Hijacker Crashed Flight 93 on 9/11

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 8/7/03 | TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

[j.havenfarm]

Thank you. If this theory is correct, I don't get how that diminishes the heroism of the passengers. Bottom line = the passenger uprising led to the crash of the plane and saved the target. God bless these brave men and women. Let's roll.

[mewzilla]

It wasn't a myth. The passengers did fight back. One way or the other, it was the passengers who made sure the hijackers couldn't complete their mission. And AP and Reuters will never change that fact.

[dead]

I made a mistake crediting the source, this is AP not Reuters.

I guess it just seemed so reutersish I jumped to conclusions.

[mdittmar]

It hasn't been,the plane did not reach it's intended target as a direct result of the passengers actions,period.

[HitmanLV]

I never belived the american 'lets roll' hero story and I still don't. I think its more likely we shot it down, or the scenario described in this article.

[onedoug]

No American airliner should ever be hijacked, EVER again. It'll be taken down first.

Potential highjackers should just know that.

[TomGuy]

It was the passenger uprising that prevented Flight 93 from its terrorist destination.

Whether the heroic passengers managed to gain access to the cockpit doesn't really matter. Those heroic passengers, whatever they did, prevented Flight 93 from its Washington DC destination of terror.

They, the passengers of Flight 93, were and remain heroes. Nothing can diminish that fact. They sacrificed their own lives to stop the terrorist plot; countless others at some unknown ground location are alive today as a result. And that is heroism.

[Lancey Howard]

I will continue to believe the passengers were hero's...

Um, hello? Am I reading the same story as you folks?
It looks to me like the story says that a passenger uprising ("let's roll") caused the hijackers to abort their mission and suicide the plane into a field. OF COURSE, the passengers were heroic....what am I missing here?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Citing transcripts of the still-secret cockpit recordings,

Give it up Feebs.....We know our heroes....let's not denigrate our own by keeping back some truths that need to be known.

Our people stood up. If that flight crashed intentionally because they stood up..then we know how cowardly an act it was.

[nyconse]

What a fool this author is. The bottom line is these passengers fought back-losing their lives in the process- and prevented a bombing of the Whitehouse or possibly the Capitol. They were heroes-all of them. This article just goes to show you how out of touch the liberal media really is with real Americans. The passengers revolted-"passenger uprising". Obviously, the terrorist scum "pilot" crashed the plane because he knew they were coming to get him-the jig was up.

[mystery-ak]

Exactly...whatever happened the passengers foiled the terrorists...forever heroes.

[dead]

I think its more likely we shot it down

My major problem with this theory is that our government appeared so woefully unprepared that day, I think they would have shouted it from the rooftops if they actually managed to take action in a way that saved lives.

The potential complaining from people about the lives lost on the plane would have easily been counteracted by the scenes of destruction at the WTC and the Pentagon.

We didn’t shoot anything down that day. Though we should have.

[nyconse]

Also, How does this change anything-there was a passenger uprising/revolt:

"U.S. investigators now believe that a hijacker in the cockpit aboard United Airlines Flight 93 instructed terrorist-pilot Ziad Jarrah to crash the jetliner into a Pennsylvania field because of a passenger uprising in the cabin."

[dagnabbit]

Either way the passengers were heroes, and struck the first blows back against the islamic filth responsible for the attacks.

Yes, I also detect some glee in the tone of the article, perhaps because the author and news bureau see a deliberate crash as somehow less a U.S. victory than one resulting from Americans reaching the controls.

But what should we expect from Reuters? These are the folks who don't consider 9-11 a "terrorist" act, and who in fact never use the word "terrorism" except in quotes when citing someone's comments. (though they will substitute "militant" when paraphrasing Israeli officials who actually said "terrorist")

[cyncooper]

This does not change the story. Really! It was thought either the uprising led to the passengers grappling or their incipient entry into the the cockpit led to what this report says.

What's the difference? The instruction would not have been given had the uprising not taken place and it is by our heroes actions that the flight did not make it to its intended target causing further death and destruction.

God Bless our passengers on Flight 93.

[Arkinsaw]

I never belived the american 'lets roll' hero story and I still don't. I think its more likely we shot it down, or the scenario described in this article.

I take it that those on the plane who made cell phone calls and stated the plan to rush the cockpit were in on the conspiracy?

[cyncooper]

Am I overly sensitive, or is there a triumphant tone to this article? Like the writer is happy that the "heroism" story is tainted in his eyes?

I don't know why, exactly, I get that impression, but I do.

Not overly sensitive. Just perceptive. That is exactly what I took the writer to convey.

[speedy]

You aren't missing anything. In other words, everything we believed about the heroism of the passengers was true. This story takes the same facts and tries to make it look like somehow the effort is diminished. It only proves that the passengers WERE heroes and that the lowlifes at AP are subhuman scum. But we already knew all of that anyway.