United Airlines scrapped a “9/11 memorial tribute” that would have seen a Boeing 777 fly low over Denver accompanied by a squadron of F-16s after it was ripped for being possibly “the worst memorial idea anyone has ever planned.”
The air display was meant to evoke the harrowing scenes on Sept. 11, 2001, when fighter jets were scrambled to intercept hijacked aircraft in US airspace, and was scheduled for 9:03 a.m., the precise minute terrorists crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
Two of the hijacked jets were United ones, including Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Shanksville, Penn. after…
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