"But gay athlete Mark Bingham and three of his fellow passengers onboard United Airlines Flight 93 helped to save hundreds of lives by ensuring that a fourth plane did not hit its intended target. Bingham was a 6'4" well-built rugby player, who once fought off an armed mugger to protect his partner of six years, Paul Holm. "He hated to lose at anything," Holm once recounted."
"When television screens flashed with the news that passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 battled their hijackers on 9/11, nobody who knew Bingham was surprised to learn he was involved. Bingham, along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, hatched the plan to retake the fourth plane from the hijackers, a plan that ultimately saved countless lives. Hijackers intended for the plane to hurtle into a Washington DC landmark, thought to be the White House or the US Capitol Building."
"But around 30 minutes after terrorists commandeered the plane, the group rushed the cockpit. The plane was 20 minutes of flying time away from its target. While risking their own lives, Bingham and the passengers successfully overthrew the hijackers, and the plane instead crashed in a grassy, empty field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All 44 people onboard the flight lost their lives, but the group's actions likely saved hundreds more - and Bingham is remembered as one of the many heroes of 9/11."
On September 11, 2001, three planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon while United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked and headed toward a Washington, DC landmark. Mark Bingham and fellow passengers Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick organized and rushed the cockpit, preventing the hijackers from reaching their target and causing the plane to crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All 44 people aboard died, but the intervention likely saved many lives. Bingham was a 6'4" rugby player who once fought off an armed mugger to protect his partner. His mother, Alice Hoagland, heard his final words: "I love you."
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