Todd Beamer And The Destination Of Flight 93

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On September 10, 2001, Todd Beamer and his wife Lisa returned from a trip to Italy. Todd decides to fly out early the next morning for a business trip. The flight that he catches is Flight 93. Unknowing, Todd Beamer boarded that flight. Then, at 9:32, a hijacker, later identified as Ziad Jarrah, was heard over the flight data recorder, directing the passengers to sit down and stating that there was a bomb aboard the plane. The terrorists grouped them in the back of the plane, where they would not be able to interfere. The hijackers had murdered the pilot and copilot. Now, the new destination was Washington D.C. The passengers and crew of Flight 93 made a series of calls on their cell phones and the in-flight Airlines, informing family members

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