Yep the hero always has to be the man.
This particularly bothered me watching 'United 93'.
I know we will never know exactly what happened and the accounts we do have are from passengers' phone calls.
The experts on the flight, apart from the pilots who were incapacitated or possibly dead, would be the flight attendants.
They would know the route, what was available in terms of emergency equipment eg fire extinguishers, location of the axe(s) what was in the crew area.
Children, particularly playing Victorian street urchins, with shiny shoes, clean faces and gloriously glossy hair.