MANHATTAN — Mark Wahlberg says he was booked on one of the flights that was flown into the World Trade Center on 9/11, and if he'd been on board he would have stopped the terrorists.
“If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did," Wahlberg, a reformed Boston street thug, told Men's Journal. "There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”
The comment, released Wednesday, immediately drew criticism from 9/11 survivors. One widow told TMZ that Wahlberg, star of the new movie "Contraband," was being "disrespectful" and was "grandstanding."
"Does Mark Wahlberg have a pilot's license?" widow Deena Burnett-Bailey told the website. "Then I think hindsight is 20/20 and it's insignificant to say what you would have done if you weren't there. "
