Yes, really. Flight 93 and the passengers who fought back are the brightest spot on a black day. But that doesn’t mean that they sprang into action a “split second” after the plane was taken. That’s my quibble with the other poster. Beamer was on the phone for approximately 15 minutes with Verizon representative Lisa Jefferson before the passengers launched their attack on the hijackers.
Sorry, but the very use of that phrase puts the lie to what follows.