Passengers aboard the ill-fated 9/11 flight take matters into their own hands on A&E’s Flight 93.

Monday at 9 p.m., A&E presents the original TV movie Flight 93. The movie is a dramatization of the ill-fated 9/11 flight that crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

Everyone knows the story: Four terrorists hijacked the plane with the presumed intention of slamming it into the White House. Several passengers, clued-in by cell phone calls to three other coordinated suicide attacks that day, took it upon themselves to wrest back control of the aircraft.

It is a brave, sad tale of ordinary folks stepping up and becoming heroes.

Four-and-a-half years later, the Orange Alert seems to be off, turning 9/11 grief into made-for-TV movies.

Last night, A&E aired I Missed Flight 93, about three passengers who were at one time booked on the plane but for various reasons didn't make the flight -- and lived.

Discovery drew record ratings with its Flight That Fought Back movie last year. A theatrical version of Flight 93 is in the works from director Paul Greengrass.

By all accounts, tonight's dramatization is true to the official record of events. The reviews I've read suggest it does not exploit the memories of the passengers involved, and that there are no Bruce Willis-style histrionics. The rallying cry "Let's roll," so famously uttered by passenger Todd Beamer (played by Brennan Elliott), is simply heard off screen.

For me, it's still too early to watch this stuff. But, hey, knock yourselves out.