4um: Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 “Hijack”

Title: Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 “Hijack”
Source: Rock Creek Free Press
URL Source: http://rockcreekfreepress.tumblr.com/post/285492999/flt77fdr
Published: Dec 15, 2009
Author: Sheila Casey
Post Date: 2010-07-14 02:07:35 by FormerLurker
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Keywords: Flight 77, 9/11, Black Box
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Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 “Hijack"

By Sheila Casey / Rock Creek Free Press

Pilots for 9/11 Truth has reported that the data stream from the flight data recorder (FDR) for American Airlines flight 77, which allegedly struck the Pentagon on 9/11, shows that the cockpit door never opened during the entire 90 minute flight. The data was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has refused to comment.

The FDR is one of two “black boxes” in every commercial airliner, which are used after accidents to help determine the cause of a crash. One black box records flight data, the other records voice data (everything said in the cockpit during the flight). With those two sets of data, NTSB investigators can usually piece together the events that led to a crash. The status of the door to the cockpit is checked every four seconds throughout a flight and relayed as a simple 0 or 1, where 0=closed and 1=open, with approximately 1,300 door status checks performed during AA77’s 90 minute flight. Every one of those door status checks shows as a 0, indicating that the door to the cockpit never opened during the entire flight.

Accident investigators monitor the cockpit door with the FDR because it may yield clues to pilot error in a crash. The FDR begins recording once the pilots are in their seats and readying for takeoff, and the plane cannot take off unless the FDR is working.

The official story about flight 77 is that five Muslim terrorists brandishing box cutters forced their way into the cockpit and herded two pilots, four flight attendants and all the passengers to the back of the plane. This story came into being via Ted Olson, US Solicitor General, who told CNN — that he received two phone calls from his wife Barbara Olson, a passenger on the doomed flight. Ted Olson’s story changed several times. Sometimes he claimed that the calls from his wife were made from seat back phones, other times that she used her cell phone.

According to American Airlines customer service, the American Airlines maintenance manual for that aircraft, and American Airlines Captain Ralph Kolstad, seatback phones on 757s had been deactivated prior to 9/11/01. (They were later removed entirely, as they never worked well.)

Barbara Olson couldn’t have used a cell phone either: numerous 9/11 researchers, most notably David Ray Griffin, have pointed out that cell phones did not work on airplanes on 9/11. The speed and altitude of a commercial airliner both present overwhelming obstacles to a cell phone’s need to lock onto a cell tower and then hand off to another tower in a new location.

It was the FBI that revealed the evidence that decisively disproves Ted Olson’s story. In the Zacarias Moussaoui trial in 2006, the FBI presented a report on the cell phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. Their report on AA77 shows that there was only one phone call from Barbara Olson, but that it was an unconnected call lasting zero seconds. So Ted Olson either lied about receiving calls from his wife or was deceived into believing he received calls from her.

According to the UK Telegraph, Barbara Olson delayed her flight on 9/11 so that she could have breakfast with her husband on his birthday. That delay put her on the doomed flight. Ted Olson remarried in 2006 to tax attorney Lady Booth, whom he reportedly met the year after Barbara died.

There are numerous oddities and contradictions about AA77’s black boxes.

The government claims that the voice data recorder was damaged during the crash and that no usable data was retrieved from it. If true, this would be the first time in aviation history that a solid-state data recorder was destroyed during a crash.

While it was widely reported in the media that the FDR for AA77 was found at 4 am on September 14, 2001, the file containing the FDR data was dated over four hours earlier. In other words, we are asked to believe that the data from the FDR was downloaded prior to the FDR being found.

Researcher Aidan Monagahan has established that the NTSB does not have either serial or part numbers for the FDRs from AA77. The NTSB’s own handbook indicates that the part number and serial number of the FDR are required for data readout of the FDR. The NTSB did not have this information, giving us another reason to question how the FDR data was created.

Structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer claimed that he personally found AA77’s black box on 9/11. But in the Popular Mechanics book Debunking 9/11 Myths, Kilsheimer is quoted as saying, “I stood on a pile of debris that we later found contained the black box 70;”

Kilsheimer’s story changes again in August 2007 in a piece done by the History Channel, “The 9/11 Conspiracies,” where he claims “I tripped over something; it was the black box.”

In earlier work, Pilots for 9/11 Truth (P4T) has determined that the same data set provided by the NTSB shows the plane too high to hit the Pentagon, based on an altimeter that uses air pressure to calibrate altitude.

As reported in the April 2009 Rock Creek Free Press, Citizen Investigation Team, citizen journalists from southern California, has collected evidence from 14 eyewitnesses that shows that the plane seen that morning near the Pentagon did not hit the building, but flew over it at the moment explosives detonated in the Pentagon, leading observers to conclude that the plane had crashed into the Pentagon.

