September 11, Flight 93, and the Power of Self-Governance

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Heritage Foundation:

On September 11, 2001, the first successful counterattack of our long war against Islamic jihad was launched not by the United States military, but by a small, spontaneously formed, self-governing group of American citizens who possessed the courage to fight back.

 

As the years pass since 9/11, it’s vital that we not forget what occurred in the thirty-five minutes between 9:28 a.m. and 10:03 a.m. on board Flight 93 above Pennsylvania.

 

While it’s impossible to know all that transpired on the flight, the combination of phone calls from passengers on board and data from the flight recorders tells us a few key things:

 

First, within ten minutes of the hijacking, the passengers were aware of the attacks on the World Trade Center and knew they were confronting a likely suicide attack and not a conventional hijacking.