Given the nature of what appears to be a spectacular cover up, this is as likely a scenario as any.
I think that too, unless we have a US installation somewhere that is closer for the plane to get to. They likely don't have enough fuel to get to the west coast.
We would have never thought Muslims could come here and spend all the time they did getting ready for 9-11 and actually manage to do it. If they took the present plane to kill some of us, maybe they screwed up and accidentally crashed the plane in the ocean.
What could they have on that plane that would kill thousands of people that would fit in an approved size carry on bag that wouldn't show up going through a scanner? I doubt it would be biological as they likely want a fast, spectacular kill. Chemicals would kill fast but also dilute in the air quickly.
But remember anthrax and ricin poison. “The CDC categorizes ricin as a “Class B” threat, which is the agency's second-highest threat level. It ranks behind anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia and viral hemorrhagic fevers.”
Smallpox would be deadly but not instantly and hemorrhagic fevers would be the same.
We don't know what happened to that plane and maybe terrorists don't have it. One day we will know.
Or the east coast - what made you think the west coast? Just curious.