do they have engine data to confirm that the engines were
intact on impact???
the flight was fairly close to camp david and 120 or so miles from wash dc. a shootdown would have to had happened
fairly close to where flt 93 went down in order to avoid a crash in a populated area.
i can understand a shootdown being necessary, as well as the desire to keep the fact of it a secret. it would be interesting to know if the wreckage bore evidence of
sidewinder fragmentation.
What rationalization would there be to keep a shootdown secret? If anything, it would be helpful to broadcast the fact that we did shoot one down.