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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Did Flight 93 Crash in Shanksville? Last updated: 10/06/2006 Did Flight 93 Crash in Shanksville? Crash Site: FOX: Any large pieces of debris at all? Konicki: Na, there was nothing, nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there. Strange Finds: "It was practically intact," Richard's sister, Lori, said of the credentials, which were returned in their wallet. "It just looked like it wasn't damaged or hadn't gone through much of anything at all, which is so bizarre and ironic." Mysterious White Jet: The plane I saw was heading right to the point where Flight 93 crashed and must have been there at the very moment it came down...It was white with no markings but it was definitely military, it just had that look...They did not want my story - nobody here did." Initial Reports: "A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport...United identified the plane as Flight 93. Notice a small crater, no visible plane wreckage, and no fire or firefighter efforts going on. (Source: http://pittsburghlive.com) Shanksville Photo Gallery - Witnesses - Archived Articles Coroner at the Scene: "This is the most eerie thing," he says. "I have not, to this day, seen a single drop of blood. Not a drop." Debris found 8 miles away: "Crowley confirmed that there were two other aircraft within 25 miles of the United flight that were heading east when it crashed, scattering debris over 8 miles. The Crater: "The smoking crater looked, he says, "like someone took a scrap truck, dug a 10-foot ditch and dumped all this trash into it." The Dirt: "The area in which the plane hit had just been backfilled." Exercise Nearby: "The department, just 2 1/2 months before the terrorist attacks, held a training drill simulating a terrorist attack. "When the terrorists struck the World Trade Center, Flight 93 was above Westmoreland County and actually wound up in Shanksville." United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757. "Flight 93 was going from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco. Thirty-three passengers, seven crew members and the four hijackers died." -ABC (08/08/03) (Photo source: http://airliners.net) Å8; Boeing 757 Specifications Dimensions Feet Wing Span 124.10 Tail Height 44.6 Int. Cabin Width 11.7 Length 155.3 Cruise Speed 530 mph Max Fuel Capacity 11,489 gal Max Takeoff Weight 255,000lb [115 tons] Max Range 3,900 - 4,520 miles - Sources: Boeing, FOX (Map source: http://popularmechanics.com) Google satellite map location Notice a shallow crater, un-burnt grass around the crater, and no recognizable plane debris. (Photo source: http://autolinkmn.com) Do you see anything left of a 115 ton Boeing 757? (Photo source: gfx.dagbladet.no/nyheter) (Photo source: americanhistory.si.edu) Compare to similar crashes that left visible debris: USAir 427 & United Airlines 585 What angle did Flight 93 supposedly crash at and how fast was it traveling? ('Scaled' pic by Johnson Enterprise.) (Photo source: http://airliners.net) "It was flying erratically and wobbling right and left, at a low altitude of roughly 2,500 feet. Its right wing dipped down suddenly and the jetliner plunged into the earth at nearly a 90-degree angle. "I had just finished shoveling coal into the cellar (in preparation) for the winter, and was sittin' right on this front porch when I saw the plane coming down at a 45-degree angle," Nevin Lambert says. "...It was flippin' from one side to the other. When it went nose down straight into the ground, I looked at my watch, and it was 10:07 a.m." - Standard-Times (09/11/02) "Pitch angle - Capt. (deg)" Reads at about 40 degrees. Source: NS Archive/NTSB (Document 4) [PDF] [local] (Click pic for hi-res.) "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." - Pittsburgh Channel (09/11/01) "The Boeing 757 still heavily laden with jet fuel slammed at about 575 mph almost straight down into a rolling patch of grassy land that had long ago been strip-mined for coal." - Washington Post (05/12/02) "As the authorities piece together the story of United Airlines Flight 93, which reportedly tore into a southwestern Pennsylvania field at a 45-degree angle..." - http://boston.com (09/14/01) The Boeing 757 hurtled into the ground at 580 mph, leaving a 20-by-10-foot deep gouge in the earth." - phillyBurbs (09/10/05) "Miller recalled his arrival at the crash site about 20 minutes after the plane plummeted to the earth and described how the aircraft came down at a 45-degree angle." - http://pittsburghlive.com (05/30/02) "A