Reason’s Nick Gillespie: “As the controversy over the upcoming Hollywood movie Flight 93 heats up a bit–the trailer for the April 28 film has been pulled from some theaters due to negative audience response–one thing seems clear: Even if the details are not fully knowable, the actions taken by the passengers to storm the cockpit remains one of the most powerful, inspiring, and brutally sad stories of 9/11. After communicating with the ground via cell and onboard phones, the passengers pieced together the narrative of the attacks and realized what they were caught up in–and that the hijackers planned to use the plane as a missile against a target in DC or elsewhere. To know that you are doomed and to struggle until the very end–well, “heroic” doesn’t begin to cover it.”

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Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review's Capital Matters.
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