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 "Passenger Edward Felt made an emergency call 
   from the plane ... spoke of an explosion and 
   seeing some white smoke. 
 
Hmm he didn't say "Jesus - WE'VE BEEN HIT!" or
"Jesus  - SOMETHING JUST BLEW UP!"
 
Sorry, this doesn't wash ...

 
Geez ... remember a NUMBER of pasengers made calls via
the GTE Airfones on board that flight - and I suspect
that there were a couple of calls in progress DURING this
entire time (I would have made one myself - damn the 
three dollars a minute it would have cost me if I had 
lived!) period!
 
Anyway - it's NOT likely an appropriately placed 
air to air missile would have had negligible
effect and NOT made a loud noise ALSO hearable 
over the phone connection TO the guy on the 
ground ...
 
 
  "a one-ton section of the engine" 
 
What does that mean? A one-ton section?
 
Was it the turbine? Was it part of the external
turbine housing?
 
What kind of FORCE from an explosion results when
an airplane augers in at high speed? How mush debris 
is belched out - like when a rock hits water or an 
impact crater is made?
 
 
  "but at 9:22 am a sonic boom"
 
What happens when one starts mucking around with 
engine thrust on turbo fan engine - can you do
weird stuff like dump excess fuel into it and 
then shut-off-restart if you don't know what you 
are doing?

 
  "earthquake monitor in southern Pennsylvania"
 
Maybe this was because of something else - like the 
usual bachground noise from sources including truck
vibration of the ground ...
 
 
 "the last thing heard on the cockpit voice recorder 
  is the sound of wind"
 
I suspect this would NOT be the last sound heard 
on the CVR if they had been hit by an air to air 
missile. WHAT ABOUT THE SOUND OF AN EXPLOSION!!!!
 
  "less than 10 minutes flying time from 
   Washington. "
 
IF the goombas flying it KNEW which direction to
head, and, the FAA guys watching the ARSR's (Air
Route Surv. RADARs would have KNOWN this and 
would ALSO have seen the interceptors on their
scopes TOO. WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY TO SHUT THESE
GUYS UP?
 
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REALLY NICE conspiracy theories are usually wound 
around the SELECT PRESENTATION of just a FEW FACTS,
like the so-called 'facts' below.
 
Sort of like a trial where ALL you hear from is the
prosecution - or the defense!

September 11 was a beautiful, sunny fall morning in SW Pa. Alot of people were outside, there are way too many consistent anecdotal stories to discount. One that comes to the forefront, for me, was that office buildings in downtown Pittsburgh were being evacuated (because of the plane being lost over Cleveland airspace and heading south towards Pittsburgh. It was obviously being tracked (to some degree). They avoided civilian targets in Cleveland and Pittsburgh) but the theory (locally) was that they were following the course of the PA Turnpike to head south to DC (which explains the crash in the Somerset area).