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FACTS
| 路 The victims of 9/11 came from over 90 countries around the world
路 2819 people died in the 9/11 attacks.
路 As a result of 9/11 the world's airlines lost billions of dollars and shed thousands of jobs.
路 The insured value of the World Trade Centre was $7.5bn.
路 The total insurance industry losses have been estimated to be $50bn.
路 US international tourist travel fell by 60%.
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 |  | Report by Emma aged 14 from Woodway Park School, Coventry
The story of flight 93 is part of my 10 minute talk on 9/11.
I know we're all going to die
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"I know we're all going to die. There are three of us who are going to do something about it."
That's what Tom Burnett told his wife Deena minutes before flight 93 was brought down in a coalfield in Pennsylvania.
Burnett was one of 38 passengers and seven crewmembers aboard hijacked United Airlines flight 93 and he was not the only person to relay information to a loved one.
In first-class seat 4d, public relations executive Mark Bingham used an aeroplane phone to call his mother. "Mum, this is Mark Bingham," he said, so rattled that he included his last name. "Three guys have taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb."
Back in coach, Jeremy Glick phoned his wife to say: "Three Arab looking men with red headbands had taken over the cockpit."
听Did three strangers fight their captors?
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| 听 |  | Memorial to victims in New York
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Flight 93 was the last of the hijacked planes to meet its fate. These three passengers knew about the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Did they do what we think they did? Did three strangers on a flight in distress band together to fight their captors and ditch the Boeing 757 before it could harm untold thousands?
Investigators have recovered flight 93's black boxes and they may tell us something definitive. But those closest to Burnett, Bingham and Glick say they don't need confirmation. "You'd have to know Mark," said Bingham's aunt Kathy Hoglan. "I'm sure he and the others did something to stop this."
Deena Burnett said: " I know without a doubt that that plane was bound for some landmark and that they may have saved many, many more lives than were lost on that plane."
I'd like to think they did it, that they did overcome the three hijackers, that they did save more lives than were lost. We may never know. Yet Glick's last words to his wife Lyzbeth make me want to believe they prevailed, taking flight 93 down in a Pennsylvania coalfield far from any metropolis. "We're going to rush those hijackers," said Glick. Then he put the phone down.
听| 听 |  | The Pentagon
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Please follow the link on the left to read the final part of my story - the events at America's military command centre, the Pentagon.
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