Load Toad:
So when the terrorists have clearly communicated they are in complete control & are going to crash on a Very Important Building where do you shoot the airliner down & where does it fall? Having been travelling at 300 - 400 odd miles an hour & hit with one or more high explosive AA missiles travelling at supersonic speeds does it just fall in one piece in a convenient empty field?
Keep in mind this is America, the former home of the free and the brave. Since 911, that has been replaced by the Patriot Act.
The "government" whatever that is these days, doesn't want a plane flying into the government buildings in DC or any other place some four star general on duty deems important. They could not care less where the wreckage falls as long as it doesn't do what they don't want it to do.
But, as the country rapidly gets poorer this will all come to pass.