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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
What I don't get about this movies is what is so heroic about these people? they all knew they were going to die and as Lanny said earlier it's instinct to fight for your life. The only thing they did was unsuccesfully try to save themselves and crash into the ground.
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I guess I see it a different way. It's one thing to say you know you are going to die. But most people can't grasp that. To go from working on your Powerpoint presentation to being told you will die; that is a leap of understanding.
What they did was do something that would most likely result in their own deaths. They choose to kill themselves to save others.
Now, from the different documentaries I've seen one of the stewadresses' husband was a pilot, and he believed he could have talked them down; so the primary goal was to try and re-take the plane. But that same husband also told his wife how to crash the plane. (Not that crashing it was hard, but gave some pointers as well.)
I suppose there's different ways of looking at it.