Flight 93 Memorial News

Street May Be Renamed for Flight 93
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP)  - A section of Route 219 in Somerset County may be 
renamed "Flight 93 Memorial Highway" to commemorate the passengers and
crew of the flight who died in the area on Sept. 11, 2001.

Sen. Richard Kasunic, D-Dunbar, has proposed a bill to rename the route, 
which runs through Pennsylvania from western New York to the Maryland 
border. It is one of the main routes to the temporary Flight 93 Memorial 
near Shanksville. The state Senate Transportation Committee unanimously 
passed the bill on 22 March, 2006. The entire Senate could vote on the 
renaming next week.

"This is a fitting tribute to passengers and crew on Flight 93, who 
courageously fought terrorist hijackers and prevented the plane from 
reaching its target and killing even more people in Washington, D.C.," he said.

Flight 93 was enroute from Newark, NJ, to San Francisco when it was 
hijacked and crashed. The official 9/11 Commission report said thehijackers 
crashed it as passengers tried to gain control of the cockpit. The Kasunic 
legislation (Senate Bill 1088) now goes before the full Senate for 
consideration.