The Legend of United Flight 93

The Movie United 93 Reiterates What We Know, but is What We Know the True Story?

By Timothy Sexton, published May 17, 2006
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United 93 hit the theaters amid widespread concern that nobody was prepared to see it; the potential for a flop was huge. This seems rather surprising in light of the fact that an A&E TV-movie on the subject received huge ratings, enough that A&E even repeated the movie several times rather than running yet another episode of Law & Order. Perhaps the concern over whether people wanted to pay money to expose themselves to a particularly emotional recreation of recent history was meant to deflect attention away form the fact that it was calling itself a true story when, in fact, the events that took place on board that plane still remain shrouded in mystery and contradiction and-dare we use the word-conspiracy?

This article is not-repeat, NOT-designed to endorse any of the challenges to the official story. I will state flatly that I simply have not done the research necessary to come to a final conclusion on whether the attacks made against the legend of Flight 93 are verifiable. Rather, my intention is merely to draw the attention of the potential United 93 audience to some of the questions that have been raised about the conventional wisdom surrounding the events that took place aboard the plane.

The following information was derived from various web sites. You can find links to these sites in the resources section.

THE CELL PHONE CALLS
How many times have you ever had your call dropped while driving on the interstate on or in rural area? My service provider is ALLTEL and I get dropped calls at least a few times a week. The legend of United 93 basically stems from the series of phone calls made by passengers to loved ones. Most of what we think we know about what took place aboard that plane is based on those conversations.

The Legend of United Flight 93

United 93 hit the theaters amid widespread concern that nobody was prepared to see it; the potential for a flop was huge

Credit: Universal Studios

Copyright: Universal Studios

Takeaways
  • Many question that possibility that cell phone conversations could have taken place.
  • Could the plane have been shot down by the military and then covered up?
  • The 9/11 Commission disputes the legendary statement of "Lets roll" allegedly made by Todd Beamer.
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i cryed till a tear wouldnt come

Posted on 10/03/2007 at 9:10:00 AM

 
in response to the last person Nikki CArlye who responded, What the hell do u mean "I always thought the Twin Tower Crashes were rather strange"?? As a person from NY City I am outraged at the comment. There is no doubt that two planes from terrorist flew into the towers, there is nothing strange about that. As for the author timohy Sexton, it is an interesting conspriacy theory. However i find it hard to believe that the military shot it down. There has been documented proof of phone conversations from families of victims aboard the plane saying of the details to attack the terrorist on the plane. Now maybe the phrase Let's Roll" was made up but I think that a struggle for control of the plane really did happpen

Posted on 06/10/2006 at 12:06:00 AM

 
This is an excellent piece and although I am not an expert in anything except common sense, and even then I faulter quite often at times, this article awoke my commen sense cells and brough to life things I never thought of, but then again, I didn't pay much attention to the details of Flight 93. I had always thought the Twin Tower crashes were rather strange and that's were my mind stayed and still does today. But Tim, you have given something else to ponder and research. Thank you for a fantastic article! Nikki Carlyle

Posted on 05/19/2006 at 1:05:00 PM

 
I did see the second paragraph disclaimer so I understand your point of view that this was not meant to be accurate journalism or an edorsement of one side over another. Having said that, the subject of 9/11 is so highly controversial that people almost assume that if you don't pick a side, you're on the "other side." It's a tricky subject and probably the reason you'll get some testy commentators.

Posted on 05/19/2006 at 10:05:00 AM

 
Since nobody stopped to ask the Bush administration any questions after Rumsfeld said, "We know where the WMDs are" and he DID say that, by the way, regardless of his second lie when he said he didn't, maybe this Iraq quagmire might not be taking place. I never said I agreed with any of these theories, but most of them were new to me just a few weeks before I decided to write this, so I assumed they were probably unknown to majority of people going to see this movie.

Posted on 05/19/2006 at 9:05:00 AM

 
If you had read the entire article, you would have seen that I clearly state my intention was to show potential viewers of this film that what they may be seeing isn't necessarily the truth, but rather the Bush administration's "official story." We have enough precedence now that it has become mandatory to question anything put forth by this government as the truth. When even a simple thing like "Let's roll" is probably just a created myth, it's all the more important to ask questions.

Posted on 05/19/2006 at 9:05:00 AM

 
What good can possibly come from rehashing conspiracy theory drivel when you admit to not having done any research on the subject? That is the definition of irresponisble journalism.

Posted on 05/18/2006 at 8:05:00 PM

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