Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with his Indian counterpart on Wednesday, a day before attending the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in India, which has kept a largely neutral stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. Cariola says the work resulted in at least 18 new identifications. By September 2002, Benavente had relocated from New York to Chicago. SHANKSVILLE, Pa., Sept 8 (Reuters) - The hemlock grove where United Airlines Flight 93 hurtled to the ground in rural Pennsylvania still haunts Mark Trautman and Ben Haupt 20 years later. Im w/ my office over by the Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Sign. "'But if this isn't, then how bad is hell?' (According to the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides medical monitoring and treatment for survivors and responders, conditions reported by those at Ground Zero range from asthma to cancer to post-traumatic stress disorder. Demczur donated both the handle and the debris-covered outfit hed worn in the elevator to the Smithsonian. Everybody on every QF93 has walked down the disembarking ramp, so no bodies found. Ok a couple of passengers needed a wheel chair. Thank you for as [1/6](L-R) Arborists Mark Trautman and Ben Haupt, who worked to recover the debris from the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, pose for a portrait in Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 2, 2021. The fate of United Airlines Flight 93, the last of the four hijacked planes to go down in the United States on 11 September, holds no mystery for Lee Purbaugh. #inline-recirc-item--id-92689cf6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { Sharp metal plane shards as big as kitchen tables had sliced into bark. "We were bloody and broken but we are able to use that experience to never give up," he added. "And I said, 'Well, we're not sure which one's which'," Miller recalls. Like Shaler in New York, Miller met with families of the victims, and they, too, wanted to know if the remains of the hijackers were being sifted out. "The purpose of the book is to tell the story of the angels being there so that other people understand that God was there," said Leonardi, who said she was raised a "devout Catholic" but now practices what she calls "spiritualism.". Asked about the book, the spokeswoman for the Families of Flight 93, Lisa Linden, issued a statement lauding the "extraordinary work" done by the FBI that also said, "The crash site and sacred ground -- now central to the Flight 93 National Memorial -- is a place that elicits powerful reactions from those who work at the site and who visit.". The smell stuck to his boots so much that he later burned them. Now 66, his hair and beard a grandfatherly white, Shaler says he could not always separate his duties a scientist from his own emotions: a little more than a year into the investigation, he suffered a heart attack. Robert Shaler, who headed the city's Department of Forensic Biology and was a leader of the identification effort, worried his lab would be paralyzed if it tried to identify every piece. Visitors walk through the Flight 93 National Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania. Why is the wreckage just now being buried? And I just broke down. The culture of terror is suffocating. , "Maybe he participated," he says. "Every time technology advances, we make more IDs. It had been stored in shipping containers in a warehouse. Trees were draped with scraps of luggage, clothing, bits of the fuselage and human remains. But flames and thick black smoke billowing everywhere soon made it impossible to enter the Pentagon again, according to Yeh. SHANKSVILLE, PA Later this year, the remaining wreckage of Flight 93 will be returned to Flight 93 National Memorial as part of a longstanding effort by the Families of Flight 93, the National Park Service (NPS), and the National Park Foundation. The "amplified" producta few drops of clear, viscous liquidwas then put into a large machine that spits out lists of numbers, a genetic map unique to each individual. Of the four planes hijacked on 9/11, Flight 93 was the only one that failed to reach its intended target. All Rights Reserved. Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Lisa Shumaker, Republican drive against Biden ESG investment rule gains momentum, Extreme Yosemite rain eases drought but disrupts wildlife habitats. A few pieces of used tissue, tossed into a hotel room wastebasket, yielded clues, as did saliva from cigarette butts. Working with a team of specialists on the third floor of the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C., Giusti was in fact already creating DNA profiles of the New York terrorists from scraps of evidence left behind in hotel rooms and rental cars in the days before the attacks. At the time it didn't bother me, but, as I get older, it bothers me.". I dont mean holes in the curators work, but [rather], there were areas not covered because it was impossible to cover the entirety of the story., Twenty years later, as the first generation with no firsthand memories of 9/11 comes of age, the American History Museum is adopting a new approach, shifting away from preserving what happened on that day to discussing the events long-term effects on the nation. Officials identified remains through fingerprints, dental records and DNA. Most of the human remains culled from the vast wreckage at Ground Zero were little more than tiny fragments of charred tissue and bone. Shaler's