Just heard a while back on CNN (and I haven’t seen it here on the boards yet) that they spoke to a relative of a man on Flight 93 that crashed in PA. He called home from the hijacked aircraft. It seems they were aware of the crashes into the Trade Center and the men on the plane all took a vote to overpower the 3 hijackers.
Presumably, those men had a direct hand in the reason that the aircraft never reached its intended target.
The BBC is reporting that the pilot of that plane somehow turned the cabin microphone on, so that passengers could hear what was going on. The current speculation is that the passengers attempted to retake the plane, and either succeeded but could not control it, or failed and the terrorists crashed it (intentionally or not).
God bless those guys for trying. Who knows how many other lives they saved by risking and then sacrificing their own.
There’s a similiar thread in the Pit for some reason.
Like I said there, I’m proud to live in the same country as those brave people. That had to be a difficult and heartwrenching decison to make.
One of the men called his wife to tell her what was happening and to take care of their baby and to have a good life.
I cannot believe the heroism these people have exhibited. I pray that if I had been there, I would have been as brave.
I pray that the love and self-sacrifice that these people chose will give their loved ones a small iota of peace. Their loved ones gave their lives saving many other lives. “The good of the many outweighs the good of the few.” It may be a Star Trek quote, but these men chose to make it real.
I thank God that no one I love was lost. I grieve for the children whose fathers or mothers will never come home again. I ache for the husbands and wives who will never again hold the other part of their soul.
The very rocks cry out in agony, and my heart joins them.
Hold the people you love very tight tonight. Tell them the things you feel but never get around to saying. This sort of thing may not happen in your life, but we are all one step away from a speeding car, a chance meeting with death. Please tell the people you love how you feel about them. I intend to.
Here’s the story as it appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
on abc news a woman reported a phone call from her husband who was on the flight that crashed in pa. she informed him of the other hijackings. that plane KNEW. the people on that plane DID stop it from reaching dc. no doubt on this now.
The Washington Post story names two of the men involved as Jeremy Glick and Thomas E. Burnett, Jr. Both called their wives and let them know they were going to try to tackle the hijackers.
You may not be here anymore, guys, but I’m not worried about where you are. Thanks from all of us.
I’ll be lighting a candle in their honor tonight. I’m just too overwhelmed with emotions to type more than that. Bless them, for they made the ultimate sacrifice; their lives for those of thousands of unknown people. Utterly amazing and awe inspiring.
At the time of the very first reports, my first thought was that the explanation of this pointless crash in PA could only be that the pilot had had time to hear by radio of the other hijacking and crashes and had heroically decided to crash the plane into the ground rather than take out a target. To hear that it may have been the act of the passengers, in the stead of the pilot who had likely already heroically given his life, only increases my admiration - and their decision would have been no different: to give their own lives, which they perhaps already thought were lost, to stop further destruction, rather than coninuing to hope for some last-minute reprieve. Nothing could diminish the pain of the loss for those families of the passengers on this flight. This, though, would certainly give them reason to be all the more proud of the people that they lost. Words are inadequate - we can only hope that we would be able to show the same bravery in such a fateful moment.
HEROES LIVE.
I’d call these men heroes, but I think that word fails to encompass the incredible nobility of these men.
There is some selfless bravery.