Posted on 07/18/2005 12:35:15 PM PDT by Airborne1986
Associated Press Monday, July 18, 2005
PITTSBURGH — The Discovery Channel ... will air a re-creation of the terrorist hijacking of Flight 93 on the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The program will be called "The Flight That Fought Back (search)" and will include about 45 minutes of re-created scenes depicting what happened before the plane crashed in a Southwestern Pennsylvania field. Forty passengers and crew members were killed.
The show is being produced by London-based Brook Lapping Productions, which is getting cooperation on the project from United Airlines and some family members of those killed in the attack.
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This could be great television. Or it could be terrible. We'll just have to wait and see...
Will the hijackers actually be portrayed as (gasp) Arabs?
Will they depict Todd Beamer praying the Lord's Prayer?
I'm not impressed by the stuff Discovery usually churns out. Too disposed to present speculation and wild guesses as more than they actually are.
You know they may not have been Arabs. Based on what I've seen at the airport security searches, the hijackers must have been old women in wheelchairs of Scandinavian ancestry.
I saw one of these on History Channel about a week or so ago. It was the first time I heard/saw a depiction of what happened inside a plane. When it was all done, I was outraged again, not only at the acts, but how simple it was to accomplish.
You're right! Darned Scandanavian's!
You can probably take heart in the fact that the attitude of passengers has changed. It used to be that a hijacking generally meant nothing more than a delay of travel plans while the plane made an unscheduled detour. Now that there is the very real risk of everyone dying, passengers will be more likely to overwhelm hijackers, concluding that the risk of injury in doing so is far more acceptable than the alternative. 9/11 will be very hard to replicate, if only because the passengers are unlikely to allow any hijacking to progress that far.
"Will the hijackers actually be portrayed as (gasp) Arabs?"
Yes. But, in the interest of fairness, there will be a segment on the plight of the American Indian and apartheid. (/sarcasm off)
"Will they depict Todd Beamer praying the Lord's Prayer?"
The ACLU will have something to say about that.
When I recently took a flight, I noted a gentleman of possible middle-east extraction a few rows ahead of me. I kept my eyes on him thru the flight. I think others aboard also kept a close eye. I know if he stood up, I would have as well, to 'get something in the overhead'.
You just watch. Yeah, they will do a decent piece on what happened but the discovery channel and the history channel both are notorious for taking the last 5-10 minutes of the show and putting their commie liberal spin on it. There will probably be some type of reference to "American imperialism" or "aggresion" that "fostered" this type of act.
Knowing in advance the slant of the media in this country, it may just show the hijackers as Freedom Fighters and the passengers as oppressive capitalists.
Exactly. If anything like 911 is tried again, the sheer number of angry passengers will overwhelm the hijackers. There is no way the passengers will be sheep.
I would be shocked if this show is anything near the reality of what happened. More likely than not, there WILL be a liberal anti-Bush spin to this show. Some of the Discovery channels are associated with the New York Slimes. I will wait to see what others say about it once it is viewed.
I'm thinking most Red-Blooded American Men probably consider themselves a Sky Marshal when they fly. I would gladly take a bullet so the next guy could get to the attackers.
The hijackers will probably be portrayed as white, Christian NRA members...
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