LB 15 PAUL MURDOCH flight 93 national memorial is the fifteen tilte from the LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.

Flight 93 National Memorial United Airlines Flight 93 was one of the four planes hijacked during the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. It was on this flight that 40 passengers and crew members courageously gave their lives to thwart a planned attack on the Nation’s Capital. Tragically, the plane crashed in Western Pennsylvania with no survivors.

To honor these heroes, Congress passed the Flight 93 National Memorial Act in 2002 and launched a two-stage, international design competition in 2005. A Jury of planners, landscape architects, architects, designers, government representatives, family members and community representatives chose Paul and Milena Murdoch’s proposal, which treated the 2,200 acre former coalmine as a memorialized national park where visitors embark on a sequence of experiences that leads them towards the crash site of Flight 93.

In the first stage of the competition, Paul Murdoch Architects presented a master plan with key memorial features, such as a the “Tower of Voices” featuring 40 wind chimes, a large curving landform with memorial trees framing the “field of honor” and integrating memorial walls that frame the flight path and enclose a visitor center, and a memorial plaza along the edge of the crash site that leads to a ceremonial gate. In the second stage, Nelson Byrd Woltz was invited to join the team, along with a team of consultants, to further develop the design. Following selection, the National Park Service became the administrator of the design process through a contract with Paul Murdoch Architects.