Questions about what happened at the Pentagon have intrigued 9/11 researchers for years, beginning with photos from the alleged crash scene which do not show the wreckage of a plane.

This new evidence, showing that the cockpit door never opened during flight, is another nail in the coffin of the official story about flight 77. Clearly, if the cockpit door never opened, then hijackers did not storm the cockpit and herd the pilots to the back of the plane. The data, which originated from the government, does not support the government’s story.

Why would the government release data which contradicts its own version of events? It is possible they were just sloppy, or that they never anticipated that anyone would parse the data as carefully as Pilots for 9/11 Truth have. They may have also felt secure, that regardless of what damning revelations were contained in the FDR data, no mainstream media outlet would give them ink or air time, keeping the official story intact for the vast majority of Americans who receive their news from mainstream sources.

Rob Balsamo, founder of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, stated: “We have not located any independently verified data which confirms the government’s story. The FBI and NTSB refuse to comment.” Founded in August 2006, Pilots For 9/11 Truth is an organization of aviation professionals from around the globe who are investigating the government’s claims about the attacks of 9/11.

Sheila Casey is a DC based journalist. Her work has appeared in The Denver Post, Reuters, Chicago Sun-Times, Dissident Voice and Common Dreams.

First we get the seeding of doubt with an ad hominem "questionable researchers".
(Questionable based on what and by whom?)

Then we get the planted suggestion, without any support whatsoever, that the data has been manipulated.

Great PsyOps buckie. If you only trust the Official Liars that is what you get to believe - Official Lies.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

No, buck, you're the one who blew it on this thread. "Of course I am simplifying the issue but the fundamental point is the impact of the passenger jet aircraft into each of the towers was the trigger mechanism for structural failure..."

Even if that were true, which it is not as the information I provided showed, why did 7 fall? No plane hit it. Was it the Magickal Jet Fuel™ or some previously unknown and unknowable phenomena at work? Maybe Santa Claus got out early and fell off his sleigh and hit it? Maybe the Easter Bunny got mad and threw an egg at it?

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

Oh, buckie is not interested in the data. It conflicts with his story line in the Briefing Book and interferes with his trying to pooh pooh facts contradictory to the Official Lyin'.

AAL77 FDR Decompressor

This program decompresses the raw Flight Data Recorder (FDR commonly called "black box") file for American Airlines Flight 77 (AAL77) included by the US National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) on CDROMs provided in response to FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests for information regarding the events of September 11th 2001.

One subframe is written per line. The 12-bit words are written in binary with a space in between them starting from word 1 and continuing through to word 256.

The end of a compressed section of data is marked by the line Sync Lost. The last frame before Sync Lost will be incomplete, so the last subframe before Sync Lost will most likely have fewer than 256 words.

You can download the output file generated by the program from here.

To decode the 12-bit words you can use the data frame layouts from here.

The subframe number of a frame can be calculated by treating the first (most significant) two bits of word 1 as a 2-bit unsigned integer and adding one.

Alternatively I have also written an AAL77 FDR Decoder program.

In the interests of transparency in showing that the program is really generating its output from the raw FDR file, you can download the C# source code. I used Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition to create it. You can look at the .cs source files using any text editor, and you can download the Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition from Microsoft to compile it. Alternatively, you may be able to get a DVD with the Visual Studio Express Editions from your local Microsoft sales office.

As I am providing this program free of charge, it is provided as is.

I take no responsibility for what the program does or doesn't do.

However, you can email feedback to me (Warren Stutt).

You will need to download a copy of the FDR file American77.fdr if you want to run the program. You can download a copy from here. You can also get an ISO image of the entire CDROM that I received in response to my FOIA request which includes the FDR file from here. You can also get an ISO image of a CDROM received by someone else in response to their FOIA request which includes the FDR file from here.

A Change Log detailing the changes in different versions is available here.

Back to Warren Stutt's Home Page

The link I provided is from your twoofer_pilot webpage (you know, the folks that created the original article) .... BTW, at least I looked it up .... and the only reason you followed suit was because of the bilge contained supporting the article.

I could care less about your pal. The shit provided is meaningless claptrap, poppycock and rotgut meant for sewage in a dumpster somewhere.

Oh this ripe! Now, you are a firm believer in some Aussie named Stutt; do you two dine and dance together perchance?

I want the original data provided by NTSB, not some shit filtered crap found on the Internet that apparently you are very fond of.

So in other words, the NTSB raw data is bullshit, eh buck? File a FOIA and get the CD yourself, BUY the damn software from the FDR manufacturer if you don't trust the free software provided by Stutt, or write it yourself. He does in fact provide the source code if you want to verify there's no "funny business" going on in the decode and decompression.

You can get the raw data. That is not really your problem, the real problem IS the data.

