Person1968 – 2001
Todd Beamer
Passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 who told a telephone operator what was happening aboard the hijacked plane, then said “Let’s roll” and joined others in rushing the cockpit
Where they went
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On 11 September 2001 passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers of an airliner that left Newark at 8:42 a.m.; it came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03.
Themes this person appears in
- The September 11 Attacks1988 – 2014
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the four airliners hijacked on the morning of 11 September 2001 and the fall of the twin towers, the closing of the American sky, twenty years of war in Afghanistan and the death of bin Laden, and the memorial pools in the towers’ footprints