office turned to the FBI for help. } All other flights had five hijackers. The remains and belongings of 40 people who died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a western Pennsylvania field Sept. 11 will be returned to their survivors, the county coroner said. Bill Biggart, a 54-year-old freelance photojournalist, was walking his dogs with his wife, Wendy Doremus, when a passing taxi driver informed them that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center. Measuring 22 inches long and 15 inches wide, it was all plastic and fiberglass and appeared to be part of the Boeing 757s tail. "Just because these people had the thousand-yard stare. "Maybe there is something we don't know." Cell phones were not as ubiquitous in 2001 as they are now, says Yeh. I can't arbitrarily say who I will apply the law to The Good Lord will sort out their deeds. Steel that is manageable in size and yet robust enough to reflect the size and grandeur of the World Trade Center. This is your car. This is your car decelerating from 120 mph to 0 mph. Light construction: Now, we arent dealing with a car. Were dealing with a Haupt became a Christian evangelist soon after and evokes the Shanksville woods in his sermons as a vision of hell. Shaler and his colleagues at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner gave weekly updates to family members of the victims, reporting how many of the dead had been identified and reassuring them that the city was doing everything to identify their loved ones. The arborists roped from treetop to treetop, recovering wallets, a hijacker's ID and body parts to be identified at a temporary morgue. "We work with samples we had no hope on in the past.". 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Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded its on-site investigation of the crash in September 2001, the remaining wreckage of the plane has been in secure storage until there is an appropriate time to return the wreckage to the crash site at Flight 93 National Memorial. "I told them there would likely be terrorist remains interspersed with them," says Miller. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded its on-site investigation of the crash in September 2001, the remaining wreckage of the plane has been in secure storage until an appropriate time to return the wreckage to the crash site at Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. N334AA, the Boeing 767200 that would be marked as Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles on 9/11/01. The plane crashed into One World Trade Center, Top McCarthy aide, House Oversight chair each met with Ashli Babbitt's mother In Pennsylvania, Somerset County coroner Wallace E. Miller and his team scoured the "halo"the field and woods surrounding the crater left when United Airlines Flight 93 plunged into the ground. Walking through the crash site in the days after the attacks, Miller's eye caught a flash of light 20 feet up in the branches of a hemlock tree. Ron Lengwin, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, counts Leonardi a personal friend and also interviewed her on his weekly radio show, Amplify. The families said, "These people were criminals and did not deserve to be with them." Flight attendant Lorraine Bay's logbook was among the objects recovered from the wreckage of hijacked Flight 93 in Shanksville, Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The families asked for the remains of the hijackers to be separated out and kept someplace else. The 9/11 terror attacks occurred 20 years ago. She said she also remembers a smoldering crater littered Terms of Use Our job was not for the dead, it was for the living. "We're excited, weve got some new techniques. There were still too many victims who had not been identified by their DNA, making it impossible to flag the terrorists by a process of elimination. (AP) PITTSBURGH - A former police officer who retired from the FBI due to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to her role in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks has written a book about seeing legions of angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed. But then he paused. Earlier this month, Trautman and Haupt reunited to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial. On Tuesday, just days before the 20th anniversary of the terror attack, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) announced the identification of two new victims. All Rights Reserved. Now Giusti was spending his days using genetic clues to nail bank robbers and murderers. A small group of representatives from the Families of Flight 93 were on site to both witness and participate in the recovery efforts. A layer of white paint covered its surface. In September 2007 the medical examiner's office in New York announced it had identified a fourth set of terrorist remains the 13th identified to date. