The first sets of remains were shipped Monday and the rest will be delivered when the victims' survivors are contacted, Somerset County Coroner Wallace Miller said. © 2002 The Associated Press. The crash site, which is now guarded by county deputies, could become a national memorial, said Susan Hankinson, the county's coordinator of post-crash affairs. All 44 people were killed when the plane - believed by officials to have been headed for a Washington, D.C., target - went down in a field about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Flight 93, bound from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, was one of four planes hijacked on the day of terror that saw the World Trade Center and the Pentagon struck. A spokesperson from the Flight 93 National Memorial said Wednesday that the hemlocks are infested with the insect, which can kill trees within a few years, but hope a treatment plan will be able to save them. The memorial drew about 320,000 visitors last year. The 9/11 Commission said the terrorists likely wanted to crash the plane into the White House or the U.S. Capitol. The caskets were taken in hearses to the nearby crash site, marked by a large boulder in a field of wildflowers. Remains of Flight 93 threatened by insect infestation inside the 'witness' hemlock trees. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. First published on February 26, 2002 / 12:46 PM. United Flight 93 was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers seized control with the likely goal of crashing into the U.S. Capitol. Family members were given roses that they placed on the caskets. At the crash site clergy members spoke and the Buddhist priest burned incense and blessed the caskets, said O’Hare. At the end of the service, the bagpiper walked behind family members and into the woods, playing a plaintive melody that faded as he moved into the distance, O’Hare said. “It was the most moving service of this type that I’d ever been to,” said O’Hare, who had traveled from Danville, California. Tiny killers: Adult woolly hemlock adelgids only measure 1mm but an infestation can kill a 100-foot-tall tree in five years, Tragedy site: Investigators at the hemlock grove where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 12, 2001, which is now being threatened by tiny insects. Flight 93 was bound for San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey, when passengers stormed the cockpit and attempted to wrest control of the aircraft from hijackers. The burial was part of a private memorial service attended by nearly 500 relatives of the victims, first responders and other guests at the newly unveiled Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, said Lisa Linden, a spokeswoman for the Families of Flight 93 group. “For me, today was the heart and soul of the weekend. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Telltale sign: The tiny white egg sacks of the hemlock woolly adelgid are a visible sign the insect is taking hold of the tree.

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