September 11 - Flight 93 (Shanksville) was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Pennsylvania, 2001. It was a Passengers (stopped attack) victory.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a small borough in Somerset County, garnered global attention on September 11, 2001, when United Airlines Flight 93, bound from Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco, crashed in the adjacent Stonycreek Township. The flight had been hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorist operatives who intended to use the aircraft as a weapon against a target on the ground, making it part of the coordinated terrorist attacks that struck the United States that day.
Passengers aboard Flight 93 learned of the other attacks through phone calls and decided to rebel against their hijackers. They mounted a resistance effort against the terrorists who controlled the aircraft, taking action to prevent the plane from reaching its intended target. The passengers' actions during the flight represented a direct confrontation between civilians and the hijackers in an attempt to thwart the attackers' objectives.
The crash of Flight 93 in Stonycreek Township resulted in it being the only one of the four hijacked planes that failed to reach the terrorists' intended target. This outcome distinguished Flight 93 from the other aircraft involved in the September 11 attacks, making it a significant moment in the day's events. The passengers' decision to resist the hijackers prevented further destruction and loss of life at the terrorists' intended destination, and the event has since become historically significant in American memory of the September 11 attacks.
Approximate location. The nearest recorded settlement is shown; the exact site is unrecorded.
This page covers September 11 - Flight 93 (Shanksville). A full Aubrey report for the area pulls together this battle alongside historic sites, land records, and everything else the record holds within a few miles:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
This page is compiled from cited public sources.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in the US, drawing on NRHP records, battlefield archives, census history and geological data to tell the full story of a place.