Flight 93 (2006 film)
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| Directed by | Peter Markle |
| Produced by | Clara George |
| Written by | Nevin Schreiner |
| Starring |
Jeffrey Nordling Colin Glazer Brennan Elliott Ty Olsson Jacqueline Ann Steuart Barry W. Levy Biski Gugushe Dominic Rains |
| Music by | Velton Ray Bunch |
| Cinematography | Mark Irwin |
| Edited by | Scott Boyd |
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Release date
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30 January 2006 (USA) |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | Canada USA |
| Language | English Arabic Japanese |
Flight 93 is a 2006 television film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered on January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006.
The film stars Jeffrey Nordling, Colin Glazer, Brennan Elliot, Ty Olsson, Jacqueline Ann Steuart, Laura Mennell, Barry W. Levy, Biski Gugushe, and Dominic Rains, amongst others.
The film was rated PG-13 for some violence and emotional depiction of the hijack situation.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, passengers board United Airlines Flight 93 at Newark Liberty International Airport, including Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. The plane is commanded by Captain Jason Dahl and First officer LeRoy Homer Jr.. Four al-Qaeda terrorists Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi and Ahmed al-Nami, also board the flight.
When word of the planes hitting the World Trade Center reaches Flight 93, Captain Jason Dahl and First officer LeRoy Homer Jr. ask if this is true. Ahmed al-Nami assembles a fake bomb out of clay and plastic during breakfast, then the other three hijackers prepare for invasion. Jarrah makes the first move and grabs hold of flight attendant Debbie Welsh at knifepoint; after a passenger is fatally stabbed and the "bomb" is revealed causing mass panic among passengers, the hijackers stab Debbie, knocking her unconscious before wrestling their way into the cockpit and attack the pilots. Both pilots take actions to interfere with the hijackers, Dahl switching the output of the pilots' microphones from the cabin address speakers to the radio transmitter so that Jarrah's attempts to communicate with the passengers would instead be heard by air traffic controllers and deliberately kicking his foot against the plane's yoke, putting the plane on autopilot, and Homer courageously sending out a mayday call. Both pilots are knocked unconscious and dragged from the cockpit. Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
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