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September 17, 2005

The Flight that Fought Back

Having returned from Austin, i've had a chance to watch "The Flight that Fought Back," which I TiVo'd last Sunday.

About halfway through it, it is excellent. Very well made, good acting, good music and score etc.

One thing I don't understand: why does it memorialize the "40 passengers and crew" of the flight? There were 4 passengers who caused the whole damn thing and deserve no memorials whatsoever. I don't get it. Same with the whole "Crescent of Embrace" nonsense. Not sure why we include the jihadis among the number to be remembered.

Thoughts anyone?

UPDATE: Mrs. Chester thinks this is a silly post. She watched the whole thing and reports that the number doesn't include the terrorists. She says that's common sense. Well, it usually is, but not when the Flight 93 memorial is a giant red crescent pointed toward Mecca.

Posted by Chester at September 17, 2005 12:00 PM

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Maybe, just maybe, they weren't really among the passengers. There are a lot more questions to be asked.

Posted by: Shellie at September 17, 2005 11:01 PM

What might those questions be?

The show includes actual audio from the hijackings, from FAA tapes, and the black box of Flight 93.

Do you have an alternative scenario?

Posted by: Chester at September 18, 2005 12:36 AM

I hear ya. Great show, but I was wondering the same thing. I don't understand the whole crescent job.

I would have gone with an enormous stone sculpture of a large hand giving the middle finger to the jihadis.

Posted by: Ken at September 18, 2005 8:01 AM

I agree with Chester.

Posted by: Patrick at September 18, 2005 11:43 AM

I think they exclude the enemy from the passenger count.

I love conspiracy theories of all kinds . . . not. What a shortcut to real thinking that must be backed up by facts and rigorous analysis.

Posted by: Roach at September 18, 2005 1:19 PM

There were 38 passengers (including five hijackers), 5 flight attendants, and two pilots. That makes 40 Americans.

However, a Cleveland newspaper in an early edition on September 11th posted a statement by someone at the airport that flight 93 had already landed. It was later pulled off the paper's website that evening. No one found any bodies in the eight-mile crash site (but bodies survived the collapse of the WTC). A few Arab victims of identity fraud are still living in the Middle East.

The confirmation reports from when the plane went down give it an entire window of time of about 15 minutes. I can understand a window of 2-3 minutes, given that a lot of peoples' watches are usually off; but 15 minutes is unacceptable. The last three minutes of the blackbox recording is missing. President Bush asked if the plane crashed or if it was shot down; evidently he wasn't too worried about it crashing into another building (he didn't seem too concerned when two planes hit the twin towers, either). NORAD is inconsistent with its stories about the fighter jets (one story claims the jets didn't even have any missiles) and which ones were up in the air; did they come from Selfridge or Toledo? Why did it take NORAD 15 minutes to discover the plane was down when one of the fighter pilots later confirmed he SAW it go down? Why are there DOZENS of reports of the plane getting hit by something? Why is there a commercial jet with the same serial number flying around?


Btw, about conspiracies:

30% are complete, paranoid B.S.;
50% have a SEED of truth,
and 20% are about as true as the sterile (that's a euphemism for CENSORED) journalism that is in this country.

Let's take this as a simple example:
If you believe that aliens landed in Roswell or area 51, you need to either stop smoking whatever it is you're smoking or go see a doctor; if you realize that the government lets people on to such stupid and outrageous scenarios to keep the public from inquiring about what's really going on, then you are a lot better off than the majority who has no idea of the technology being developed there and the chemical and radioactive waste that is being stored.

The official statement by the gov't is that Area 51 doesn't exist, though it is completely fenced in and a person can drive their car almost all the way around.

The whackos believe that an alien is being kept there and they waste their money on souvenirs. This is perpetuated by the equally absurd explanation that what crashed in Roswell was a weather balloon.

The alternate belief is that there is top-secret and high-tech engineering and testing going on, most likely "illegal", and it is better to keep a low profile. By keeping a Royal Family's vow to never deny or acknowledge (similar to what Israel does about its nuclear capabilities), everyone will keep their heads turned and their eyes shut.

Posted by: Shellie at September 19, 2005 9:34 PM