Already provided FOUR links to that idiot. Two were of an ISO image of the NTSB CD, one was of the raw data file, and another was of an identical CD image which SOMEONE ELSE had obtained from a FOIA request.

So, that raw data comes directly from an authenticating government agency, does it?

Yes, the NTSB. Did you read anything at all? The FOIA request and their response was provided to you, did you ignore it?

Agreed. Just because some off-the-wall website with a pile of twoofers makes a claim, gives no credence to the raw data to support the thesis.

Now, why in the world would the US government release data that shows issues about it's own conspiracy against the people?

Of course he ignored it. Well, he didn't really, he just did not want to acknowledge that it might be valid. Buckie isn't interested in it as it does not support his preconceptions, prejudices, or his briefing book.

Because they claim the validity of the "FLT DECK DOOR" parameter can't be confirmed.

No shit they "can't confirm" it, otherwise it'd be a blatent admission that Flight 77 wasn't hijacked..

This is getting monotonous. The fucking data comes from your pal's (Stutt's) website.

That would be pure speculation. However, a couple of possibilities suggest themselves:

A. Not everybody in the government is in on the op. (Which is almost certainly the case.)

B. The data was already scrubbed and the reason it shows up with no door openings is because the timing of the real door openings did not support the "Official Conspiracy Theory™". For example if the first door opening did not occur until well past the time the plane was allegedly hijacked. That would be even more of a smoking gun than no door openings.

I'd take the credibility of the pilots and aviation experts who are members of Pilots for 9/11 Truth and believe THEM ANY DAY before I'd believe anything YOU or your sidekick AGitprop had to say Buckie.

Unfortunately there are no door openings recorded. However, this is not unusual as the cockpit door usually is kept closed during flight, and the FDR only records data when the engines are running, thus it won't record data between flights.

You are a liar buckie. The ISO image of the NTSB CD is provided at a third party hosting site.

File a FOIA request and have them send you one, as that is the only way they'll give it to you.

Buckie is only interested in ways to invalidate the data and throw it into doubt.

Since he is required to believe the "Official Conspiracy Theory™" any data contrary must be ridiculed, questioned unreasonably, and then when all objections are handled rejected.

So, any means of throwing the data into doubt will be grabbed at like a drowning man reaching for a life ring.

Of course he will not say why he thinks that the Pilots would alter the data, and no amount of certification, or torture, will cause him to accept it.

The FDR has about 1.5 hours of prerecorded data on it, if actively armed. For each tick in the .csv file it is about 4 seconds. If the file had any precision about it, we would clearly see "OPEN" in the column of data.

So there are three plausible outcomes here. 1) The file is manipulated from Stutt's website. 2) the FDR and or sensor were impaired or inoperative or 3) the file comes from another source altogether.

In other words, FormerLurker, your thread is total BS anyway as it leads to no conclusion that there was some sort of conspiracy by any government body in the US.

I don't give a damn. It is not an authenticated NTSB copy FROM an officiating government site.

That is twice you have made that claim. You have bare-faced lied to ME at least twice now and over a silly issue of the website where this data comes from.

Good question. The only people who know the answer for certain are the ones who pulled it off.

Oh, understood. But just speculating freely for a moment. Say that there were no door openings until about 70 minutes into the flight, long after it was supposedly hijacked, when a Stewardess went up for private confab, as the plane continues off course under remote control overriding the Pilot controls? Those are the lines along which I am speculating. Of course we wouldn't know it was a "Stewardess" but it would show that NO hijacker entered the cabin at any time prior. Thus the "Official Fairy Tale" goes out the window. It would actually be more damning as with no openings there is still room to try and claim that it was not functioning.

Hey dimwitted one, the NTSB WILL NOT PROVIDE THE DATA WITHOUT A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST.

The NTSB provided Stutt with a CD to fulfill his request. Stutt placed an ISO image of the CD up on the web for anyone who wants it.

That you're too lamebrained, lazy, or stupid to download it is not my fault, his fault, nor anyone else's fault but your own.

If there was a door opening during flight it could be claimed that was when the hijackers entered the cockpit.

A better scenario would be a door opening and closing while the plane was on the ground, prior to takeoff. But that didn't happen.

But, I don't care what that idiot does, says or otherwise. His work is only good enough for fodder in a cesspool as it leads to no valid conclusions about anything.

Now, why are you calling me "liar" and "lamebrained?" Are you becoming defensive because I found the Achilles tendon of your thread?

File your own fucking FOIA request and get your own copy of the CD then. Buy your own software from the company listed by the NTSB, and then report your results.

Why don't you email or phone the NTSB and ask if the copy provided by Stutt is genuine. I'm sure they can download his ISO image and compare it against their original CD.

Why should I? It is already unauthenticated and worthless as as a result and it is uncontrolled hands.