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[PLMerite]

One "sonic boom" does not a case make.

If fighters were zipping around the stratosphere chasing bogeys, there should have been more than just one. In fact, they should have left a trail of broken windows.

[BigBobber]

The Islamic hijackers had bombs on the planes. They told the passengers they had a bomb. This is how they operate. Look at all the attacks in Israel. In 99% the Islamics use bombs.

When the heros of Flight 93 rushed the hijackers the terrorists set off the bomb. That's why there are parts of the plane far from the final crash site.

The government doesn't want you to know this because to this day they have no way to detect bombs being brought onto planes. They want you to keep flying.

[mykej]

"Its new, unscheduled flight path puts it into a dead-on course for Washington, D.C. It will likely overfly at least one nuclear reactor and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before reaching the beltway."

Is he using a different map from the rest of the world? Since flight 93 was approaching from the NW, and Annapolis is East of DC, I doubt they would have overflown it.

[Jeff Gordon]

I have heard said that FL 93 itself had exceed Mach 1 during its final dive. Could this be the mysterious sonic boom?

[MoodyBlu]

It's amazing how whacked out some people are. UAL93 was a Boeing 757. Boeing 757s are not designed to take nose dives towards the earth and still remain intact at the speeds this one most likely reached. Sure pieces were found scattered around!

As for the coverup, please get real. I am an FAA air traffic controller at a major east coast airport. If an F16 had shot 93 down, the controllers responsible for that area would have known about it and I would have heard or read about it through some of our communication channels. You can't keep something like that quiet!

[Jaxter]

[Fabozz]

"Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that the order to shoot down any airliner headed for D.C. that refused to alter course had been given after the Pentagon had been hit..."

The Pentagon was hit around 9:40, which is about when Flight 93 stopped responding. Nobody has ever suggested that Cheney ordered Flight 93 shot down before that moment. But at that point, by the author's timeline, the Toledo F-16s had already reached NYC. Why on earth would NORAD dispatch F-16s from New York to shoot down a plane near Cleveland, when there were three F-16s already in the air over DC?

If you want to believe in a conspiracy theory, it's much, much simpler to posit that NORAD sent one of the three DC CAP planes north to shoot it down. That theory only requires the DC CAP pilots and their commanding officers to be in on the conspiracy, and is at least plausible. The author's theory drags in everyone from the entire staff of that airfield in Toledo to the air traffic controllers in New York City, way too many people. I'd sooner believe the 9:22 sonic boom was caused by a deorbiting UFO than that the government could keep hundreds of people quiet about shooting down a civilian airliner.