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The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, who retaliated against the hijackers and forced them to crash the plane before they reached Washington D.C.
While 111 of 296 people still died, the United Airlines Flight 232 pilots still managed to do an impressive feat by flying a plane to an airport without hydraulics.
- The same goes for Japan Airlines Flight 123, when test pilots were put in the same situation as JAL123, not a single one lasted the 32 minutes the actual crew did.
The pilots of Qantas Flight 32, who managed to land an overweight plane without one engine.
Federal Express Flight 705's pilots, who managed to fight-off a hijacker long-enough to make an emergency landing.