two of the terrorists are in the cockpit (Zaid Jarrah played by Khalid Abdalla and Saeed Al Ghamdi played by Lewis Alsamari) and the other two (Ahmed Al Haznawi played by Omar Berdouni and Ahmed Al Nami played by Jamie Harding) are in the seating area watching over the passengers. Haznawi is strapped with what appears to be a bomb equipped with a detonation device in his hand. Although he is holding up the device in full view as a way of keeping the passengers at bay, the passengers spring into action and charge him. After tackling Haznawi and forcing him to the ground, Mark Bingham begins beating the terrorist over the head with a small fire extinguisher. The camera quickly flashes on the bloody and immobile terrorist (we are not sure if he is dead or alive) as another passenger rips the bomb from his body, revealing it to be a fake. The passengers then move onto the Nami who has already alerted his comrades in the cockpit. Jarrah, who is flying the plane, jerks the aircraft to and fro in an attempt to disorient the oncoming attack. In the film, Jarrah had taped a picture of what appears to be the U.S. Capitol Building to the steering wheel, apparently to remind him, and us the audience, what his Washington, D.C. target is (the camera never properly focuses on the picture but, even blurred, the domed roof is unmistakable). That picture remains in frame as the camera focuses on Jarrah’s hands as he violently steers the plane affecting its pitch, roll, and yaw. Nami resists the passengers, first by pushing a serving cart in front of the passengers and blocking their path to the cabin, and then by discharging his own fire extinguisher in an attempt to blind the onslaught. However, both tactics prove to be ineffectual and Nami is wrestled to the ground where passenger Jeremy Glick, a former Judo champion, grabs Nami’s head from behind in a chokehold and breaks his neck. The passengers manage to maintain their footing during Jarrah’s violent flying and ram the serving cart into the cabin doors. After several blows, the passengers manage to dislodge the cabin door enough to rip it off its hinges and storm the cabin. Ghamdi tries to protect Jarrah but the passengers overpower him. As the passengers storm the cabin, the camera tightens its shot making it hard to distinguish the various passengers trying for the airplane’s controls. The multiplicity of passengers is lost to the singularity of intention, as the many arms seem to come from one body. The only face that remains visible is Jarrah’s but his visage is soon lost in the sea of hands and arms that envelope him as they grasp at the steering wheel and the cabin is filled with English and Arabic screams. In the ferocious fight the plane begins to veer downward as the camera shifts its focus from the steering column and the multiple hands to looking outside the window. Even though the plane is plummeting to the ground, from the camera’s first-person perspective, the Shanksville field appears swiftly to approach the window, the ground swirling as it gets closer and closer until everything goes black and ends in silence.
Jeremy Glick leads the charge towards a stunned Haznawi, who is quickly subdued and beaten by Glick and Nacke, while Bingham crushes his skull with a fire extinguisher, killing him. Nacke snatches the bomb, revealing it to be a fake. Alerted by al-Nami, Jarrah rocks the plane violently to throw the passengers off balance, while al-Nami tries to hold off the passengers, with the use of a serving cart, Mace and a fire extinguisher; the passengers push the cart back into him and a scared Nami is tackled and after gouging out his eyes, Glick snaps Nami's neck, killing him. The passengers then batter the cart against the cockpit door. A terrified Jarrah and Ghamdi realize they would fail in their mission, and despite Ghamdi's efforts to hold against the door and use the axe to frighten the passengers, the passengers batter the door enough to rip it off its hinges. Jarrah puts the plane into a steep dive, just as the passengers storm the cockpit, and struggle fiercely with Ghamdi and Jarrah. Ghamdi tries to protect Jarrah but the passengers overpower him, as Burnett begins choking out Jarrah. As the passengers and hijackers wrestle for control, the aircraft inverts and crashes into a Shanksville field, killing everyone aboard.
