I’d like to know what motivates someone to sit down and post, with all the authority of a fortune teller, that the pilots of these planes “surrendered to the hijackers” and that most of these flight crews conducted themselves “like obedient sheep.”
Please do no patronize Debra Burlingame (“Burlingame, bless her, is wrong.”) I suspect that she and her family, as well as the families of the 33 other flight crew members who perished that day, have invested more of their time, years more, than you anyone, investigating every last iota of evidence as to what did and did not take place on those doomed airplanes. Anyone who says they went down like “obedient sheep” has not looked at the flight data recorder of flight 77 and flight 93, or read the 9/11 Commission report, for that matter. No pilot would give the controls of his plane over to terrorists. Never. Furthermore, no pilot responsible for the lives of his passengers and crew would submit to the takeover his plane. They fought, the data recorders show they fought. And shame on anyone for choosing this particular place–the report on the long-awaited memorial to these valiant souls–to denigrate their last courageous efforts.
God bless the memory of the 9/11 flight crews.
