PENNSYLVANIA Land gift to memorialize Flight 93 site

People left thousands of homemade items and personal objects near the site.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Consol Energy has donated 140 acres of company-owned land located near the site of where a hijacked plane crashed Sept. 11, 2001, to The Conservation Fund, the company announced Thursday.
The property is on the northern edge of where Flight 93 crashed, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, killing all those aboard. Consol said they will also provide help in the acquisition of other land around the site.
"Our contribution is small compared to that which was given by those on Flight 93, but we are honored to be able to help in the effort to reserve their memory and to commemorate their deed," said J. Brett Harvey, Consol Energy's president and chief executive officer.
Flight 93
United Airlines Flight 93, the only one of four hijacked planes that did not take a life on the ground, was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it made a sudden turn near Cleveland. Families of passengers aboard the flight say they believe their loved ones fought their way into the cockpit and grappled for control of the plane before it went down; the FBI has suggested that the terrorists may have deliberately crashed the plane once the revolt occurred.
Soon after the plane crash, people left thousands of homemade items and personal objects near the site such as figurines, photos and flags, creating a temporary memorial that still receives busloads of visitors every week.
John Reynolds, chairman of the Flight 93 National Memorial Advisory Commission called the gift generous, saying it would help in the preservation of the crash site.