handful of people working near or driving through a rural area of Somerset County watched as the plane flipped over and disappeared with a smoky boom at 10:06 a.m. yesterday, between the tiny communities of Lambertsville and Shanksville. A few miles north of Lambertsville, yard man Terry Butler, 40, was toiling away at Stoystown Auto Wreckers. "It dropped out of the clouds," too low for a commercial flight, Butler said. The plane rose slightly, trying to gain altitude, then "it just went flip to the right and then straight down." - http://post-gazette.com (09/12/01) "The airplane headed down; the control wheel was turned hard to the right. The airplane rolled onto its back, and one of the hijackers began shouting "Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest." With the sounds of the passenger counterattack continuing, the aircraft plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 580 miles per hour, about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C." - 9/11 Commission [local] What did the eyewitnesses at the scene say about the crash? (Killtown's transcription) FOX News reporter: It looks like there's nothing there, except for a hole in the ground. Photographer Chris Konicki: Ah, basically that's right. The only thing you can see from where we where, ah, was a big gouge in the earth and some broken trees. We could see some people working, walking around in the area, but from where we could see it, there wasn't much left. Reporter: Any large pieces of debris at all? Konicki: Na, there was nothing, nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there. Reporter: Smoke? Fire? Konicki: Nothing. It was absolutely quite. It was, uh, actually very quiet. Um, nothing going on down there. No smoke. No fire. Just a couple of people walking around. They looked like part of the NTSB crew walking around, looking at the pieces..." - FOX (09/11/01) [Video: youtube] "There's a crater gouged in the earth, the plane is pretty much disintegrated. There's nothing left but scorched trees," said Mark Stahl, of Somerset, who went to the scene." -CNN (09/11/01) Mark Stahl of Somerset, Pa., shows a photograph he took after arriving at the crash scene where a jetliner crashed near Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (Photo: Pittsburgh Live) Ernie Stull, mayor of the nearby village of Shanksville recalls [question] They had been sent here because of a crash but there was no plane? Ernie Stull: No. Nothing . Only this hole. [question] I thought it was a crash site… Ernie Stull: And it is. But there was nothing there to see. The plane had completely disintegrated. Puff. It hit the ground and flew to pieces–completely." Question: At the very first, what did you think it could be? Ernie Stull: Well...that a plane had crashed. But when we got here, there wasn’t anything. Question: What do you mean--there wasn’t anything? Ernie Stull: Well...there was no plane. There was what you see a hole. and that is the dirt that the airliner threw out--and the hole, about 6 meters deep...and that was all there was." - 9/11 File Unsolved [Photo: http://thewebfairy.com] Å8; Panoply of the Absurd "When Der Spiegel confronts Stull with the English translation of these passages in the book and the film script, the man is speechless: "My statements were taken completely out of context. Of course there was an airplane. It's just that there wasn't much left of it after the explosion. That's what I meant when I said 'no airplane'. I saw parts of the wreckage with my own eyes, even one of the engines. It was lying in the bushes." -Der Spiegel (09/08/03) "County Coroner Wallace Miller remembers hearing melting plastic drip from the trees, and days and weeks later, comforting the families of doomed Flight 93. When he got to the scene, about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, there was little evidence that what crashed had been a plane. "I can just remember seeing very small bits of debris everywhere. There really wasn't any large sections of debris or aircraft," he says." - phillyBurbs (09/10/05) "It just looked like somebody just dropped a bunch of metal out of the sky," Miller said." - Houston Chronicle (09/08/02) "He radioed back to his office, telling coworkers Homer Barron, 49, and Jeff Phillips, 30, what he had seen. Then Barron saw smoke and called 911. Barron and Phillips drove to the crash scene and found a smoky hole in the ground. A few firefighters had already begun pouring water onto the debris. "It didn't look like a plane crash because there was nothing that looked like a plane," Barron said. "I never seen