Editor’s note: Part of a series of stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.Very soon after after Lester Holt arrived at MSNBC’s New Jersey studio on 9/11, he was on air and then in the anchor chair, as bits of information streamed in from correspondents and wire services.
As the screen showed images of a smoldering lower Manhattan, Holt told viewers that, amid all the chaos, they had gotten a report that a large, fourth plane had crashed, “just north of the Somerset County airport, 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.”It was United Flight 93 and, as is recounted in a Dateline special, Heroes: The Story of Flight 93, to air Friday evening, the family members of the crew and passengers on that flight share their stories of the day and the
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