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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 1/6/2002 7:08 pm 
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 652.1 
An excellent compilation about all details of the Pennsylvannia-"crash" ("911"-flight 93) can be find at:

http://www.flight93crash.com/
http://www.flight93crash.com/flight93_eyewitness.html

*thx to latest member "Flt93Crash"

Please read also:
911:Planes RemoteControlled/ Global Hawk?
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ground_zero2001&msg=506.2

911-The other story(UltimateChronology)/-September 9th Notes
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ground_zero2001&msg=630.1


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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 1/8/2002 5:21 pm 
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/676456.asp

"...Likewise, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), the bunker buried far below the White House where Vice President Cheney commanded the initial U.S. response, misinformation overwhelmed the facts. At one point, NEWSWEEK has learned, Cheney gave an order to shoot down a hijacked civilian airliner that didn't exist a phantom created by panic and garbled communications.
That is not to say that Feehan and Cheney were anything but cool and steady in crisis. Indeed, they showed true sangfroid at some very frightening moments.

The president and his No. 2 talked about protective measures. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had already ordered Air National Guard fighters to take to the skies to guard New York and Washington against further attack. Cheney knew that the pilots needed to be given rules of engagement that would allow them to know when to shoot. What if a commercial airliner was not responding to radio calls or warnings from the fighter pilots to turn away. I recommended that we authorize them to shoot,Cheney recalls telling Bush. We talked about it briefly. And he said, OK, Ill sign up to that.
He made the decision.

Shortly before 10 a.m., the Cheneys were led into the PEOC conference room, a wood-paneled chamber with a large table and a wall of TV screens. A plate of store-bought cookies was on the table. It was surreal,recalls Lynne Cheney. You know, it was sort of like the polite hostess there you are in the middle of this amazing crisis, and somebody remembers to put out the cookies. No one reached for one. Instead, they looked up at the TV screens. It was 9:58 a.m..."

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 1/8/2002 5:22 pm 
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 652.3 in reply to 652.1 
Thx to Lithos (DU):

http://www.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=103406


FAA alerted Military Immediately; AF Prevented From Responding (english) by TOP VIEW 3:40pm Mon Dec 10 '01 (Modified on 12:44am Fri Dec 14 '01) top_view@planetmail.com <mailto:top_view@planetmail.com>;

"..The Air Force spokesman confirmed that after alerts and requests for intercepts of the aircraft were received from FAA/ATC, orders from the HIGHEST LEVEL of the federal government demanded that the Air Force stand down and NOT follow through with established scramble/ intercept procedures until further notice! Re: AF Spokesman: FAA Alerted Military Immediately On 9.11; Mon Dec 10 16:41:06 2001 ** TOP_VIEW ** The Big Picture 12.09.01 AF Spokesman: FAA Alerted Military Immediately On 9.11; AF Prevented From Responding TOP_VIEW conducted a phone interview on 12.09.01 with a spokesperson for the U.S. Air Force, located in New York.

This person was ordered to the Ground Zero, Pennsylvania and Pentagon 9.11 crash sites within several days of the events, as part of an Air Force investigative probe. Crucial information was conveyed to us, related specifically to the entire matter of IF or WHEN FAA/ATC personnel alerted appropriate Air National Guard/Air Force units, that four large passenger jets were significantly off course and that all standard communications with these craft had been broken. We were informed that standard procedures fully in effect on the morning of September 11 were absolutely followed to a "T" by U.S. Air Traffic Control personnel; that via established channels and according to established guidelines, U.S. Air National Guard and Air Force units -- which are ALWAYS on alert to be scrambled for intercepts of either distressed OR suspicious and possibly hostile aircraft 365/24/7 in these United States -- WERE DEFINITELY contacted by FAA/ATC on 9.11 IMMEDIATELY after Air Traffic Control had become aware of the developing situation with the jets.

The Air Force spokesman confirmed that after the alerts and requests for intercepts of the aircraft were received from FAA/ATC, orders from the HIGHEST LEVEL of the executive branch of the federal government were received, demanding that the Air Force stand down and NOT follow through with established scramble/intercept procedures that morning until further notice! The U.S. Air Force's hands (wings) were DELIBERATELY TIED on the morning of September 11, until such time that the horrifying treacherous, murderous deeds had been carried out by the BushMob. Our informant has told us in no uncertain terms that as much as seventy percent of Armed Forces officers -- with the NOTABLE exception of the U.S. Navy -- are VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED to the treacherous, murderous actions carried out by profoundly corrupt and demonic elements within the federal government on 9.11, and to the wholesale treachery and demolition of the U.S. Constitution which said elements have now undertaken.

