- Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.
- On September 11th 2001, four domestic flights are hijacked by terrorists in the United States of America. After the collision of three against selected targets, the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 fight against four terrorists to take back the control of the airplane.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- In this dramatization, unsuspecting passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 board the aircraft on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001. After three other planes strike their intended targets, Al-Qaeda terrorists on Flight 93 make their move, threatening the passengers into submission by claiming to have an explosive onboard. But calls to loved ones reveal the truth, and the passengers -- including Todd Beamer and Tom Burnett -- plan to take back the flight.—Jwelch5742
- Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, with First officer LeRoy Homer Jr (Biski Gugush) getting dressed in the F.A.A. official uniform then kissing his wife and leaving for work. Then hijackers Ahmed Al-Nami (Asim Wali) and Al-Haznawi (Zak Santiago), United 93's skyjacking ringleader Ziad Jarrah (Dominic Rains), and Saeed Al-Ghamdi (Shawn Ahmed) are shown shaving in their hotel room and doing their final rights to themselves in Islamic tradition and then leaving for Newark International Airport. At the airport, the passengers and crew board United Airlines Flight 93 along with the hijackers. Shortly after boarding, Flight 93 is delayed for 30 minutes because of the high volume of traffic. The other three hijacked flights take off.
Air traffic controllers monitoring all current flights notice that American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, has taken a southern turn toward New York City and Mohamed Atta makes a suspicious threatening transmission from the flight deck. Shortly after, Flight 11 descends into Lower Manhattan and crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, though air traffic controllers are not aware of it. After Flight 11 crashed, United Airlines Flight 175 begins to descend and turn toward New York City as well. Air traffic controllers then realize they are dealing with a hijacking. American Airlines Flight 77 is also hijacked. The traffic controllers alert the U.S. Air Force, who debate whether or not to shoot down all suspected hijacked flights. The air traffic controllers and Air Force then watch as Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower of the WTC on live television, reported by CNN.
To the growing consternation of Ben Sliney and his staff, coordination with the Air Force is haphazard and there are not enough planes ready, or armed, to respond to an in-air hijacking. Sliney ultimately decides to shut down all airspace in the United States and ground every flight.
46 minutes after takeoff, the hijackers on Flight 93 make their move; Word of the planes that hit the World Trade Center reaches Flight 93, and the terrorists then decide to begin the hijacking. Ahmed Al-Haznawi assembles a fake bomb out of clay and plastic during breakfast. By this time, Flight 77 has crashed and created a huge fireball at the Pentagon. Footage of the South Tower collapsing is also seen on TV at the home of one of the victims' family. The hijackers stab a flight attendant knocking her unconscious before wrestling their way into the cockpit and attacking the pilots.
Passenger Mark Rothenberg (Jerry Wasserman) tries to negotiate with the hijackers and is fatally stabbed and the "bomb" is revealed causing mass panic among passengers. During the struggle with the hijackers, Homer courageously sends out a mayday call before he and Captain Jason Dahl (Barry W. Levy) are knocked unconscious.
The hijackers do not prevent the people from making phone calls through the on-board system. After hearing about the planes crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon, the passengers and crew understand that if they do nothing, they will also die, and eventually elect to storm the cockpit and attempt to retake the plane. The passengers make one last set of phone calls to family, in which they declare their intentions. The remaining crew assemble what makeshift weapons they can: cutlery, wine bottles, a fire extinguisher and hot water.
Learning that one of the passengers Don Greene (Keith Martin Gordey) can fly a plane (although he has not flown a commercial aircraft), the group pin their hopes on his being able at least to control the plane. They debate whether the bomb is real or fake before deciding to start their counter-attack by overpowering Saeed Al-Ghamdi. He is killed by the passengers with a bash to the head with a hot water container after boiling water is thrown at him. Having seen this, Ahmed Al-Nami, Jarrah and Ahmed Al-Haznawi prepare for invasion by the passengers and debate whether to take the flight down.
Ziad Jarrah shakes the plane violently to throw the passengers off balance, but nonetheless they manage to smash the door with the food cart. The passengers continue their assault, overpowering Al-Nami, who is outside the cockpit. After boiling water is thrown at him, Al-Nami is killed by Mark Bingham with a blow to the head with the hot water container. Seeing the passengers getting nearer, Al-Ghamdi, Jarrah and Al-Haznawi prepare to crash the plane, knowing they'll never reach their intended target. The passengers breach the cockpit with the food cart, and as they wrestle with Al-Haznawi and Al-Ghamdi to get in the cockpit, the two hijackers tell Jarrah to simply crash the plane, rather than to carry on with the rest of their mission. Jarrah puts it into a nosedive, just as the passengers finally gain entrance into the cockpit. The plane misses a private propeller plane and a barn, then crashes into a old strip mine.
The crash is not seen, instead a cloud of smoke and the crash crater are seen. Air Traffic Control can be seen and heard desperately calling for any response from Flight 93. Emergency workers then come by to investigate the crash area (denoted by the crater). Footage of the North Tower collapsing is shown on TV as the families of the victims are seen in their houses comforting each other.
The crash site is then seen, and time moves on as the ground where the plane crashed recovers. When the crash crater is no longer visible, the writing on the screen says, "On September 11 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 was one of the four planes hijacked in midair. Three planes succeeded in hitting their targets. With great courage and resolve, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 prevented their plane from reaching its likely target, the White House or the Capitol Building. The film is dedicated to the passengers and crew of Flight 93, and to their families."
The names of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 then appear on screen.
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