[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.

[Lancey Howard]

Okay, I think I get it.
Some people would prefer to believe that Steven Seagal and Nicholas Cage tore the cockpit door from its hinges and karate-chopped the hijackers while screaming "Hasta la vista, baby", then frantically grabbed the controls of the plane and flew it into the dirt while all the other passengers rocked back and forth, arm in arm singing a Peter, Paul, and Mary song (accompanied by a nun with a guitar).
But the truth ain't quite like Hollywood, so therefore the passengers were not really heroes. Is that the point of this story?

[calvin sun]

I found this information:

tbridis@ap.org
Ted Bridis, staff writer
The Associated Press
2021 K St., NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 776-9462, voice
(202) 776-9570, fax
(202) 437-4640, cell