It was conveyed to us that the "story" is by no means over yet; that the fat lady has by NO means yet "sung", and that this large percentage of the military who DO support, uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution are NOT going let all this just "slide". They are simply waiting for the right time, to do all within their power to set things straight in the United States. Our source furthermore fully concurred with the assessment of ourselves and others: that a CRUCIAL element in the government being able to "SELL" to the public their utterly false fables about WHY 9.11 death planes were NOT intercepted by Air Guard/Air Force units has to do with a deliberate, major and blatant distortion and twisting of the truth by none other than Dick Cheney himself; accomplished in the following manner.

Cheney, while being interviewed by Tim Russert on NBC TV's 'MEET THE PRESS on September 16th, claimed that the military needed authorization from the president before scrambling fighter jets to intercept American Airlines Flight 77. THIS IS A BIG, BIG, LIE, plain and simple. For example: remember two years ago, when golf pro Payne Stewart's small PRIVATE Lear jet went off-course and out of communication just after takeoff in Florida? Within MINUTES, on an immediate alert from the FAA, U.S. Air Force and Air Guard jets were scrambled to intercept Stewart's jet and see what the heck was up (not that it helped much in that case...):


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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 1/8/2002 5:23 pm 
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 652.4 in reply to 652.3 
Pt.2 :
(Thx to Lithos (DU):

"Several Air Force and Air National Guard fighter jets, plus an AWACS radar control plane, helped the Federal Aviation Administration track the runaway Learjet and estimate when it would run out of fuel." --CNN, 10.26.99 Interceptors were in direct proximity to Stewart's seriously messed-up aircraft within about TEN MINUTES of him having taken off. NOBODY had to go pull Clinton away from Vice-president Monica Lewinsky and get him to AUTHORIZE the INTERCEPT of Payne Stewart's jet that day. Moreover, according to the same CNN article: "...officers on the Joint Chiefs were monitoring the Learjet on radar screens inside the Pentagon's National Military Command Center. -- CNN, 10.26.99 Air Traffic Controllers request military intercepts of private and commercial planes REGULARLY.

Sometimes it's because communications have broken off; sometimes it's to inform a pilot that his plane has gone off course; other times it's to observe the situation directly - for instance, to see who's actually flying the plane and things like that. None of this requires presidential approval. But there's more to how Cheney twisted the truth here regarding what is PROVABLY one of the biggest holes in the FedGov's 9.11 tapestry of lies; since someone of even the most minimal intelligence would realize that such intercepts are VERY common, do NOT require any "presidential authorization" and SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE on September 11.

So what arch-spin-meister Cheney did was to very subtly and cleverly fudge the distinction between a common, often-executed intercept and a SHOOT-DOWN of an aircraft already determined to be hostile. Cheney put the entire situation in the context that there was a terribly troubling, agonizing ethical decision to be made whether or not to shoot down a number of passenger aircraft which "seemed" to be hostile, and that only the president (who was after all VERY busy reading rabbit stories to Florida schoolkids at the time!) could have authorized this shoot-down.

Well. first of all, there was no NEED for any order to SHOOT DOWN; there was only a need for Air Force/Air Guard units -- which are always standing by to respond to FAA alerts about troubled and/or suspicious aircraft -- to carry out standard intercept procedures. And keep in mind that military interceptors (or '"escorts") already have clear "instructions to act." These instructions can be read online in detailed manuals from the FAA and the Department of Defense. The instructions cover everything from minor emergencies to hijackings. If a problem is definitely serious, high-ranking military officers from the NMCC (National Military Command Center) in the Pentagon can take charge. So: even if such intercepts had yielded information showing that the aircraft were indeed hijacked, were under hostile control and about to be used as guided missiles/fuel-air bombs, there is still -- according to our Air Force contact -- no requirement that any order to shoot down hostile aircraft must come from the president himself.

