Shanksville

United Airlines flight 93 left Newark forty-two minutes late. By the time it was taken, the passengers and crew had learned from telephone calls what had already happened in New York.

They had about thirty minutes. They voted, and they went forward at the cockpit door. The aircraft came down inverted at five hundred and sixty miles an hour in a field near Shanksville, twenty minutes' flying time from Washington.

Forty people were killed. Among them was Richard Guadagno, a refuge manager of the Fish and Wildlife Service and a federal law enforcement officer, flying home from his grandmother's hundredth birthday.