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I always cheer when Mark Bingham crushes Ahmed Al-Haznawi's skull and when Jeremy Glick snaps Ahmed Al-Nami's neck.
two of the terrorists are in the cockpit (Zaid Jarrah played by Khalid Abdalla and Saeed Al Ghamdi played by Lewis Alsamari) and the other two (Ahmed Al Haznawi played by Omar Berdouni and Ahmed Al Nami played by Jamie Harding) are in the seating area watching over the passengers. Haznawi is strapped with what appears to be a bomb equipped with a detonation device in his hand. Although he is holding up the device in full view as a way of keeping the passengers at bay, the passengers spring into action and charge him. After tackling Haznawi and forcing him to the ground, Mark Bingham begins beating the terrorist over the head with a small fire extinguisher. The camera quickly flashes on the bloody and immobile terrorist (we are not sure if he is dead or alive) as another passenger rips the bomb from his body, revealing it to be a fake. The passengers then move onto the Nami who has already alerted his comrades in the cockpit. Jarrah, who is flying the plane, jerks the aircraft to and fro in an attempt to disorient the oncoming attack. In the film, Jarrah had taped a picture of what appears to be the U.S. Capitol Building to the steering wheel, apparently to remind him, and us the audience, what his Washington, D.C. target is (the camera never properly focuses on the picture but, even blurred, the domed roof is unmistakable). That picture remains in frame as the camera focuses on Jarrah’s hands as he violently steers the plane affecting its pitch, roll, and yaw. Nami resists the passengers, first by pushing a serving cart in front of the passengers and blocking their path to the cabin, and then by discharging his own fire extinguisher in an attempt to blind the onslaught. However, both tactics prove to be ineffectual and Nami is wrestled to the ground where passenger Jeremy Glick, a former Judo champion, grabs Nami’s head from behind in a chokehold and breaks his neck. The passengers manage to maintain their footing during Jarrah’s violent flying and ram the serving cart into the cabin doors. After several blows, the passengers manage to dislodge the cabin door enough to rip it off its hinges and storm the cabin. Ghamdi tries to protect Jarrah but the passengers overpower him. As the passengers storm the cabin, the camera tightens its shot making it hard to distinguish the various passengers trying for the airplane’s controls. The multiplicity of passengers is lost to the singularity of intention, as the many arms seem to come from one body. The only face that remains visible is Jarrah’s but his visage is soon lost in the sea of hands and arms that envelope him as they grasp at the steering wheel and the cabin is filled with English and Arabic screams. In the ferocious fight the plane begins to veer downward as the camera shifts its focus from the steering column and the multiple hands to looking outside the window. Even though the plane is plummeting to the ground, from the camera’s first-person perspective, the Shanksville field appears swiftly to approach the window, the ground swirling as it gets closer and closer until everything goes black and ends in silence.
Jeremy Glick leads the charge towards a stunned Haznawi, who is quickly subdued and beaten by Glick and Nacke, while Bingham crushes his skull with a fire extinguisher, killing him. Nacke snatches the bomb, revealing it to be a fake. Alerted by al-Nami, Jarrah rocks the plane violently to throw the passengers off balance, while al-Nami tries to hold off the passengers, with the use of a serving cart, Mace and a fire extinguisher; the passengers push the cart back into him and a scared Nami is tackled and after gouging out his eyes, Glick snaps Nami's neck, killing him. The passengers then batter the cart against the cockpit door. A terrified Jarrah and Ghamdi realize they would fail in their mission, and despite Ghamdi's efforts to hold against the door and use the axe to frighten the passengers, the passengers batter the door enough to rip it off its hinges. Jarrah puts the plane into a steep dive, just as the passengers storm the cockpit, and struggle fiercely with Ghamdi and Jarrah. Ghamdi tries to protect Jarrah but the passengers overpower him, as Burnett begins choking out Jarrah. As the passengers and hijackers wrestle for control, the aircraft inverts and crashes into a Shanksville field, killing everyone aboard.
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