There are procedures fully in place for NMCC commanding officers and the DOD to order such shoot-downs, when it's obvious an attack of some kind is underway. After all, the "commander-in-chief" might be too busy reading about rabbits to schoolkids to be bothered making such decisions about shooting down hostile aircraft! Cheney knows this probably better than anyone -- except for those military officers and personnel who were DIRECTLY SAT ON by the Executive Branch on the morning of 9.11, until it was far too late to take any preventive actions whatsoever. Moreover, when jets were finally scrambled, they were deliberately scrambled from more distant bases, making it a foregone certainty the interceptors would NEVER be able to reach the hijacked planes in time.

As an example of the blatantly false/disinformative statements made by Cheney (ONCE AGAIN!) to give some credibility to this highly-manipulated, non-timely "response" scenario, he claimed that there were no intercept aircraft ready for action at Andrew Air Force Base -- only TEN MILES from the Pentagon -- on the morning of 9.11. This has been proven to be a TOTAL LIE." (For a map of Washington showing the distance from Andrews Air Force base to the Pentagon go to:

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/andrewsmap.htm



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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 1/8/2002 5:26 pm 
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 652.5 in reply to 652.4 
Here's a transcript of the MEET THE PRESS segment where Cheney gets going muddying the waters about intercepts, shoot-downs, time frames, (non-existent) moral considerations that supposedly delayed a response even more, and other chaff to deflect truth-seeking radar. Following that is a very worthwhile analysis of Cheney's verbal/conceptual gymnastics from: http://www.emporers-clothes.com/

MR. RUSSERT: What's the most important decision you think he made during the course of the day?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, the--I suppose the toughest decision was this question of whether or not we would intercept incoming commercial aircraft.

MR. RUSSERT: And you decided?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: We decided to do it. We'd, in effect, put a flying combat air patrol up over the city; F-16s with an AWACS, which is an airborne radar system, and tanker support so they could stay up a long time... "It doesn't do any good to put up a combat air patrol if you don't give them instructions to act, if, in fact, they feel it's appropriate.

MR. RUSSERT: So if the United States government became aware that a hijacked commercial airline was destined for the White House or the Capitol, we would take the plane down?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Yes. The president made the decision...that if the plane would not divert...as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out. Now, people say, you know, that's a horrendous decision to make. Well, it is. You've got an airplane full of American citizens, civilians, captured by...terrorists, headed and are you going to, in fact, shoot it down, obviously, and kill all those Americans on board? "

...It's a presidential-level decision, and the president made, I think, exactly the right call in this case, to say, "I wished we'd had combat air patrol up over New York." --NBC, 'Meet the Press' 16 September 2001 (1) * * *

FROM: http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm

 
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From:  SYLVEZTER  1/14/2002 5:43 pm 
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 652.6 in reply to 652.5 
Yep, and that's just what's on the surface of things!

Great job! I see you've got my friend's topic from the 'Clothes' here. He'll be so flattered!

Joe

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 2/1/2002 4:04 am 
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 652.7 in reply to 652.6 
For the archive, some of the phone calls

"..He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane.."

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/pit/news/stories/news-95780920010912-110907.html

Flight 93 Passenger Said He Planned Action
Crash Victims Made Final Calls Via Cell Phones

POSTED: 12:19 p.m. EDT September 12, 2001

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. --
"..Shortly before United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania, a passenger told his wife the plane had been hijacked -- and that he was going to do something about it.
In his phone call, passenger Thomas Burnett told his wife, Deena, "I know we're all going to die -- there's three of us who are going to do something about it." Then, Burnett told his wife, "I love you, honey" and the call ended, the family's priest, the Rev. Frank Colacicco, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

It wasn't clear what caused the plane to go down when it did or whether the passengers had any effect.

Several people were able to make calls from the plane before the Boeing 757 slammed into a grassy field about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Rescue crews who reached the scene shortly after 10 a.m. found a deep V-shaped gouge filled with smoldering rubble. Forty-five people had been on board.

"We're being hijacked!" one man repeatedly told dispatchers who answered 911 lines before the plane crashed in western Pennsylvania.

Tuesday's hijacking was the last of four closely timed terrorist attacks, following the two crashes into New York's World Trade Center towers and a third into the Pentagon.

U.S. officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the Secret Service had alerted the White House that the hijackers may have been headed for Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Fearing the White House might be a target, the Secret Service diverted President Bush, who had been in Florida, to Louisiana and then Nebraska.

Flight 93 left Newark at 8:01 a.m. EDT headed for San Francisco. As it approached Cleveland, radar showed the plane banked left and headed back toward southwest Pennsylvania. Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White had said that air traffic controllers said they could hear screaming on a plane they communicated with.

