Early in the movie, you can hear a flight attendant on the phone replying to the person asking, "Can you look out the window and tell us where you?" Her response is the last words of actual American Airlines flight attendant Amy Sweeney, who was on Flight 11 from Boston To Los Angeles that morning.
Kenneth Kantymir (who played Andrew Garcia, one of the passengers who rushed the cockpit) wore his own Star of Courage bravery medal pinned over his heart for the entire shoot to honor the memory of the heroic passengers and crew of United Airlines flight 93.
The FAA Center mention in the film is the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZBW), located in Nashua, New Hampshire. The Boston ARTCC covers 165,000 square miles (430,000 km2) of airspace that includes airports in Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, New York state and northeast Pennsylvania.
Despite playing Ziad Jarrah, who was Lebanese, Dominic Rains (born Amin Nazemzadeh) is Iranian.
The plane that first hit the World Trade Center was American Airlines Flight 11. The second plane, United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower 17 minutes later at 9:03am, September 11th, 2001. This is follow by American Airlines Flight 77, that crashed into the Pentagon.
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By what name was 11 septembre - Le détournement du vol 93 (2006) officially released in India in English?
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