RE: Bingowings in Post 26 (Internet connection is ass, so I have no idea if anyone else has replied in the time I've had to wait to actually post this message I wrote several minutes ago, so bear with me if I'm covering anything that's already been addressed) EDIT: Welp, seems I'm in the clear. =P

Yeah, but the point here is that they DID fight back and relatively successfully. I was actually planning to use the same basic argument you just did but for the hijackers. That being in their stressful situation kept them from thinking as logically as they might have. But your point works too. They were subdued easily at the beginning, and that would have been the hijackers' opportunity to silence them permanently rather than give them a(n hour's) chance to, as C3PX eloquently put it, grow grapefruit-sized balls. I think Flight 93 is an excellent example of citizens acting heroically and daringly, not an example of them being too easily cowed and defeated and victims of SEP.