"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? - - - - - 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!