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. "I'm used to crime scenes but this one blew me out of the water. The plane crashed at over 500 miles per hour. Preaching has taken him as far as the Caribbean and the Philippines, but he can see the house he grew up in from his porch, where his parents still live. He is finalizing his third divorce, takes a daily antidepressant and sees a counselor twice a month. Among these items was a pair of backless sandals owned by Maria Cecilia Benavente, who worked at Aon Risk Services, Inc., located on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Centers South Tower. The OCME's first move in 2001 was to ensure that anything that could contain a trace of human remains was removed from Ground Zero and properly searched. Who completed the As for the future, the OCME does not know when the next identification will be but the commitment to help families continues. "There is an environment of fear in countries like Saudi Arabia; it's hard to describe. } Cariola recalls that "some pieces of bone were so charred that if you held it with two fingers it would disintegrate." "I know she believes 100 percent that's what she saw. This effectively put a net over the story, covering what happened on that day, then plus one month, plus one year, says Cedric Yeh, curator of the museums National September 11 Collection. As the last remaining member of the original team, Desire said that it is "amazing" when the team finds DNA in a sample he had worked on 18 years ago with new technology. Shaler and his successors have fulfilled at least part of their promise to the families. "I was there one day when they brought a busload of family members to overlook the site and I teared up," McCabe said. Hairbrushes and razors collected from the families of the victims provided DNA to match up with human fragments pulled from the wrecked plane. Yet at some point, the investigation will be closed. Ill stay there till you come. Trending News In the first two weeks after 9/11, Miller and his team identified 16 of the 44 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 through fingerprint and dental records. "Obviously none of the terrorists' families came forward with any informationthey were like four John Does," says Miller. It speaks to how we communicate during emergencies and disasters, and what happens if your familiar toolslike the ubiquitous cell phones of todayare not available.. The morning of September 11 found Penny Elgas, then an employee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, on her way to work. "I'm very fortunate to still be alive," he said. "It smelled so bad," Haupt said, looking out to the rock near the tree line, marking the impact site. "I was skeptical." Leonardi still lives in Arnold, a tiny city about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh where she began her law enforcement career in 1984 as the town's first -- and, so far, only -- female police officer. "None of us could do what those guys were doing, and without them we'd have been dead in the water," Larsen said. This is not a drill. ", As a religious matter, says Rauf, what happens to the remnants of the hijackers is not of great consequence. The Families of Flight 93 requested one final search in order to determine if there were any human remains or identifiable personal items. He also couldn't tell which set of remains belonged to which terrorist. But after that, no more survivors were found. The impact knocked this clock, which hung on a wall at the Pentagon helipad firehouse, to the ground, stopping its hands at 9:32 a.m. (The clock was apparently several minutes behind.) A plane has crashed into the side of the Pentagon. Blaring his cruisers siren, the Hawaii native headed back to Arlington, driving so fast that he actually blew out his transmission. The two friends had not met in more than a decade. All data was recovered from the flight data recorders solid state drive, but the magnetic tape in the cockpit voice recorder was, well, this: Both recorders were WebInvestigation of United Flight 93 FBI Investigation of United Flight 93 After planes crashed in New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, employees at the We were bloody and broken but we are able to use that experience to never give up. McCabe said he also understands why the Flight 93 crash site was different than the other attack scenes. Both men recalled a majestic beech tree in the heart of the grove, an unforgettable glimpse of life's beauty in the infernal woods. The NPS will release a report of the items collected and their intended use later this year. In 2015, Flight 93 National Memorial opened the doors to its visitor center, and this year will mark the completion of the memorials original design with the dedication of the Tower of Voices, a 93-foot tall structure with 40 wind chimes that will serve as an enduring memory of the voices of the passengers and crew members. The few surviving tangible traces of the hijacked flight include a crew log and an in-flight manual owned by Lorraine Bay, a 58-year-old flight attendant with 37 years of experience. The FBI and the New York Medical Examiner's office, which holds them in secret and in silence, has no policy that dictates what will become of them. Diane Horning's 26-year-old son, Matthew, was on the 95th floor of Tower One. People trying to escape the building got turned around and couldnt find their way out, the curator adds. The Rev. Watch: The events of Flight 93Remembering Flight 93 Victims. As time passed, curators expanded their purview to include the nations response to the tragedy, recording 9/11s reverberations across the country. "Even the most advanced techniques were not good enough. Leaving his wife and two young daughters at home, Trautman and Haupt, his campus colleague, loaded up their harnesses and chainsaws and drove down. Dorothy Morgan this week became the 1,646th person identified after DNA was confirmed in remains recovered in 2001. All Sikhs will be in trouble soon, Sodhis brother recalled him saying. