Reply #25: What does the FDR show?

[evworldeditor]

I would really like to know what the Flight Data Record shows happened in the final minutes of the flight, apart from the rocking the wings violently, side-to-side.

If an air-to-air missle took out one of the engines, I would think the FRD would indicate this by showing a dramatic drop in engine temperature, hydraulic pressure, a sudden yaw, etc. Clearly the aircraft broke up in flight... the question is why? Was it caused by the hijackers exceeding the designed loads of the aircraft or by a remotely detonated bomb in the baggage compartment or by an exterior cause like an air-to-air missile from an F-16?