On board, flight attendant CeeCee Lyles grabbed her cell phone and call her husband and four sons in Fort Myers, Fla.

"She called him and let him know how much she loved him and the boys," said her aunt, Mareya Schneider. During the call, he heard people screaming in the background, Schneider said.

In California, Alice Hoglan picked up her phone about 9:45 EDT to the hear the voice of her son, Mark Bingham, 31.

"He said, 'I want you to know I love you very much. I'm calling you from the plane. We've been taken over. There are three men that say they have a bomb," Hoglan said. The phone went dead a short time later.

The caller who reached emergency dispatchers said he was inside a locked bathroom on the plane.

Dispatcher Glenn Cramer said the man repeatedly said, "We're being hijacked!" and that his call was not a hoax.

"He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane and we lost contact with him," Cramer said. The man never identified himself.

Tuesday night, FBI agents and forensic archeologists began picking through tiny pieces of rubble. Neither the cockpit voice recorder nor the flight data recorder had been recovered, and it was expected to be days before the victims could be identified.

In Pennsylvania's Richland Township, Cambria County, on Tuesday morning, police Chief Jim Mock said air traffic control coordinators reported a large aircraft heading toward the John Murtha Johnstown Cambria County Municipal Airport. The controllers said the aircraft would not identify itself.

Minutes later, the plane crashed in rural Somerset County, about 20 miles away.

"It was like an atomic bomb hit," said John Walsh, 72, who heard the crash and drove to the site while still in his bathrobe. "When I got there, the plane was obliterated. You couldn't see the cockpit or the wings or nothing."

Mark Stahl was listening to reports about the World Trade Center attacks on the radio when he heard Flight 93 crash. In nearby Shanksville, the crash sent people running to their doors, and the fire whistles began blowing.

"I didn't know what to think," Stahl said. "It was shocking."

United CEO James Goodwin said the airline was sending a team to Pennsylvania to assist the investigation and provide assistance to family members. United said it had identified all passengers and crew and was notifying families. No names were released immediately.

"Today's events are a tragedy and our prayers are with everyone at this time," Goodwin said..."

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/10/2002 12:35 am 
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 652.8 in reply to 652.1 
For the archive:

http://www.newsnet5.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-95637120010911-090924.html

SHANKSVILLE, Pa., 9:17 p.m. EDT September 11, 2001

"..Allegheny County Emergency Management Coordinator Bob Full said that Pittsburgh International Airport officials had knowledge of the plane headed for Pittsburgh and that it was taking precautionary action when the plane diverted its course. The plane actually reached the Cleveland area before turning around.

A witness said he heard two loud bangs before watching the plane take a downward turn of nearly 90 degrees. A large crater, from which none of the plane could be seen, was left in the ground.

The plane crashed into a wooded area. Many witnesses said that their homes were shaking violently as the plane flew low overhead.

A witness told WTAE-TV's Paul Van Osdol that she saw the plane overhead. It made a high-pitched, screeching sound. The plane then made a sharp, 90-degree downward turn and crashed.

Officials said that they believed that the plane took a dip and nose-dived into an abandoned strip mine.

Click here
http://www.newsnet5.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-95637120010911-090924.html#
for a slideshow of the crash scene, including pictures of debris from the site.

Another witness, Michael Merringer, said he was out on a mountain bike ride with his wife, Amy, about two miles from the crash site.

"(I) heard the engine gun two different times," he said. "(I) heard a loud bang and the windows of the houses all around rattled."

Merringer said he saw the smoke rising and he and his wire drove near the scene. "Everything was on fire and there were trees knocked down and there was a big hole in the ground," he said.

Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV reporter Michelle Wright toured the crash scene and said that a crater of about 30 to 40 feet long, 15 to 20 feet wide and 18 feet deep was created by the crash.

Officials told WTAE's Marcie Cipriani that it looked like the plane was headed south when it hit the ground. Most of the plane's debris kept traveling after the plane hit and landed in the woods past the mine. Most of the debris is small.

Crews said that they have faith that the flight data recorder, or "black box," will be found.

FBI Agent Wells Morrison said that Westmoreland County 911 received a call at 9:58 a.m. from a man who said he was on the plane. The FBI had the tape but would not discuss its contents.

