I think that it crashed over an old mine site, which would enable it to go far into the ground on impact. Has anyone else ever read this?
Shot in a spare, near-documentary style, with almost no background music, this is one of the most remarkable films made by Hollywood since the end of its Golden Era. It brings the viewer into the control tower, military command center and FAA command center, as well as on the plane itself. The perspective is as though you are an inside observer in the various control rooms, and nearly a participant on the plane.
The movie is a work of fiction that does take some small creative license here and there (particularly since no one knows for certain exactly what happened onboard), but it focuses very tightly on the plane and command/control centers, and uses phone and in-flight recorder transcripts, results of investigations, and other real-world material to tell the story as accurately as possible. The film is non-political.
One small bit of creative license used in the film is this: One of the hijackers clips a photo of the U.S. Capitol building to the steering yoke in the cockpit. In fact, we do not know for certain if their primary target was the Capitol or the White House. It is believed one was the primary, and one was the backup target, but the available evidence conflicts as to which was which. In the end, it really doesn't matter. Why? If that plane had been able to strike either one of those buildings, the result for our nation and the world at large would have been catastrophic.
Congress was in session that morning, and the First Lady was among those in the Capitol building. Neither she nor the congressional leadership were immediately evacuated.
At the White House, although the President and some of his domestic aides were in Florida, the Vice President and most of the senior staff were at work along with hundreds of other people who work at the WH complex. Because the VP chose to stay in the PEOC underneath the WH, the complex was never fully evacuated that morning.
Thanks to the heroes of Flight 93, a national atrocity of immense proportions was averted. What did happen to them and thousands of others that day was horrific enough, but the heroes of 93 prevented something even worse, the near total decapitation of our government. Can you imagine the effect on our President if that plane had hit the Capitol with the First Lady inside?
I thank God for the crew and passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, and will love them forever even though I never met any of them.
In my opinion, every American owes it to them to see this film. Spending a couple of hours in a movie theater is nothing compared to what they suffered. They gave us an immense, immeasurable gift. We surely can give them a couple of hours in a theater. What courage does that take? None, and if we aren't capable even of that, we aren't capable of dealing with what might come our way some day at the hands of the Islamofacist monsters.
May the crew and passengers of Flight 93 rest in the loving arms of the Lord forever. (Obviously, when I refer to the passengers, the Islamofacist scum are totally excluded.)