A Tragic Hero In The Film, Flight 93

September 11, 2001 was a tragic day in The history of America. My dad told me that President Bush was reading stories to elementary school children in Florida while the United States was under attack by terrorists. On this day nineteen members of Al-Qaeda hijacked four planes and crashed them into important buildings in America. Two planes hit the World Trade Centers, and a third hit the Pentagon. The fourth plane, Flight 93, hit a field in Pennsylvania ("9/11 attacks" ). Flight 93, once the hijackers got into the cockpit, was headed towards the Capitol in Washington, DC. The hijackers wanted to kill or injure several thousand additional Americans. The passengers on the plane attacked the hijackers, and crashed the plane into the ground (Flight 93”). The passengers of Flight 93 were heroes for their bravery, intelligence, and altruism. …show more content…
It took brave people to charge straight at armed hijackers. The hijackers had knives, and a fake bomb that was made to look real.. Most people would have been scared, and would have thought only about themselves. There were so many things that could have gone wrong, and it took brave people to stop the terrorists (“Brave citizens take over hijacked Flight 93”). The movie, “Flight 93”, showed that the passengers on the flight were not afraid. They were calling home, gathering information, and developing a plan to takeover the cockpit from the hijackers. The famous quote from a passenger, when they decided as a group to attack the hijackers, was “let’s roll”. Once the passengers began charging to the front of the plane, there was no turning