Jarrah was born in Lebanon to a wealthy family and had a secular upbringing. The hijacking of Flight 93 was led by Ziad Jarrah, a member of al-Qaeda. Construction of a permanent Flight 93 National Memorial was dedicated on September 10, 2011, and a concrete and glass visitor center (situated on a hill overlooking the site) was opened exactly four years later. A temporary memorial was built near the crash site soon after the attacks. Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11 – the others were American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and American Airlines Flight 77 – United Airlines Flight 93 was the only aircraft that did not reach its hijackers' intended target. A few people witnessed the impact from the ground, and news agencies began reporting the event within an hour. During the struggle, the plane crashed into a field near a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Indian Lake and Shanksville, about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Pittsburgh and 130 miles (210 km) northwest of Washington, D.C. Rather than cede control of the plane, many of the passengers attempted to retake it from the hijackers. Several passengers and flight attendants learned from phone calls that suicide attacks had already been made by hijacked airliners on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. While the hijackers were taking control of the plane, the pilots may have taken measures such as deactivating the autopilot to hinder the hijackers. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, considered principal instigators of the attacks, have claimed that the intended target was the U.S. Ziad Jarrah, who had trained as a pilot, took control of the aircraft and diverted it back toward the east coast, in the direction of Washington, D.C., the U.S. The captain and first officer struggled with the hijackers, which was transmitted to Air Traffic Control. The hijackers stormed the aircraft's cockpit 46 minutes after takeoff.
The aircraft, a Boeing 757-222, was flying United Airlines' daily scheduled morning flight from Newark International Airport in New Jersey to San Francisco International Airport in California. All 44 people on board were killed, including the hijackers. The plane eventually crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, following an attempt by the passengers and crew to regain control of the plane from the hijackers. United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on board as part of the September 11 attacks. Newark Int'l Airport (now Newark Liberty Int'l Airport) UA 93's flight path from Newark, New Jersey, to Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvaniaįield ( Flight 93 National Memorial) near the Diamond T.
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