The caller said he was locked in the plane's bathroom and that the flight had been hijacked, according to Glenn Cramer of Westmoreland County 911. A loud noise was then heard and the caller reported seeing white smoke, Cramer said.

Connection with the man's cellular telephone was then lost. The crash was reported soon after..."


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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/18/2002 9:19 pm 
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 652.9 in reply to 652.8 
The Egypt Air 990 connection

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=40198&SectionID=25&SubSectionID=354&S=1

Thursday, September 13, 2001

"..Controllers have also learned that an F-16 fighter closely pursued hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 until it crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania, the employee said.

Although controllers don't have complete details of the Air Force's chase of the Boeing 757, they have learned the F-16 made 360-degree turns to remain close to the commercial jet, the employee said.

"He must've seen the whole thing," the employee said of the F-16 pilot's view of Flight 93's crash.

One air traffic controller - with the help of an assistant - monitored the flight patterns of the two jets that toppled the World Trade Center, the employee said. He directed American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 - both Boeing 767 jets that had Boston to Los Angeles routes, the employee said.

The same controller handled Egypt Air Flight 990 when it crashed off the coast of Massachusetts in 1999, the employee said. Hijackers gained control of American Airlines Flight 11 around Gardner, Mass., the employee said. "American was just flying around, doing what it wanted," the employee said of the jet's approach to New York..."

NOTE:
There are articles around which point on new evidence, that the crash of Egypt Air 990 in 1999 was not an accident.

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/27/2002 1:09 pm 
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 652.10 in reply to 652.9 
Relatives now allowed to hear the CVR Tape

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/national/27TAPE.html

March 27, 2002

THE PENNSYLVANIA CRASH
Cockpit Tape Offers Few Answers but Points to Heroic Efforts
By JERE LONGMAN


"...Families of passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed outside Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, will hear nothing to resolve crucial questions about their loved ones' last minutes when they listen to the cockpit voice recorder next month, say officials who have heard the tape or read transcripts of it.

Officials said the tape, a loop that records the last 30 minutes of a flight, did not record the moments when the hijackers got into the cockpit and does not resolve how they took over or whether the pilot and co-pilot were then killed. It also does not make clear whether the passengers were able to force their way into the cockpit in an effort to regain control of the plane or whether the hijackers crashed the Boeing 757 deliberately or just lost control of it.

But the tape seems to confirm that the passengers acted heroically in trying to overtake the four hijackers and keep the plane from being crashed into the White House or other national landmark. A government transcript of the recording shows that moments before the plane crashed, one of the hijackers shouted, "They're coming," perhaps a warning as he looked at the charging passengers through the peephole in the cockpit door, officials said.

The families are scheduled to listen to the recording on April 18 in Princeton, N.J. A number of family members had petitioned the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hear the tape, no matter how disturbing its contents. After initially declining the request, F.B.I. officials say they have changed their minds.

Little but intermittent conversation and stretches of silence is on the first 20 to 25 minutes of the tape, after the hijackers gained control but before the passengers tried to wrest it back. Much of what can be heard of the final five to seven minutes of a desperate, fierce struggle remains open to interpretation, officials cautioned.

A woman can be heard pleading for her life, asking not to die. At another point, someone appears to be gurgling. Rustling and scuffling, a groan and shouts in English and Arabic can be heard.

All this coincides with the time that four passengers, Todd Beamer, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, Jeremy Glick and Thomas E. Burnett Jr., along with two flight attendants, CeeCee Lyles and Sandra Bradshaw, reported in phone calls that passengers were advancing down the 757's single aisle to take control of the plane after learning that other hijacked planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

At one point, someone in an accented voice said, "No, no," leading officials to speculate that the hijackers might have been arguing with each other over the controls. The hijackers could be heard saying "God is great" numerous times.

Sounds of what seemed to be breaking glass and crashing dishes were also picked up by the recorder, microphones located in the pilots' headsets and in the ceiling of the cockpit. This was first reported by Newsweek in December. Officials have theorized that plates and bottles and glasses may have been hurled by passengers. Or they may have fallen from trays and carts as the hijackers waggled the wings of the plane up and down in an effort to keep the passengers from moving forward. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the wings moving up and down in the final minutes.

"We don't have all the answers, but there is no question in my mind that the passengers were heroes in the truest sense of the word," said Wells Morrison, the deputy on-scene commander for the F.B.I., who declined to discuss specifics of the voice recorder or evidence found at the crash site. "Everyone should be proud of their actions."



