I didn't think it was "lots better," but rather different. Of course you see this one on a big screen, with a mega sound system - so the music and peripheral sounds are more important.
The A&E version focused much more on the families of the passengers and much less on ATC and the military. If the names of the characters were even mentioned in the new film, I didn't notice. You couldn't miss their names on A&E. The movies pretty much converged when it came to the action on-board Flight 93.
I think we need lots of these movies. One could be called Giuliani, another NYPD 911, and a third Towering Inferno II. People need to be remided often about what happened. Maybe someone will make another called Islamic Swine.
I'd probably go see that too.
ML/NJ
FReeper eastbound posted this.
"After reading down through the bottom of the Flight 93 page, this quote may suggest that the passengers may have actually managed to re-take control of the plane and bring it out of it's dive, but not quite in time.
If the plane dove straight in at the speed given, there would have been no re-bounding of the plane or plane parts, I don't think. The quote shows that part of an engine landed 300 feet from where the plane augered in. I'd guess it was beginning to level off after the passengers dispensed with the highjackers/suicidal-homicidal crazies before it crashed and the engine fan hit at an angle that would allow it to bounce and continue forward after first impact. Just a guess.
"Jeff Reinbold, the National Park Service representative responsible for the Flight 93 National Memorial, confirms the direction and distance from the crash site to the basin: just over 300 yards south, which means the fan landed in the direction the jet was traveling. "It's not unusual for an engine to move or tumble across the ground," says Michael K. Hynes, an airline accident expert who investigated the crash of TWA Flight 800 out of New York City in 1996. "When you have very high velocities, 500 mph or more," Hynes says, "you are talking about 700 to 800 ft. per second. For something to hit the ground with that kind of energy, it would only take a few seconds to bounce up and travel 300 yards." Numerous crash analysts contacted by PM concur."
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