Flight 93, Part 2
This is Indian Lake Airport, only a few miles away from the crash side near Shanksville. Paul Freeman flew over Indian Lake airport in 2001. Both paved runways still existed in very good condition , along with a group of small hangars. In 2002, Indian Lake was advertised for sale as an airfield. The 2004 USGS aerial photo showed the Indian Lake Airport to remain in excellent condition - even with markings on Runway 14/32 which seemed to indicate an open runway ( no closed-runway “X” symbols ) . Link The Shootdown of KAL007 Korean Air Lines flight 007, flight of a passenger jet that was shot down by Soviet air-to-air missiles on September 1, 1983, near Sakhalin Island, Russia, killing all 269 persons on board. Link The damaged plane continued flying for 12 minutes , spiraling toward the ocean below, until it "crashed into the sea, with most passengers smashed into pieces or drowning," Ephraimson-Apt said. CNN This proves that a hit aircraft can ...