content: Also 97% of the victims families settled out of court by way of the 9/11 Victims Fund.  If a family accepted the offer, it was not possible to appeal.  Essentially 97% of the victims families waived their right to sue the airlines, which would likely have resulted in uncovering a monumental amount of evidence regarding what happened that day at the airports, the airport security staff, the airport CCTV security footage, airport control tower transcripts, the 4 "missing" blackboxes, and the airline insider trading on Wall Street.