The FBI has released new information regarding United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. According to the agency, the plane may have been crashed deliberately by hijackers after a revolt by passengers who learned the plane had been hijacked. Earlier reports had indicated passengers stormed the cockpit and forced the plane to the ground.

In the scheme of things, it was still the heroic efforts of the passengers to retake that flight which prevented it from hitting its intended target. Officials believe Flight 93 was headed for Washington in an attempt to collide with either the U.S. Capitol or the White House. As if the events of that day weren't horrific enough, it would have been made even worse had these terrorists completed their mission.

At the time, I was working at the Capitol as a legislative correspondent for Sen. Russ Feingold, and I'll never forget what the brave people of United Flight 93 did to save the country from another horrible tragedy.