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. "They are human beings that have passed away in the commonwealth just like my great granddad. Embroiled today in legal and financial troubles, politician and lawyer Rudy Giuliani won accolades in 2001 for his leadership in a time of tragedy. Your Privacy Rights ", Yet some relatives of the dead take no comfort in doing imaginary harm to the bones of the terrorists. The OCME currently has the largest DNA data bank in history after collecting 17,000 reference samples from families in order to make positive identifications. The volume was overwhelming. Upon opening the compartments doors, however, they found their escape route blocked by a thick wall of Sheetrock. An FBI agent told Sullenberger to call Trautman in for help. "It looks low tech," says Giusti, but the bags keep out humidity or dryness"the two demons of DNA analysis." Below, read about 31 Smithsonian artifacts (listed in bold) that help unravel the complex story of 9/11 and its aftermath. They told the computer to display any matches to the hijacker profiles in red. US President Donald Trump today attended a 9/11 commemoration in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the hijacked United Airlines flight 93 crashed on 11 September 2001. "And I didn't say anything to the guys because you can imagine if I would have said, 'I just saw angels on the crash site,' they'd have called the office and they'd have said, 'She lost her mind and tell her to go home.'". "If he had any DNA material he could send me, I could cross-match like we did for the passengers and crew. ", Leonardi has befriended some Flight 93 family members, though none consented to be interviewed for this story. Desire said that it could be that families simply didn't give a reference sample or that no family is available. At first, they decided they would only attempt to test samples that were "the size of a thumb or larger," he says. The fragments are too small, too ruined and too scattered for bodies to be restored in their entirety. Trautman, 54, grew up in a house surrounded by corn and dairy farms outside Herminie, a small town about 45 miles (72 km) west of where Flight 93 would crash after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers. According to the museum, Elgas felt it was her patriotic duty to preserve the fragment as a relic, [so] she crafted a special box and lined it with red, white and blue material. Elgas later donated the artifactcomplete with her specially crafted containerto the Smithsonian. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Ahead of the first anniversary of 9/11, associate curator David Shayt offered Smithsonian magazine a preview of the museum exhibition September 11: Bearing Witness to History. Most of the 50 or so artifacts on display, he said, were perfectly ordinary, everyday objects we might otherwise not collect, except for the extraordinary nature of their context.. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded its on-site investigation of the crash in September 2001, the remaining wreckage of the plane has been in secure storage until an appropriate time to return the wreckage to the crash site at Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. About 400 volunteers searched the crash site, but Miller said he isn't sure that all remains have been recovered. But when they saw how small many of the fragments were, they changed their minds. Leonardi, 56, remembers the burning pine and jet fuel stinging her nostrils. Shortly after the South Tower fell, he spoke to his wife on the phone, telling her, Im safe. "Of course we want to get back his remains, but we are not planning to make any contact before things get clarified," said the relative, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. The first sets of remains were shipped Monday and the rest will be delivered when the victims' survivors are contacted, Somerset County Coroner Wallace Miller said. The NPS will release a report of the items collected and their intended use later this year. The remains of the identified victims have been returned to their families; but what is to be done with the remnants of their killers? It just looked like the ground had swallowed up" the plane, Leonardi said. "I saw all the wickedness of man," he said. Biggart rushed home, retrieved three cameras and made his way to Ground Zero, where he started snapping photographs of the burning Twin Towers. But he promised to try. Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. Mr. Larsen just broke down also and cried right with me out there, because it was hard.". He was the only professional photographer killed while covering the 9/11 attacks. "The identification of the WTC victims presents particular problems due to the extreme conditions remains were confronted with from jet fuel; to compression when the building collapsed; to sun exposure; and a list of other factors that have destroyed DNA in a body fragment," Desire explained during a press briefing on Wednesday. A colleague managed to retrieve more than 150 images from his Canons memory card, revealing a final snapshot timestamped just seconds before the North Towers collapse: a wall of smoke, looming over the wreckage of the South Tower, according to Smithsonian. 