Reply #14: Well it's not clear to me. According to the right-wing

[petgoat]

newspaper The Daily Telegraph, two of the alleged flight 93 hijackers, al Ghamdi and al Nami, have
turned up alive.

I agree that had the planes been intercepted by fighters, had the hijackers refused to negotiate
and land, the planes should have been shot down to deny the hijackers the satisfaction of completing
their missions.

But if 93 was headed for DC, it was going to be over Blair Witch country for another ten minutes.
So what was the hurry to shoot it down? The FBI was listening to the phone calls and knew the
passengers were planning an assault. Jim Hoffman suggests that the debris trail indicates that
the flight was heading west when it crashed, which would seem consistent with the passengers having
taken control.