and the "crash site" was and still is government owned property. I visited the memorial, talked to the local people, and listened to the park Ranger propaganda speak. I looked around at all the gullible folks listening to the fable. Utter nonsense.
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Norma Pretot
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October 25, 2015
This book is so very inspiring----it was difficult to put it down------it touched my heart so very deeply......am going to buy a copy for my Doctor and one of my friends-------------------
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Shannon Hampton
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June 6, 2015
Very heat wrenching. However a stunning account of the men and women who gave their all.
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About the author
Tom McMillan has spent a lifetime in media and communications – as a newspaper sports writer for the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, among others, as a radio talk-show host, and for the past 17 years as Vice President of Communications for the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. He also serves on the board of directors of Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center, on the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation, as a tour guide for the Civil War Room at Carnegie Library, as an adjunct professor of media and marketing at Point Park University and as a volunteer at the Flight 93 National Memorial.
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