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.
The authors conclusions are not supported by the facts in the article. The If the passegers had not attempted to take control of the plane, the hijackers would have either crashed their plane into the White House or the Capitol unless an Air National Guard plane (unarmed) had rammed Flight 93 first.
The passenger were heroes. They new that if they did nothing they would be dead, and that their plane would be used to kill hundreds or thousands of people on the ground. They also knew an important landmark building would be destroyed. No, contrary to the leftist drivel of this Reuters article the passengers were heroes. Also, the hijackers proved themselves to be cowards like all the islamonazi jihadists.
Correction:
They knew that if they did nothing they would be dead,