Discovery Channel to Air Flight 93 Re-Creation
July 20, 2005
PITTSBURGH – The Discovery Channel will air a re-creation of the terrorist hijacking of Flight 93 on the fourth anniversary of 9/11.
The program will be called “The Flight That Fought Back” and will include about 45 minutes of re-created scenes depicting what happened before the plane crashed in a Southwestern Pennsylvania field. Forty passengers and crewmembers were killed.
The show is being produced by London-based Brook Lapping Productions, which is getting cooperation on the project from United Airlines and some family members of those killed.
Flight 93 was en route to San Francisco from Newark, N.J., when it was hijacked and ultimately crashed about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.