F16's, I would have thought F18's would be used. I saw a bunch of these get scrambled on 9/11/2001.

Here come a bunch of IFS:

If the plane was shot down by blowing out an engine, this would explain the corkscrew pattern as well as the engine debris being outside the crash site.

I have no problem blowing a passenger plane out of the sky if it means saving additional lives, but that is me...a lot of people would disagree.

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