flying at an estimated 563 miles per hour, pointing nose-down at a 40-degree angle, the Boeing 757 with more than 5,000 gallons of jet fuel cut through power lines and reached its termination point. United Flight 93 exploded in flames as the cockpit broke off, plowed forward, and shattered into countless pieces. The rest of the plane burrowed more than fifteen feet deep into the soft earth of a grassy field that had once been a coal strip mine known as the Diamond T. Originally bound for San Francisco, hijacked toward Washington, D.C., the flight ended near tiny Shanksville, Pennsylvania,
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