WHAT DID HAPPEN TO FLIGHT 93?
Richard Wallace, US Editor, examines riddle of hijacked jet as he visits crash site THE unmarked military-style jet swooped down at high speedthrough the valley, twice circled the smouldering black scar where Flight 93 had careered into the ground just seconds earlier and then hurtled off over the horizon. At least six eyewitnesses saw the mysterious aircraft on the morning of September 11 last year. But the US authorities deny it ever existed. So when George Bush laid a wreath yesterday at the crash site in a remote valley outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, he was one ofonly a handful of people who know what really happened to the 40 innocents and four hijackers aboard the doomed United Airlines Boeing 757-200. Those unimaginable final seconds as passengers showed courageous defiance apparently wrestling for control of the aircraft have become one of the defining images of the tragedy. And “Let’s roll” – ringleader Todd Beamer’s no-nonsense call to arms – became a defining battle cry
