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United 91

United 93 is a 9/11 movie.

Plot[]

On the morning of September 11, 2001, passengers board United Airlines Flight 93 bound for San Francisco at Newark Liberty International Airport. Among them are Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Richard Guadagno, Louis J. Nacke II, William Joseph Cashman, and Patrick Joseph Driscoll. Four al-Qaeda terrorists, Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Ahmed al-Haznawi also board the flight.

After takeoff, Jarrah hesitates to commence the hijacking. Impatient, al-Haznawi assembles a fake bomb out of clay and plastic, before al-Ghamdi makes the first move and grabs flight purser Debbie Welsh and holds her at knifepoint. Passenger Mark Rothenberg is mortally wounded and al-Nami and al-Haznawi force the first-class passengers to the back of the plane. The pilots send out a mayday call but are killed along with Welsh by al-Ghamdi. Jarrah takes the plane's controls and changes its course, intending to crash the plane into the US Capitol.

The passengers become aware of the dead bodies of the pilots, and learn from family members via airphone of American Airlines Flight 11 crashing into the World Trade Center's North Tower and United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the World Trade Center's South Tower and American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon; they decide to take action, organizing a revolt against the hijackers. They are encouraged by knowing that passenger Don Greene is a pilot himself and passenger Andrew Garcia is a former air traffic controller.

After passengers arm themselves, pray, and make final phone calls to loved ones, 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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