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Suggest we change: the emotive language & phone call falsity.

' Unknown to the hijackers, passengers aboard made telephone calls to loved ones and relayed information on the hijacking. '

I gather that there was allegedly, only one passenger call. Imo, 'loved ones' is inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Beingsshepherd (talk) 22:26, 20 February 2014 (UTC)Beingsshepherd[reply]

What would you suggest we use instead? --John (talk) 06:26, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
their husband Beingsshepherd (talk) 01:55, 19 June 2014 (UTC)Beingsshepherd[reply]


I had copied the same text as quoted above and, based on the format of other wiki articles, I felt that there should either be a citation or a 'Citation needed' note. The point about singular vs. plural strikes me as valid. John Champagne (talk) 01:59, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not killed in action

Lieutenant Mari-Rae Sopper, USNR, was killed on the plane. But she was not the first "Navy Judge Advocate ever killed in action". This was terrorism, not war.Royalcourtier (talk) 03:39, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Attacks on military facilities are not normally referred to as "terrorism". Why should this one be? --John (talk) 06:28, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And we have WP:TERRORIST as well. --John (talk) 08:22, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well for one thing, most attacks aren't on office buildings that house the paperwork. 69.121.144.8 (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cell phones

The article incorrectly claims that cell phone calls were made from the plane, but this is physically impossible. In order for a cell phone to connect to a tower, the plane could not have been traveling at faster than 150-160 mph, and the evidence used in the article itself indicates that it was not traveling at this speed during the times the calls supposedly occurred. An examination of the flight data for the plane indicates that after the hijacking time the plane never had a speed of under 0.5 Mach, well too fast to work. Wikipedia is a place for verified truth, not propaganda.174.73.5.74 (talk) 23:33, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable sources indicate otherwise. Please do not insert your personal analysis into the article. Acroterion (talk) 01:55, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]