11 Sep 2018. Like her son, Margaret Trautman remains proud of his work at the crash site. Less than 10 percent of the remains found could be identified visually with blood samples and saliva being used to trace DNA. 2012 The Associated Press. At least in New York and Washington, there was the devastation (of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon) but here, except for seeing someone off in the distance, in the woods, looking for things, there was nothing. Shaler and the other New York pathologists sent some of the most damaged human fragments to private forensics labs that specialize in advanced DNA-retrieval techniques. Much of it had been damaged beyond recognition by exposure to air and 11,000 gallons of jet fuel. Four shipping containers (one pictured above) arrived at the site holding the recovered wreckage. The Federal Bureau of Investigations Victim Services Division offered their services to the Families of Flight 93. A year or so later, he became the special agent in charge of the FBI's Pittsburgh Field Office, making him Leonardi's boss until he retired from the bureau in 2004. There are 65 patches on that apron, from towns like Dayton, Ohio, and Boston, Los Angeles, and Boise, Idaho. Superintendent Clark said, The National Park Service is deeply honored to be a partner to the Families of Flight 93 and to preserve the memory of 40 brave passengers and crew members whose courageous actions on September 11, 2001, thwarted a terrorist attack on our nations capital.. The NPS coordinated with the Families of Flight 93 to complete a search of the wreckage prior to its burial. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. "There were varying degrees of angst and anger about that.". More than seven years later, the effort continues to identify the missing victimsand hijackers. Also steel that could be identified by its tower and its floor level.. "It was the most important thing I ever did in my life," Trautman said in a recent interview. Leonardi's story has caught the attention of WQED, Pittsburgh's public television station, which featured a segment on her book in a March episode of "Pittsburgh 360," a public affairs and current events show. By simple process of elimination, Smith knew these were the hijackers. Per a museum blog post, the couple dedicated the rest of the day to aiding the evacuation of the Pentagons daycare center. Before the al Qaeda attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the local arborists climbed trees only to take down branches. As Smithsonian recounted in July 2002, window washer Jan Demczur and five others were riding an elevator in the World Trade Centers North Tower when their ride suddenly started careening down. ", Top McCarthy aide, House Oversight chair each met with Ashli Babbitt's mother, Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect, In the Shadow of a Badge: A Spiritual Memoir. "They didn't want to bury them, and they certainly won't put them in the same memorial as the victims," says Baum, who now heads the New Jersey State Police crime lab. The office says 21 potential human remains were recovered Wednesday. Other everyday items recovered from the wreckage at the Pentagon include a partially melted pocket calculator, a baseball desk ornament inscribed with the phrase Sometimes you just have to play hardball, a pocket New Testament, singed postage stamps and a copy of Soldiers magazine. By July 26, 2002, 4,257 pieces of remains were found, adding to the 19,000 found at Ground Zero. "We are proud and its why well continue this mission. We know we can continue to make identifications for those families who want us to be able to return a loved one after all these years," he promised. He wears a baseball cap that shades his blue eyes, bashful about his thinning crown, and lives alone by a mountain ridge near Spruce Creek in a house made of hemlock timber. It isn't difficult to find others who share Cartier's visceral rage, undiminished with the years. REUTERS/Hannah Beier - RC2ZHP94NOUD. None of the families of the hijackers, and no foreign governments, have come forward to request that the remains be handed over, and it is not clear what the official response would be if they did. "We listen to the families, we explain technology with them, things for the future," he said. A tree climber brought it down. When American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m., Benavente evacuated quickly, winding her way down 25 flights of stairs to an express elevator on the 78th floor. He suggests "stomping on them." Then at the end of his seven-year stint as New York Citys mayor, Giuliani used this Motorola i1000plus cell phone to coordinate emergency efforts on that September day. With millions of people trying to call, it was impossible to communicate. The decision was made that a repository would be created in a section of the WTC memorial, and remains were moved in there in 2014. "It gives you the motivation to know that you can accomplish something and the energy to move forward," he said. Among the nine pages recovered from the wreckage is a list of instructions for responding to bomb threatsa fitting discovery, as Flight 93s hijackers had threatened passengers by stating they had a bomb on board. Meilan Solly is Smithsonian magazine's associate digital editor, history. But using a new technique they developed that releases genetic material by removing calcium from bones, Cariola and his colleagues were able to get DNA profiles out of 2,000 samples that were previously unreadable. "Were going back to them [remains] over and over. Please enter valid email address to continue. Love lots & lots, Chip. She underlined okay three times. A sector of one engine weighing one ton was found 2,000 yards away. 2002 The Associated Press. 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