[sgtbono2002]

I dont know about all cities , but the airports around DC would not be that prone to getting a lot of people killed should the plane explode on the approach.

To Washington National the approaches are over water, to Dulles mostly Rural although it is building up. To BWI they come in over water or rural land. Certainly the Urban sprawl has built under some of these flight paths but not as thickly as over a city.

I believe the plot was made to explode over the ocean like the Brits say and some newspaper editor added the polt to explode over cities to sell more papers.

[Beckwith]

To Washington National the approaches are over water

Flew into Reagan National Airport hundreds of times. Many of those times, I thought the wing tip would hit one of those buildings along the Potomac by the Watergate.

If a bomb were to be detonated during final descent, those planes could wipe out about a mile of condos, hotels and commercial buildings.