The plane carried seven crew-members and 33 passengers, less than half its maximum capacity.
The flight’s takeoff had been delayed for nearly 45 minutes due to air traffic at Newark International Airport. United Airlines Flight 93, a regularly scheduled early-morning nonstop flight from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, departed at 8:42 a.m., just minutes before the first hijacked plane struck the World Trade Center. Faced with the knowledge that the United States was under attack, the nation’s air traffic controllers began a frantic attempt to wrest back control of America’s skies. military, the situation in New York took a catastrophic turn for the worse when the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed in a massive cloud of dust and smoke. Less than 15 minutes after the terrorists struck the nerve center of the U.S. and slammed into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters at 9:45 a.m. Eighteen minutes later, a second Boeing 767 appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the south tower.Īs millions watched the events unfolding in New York in horror, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over downtown Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping many more on the building’s higher floors. His photos, for example, are kept at eye level for David and Drew.At 8:46 a.m. To preserve her husband's memory for the children who will grow up without him, Lisa keeps him very much present in their home. "To hear the garage door go up, see the kids go to the door, is probably the biggest thing I miss." "Coming in the door every night is the big thing," she says, referring to her husband's homecoming at the end of each workday. Still, there are almost constant reminders of the void in her life.
"If I see a picture of the crash site or something like that on TV, obviously I think through it in my head," she says, "but I don't dwell too much on what happened that day." Though Todd is always in her thoughts, Lisa said she tries not to focus on the events of Sept. "I know that many years down the road we'll still be sad in some ways. "Although pain dissipates over time, it doesn't go away," she says. Lisa, who lost her father when she was 15, knows that emptiness all too well. I felt like he was smiling."īut Morgan came home from the hospital to no father. Lisa says of her husband, "I felt like he knew what was happening. Lisa says Todd had hoped third child would be a girl, and she named the baby after him - Morgan was his middle name.
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Now the mother of three - including Morgan's two big brothers, David, 4, and Drew, 2 - Lisa is still learning how to raise her family without her husband. Her mother, Lisa Beamer, has become a public symbol of courage and strength to a grieving nation as she struggles to keep her family together. The passengers apparently fought with the hijackers for control of the jetliner, which plummeted into the ground rather than hitting its intended target. Her father, Todd Beamer, was the 32-year-old hero on United Flight 93 who said "Let's roll" before joining other passengers in storming the cockpit. 21, 2002 - Though she's just 6 weeks old, Morgan Kay Beamer - with her father's dark hair and a little cleft in her chin - is building a bridge between Sept.
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