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On September 11, 2001, as we helplessly watched two planes fly into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon, the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 were fighting for their lives - and those of countless hundreds of other potential victims. Having learned the fate of the other hijacked planes via emotional last phone calls to their families, they were determined not to become another instrument of terror. All the evidence confirms that several of the passengers and crew stormed the cockpit in an attempt to divert the plane from its target. United 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, killing only those on board. Re-creating this extraordinary human drama through the voices of its witnesses, the last words of the passengers and crew recorded on the plane's black box, the loving epitaphs of those who survived them, and chilling profiles of the hijackers, Among the Heroes is a gripping, moving and highly charged story of devastating sadness but even greater courage.