Thursday 11th September 2025
Difficulty: Medium
Let's roll (Quiz #1,028)
Photo: Al Cassels (Creative Commons)
"Let's roll" were the last recorded words of passenger Todd Beamer on board United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks in 2001, before he and other passengers attempted to storm the cockpit and retake the plane from the hijackers, forcing the plane to crash into a field before reaching its target.
1. What is generally agreed to have been the intended target of the hijackers of Flight 93?
2. Among the many people who risked their lives to save others on 11th September 2001 was Welles Crowther, who became known as...what?
3. Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, the USA closed its airspace and required all incoming flights to return home, or divert to Canada. In response, Canada mounted an operation to host between 225 and 240 aircraft and their occupants at military and civilian airports. What was this operation called?
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