Flight 93 Heroics

Dennis Roddy writes 9/11 report: Flight 93 crashed as passengers stormed cockpit and Report sheds light on Flight 93 heroics at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, yesterday and today.

(Thanks, Patrick.)

And see the majestic beginning of this article at WaPo today:

After al Qaeda set out in 1999 to deliver a devastating attack on America using hijacked airplanes, only one thing worked right in the nation's defense.

According to the final report of the 9/11 commission, it wasn't the FBI, CIA, FAA or Air Force. Not the National Security Council or the Department of Defense. Not the State Department or Border Patrol. Not Congress or any president.

"The institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat could be, and did not adjust their policies, plans, and practices to deter or defeat it," the bipartisan commission unanimously declared.

Only a small band of civilians, strangers to one another — without benefit of staff meetings, bylaws, uniforms or task forces — communicating by cell phone with loved ones who happened to be watching TV — managed to figure out what was going on in time to thwart a guided-missile attack on Washington.

Brave passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 forced hijackers to crash the plane into an empty field far short of its target....

(Thanks, Stephen.)

Photos from Flight 93 Memorial 1 in Photography Archive @ The View from the Core.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 07/23/04 09:02:56 PM
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