anything like it," Barron said. "Just like a big pile of charcoal." - http://post-gazette.com (09/12/01) The impact of the crash of Flight #93 left almost no trace above ground. Photo by S.C. Spangler/Tribune-Review "My instinct was to run toward it, to try to help" said Nina Lensbouer, Tim's Lensbouer's wife and a former volunteer firefighter. "But I got there and there was nothing, nothing there but charcoal. Instantly, it was charcoal." - http://post-gazette.com (09/12/01) "9/12/2001 - Somerset Crash Site - Looking at the crash site itself is a sobering experience. It is difficult to believe that a large Boeing 757 aircraft plunged into the ground with such force that the plane literally disintegrated and created a still smoldering crater." - dep.state.pa.us See also here for more crash scene witness accounts. How many eyewitnesses saw the last seconds of the plane before it crashed? "Lee Purbaugh, 32, was the only person to see the last seconds of Flight 93 as it came down on former strip-mining land at precisely 10.06am..." - Mirror.co.uk (09/12/02) Lee Purbaugh, 32, working just his second day at Rollock Inc., a scrap yard next to the reclaimed strip-mine land, looked up from operating a burning torch to see the jetliner just 40 feet above him. "I heard it for 10 or 15 seconds and it sounded like it was going full bore," said Tim Lensbouer, 35, Purbaugh's coworker. The ground shook and the air thundered as the jetliner slammed into the ground about 300 yards away, Purbaugh said." - http://post-gazette.com (09/12/01) Flight 93 was said to have crashed with 5,500 gallons of jet fuel still on board. What happened to the remaining thousands of gallons of jet fuel and why isn't there a huge fire around the crater when the first witnesses arrived shortly after the crash and why was there never a thick black smoke plume trailing high up in the sky like you'd expect to see from such a deadly plane crash? Emergency workers mark off the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 near Somerset, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 11,2001. (Source: http://pittsburghlive.com) Photos of plane crashes soon after crash Jet Crash at Danang, Vietnam. (Source) "Figure 7 shows fuel flow and fuel remaining for UAL Flight 93, calculated in the same way as just described for AAL Flight 77. Based on ACARS transmissions to the airplane, the fuel load on takeoff was 48,700 lb. This results in about 37,500 lb. [5,500 gal*] of fuel remaining upon impact (the end of the DFDR data)." -NTSB (02/13/02) *One pound of jet fuel = 6.84 pounds per gallon. "The Boeing 757 still heavily laden with jet fuel slammed at about 575 mph almost straight down into a rolling patch of grassy land that had long ago been strip-mined for coal." - Washington Post (05/12/02) "We (were) literally surrounded by debris, and there's a very strong odor of scorched earth," Parsons reported. "It doesn't smell like jet fuel, it smells like ... How do you describe it? Burned earth. It smells like burned earth." - Pittsburgh Channel (09/11/01) "The soil is being tested for jet fuel, and at least three test wells have been sunk to monitor groundwater, since three nearby homes are served by wells, Betsy Mallison, a state Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman, said. So far, no contamination has been discovered, she said." - http://postgazette.com (10/03/01) Å8; Environmental Restoration Begins At Somerset Site, Residents Concerned About Well Water "Three groundwater monitoring wells show no evidence of groundwater contamination and nearly 6,000 cubic yards of dirt sifted for human remains and aircraft debris will soon be returned to the crater left Sept. 11 by United Airlines Flight 93. Environmental Resources Management of Wexford, Pa., will fill in the crater caused by the crash, which was dug 50 feet deep by recovery workers. Betsy Mallison, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, said that investigators still don't know how much jet fuel was spilled at the crash site. But whether it burned away or evaporated, much of it seems to have dissipated, Mallison said." -The Pittsburgh Channel (10/02/01) Why is there only one small fire truck at the crash scene with little or no firefighting efforts going on where a plane that holds almost up to 11,500 gallons of fuel supposedly crashed? (Photo source: loc.gov) Fire truck is behind the SUV. (Photo source: http://pittsburghlive.com) Why did none of the tall dry grass growing right up against the rim of the crater get burned and why was some of the dirt inside the crater free of charring and