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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
My own research has led me to believe that it was shot down. There was very little debris at the Shanksville site....
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Of course there's very little debris, the plane basically dove into the ground, it was pretty much a pile driver effect in that any debris would be restricted to a relatively tiny area.
If the plane had been hit by an air to air missile, you would have had a primary explosion which would have spread at the very least engine parts over a wide area. Plus if it was shot down then you would have to conclude that the terrorist pilot would still be in control of the plane and would attempt to salvage his flight and his mission, which means that he would probably have pulled back on the wheel to nose it up, and he's compensate for the damage with rudder if it was an engine hit (Which a heat seeker would guide to) which means that the plane would have probably gone it at a much lesser angle and you would have had an arrow head crash marker with debris all along it.