‘Let’s Roll’: Ten Years Later, the Message of ‘Flight 93′ Still Resonates

The A&E original film “Flight 93” (2006), begins by showing pilots and flight attendants going through their normal, early morning preparations for flight. It shows travelers of all walks of life passing through airport security en route to the planes they would board for flight that day. There are smiles on some faces, scowls and consternation on others. And between the two pilots of flight 93 there is an obvious light-heartedness, all of which communicate that it’s just another day where average Americans step through the routines of life.

But it wasn’t an average day, as we all know, and the movie communicates this by interweaving clips of terrorists as they prepared to board flight 93, as well.