Reply #59: Yes and no.

[petgoat]

I agree that shooting down and frustrating a suicide hijacking is preferable to allowing
it to complete its mission.

Flight 77 thus should have been shot down and, if Cheney was tracking it, why wasn't it?

If flight 93 was shot down, what was the hurry? Look at the map. They were going to be
over Blair Witch country for another ten minutes before they started hitting the DC Metro
area. The FBI was in contact with the telephone call recipients and thus must have known
about the plans to take over the plane.

Perhaps 93 was in fact headed for a strike on Three Mile Island--which info would then be
suppressed because while the officials clearly want us to be afraid, they'd prefer that we
not be afraid of nuke plants.

Jim Hoffman says the debris trail (east of the crash zone) suggests that the plane had
turned back toward Pittsburgh and was holed in the air and that the passengers had
regained control of the plane. This could explain the three minute discrepancy between
the seismograph time of the plane crash (10:06) and the official time of 10:03--the
officials suppressed the last three minutes of cockpit voice recorder that indicates the
passengers regained control. If so, was the shoot-down a tragic mistake by an incompetent
military? Or was it ordered because there was something about the plane or the hijackers
that the officials didn't want us to know?

We won't get the answers until we get a new investigationm of 9/11.