[Asclepius]

No, the story that day (and days following) was that the plane went down in the field because of the battle in the cockpit.

Good. We identified your problem. You read too much into the reportage. All that was ever reported is that the passengers rose up and the aircraft went down. What the investigation has revealed is that the two events are causally connnected: the air craft went down because the terrorists did not want to risk losing the aircraft even if it meant never making it to their target etc., etc.

[HitmanLV]

I don't doubt that it was a failure of reporting. Indeed, that's been my point all along.

And certainly the resistance led to the hijackers aborting their mission, whatever it was.

[Arkinsaw]

What the investigation has revealed is that the two events are causally connnected: the air craft went down because the terrorists did not want to risk losing the aircraft even if it meant never making it to their target etc., etc.

There are some that want to disconnect the two by wordsmithing as if there were no linkage and the terrorists just decided to fly the plane into the ground for no reason at the same time passengers were coincidentally failing in an attempt to attack the cockpit.