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United Airlines on Tuesday confirmed that two of its planes had crashed with 110 people aboard.
One of them crashed near Pittsburgh.
One was flight UA 93, a Boeing 757 aircraft, which departed from Newark, New Jersey, at 8:01 am (1201 GMT) bound for San Francisco, with 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants aboard, it said in a statement.
The other was UA 175, a Boeing 767 aircraft, which left from Boston at 7:58 a.m. (1158 GMT) local time, bound for Los Angeles, with 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants.
The airline did not say which of the aircraft had crashed near Pittsburgh.
"Our thoughts are with the passengers, employees and their family members," United Airlines CEO James Goodwin said.
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