[Dog Gone]

Good point. This doesn't fit the plan at all. If they were planning to hit the west coast, they would have hijacked a plane leaving Los Angeles or San Francisco and turned it around.

[littleleaguemom]

Philippine Airlines flies nonstop to the US from Manila. The flights leave around 10 am EST, arriving into LAX at dinnertime PST. Manila is a hotbed of Islamic terrorists and was (is?) a base for one of the previous WTC bombers. Makes perfect sense to launch a hijack from there.