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I saw the movie and I was amazed at how the air traffic controllers mocked the one co-worker that was monitoring some 2 or 3 of the highjacked airplanes.

"Ha Ha, HiJacking - we haven't had one of those in 20 years"

"We haven't seen a highjacking since like 1991."

All I have to say is these guys are morons - and they were old - adults.

I recall when these happened and at the time I had not even flown once in my life, I was a kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_Flight_705

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814

Now, I must say that the last 2 (1 not being a complete highjacking) motivated the 9/11 Suicide Bombers.

I can bet that Osama Bin Laden used the EgyptAir_Flight_990 and the Indian_Airlines_Flight_814 as success stories.

That said, I also think that not all the highjackers on 9/11 knew that they would die.

Bin Laden would not risk having 20 people know that they would be on a mass sucide mission. He knows that criminals crack and rat, even his own muslims, so he only shared it with the 4 murderous pilots.

The other terrorist, I'm sure, were told that these highjackings would be as successful as the Indian_Airlines_Flight_814 where the terrorists escaped in vehicles provided them.

The movie overall was great.