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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/27/2002 9:38 pm 
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 652.11 in reply to 652.10 
The tape also recorded unnerving background sounds. A two-tone alarm sounded because the plane was flying up to 150 miles per hour faster than the instructed limit of 425 m.p.h. for its low altitude, officials said. The air resistance as the plane rushed so close to the ground created a constant rush of wind.

"It could have even broken the sound barrier for a while," said Hank Krakowski, who was director of flight operations control at United's system control center near O'Hare Airport in Chicago on Sept. 11.

Recent reporting has revealed other intriguing information about what was said and done on the flight. While authorities have said that the hijackers on the four flights had knives and box cutters, one passenger aboard Flight 93, Mr. Burnett, told his wife in a cellphone call that the terrorists also had a gun.

On a tape of a 911 call made by Mr. Burnett's wife, Deena, to the sheriff's department in Contra Costa County, Calif., Ms. Burnett said: "My husband just called me from United Flight 93. The plane has been hijacked. They just knifed a passenger and there are guns on the airplane." Investigators said they found no evidence of a gun at the crash site.

Earlier reports have said that a previously unidentified passenger, Edward Felt of Matawan, N.J., said in a 911 call from a restroom that he saw a puff of smoke and heard an explosion, leading some to cite this as evidence that the plane was shot down by the military to prevent it from crashing into sensitive targets. But the 911 dispatcher, John Shaw, and others who have heard the tape, including Mr. Felt's wife, Sandra Felt, say he made no mention of smoke or an explosion when he said, "We're going down."

Officials said the victims' remains were too badly damaged in the crash to tell whether anyone had been stabbed or injured in the struggle.

But Patrick Welsh, the husband of Deborah Welsh, the flight's purser, said he was told by United that one flight attendant had been stabbed early in the takeover. It was "strongly implied," he said, that his wife had been a victim, given her position in first class and the likelihood that she would have stood between the hijackers and the cockpit. "Knowing Debby, she would have resisted," Mr. Welsh said. "She didn't meekly submit to anything. She could handle herself."

Alice Hoglan, a United flight attendant who was phoned by her son, Mark Bingham, a passenger on the plane, while the hijacking was in progress, called him back at 9:54 a.m. and left two messages on his cellphone, urging him and the other passengers to rush the cockpit because the flight appeared to be a suicide mission. Her son, who she believes helped try to retake the plane, apparently never got the messages, but Ms. Hoglan later retrieved them from the phone company.

"Mark, apparently it's terrorists and they're hellbent on crashing the aircraft," Ms. Hoglan said in the second message, urgency in her voice. "So, if you can, try to take over the aircraft. There doesn't seem to be much plan to land the aircraft normally, so I guess your best bet would be to try to take it over if you can, or tell the other passengers. There is one flight that they say is headed toward San Francisco. It might be yours. So, if you can, group some people and perhaps do the best you can to get control of it. I love you, sweetie. Good luck. Goodbye."

More than six months later, Ms. Hoglan said, she did not expect to gain any consolation from hearing the voice recorder. Still, she wants to listen.

"I hope," she wrote in an e-mail message, "that as we families sit together and listen to the tape, we will, amid all the violence and confusion and ugliness, be able to recognize some brief familiar voices of our heroic sons and daughters, husbands and wives. I hope we can be assured that our loved ones spent their last half-hour engaged in the purposeful, focused and urgent labor of defeating the murderers aboard — distracted from the thought that they were living the last moment of their lives."

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New version of denied shutdown order of Cheney

Source: Democrats.com

With a Jet Fighter Near, Cheney Ordered Flight 93 Shot Down 3 Times Without Hesitation

According to the Washington Post, when Bush's plane took off at 9:55 am on 9-11, Cheney recommended military pilots be authorized to shoot down a civil airliner. "I said, 'You bet,'" Bush recalled. "We had a little discussion, but not much." "With Bush's approval, Rumsfeld passed the order down the chain of command. In the White House bunker, a military aide approached the vice president. 'There is a plane [Flight 93] 80 miles out,' he said. 'There is a fighter in the area. Should we engage?' 'Yes,'

Cheney replied without hesitation... The military aide repeated the question, this time with even more urgency. The plane was now 60 miles out. 'Should we engage?' Cheney was asked. 'Yes,' he replied again. As the plane came closer, the aide repeated the question. Does the order still stand? 'Of course it does,' Cheney snapped. [He] said later that it had seemed 'painful, but nonetheless clear-cut. And I didn't agonize over it.'" The Pentagon says it didn't shoot, but who believes them?

