The Lingering Mystery of Flight 93

The Philadelphia Daily News is reporting that,

The final three minutes of hijacked United Flight 93 are still a mystery more than a year after it crashed in western Pennsylvania - even to grieving relatives who sought comfort in listening to its cockpit tapes in April.

A Daily News investigation has found a roughly three-minute gap between the time the tape goes silent - according to government-prepared transcripts - and the time that top scientists have pinpointed for the crash.

Several leading seismologists agree that Flight 93 crashed last Sept. 11 at 10:06:05 a.m., give or take a couple of seconds. Family members allowed to hear the cockpit voice recorder in Princeton, N.J., last spring were told it stopped just after 10:03.

The FBI and other agencies refused repeated requests to explain the discrepancy...

I try not to play into conspiracy theories, but I grow more suspicious about what we're being told about what happened on Flight 93 as time goes by. There's just a lot of fishy information floating around: the FBI hasn't released the cockpit tapes publicly, the wreckage of the plane is classified, and several of the eye-witness reports about the plane's last moments are contradictory, to name just a few examples. Many people believe it was shot down, although I'm not sure whether I buy that. This site has compiled some of the contradictory evidence; the author of the site concludes that, "I think we have a manipulated story on our hands."