WASHINGTON (AP) - Two days before the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, family members of the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 who died that day are being honored on Capitol Hill.
A bronze plaque paying tribute to their heroism is being unveiled Wednesday at the Capitol nearly eight years later.
The plane was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was diverted. The official 9/11 Commission report said the hijackers crashed the plane as passengers tried to wrest control of the cockpit from them.
The Capitol or White House were likely targets of terrorists on board the flight before it was brought down by passengers and crew.
Plans are under way for a larger memorial at the crash site in western Pennsylvania.
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