[HitmanLV]

I must have missed the phone call from the cockpit - oh yea, that's right, there was no phone call from the cockpit!

This theory, based on the government's analysis of cockpit recordings, discounts the popular perception of insurgent passengers grappling with terrorists to seize the plane's controls.

And that's the message - the heroes never made it to the cockpit, never battled the hijackers for control. It never happened. Anyone who still belives it has problems.

[Arkinsaw]

And that's the message - the heroes never made it to the cockpit, never battled the hijackers for control. It never happened. Anyone who still belives it has problems.

Let's see, the passengers stated that they were going to try and take the cockpit and had hot water and beverage tray. The cockpit recordings show a disturbance shortly after with crashing sounds, shouts, and breaking dishes. During this disturbance the terrorists are heard talking about ending it and running the plane into the ground. The plane runs into the ground.

You seem to be making the completely illogical inference that if the passengers did not actually seize the controls (and presumably make a phone call proving it) then they therefore CANNOT be responsible for bringing the plane down and saving the White House.

The passengers did NOT reach the controls. Nevertheless they are indeed responsible for that plane coming down where it did instead of at the White House by making the attempt. It is likely that they were not able to get to the control BECAUSE the terrorists crashed the plane to prevent them.

Not sure why you have the need to play with words to separate the actions of the passengers from the results of the flight.

[carton253]

Why is it so important to you that they didn't make it into the cockpit?

The plane went down in the field because they passengers decided to fight back. Simple enough.