Richard Miniter
speaker
1,766 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Richard Miniter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they began boiling water, which is used in the back of the plane to make coffee and tea.
They began assembling whatever they could for weapons.
We know just fragmentary bits from the cockpit voice recorder and from the transcripts of the phone calls.
And they attacked the hijackers.
They did not launch their attack until they could see out the window.
They were over a rural area.
They were aware there were tons of aviation gas which would explode and kill people on the ground.
And they wanted to spare as many civilians on the ground as possible.
Flight ninety three is the only flight.
In which no one on the ground died.
No, it's a heartbreaking story.
They did
apparently, according to the recordings, disabled two of the four hijackers and were ramming the cart into the cockpit door and may have gotten inside the cockpit itself.
There is fragmentary last second recordings where they're demanding that the they're fighting over the controls of the plane.
Or from a flight of un but from a height of roughly eight thousand feet, according to a a small plane that was observing them at the time.
They dived into the dirt, killing everyone aboard.
And there's a monument for them now in uh near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
But that is an incredible example of people in real time making decisions without any outside guidance.
Going against forty years of conventional wisdom.
They were always instructed by their betters.
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