'Flight 93' Draws Record A&E Audience

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LOS ANGELES - A television movie about one of the doomed Sept. 11 airplanes was A&E's most-watched program ever, a sign that audiences may be ready for a coming spate of movie and TV projects dramatizing the terrorism of five years ago.

"Flight 93," about the hijacking of the United Airlines plane and passengers' efforts to retake it, drew 5.9 million viewers when it premiered Monday, the cable channel said.

It was the most-watched A&E program since the channel launched in 1984.

The movie was based on public records, including phone conversations between passengers on the plane bound from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco and their relatives and friends.

Officials believe the hijackers of the aircraft, which crashed in a Pennsylvania field, had targeted either the White House or the U.S. Capitol..."

From Yahoo, 1 Feb 2006

I tried watching this but just couldn't get past the first half hour. My heart was racing from the very beginning and I felt sick to my stomach knowing what would happen. It raised way too much anxiety in me. I watch just about every documentary that comes on tv about 9-11 but for some reason this was more difficult for me to take. I agree with KillarneyRose that it's too soon to get that intimate of look at the last minutes of these brave lives. :(

I have it on now too, but I don't know how much longer I can keep it on. Too soon for this movie, still too much emotion that came racing back too quickly...