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Shanksville

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Shanksville, borough (1990 pop. 235), in Somerset co., SW Pa., on the Stonycreek River, which is spanned by an 1881 covered bridge. Shanksville is situated in an agricultural area where corn, oats, livestock, and dairy animals are raised. During the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which destroyed the World Trade Center World Trade Center, former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
..... Click the link for more information.  and damaged the Pentagon Pentagon, the, building accommodating the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Located in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is a five-sided building consisting of five concentric pentagons connected to each other by corridors and covering
..... Click the link for more information. , a Boeing 757 aircraft crashed into a wooded hillside just outside of Shanksville, killing 45. Heading from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, United Airlines Flight 93 had been taken over by Al Qaeda hijackers and flown toward Washington, D.C. It was later determined that several passengers, aware of the other attacks, had sought to overpower the hijackers, resulting in loss of control of the plane and the crash, thus saving untold lives at the unknown target. The events of that day changed Shanksville from a sleepy village to a hub for visitors to the memorial that now marks the crash site.
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REMEMBERING FLIGHT 93 On the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the National Park Service held a memorial service in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at the crash site of Flight 93.
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Skies were grey in New York City, at the Pentagon and at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in a Shanksville, Pennsylvania, field, where now-familiar ceremonies honoured the nearly 3,000 people who were lost.
Obama leads tribute to 9/11 victims by Birmingham Mail (England)
Shanksville is the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in an open field after passengers overwhelmed the hijackers, who are speculated to have been aiming the plane for the Capitol building in nearby Washington.
Tears, resolve on eighth anniversary of 9/11 by AFP / AFP American Edition
 
 
 
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