Flight 93 Essay

On 9/11/2001, I was four years old and I was merely a preschool student. I remember sitting on my living room floor watching flight 175 fly into the south tower and seeing both towers collapse. My young mind was as innocent as can be, yet I recognized all the lives lost and the importance that the event would hold in our country’s and the world’s history. Thus, I remember it happening to this day. Many people were involved or killed in this event, from first responders, to those in the affected buildings, and Americans in general. In this sense, the event was a typical terrorist attack. However, there is significance in the context of the infrastructure and the information infrastructure involving the two key stakeholders of this event: the terrorists and passengers of flight 93. Both the terrorists and passengers used the information infrastructure beyond what it was designed for. Hence, there were two dueling occurrences here. One involved the terrorists maneuvering the takeover of the plane with box cutters by extracting information about our aviation infrastructure and policies for the advantage of their cause. A specific policy was to negotiate with terrorists, not to eliminate them (negotiation didn’t work). Whereas the passengers retrieved information on the attack from the

Furthermore, the context around all stakeholders can be useful for an agent when explaining project decisions about the information infrastructure to intended stakeholders. This is helpful when you consider that terrorists despised Western culture and its seeming target to stop the establishment of the caliphate. Thus, it is important to include all stakeholders in decisions. Since the information infrastructure can be used in a multitude of ways, the designers must recognize every usage and stakeholder as legitimate and real and protect against unintended uses, such as