Death and Dying - Flight Thesis

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The failure of authorities to follow up on those first reports are now considered breakdowns in aviation security that contributed to the success of those attacks. Since then, regulations of airport operations and all other aspects of aviation security have been greatly enhanced to prevent any repeat of terrorist attacks using commercial airliners or any other type of aircraft (Larsen, 2007).

United Flight 93 differed from the other three hijacked flights in that it was the only flight in which passengers had received information through cell phone calls informing them that the other hijacked flights had been used by the terrorists to crash into targets on the ground (Larsen, 2007; Longman, 2002).

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That information allowed several passengers, thought to have been led by Todd Beamer, to break into the cockpit and prevent the hijackers from reaching their intended targets in Washington.

Those heroic passengers apparently succeeded in overpowering the hijackers piloting the plane and caused it to crash about 150 miles from Washington DC instead.

President George Bush credited those passengers as American heroes for their actions in defense of the country and Newark International Airport was subsequently renamed Newark Liberty Airport in their honor (Associated Press, 2002)......

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