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/27/2002 10:20 pm 
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 652.12 in reply to 652.2 
For the archive- the cell phone calls from Flight 93

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/18/vic.heroes/

September 19, 2001

"...Passenger Jeremy Glick, 31, a 6-foot-1 judo champ, called his wife to tell her his plane had been hijacked. He said the hijackers had stabbed a flight attendant -- and to find out if what he had heard was true -- that another plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York.

When she said yes, Glick put the phone down. When he came back on the line, he told her the male passengers had taken a vote to attack the hijackers.

Todd Beamer apparently was one of those male passengers who voted to attack. He used an air-phone to call a GTE supervisor who patched him through to the FBI.

Beamer told the FBI that one hijacker positioned in the rear of the plane claimed to have a bomb strapped to his body and that he -- Beamer -- and others were going to jump him.

He had the GTE supervisor promise to call his wife, Lisa, who was due with their third child in January. After Beamer put the phone down, the supervisor overheard him say, "Let's roll."

Passenger Tom Burnett, a 6-foot-2 former high school quarterback, was also apparently part of the group. He called his wife four times during the hijacking. On the last call, he told her the male passengers were getting ready to do something.


Deena Burnett
"He said, 'They've already knifed a guy; they're saying they have a bomb. Please call the authorities,' " said Deena Burnett.

The fourth member of the passenger revolt -- and there may have been others -- was Mark Bingham -- a 6-foot-5 rugby player. He was sitting in the first-class section of the plane with Tom Burnett and, it turns out, two of the hijackers.

Bingham called his mother to say goodbye.

"He said, 'I want you to know I love you very much, and I'm calling you from the plane. We've been taken over. There are three men who say they've got a bomb,' " said Alice Hoglan..."

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/27/2002 10:35 pm 
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 652.13 in reply to 652.12 
From the best Flight93-site on the net

http://www.flight93crash.com/second-plane-at-flight93-crash-site.htm

This article is available on NEXIS.

Copyright 2001 Bergen Record Corporation The Record (Bergen County, NJ) September 14, 2001 Friday All Editions SECTION: NEWS; Pg. a18 LENGTH: 900 words

HEADLINE: IN RURAL HAMLET, THE MYSTERY MOUNTS; 5 REPORT SECOND PLANE AT PA. CRASH SITE; THE INVESTIGATION

SOURCE: The Record

BYLINE: JEFF PILLETS, Staff Writer

DATELINE: SHANKSVILLE, Pa.

BODY: As investigators continued to search for clues to the crash of United Flight 93, people in this Allegheny Mountains hamlet were talking about a parallel mystery that one man called "the damndest darn thing" he'd ever seen.

In separate interviews Thursday, five residents who live and work less than four miles from the crash site said they saw a second plane flying erratically within minutes of the crash of the Boeing 757 that took off from Newark two hours earlier Tuesday morning.

Susan Mcelwain of Stonycreek Township said a small white jet with rear engines and no discernible markings swooped low over her minivan near an intersection and disappeared over a hilltop, nearly clipping the tops of trees lining the ridge.

It was less than a minute later, Mcelwain said, that the ground shook and a white plume of smoke appeared over the ridge. "It was so close to me I ducked," Mcelwain said. "I heard it hit and saw the smoke. All I could think of was how close I came to dying. " About a mile north on Buckstown Road, Dennis Decker and Rick Chaney were at work making wooden pallets when they heard an explosion and came running outside to watch a large mushroom cloud spreading over the ridge.

"As soon as we looked up, we saw a midsized jet flying low and fast," Decker said. "It appeared to make a loop or part of a circle, and then it turned fast and headed out. " Decker and Chaney described the plane as a Lear-jet type, with engines mounted near the tail and painted white with no identifying markings.

"If you were here to see it, you'd have no doubt," Decker said. "It was a jet plane, and it had to be flying real close when that 757 went down. If I was the FBI, I'd find out who was driving that plane. " Late Thursday afternoon, federal agents who spoke to reporters at the crash site said "there was no evidence as of yet" that a second plane was nearby when Flight 93 plunged into a strip mine.

