[MindBender26]

Reported or theorized?

[dakine]

What source did they cite????

[gore_sux]

I have heard that reactors are designed to withstand a 747 impacting at full speed.

[goldstategop]

Would the nutcases really have been able to trigger a Chernobyl? A nuclear plant can't explode even in the worst case scenario. Looks like someone wanted to several thousand people to come down with radiation poisoning. What a bunch of sweethearts. Yeah for the record, if the report is true, I am just as thankful as other Americans for the heroes who brought down Flight 93 before it could reach whatever was its intended target.

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

Wow! This plane's intended target has been reported/theorized as:

Camp David
The White House
The Capitol
Air Force One
The Pentagon (second wave)
Three Mile Island
Boss_Jim's House

Any that I've missed?

[toenail]

ping

[Ispy4u]

Sounds like Barbara Streisand to me. Why the heck would a talk radio station in Detroit have access to a report from Washington. Highly suspect and it smells too.

[mrsmith]

It wouldn't have done much harm.
But stupidity being so prolific, there would have been a huge panic of morons.

[TKEman]

Well, given the nutcase characteristics of these guys, I won't put anything past them.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

If true, then we have already entered the age of nuclear terrorism. And GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT THE PLANE DOWN! That was a more titanic fight than we first thought, no? A hand-to-hand fight by civilian Americans who prevented nuclear terrorism! Like I mentioned before. Exclusive medals. A monument. And a big production movie about it that gives money to the victims' families.

[HopeSprings]

I've also heard that the plane was headed for either Area 51 or Wright-Patterson (where alien bodies are stored).

[kjam22]

Concrete proof that Bin Ladden attempted to set off a Nuke explosion in the U.S. would be needed justification for a first strike nuke on the Taliban and Bin Ladden.

[angkor]

TMI: Not plausible.

The Capitol was not hit on 9/11. Why not?

It is the most identifiable landmark in DC, and you can see it from 10 miles away.

The Pentagon is a relatively stupid target in comparison to the WH or the Capitol.

I maintain that the Pentagon was intended to provide a sighting to the WH, via the Washington Monument. Look at a DC map to work it out.

[thinking]

If you draw a line from Cleveland through Somerset, PA, the line points directly at Washington...This is the track that the aircraft was flying, so, IMHO it was heading to WAshington....

[chimera]

Was this the flight that went out of Newark? If so, they had better options than TMI. Indian Point was near their flight path and closer to NYC. They could have flown close to Limerick or Susquehanna. Beaver Valley is close to Pittsburgh (where the plane turned) and has two operable units to aim at. They could have overflown Pittsburg and continued on to Perry, just east of Cleveland. TMI would be a poor choice for a target. Come to think of it, the US Steel building in Pittsburgh would be easier to hit. This just doesn't make sense.

[linn37]

hey I just live 10 miles from there as the crow flys,security was supposed to be tightened there right after the pentagon crash or so the local radio reported..........

[TheDon]

We really don't need to give the eco-terrorists any ideas...

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[There's millions of'em]

According to publicly available assesments of potential terrorist threats to nuclear facilities, it is not the reactor that is most vulnerable. It is the stored spent nuclear fuel. This stuff is secured such that a car or truck bomb would not likely get to it, but an aircraft would have a clear shot. In the case of a jumbo jet going into one of the known storage facilities, it is considered to be one of the worst possible scenarios. Worse by far than the WTC.

[verity]

Think before energizing keyboard.