Flight 3911: 9/11: we know the fate of Flight 93, but what if there was a fifth hijacking?

by Billy Paul Smith

Brandon Powell casually boarded Flight 3911 bound for Seattle. Minutes after reaching cruising altitude, five Middle Eastern men hijacked the aircraft, killing the two pilots and a flightattendant.The terror of September 11, 2001 was now in full motion.The 48 passengers onboard quickly understood the seriousness of their situation. Passengers led by Brandon silently organized and against all odds, succeeded in regaining control of the airliner.Brandon, a small aircraft pilot, took control of the big jet relying on ground instruction tonavigate a safe landing. Three hijackers became the first POWs of the War on Terror; the other two were dead.Rather than directing the novice pilot to take Flight 3911 to the nearest airport, NORAD quickly hatched a plan to land the 757 secretly at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The plan included crashing an empty remote-controlled military cargo jet in Ohio allowing the world to believe Flight 3911 met the same fate United 93 was dealt in a remote Pennsylvania field.The world need not know about the captured POWs. After Brandon successfully brought the bird down, the hijackers were quickly transported to the mountains of Afghanistan for interroga-tion by the disgraced Major Cauldwell who was given orders to discover everything the terrorists knew. Operation Bonanza was launched.Major Cauldwell, on orders from the US president, used his in-country resources and deployedextreme measures to extract full details of the attack on America, including the name of theterrorists’ immediate leader. Cauldwell was authorized to eliminate the man responsible, known as Hassan Sharaf. He planned a Black Ops mission with personally selected Delta Forceoperatives to secretly invade Syria and kill the lead terrorist. Two months passed beforecompleting the mission, infiltrating the local population to determine the right time to planrevenge.

313 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 28, 2021

Reviews

[Citri · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book read like some bizarre daydream. Like the author sat in his recliner and was like...hey...what if I saved a plane on 9/11? What if I became best bros with the President? What if women were well-endowed and got to bone in the Lincoln Bedroom??

Flight 3911 is created by answering these type of daydreamy questions. The main character, Brandon, is clearly a self-insert of the author, even to the point of writing the same first book. He's the humble hero in this story, where a 5th plane is hijacked on 9/11 and meant to destroy the White House. The passengers successfully overpower the terrorists, Brandon lands the plane and then the story goes completely off the rails. There's no way to summarize what happens without spoilers, so just picture the song "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" come to life and you've got the feeling of the story.

So much felt out of touch to me- like terrorists being tortured with rap music, or comments like women shouldn't go to nightclubs if they want to be respectable. But to be fair this is not a book I'd typically read. It popped up on my recommendations after reading nonfiction about Flight 93. By lurking the author's Instagram I saw he had a giveaway for a stay at his own vacation condo for people who had pre-ordered which I found endearing.