The Flight That Fought Back

I was watching Discovery Channel in Astro last night.

The title of the show was “The Flight That Fought Back”. On 11th September, 2001 attacks (also known as 9/11), the terrorists hijacked 4 flights. Two crashed into World Trade Centre, one crashed to Pentagon and one more - United Airlines 93 – crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

In the show, they reconstructed what happened on United Airlines 93 from the phone calls the passengers and the crews made through the GTE airphones. They played the actual recording of the phone calls.

Those on that flight fought back, as stated in the title. They fought against the terrorists and took the last bet trying to save their own lives.

Everyone knows the ending of the show. Everyone knows that there’s no survivor from the crash.

It really moved my heart. I feel so sad everytime when I tried to imagine how they felt on the plane when those on the flight called their loved ones – their partners, their families – to tell them they love them at the very last moment of their lives. My heart aches everytime I recalled the looks in their families’ eyes when they tried to recall the incident that day – when their love ones called them from that flight.

My imagination started to run wild and I started to think what’d I do if I am on that flight? Who would I call? What would I say?

I just… feel so sad….

Life is just so unpredictable. No one in the flight would even expect that. I remembered one of the passengers said “I can’t believe that this happened to me”. We never know what’s going to happen in the very next seconds.

So, like what a friend told me before, live everyday as if it were your last, then you’ll appreciate more.