Heroes of Flight 93 remembered for their courage 25 years on from 9/11
On Sept. 11, 2001, the passengers and crew bravely decided to storm the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93, preventing the terrorists who had taken control of the plane from flying it to Washington, D.C.
September 11, 2026 / 8:05 PM EDT / CBS News
The Flight 93 National Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is remote. Yet every year, more than 300,000 people make the pilgrimage here to walk the flight path and stand in the presence of the 40 souls who lost their lives at the far edge of this field on Sept. 11, 2001 .
"It's gratifying for us to know that people take the time to get off the turnpike and come up and spend a few hours here to learn about the story," Gordon Felt, who lost his 41-year-old brother Edward Felt on United Airlines Flight 93, told CBS News.
Gordon Felt attended a National Park Service ceremony Friday held at the memorial to honor the victims of Flight 93.
His brother's final moments — and the final moments of all those innocent passengers and crew members aboard Flight 93 — are a story he wants people to learn.
It is a story that I told on that first day as a CBS News reporter assigned to cover the crash. At the time, it was a mystery as to why the plane had crashed in that specific location.