everyone was destroyed when that flame came in at 580 miles an hour. had it continued just a mile further, the shanksville stoney creek high school which had just come back to class could have been struck. but they put up a chain link fence and people brought mementos from across the country. i was here six years ago and there were license plates from all 50 states it seemed. people want to come here to pay respects. it s a very horrible event, the plane came in upside down and blew up on impact. neil, tell us about that and the fact that there was no graveyards. it just is a graveyard. it is. behind us is the hallowed ground where the passengers and crew members, their final resting place. the plane vaporized on impact, it was fully loaded with fuel. so they re here forever, they re
gack benz terrorists who were planning to slam their plane into a washington d.c. landmark, probably the u.s. capitol or the white house. let s go live to laura ingle at the ceremony which will be starting at any moment now, laura. good afternoon, patti ann, we have had a beautiful day as it turns out. didn t start out this way and we have some rain and awful lot of mud for folks trying to get to the ceremony, long lines of cars trying to get here, as you can see behind me, we ve got some of the family members and the special invited guests being seated right now as we wait for the dignataries to arrive, and secret service is all over the place, and of course, we have a long list of very special guests coming here today. vice-president joe biden, former president, bill clinton and george w. bush and also we ve learned speaker of the house, john boehner will be here this afternoon. today s events will include remarks from the former president which will be followed up by t
street fight situation, with real trained killers, and they got it done. obviously they would have liked to have gotten control of the plane. they would have liked to have gotten the pilots back in control. but what they did do was stop the other side from doing what it wanted to do, and that was the first sign of american defiance, which came at the first sign of american awareness, which i m glad to see the minute what was going on, we stopped them. there were any number of what if moments that surrounded flight 93, where a matter of seconds could have made a differen difference. the terrorists, chris, they picked well fueled flights and four flights that had departure times within 25 minutes. this one almost didn t get off the ground and four minutes after its departure was one of the first planes to strike the towers. you look at mark bingham, he was running late that day. he had to sprint to make the flight and had he been a few minutes later beyond, that wouldn t have
nobility of september 11, 2001. ten years ago tomorrow. shanksville, pennsylvania, now a place of history because here where we are today for this day of remembrance, is the crash site of united airlines flight 93. the jet liner had left newark that morning a decade ago, headed for san francisco. there were 33 passengers aboard. seven crew members. they numbered among them true american patriots who, getting word upon what happened that day, stormed the cockpit. let s roll one called out and brought down that plane before the terrorists could attack the united states capitol. then just 20 minutes over the horizon. today we honor them and with them the american resilience they, in those moments of dread, rose up to personify. ten years after a brave group of passengers took matters into their own hands aboard united airlines flight 93, we re here in shanksville, pennsylvania, and joining me right now is my colleague, tameran hall. you see a lot of people looking over this
the jet liner had left newark that morning a decade ago, headed for san francisco. there were 33 passengers aboard. seven crew members. they numbered among them true american patriots who, getting word upon what happened that day, stormed the cockpit. let s roll one called out and brought down that plane before the terrorists could attack the united states capitol. then just 20 minutes over the horizon. today we honor them and with them the american resilience they, in those moments of dread, rose up to personify. ten years after a brave group of passengers took matters into their own hands aboard united airlines flight 93, we re here in shanksville, pennsylvania, and joining me right now is my colleague, tameran hall. you see a lot of people looking over this field, because this is the exact direction that flight 93 came into this area. and behind us near where i m standing is the wall of names. and it also follows the path that flight 93 took on that awful day ten years