United 93 - Bomb On Board?

Here is a page with a link to the audio, the hijacker says to Cleveland center they have a bomb.
www.milaircomms.com...

Passengers apparently mentioned a third hijacker with a box that supposedly contained a bomb, at least one passenger expressed the belief that the bomb was fake.

The cockpit voice recording, which was recorded on a 30 minute loop, began at 9:32 a.m. At 9:32 a man with an Arabic accent, probably Ziad Jarrah, transmitted to air traffic control the following: "Ladies and gentlemen, here [is] the captain, please sit down, keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board. So sit." (It is likely that Jarrah was attempting to broadcast this over the plane's intercom, but did not understand that the message was transmitted to air traffic control instead.)

The flight then reversed direction and began flying eastward at a low altitude. At 9:39 air traffic controllers overheard Jarrah saying, "Uh, this is the captain. Would like you all to remain seated. There is a bomb on board, and [we] are going back to the airport, and to have our demands [unintelligible]. Please remain quiet." There were no further transmissions.

So I ask, do you guys think the hijackers were bluffing when they said they had a bomb on board? I am undecided atm.

The terrorists could have said what they liked, and people would believe them at the time.

Looking at the lack of evidence, and oddities in the reports about Flight 93, I'm not sure it even existed. Why would United say it landed safely at Cleveland (it wasn't even flying there that day) then retract it????

Very strange for an airline not to know where its own aircraft are, on a day everyone has an interest in that particular information.

What is with the flight plan change request, too??

[edit on 16-4-2007 by mirageofdeceit]

ok, so highly trained terrorists who can fly aircraft flat out into buildings with perfect timing and precision get the wrong push to talk switch?

This just keeps getting better and better. The storys are about as water-tight as the Titanic.