[Let's Roll]

You can have it both ways - just because it was/may have been shot down doesn't mean the passengers weren't also doing their best to stop the hijackers.

And only libs could raise this issue while at the same time insisting the pilots shouldn't be armed and instead rely on having to shoot down any future hijacked flights.

[WarSlut]

You can have it both ways - just because it was/may have been shot down doesn't mean the passengers weren't also doing their best to stop the hijackers.

Absolutely right. Not only is it possible, I'm convinced it's the way it happened. All of the evidence I've seen and read clearly points to this scenario.

Doesn't make what those men did any less heroic. The passengers and the fighters jets acted independently of each other, without any knowledge of what the other was doing.