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Sep 23, 2007 10:19 pm US/Eastern

Bloomberg Visits Flight 93 Memorial Site

  Mayor Michael Bloomberg toured the Flight 93 memorial site on Sunday, the first of two stops designed to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Only a handful of visitors were at the crash site in Shanksville as Bloomberg presented officials with an American flag that had flown over ground zero. The flag was then raised at the Flight 93 site, about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Bloomberg was scheduled to speak later Sunday morning in Pittsburgh, where a 4-ton beam from the World Trade Center is making its fourth stop in a national fundraising tour for a ground zero memorial. Bloomberg chairs the multimillion-dollar effort to raise money for the memorial.

Flight 93 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2001, when it crashed as passengers apparently tried to rush the cockpit of the hijacked airliner. All 33 passengers, seven crew members and the hijackers died.

Construction of a $58 million permanent memorial at the site and national park is scheduled to begin by 2009. A ribbon-cutting is planned for the 10-year anniversary of the attacks.

The park will encompass 2,200 acres, of which more than 1,350 acres include the crash site, debris field and land needed for visiting the national memorial. Another 907 acres would comprise the perimeter around the memorial.

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