![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The airliner involved, a Boeing 757-222 with 44 passengers and crew, was flying United Airlines' daily scheduled morning flight from Newark International Airport in New Jersey to San Francisco International Airport in California, making it the only plane hijacked that day not to be a Los Angeles-bound flight.įorty-six minutes into the flight, the hijackers murdered one passenger, stormed the cockpit, and struggled with the pilots as controllers on the ground listened in. The mission became a partial failure when the passengers fought back, forcing the terrorists to crash the plane in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, preventing them from reaching al-Qaeda's intended target but killing everyone on-board the flight. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a federal government building in the national capital of Washington, D.C. ![]() United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. Newark Int'l Airport (now Newark Liberty Int'l Airport) UA 93's flight path from Newark, New Jersey, to Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvaniaįield ( Flight 93 National Memorial) near the Diamond T. ![]()
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