Posted on 09/12/2001 8:10:59 PM PDT by patent
Edited on 04/29/2004 1:58:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Passengers on board the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania Tuesday apparently decided to attack the terrorists who had commandeered the plane, according to family members of one passenger.
Passenger Jeremy Glick, flying with his 2-month-old child Emerson, called his wife Liz and in-laws in New York on a cell phone to say the plane had been hijacked.
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This is certainly the advice they would have receieved from the crew, based on their training. You are right and habs4ever is wrong.
Bozo.
Is that what "TheDon" wants to be?
That is how you are acting. Show some respect for decent people.
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A lot of people have asked why no one seemed to have resisted the other hijackers. Clearly, no one could have expected hijackers, especially lightly armed ones, to have been planning to fly their planes into the WTC.
On this plane, people knew what the hijackers had in mind and did the courageous thing.
It is very possible that both events happened. The passengers were very brave and the military shot it down.
It would have been a shame if the military didn't give the passengers a chance to take over, but the pilots may have already been dead. I don't know how close they were to population sites, but the military waited too long to do anything about the Pentagon plane (they had at least 17 minutes). I'm not going to second guess the military's decision on this plane until more facts come out.
I believe that's only for military. The civilian equivalent is the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
I'm hurt...
Show some respect for decent people.
A friend of yours?
We can only bestow some minor token of our own esteem and gratitude to the men who took out the hijackers, and the rest of the passengers who bravely went along.
I don't know how many bodies will be identifiable, but I propose a mass grave at Arlington, along with a civilian equivalent of the Medal of Honor.
There should be a sculpture with the names of all the passengers on it. In small letters, and defaced, should be the names (or aliases) of the rats that hijacked them. A suitable sculture would be a bald eagle soaring into the sky with a dead rat in his talons. We want to glorify these heroes for all time, and show how much we despise those cowardly bastards who did this.
My one hope was that the passengers were able to tear to pieces a couple of those motherf*ckers. And that before they died, they realized that they had failed utterly, and no paradise was waiting for them, because those despised, soft Americans denied them the obscene glory they coveted.
I understand what you're saying, but in real-time this is a lot to compute in a little amount of time. The same thought might have run through my head if I was on the plane. However, I would also consider whether the terrorists were operating under the same premises and rationale that I was. What I think is necessary for getting out alive may not be what they think is necessary.
All that in mind I think I would have complied, unless the terrorists or someone else told me I was about to meet my death. Then I would have fought like hell to gain control of that plane.
Thus, IMHO it is unreasonable to posthumously criticize the passengers on board the other planes.
Exactly. Everybody did their best with the information available to them. If the people on the other planes had known more, they would have acted differently.
Let us celebrate the heroes, and mourn all the dead. The rest is just schoolyard posturing.
Exactly. Before 9/11 had I been on a hijacked flight I would have sit tight. This suicide flight is absolutely unheard of. I don't think it will occur again. I think if I got on a plane tomorrow and it was hijacked, I'd assume the hijackers were going to crash it. I don't know of anyone who would have assumed this before today.
Grit and steel, by God. Grit and steel.
May God rest their brave souls.
From your unneeded defense, I suspected as much.
You're certainly over the edge when it comes to loose comments.
You're objecting to my derogatory comments regarding abner's theory that the US military shot down plane #4 over Penn?
They did what needed to be done and albeit they died in the effort they were successful in stopping the tango's from reaching their goal's IMHO. And for that I thank them from the bottom of my soul.
To their families left behind I suggest that the loss is unbearable but the knowledge that their loved ones , in their actions saved many many lives by disrupting the tango's plans.........
Stay Safe.
Your responses have been all reactionay emotion -- namecalling, demeaning. They add nothing.
You can do better.
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