[BigBobber]

Citing transcripts of the still-secret cockpit recordings, FBI Director Robert Mueller told congressional investigators in a closed briefing last year that, minutes before Flight 93 hit the ground, one of the hijackers "advised Jarrah to crash the plane and end the passengers' attempt to retake the airplane."

I would like to know exactly what the "advise" was. Note that Mueller did not say "fly the plane into the ground". He said "crash the plane".

One of the hijackerrs had a bomb around his waist. This was reported by the passengers in their phone calls.

Perhaps the instruction was to detonate the bomb. This would crash the plane and end the passengers' heroic assault.

Speculation: this information will eventually be confirmed by the government. They still don't want you to know the hijackers had bombs because TSA still cannot keep bombs off planes. Hand searches of luggage will not find bombs and there aren't enough bomb sniffing machines at airports yet. When the travelling public is better protected they will release the complete story of Flight 93.

Also, a few days ago the feds issued a warning about ordinary objects hiding knives and bombs and renewed threats to the air industry.

[BigBobber]

One other thing. I doubt that any of the passengers' relative spoke Arabic so they would not be able to tell what the hijackers were saying to each other. Thus they wouldn't be able to contradict the FBI interpretation of what was going on in the voice recording.

[eno_]

Who knows what the real story is? Some of the possibilities are:

a) The hijackers had more weapons than just boxcutters. Some might have been placed aboard planes by co-conspirators.

b) The hijackers might have had a small bomb.

c) The plane might have been shot down.

I really don't care if any of these are true, or not. It takes nothing away from the heroism of the passengers that fought the hijackers. But I DO want to know just how bad security was before 9/11.