Earlier Thursday, FBI Special Agent William Crowley said investigators could not rule out that a second plane was nearby during the crash. He later said he had misspoken. He dismissed rumors that a U.S. military jet had intercepted the plane before it could strike a target in Washington, D.C. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, President Bush's nominee for chairman of the joint chiefs of staff rejected rumors that the military had shot down the hijacked plane.

"The armed forces did not shoot down any aircraft," Air Force Gen.

Richard Myers said..."

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/27/2002 10:39 pm 
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 652.14 in reply to 652.12 
Contact of Flight93crash.com reports about an F-16 on Sep11th in Toledo

http://www.flight93crash.com/Toledo_9am_F16_Flight_93.htm

03-19-02
Here's an email I received today... the emailer left me with full contact information but I like to keep these things anonymous.

Hi,
I was on a flight on a American Airlines flight on 9-11 from Cleveland to Denver via Chicago. We left at 9 am I believe. We were in the air a short time and the pilot came on and said, "there is a national emergency and we have been told to land immediately at the nearest airport. We do not know the details but we should learn when we land". The nearest airport was Toledo which we just passed so we dropped down out of the sky, landed and rolled along the runway then parked next to another plane that just landed. We were asked to walk off of the plane and go into the terminal building. It wasn't very large just a few gates.

Soon after I saw an F-16, yes I know what they look like, take off from nearly the same runway as we had landed. After that we were told by a cop to go downstairs to the ticketing area. There was a big TV on that everyone was transfixed on. One of the towers was burning. No one knew what was going on but soon after, we witnessed live, the second plane hit the WTC. I don't know the timing of these events, but the single F-16 I saw take off left well before the second plane hit the WTC. Someone said they were just National Guard and would not be involved in anything important. But your web site makes me wonder. I later drove near where the plane crashed in Pennsylvania last October and I remember people saying that there were pieces of it far from the crash site, but I never realized the implications of this.

Keep digging.

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Comment: I realize the timeline doesn't really add up. We know the 2nd plane hit at a few minutes after 9AM. I followed up with the emailer to ask the Flight number, departure time etc. and to point out the discrepancy. So far I haven't heard back - so it's difficult for me to really nail down the time here, or to even know if I've been hoaxed. It's possible the emailer saw a recording and thought it was live. The news here still is - it's an F-16 Fighter flying out of Toledo well before any other news report has one leaving, even if the emailer is off by one hour.

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/27/2002 10:46 pm 
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 652.15 in reply to 652.13 

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com

 
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From:  Hantu13  3/29/2002 11:06 am 
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 652.16 in reply to 652.10 
The tape is a fake.

Of course the tape is going to be exactely how the government said it would be.

Your all DRONES....

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 3/29/2002 1:17 pm 
To: Hantu13  (17 of 56) 
 652.17 in reply to 652.16 
Did you or anyone else find a transcript or any other reports about the transcript of the tape?

The last thing i've read was that they even didn't play them the whole tape, so maybe doctoring is of no need.

But in 6 months a lot of things can happen.:)

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 4/10/2002 10:23 am 
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 652.18 in reply to 652.8 
The theory, that Flight 93 was shut down, reached the german magazine DER SPIEGEL at http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,191142,00.html

A big article covered also the "Hunt the Boeing"-theory.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,191143,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,191103,00.html

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 4/11/2002 8:00 pm 
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 652.19 in reply to 652.10 
FOX "O'Reilly" analysed all oddities of Flight93 and a possible shutdown

Original Reports now at:

http://www.thelastamericanwarriors.com/WarriorWeb/Current%20News%20Clips.htm

 
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From:  Ewing2001  Staff 4/18/2002 9:01 pm 
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 652.20 in reply to 652.9 
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Flight-93.html

April 18, 2002
Audio Tape of Hijacked Flight Played for Victims' Families
3:22 p.m. ET
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) --

"Compelled to listen," relatives of those who died Sept. 11 aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 heard cockpit audio tapes Thursday from the final minutes of the doomed jetliner.

A morning session for relatives of crew members was completed, FBI Special Agent Sandra Carroll said early Thursday afternoon. A second session -- for relatives of passengers -- then got under way at the hotel, she said. It was the first time relatives of victims of any U.S. plane crash had heard cockpit tapes. ...

The FBI asked relatives not to discuss the tape's contents, Mary Schiavo, a lawyer representing five families, told reporters. The families were not forbidden from talking, she said, but those she represents decided to honor the FBI's request..."

 
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