Flight 93
2001 (September 10)
Fire at Newark airport, Building 1, in early afternoon ; The airport where Flight 93 depart3ed from on September 11, 2001
2001 (Sep 11) - Reported in Herald News (New Jersey)
Fire Temporarily Closes Newark Airport, 9/10/01
NEWARK -- A fire at a construction site forced officials to close the runways at Newark International Airport for 34 minutes Monday.
Planes were diverted to other airports or circled until the runways reopened, said officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport.
The fire started around 1:20 p.m. in the roof of Building 1, a new administration building under construction in the north area of the airport. The Newark Fire Department and airport fire service responded to the blaze. One injury was reported, officials said.
Flights were delayed up to 30 minutes, but the disruptions were relatively insignificant. "During the midday period, the traffic at Newark is generally light," explained authority spokesman Steve Coleman.
Flights were delayed from 1:26 p.m. to 2 p.m., when the fire was extinguished, because airport firefighting equipment was needed to fight the construction fire, Coleman said. Federal Aviation Administration regulations require airports to close when firefighting equipment is in use and not available to handle runway emergencies.
The fire occurred as roofers were using hot tar to seal the roof of Building 1 and is believed to have been accidental, said Bob Swales, spokesman for the Newark Fire Department. Officials are still investigating what caused the roofing material to ignite, Swales and Coleman said.
More than 50 Newark firefighters responded to the scene, with one sustaining an injury to his knee. The firefighter was treated at a local hospital and released, Swales said.
The fire occurred in construction near Building 51 on Brewster Road, one of the oldest structures at the airport. Because the fire was contained, the building was not threatened.
September 10, 2001, Associated Press, Fire Temporarily Closes Newark Airport,
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Officials shut down flights at Newark International Airport for 35 minutes Monday because of a fire at a construction site.
The fire was at the new administration building, which is several miles from the main terminals. No injuries were immediately reported.
Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said flights were halted because airport firefighting equipment was used to put out the blaze.
Major delays were not expected because the fire happened at about 1 p.m. and midday schedules are generally light, Coleman said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation.
2001 (Sep 11) - The Herald (Hackensack, New Jersey)
BACKGROUND ON "Building One"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Metropolitan_Airport_Buildings
e Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings are at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. Newark Metropolitan, opened in 1928, was the first major airport in the United States. The trio of Art Deco buildings, the Administration Building, Brewster Hangar and the Medical Building, were built in 1934 and dedicated by Amelia Earhart in 1935.[3] They were added to state and federal registers of historic places in 1980. In 2001, the Administration Building was relocated when a runway was lengthened,[4] and they have subsequently been renovated.[3][5] The terminal was once adorned with murals by Arshile Gorky,[6]only two of which survive and are part of the Newark Museum collection.[7]
Observation : 4.5 hour drive from Newark airport to Shanksville
September 11 2001
2001 (Sep 12) - The Daily American
flight 93
sep 12
https://www.statecollege.com/articles/local-news/remembering-9-11-you-cant-erase-that-kind-of-image/
"Jill Shockey was the editor of Town&Gown on 9/11, and around 10:30 that morning, her dad called her to say that her mother was okay.
Shockey did not know what happened in New York and Washington. When her dad told her about a plane crashing in Shanksville, Pa., near the elementary school where her mother taught, she couldn’t believe it hit so close to home.
“I had no idea what he was talking about,” she said, adding that she ran to the suite’s breakroom to turn on the TV. “I remember I just leaned against the breakroom table and just watched it and was shocked. I couldn’t process it.”
As Shockey later heard from her mom and would be able to piece together from news reports, Flight 93 crashed in a reclaimed mine pit a few miles from the school. Its target was believed to be the Capitol in Washington.
Shockey’s mother said parents were starting to come to the school to take their kids home after the attacks in New York and on the Pentagon.
That morning, people in the school heard a “sonic boom,” Shockey said, “and the ceiling tiles fluttered.”
They thought it was an explosion at Stoystown Tank and Steel Co. A mushroom cloud over the treetops told a different story, which they would later learn."
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Patrick Schurr from TV station WTAJ was one of the first journalists on the scene at Shanksville. He heard a call on the police and fire scanner that a plane had crashed in Somerset County.
He arrived to find a smoldering crater but no sign of the plane – no wing, no fuselage, nothing.
He said WTAJ interrupted CBS’ national coverage to go live from Somerset County, where he talked to the anchor, Carolyn Donaldson, by phone.
Donaldson asked if there was a chance of survivors. Schurr was grim: “I don’t think there’s any chance of survivors here, and there’s nothing but a smoldering hole in the ground,” he said on his live report that day. “You would still have no idea that a plane would bury itself in the ground like that and disintegrate.”
Schurr spent the whole day at the scene, conducting interviews and reporting updates as he got them from the FBI. He said he remembers an interview with eyewitness Lee Purbaugh “as clear as day,” even 20 years later.
“He said he saw the plane fly overhead, and then it just turned upside down and nosedived into the ground,” Schurr said Purbaugh told him.
Schurr stayed in Shanksville for the next several days, sleeping in the news truck. In the days that followed, the family of those who died on Flight 93 came to the crash site.
“We were able to report and tell the stories about the 40 men and women who saved the Capitol building,” he said.
It was “without a doubt” the biggest story he covered in his journalism career, said Schurr, who now works in sales in Altoona, and one that journalists worked so hard to cover.
“It was such a unique moment in time and such a landmark event in the country’s history,” Schurr said. “We had the duty and responsibility to relay that information and tell the story from this small part of the country. There was an enormous responsibility, and we all took great pride and respect in that.”
2001 (Sep 13) - The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
2001 (Sep 13) - Longview News Journal (Texas)
2001 (Sep 13) - The Daily American (Somerset PA)
2001 (Sep 14) - Chicago Tribune :
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/510191683/
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/510191967/
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2001 (Sep 15) - The Zanesville Times Recorder
2001 (Sep 16) - The Zanesville Times Recorder
2001 (Sep 20) - The Los Angeles Times
2006 (Sep 03) - Mention of Paul Bomboy
https://www.newspapers.com/image/96572778/?terms=%22paul%20bomboy%22&match=1
2006-09-03-the-pittsburgh-post-gazette-pg-b-6.jpg
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SjyMDsQ_ZX9DlEzD3IKlzU6ZXNhjpJ7e/view?usp=drive_link
2006-09-03-the-pittsburgh-post-gazette-pg-b-6-clip-hl-bomboy.jpg
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QmTY7U1wPBGwZkmpXWQh09VU9y028AOU/view?usp=drive_link
Note that in 2001, there is only one mention of Paul Bomboy in any paper - https://www.newspapers.com/image/510181735/?terms=%22paul%20bomboy%22&match=1 - and this is in reference to the Somerset library
2018 (Sep 08)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/505508908/?terms=%22Lee%20Purbaugh%22&match=1
2018-09-08-the-daily-american-somerset-pa-pg-a4.jpg
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BagLFm7u3SqJC3Idho4wGPkCwOb91zbX/view?usp=drive_link