soot from the explosion? Notice that it looks like some of the grass is still growing inside the crater (lower middle of pic). (Click photo for hi-res. Photo source: loc.gov) Notice the dirt on the left side is not charred from an explosion/fire even though it looks like it's inside the crater. (Click photo for hi-res. Photo source: epa.gov) How did the fireball from the crash travel off to one side in an awkward trajectory and is it just a coincidence that most/all of the debris ejected out of the plane when it crashed landed in the adjacent forest which would have been an easier and more concealable place to plant evidence in than in the open field around the crater? Yellow arrow added to show fireball and debris path. (Map source: http://popularmechanics.com) Red line = plane outline Orange dotted line = service road Green dotted line = fire damage Google satellite map location How did the inside of the crater get burned and a section of forest adjacent to the crater get burned, but the area between the crater and this forest section did not get burned? The service road on the left is between the burnt forest section and the crater. (Still from aerial video. Source: http://thewebfairy.com) Red outline is where plane supposedly crashed. Orange dotted line in service road. Green dotted line outlines burnt forest section. (Original photo source: http://windsofchange.net) Is it just a coincidence that this crash, in which practically the entire 155ft plane supposedly burrowed itself underground, happened on land composed of "soft dirt" from a abandoned strip-mine that was recently backfilled which gives a "reasonably" excuse as to why a large plane was able to disappear underground? Å8; Town embraces role it never sought The strip mine is composed of very soft black soil, and searchers said much of the wreckage was found buried 20 to 25 feet below the large crater. " -Standard-Times (09/11/02) Å8; The day that changed America "Dave Fox did go out to Skyline Drive, to the old strip mine, abandoned in 1996. The plane pitched, then rolled, belly up. It hit nose-first, like a lawn dart. It disintegrated, digging more than 30 feet into the earth, which was spongy from the old mine work." -Pittsburgh Live (09/11/02) Å8; Small town shoulders a nation's grief "The point of impact is near the end of a pockmarked little lane, in a shallow basin next to a pond at the edge of a stand of pine trees charred by the initial blast. The site had been mined for coal, then refilled with dirt. It was still soft when Flight 93 crashed, and firefighters said the Boeing 757 tunneled right in. They had to dig 15 feet to find it." -St. Petersburg Times (09/10/03) Å8; Flight 93 crash site touted as memorial to victims "Until last week, it was a few remote acres that, like a lot of this part of Somerset County, had been farmed, strip-mined, back-filled and planted over with grass." - http://Post-Gazette.com (09/20/01) "I've just come across an interesting new bit of information which relates to this, in a book about the Flight 93 crash called From Tragedy to Triumph by David McCall. The author quotes Mike Shepley, who worked for a company that operated next to the site of the crash. Shepley says: "The area in which the plane hit had just been backfilled." (p. 38)" - From "Shoestring" @ Loose Change Forum (Photo source: epa.gov; mirrored at: http://usaattacked.com) See similar plane crashes which left noticeable plane debris: USAir 427 & United Airlines 585 Is the smoke plume in Val McClatchey's "End of Serenity" photo from Flight 93 crashing, from an ordnance blast originating at a different location, or is her photo a fake? Smoke plume supposedly from Flight 93 crashing. Notice the plume rises straight up into the air which suggests no wind in the area. (Source: FEMA) Photo comparing the Shanksville plume to an ordnance blast plume. (Source: 9/11 Unsolved) Smoke plume from a plane crashing. Ordnance blast in Iraq. Ordnance blast in Afghanistan. Crash of a small leer jet. (Source: http://signonsandiego.com) (See the smoke from real plane crashes here. See all versions of Mrs. McClatchey's photo here.) See also: Val McClatchey Photo: More Smoking Guns, or Total Fraud? - http://flight93photo.blogspot.com What did the county coroner say about finding bodies or blood at the crash scene? "It was as if the plane had stopped and let the passengers off before it crashed," Miller said." - Pittsburg Post Gazette (10/15/01) "Miller was among the very first to arrive after 10:06 on the magnificently sunny morning of September 11. Once he was able to absorb the scene, Miller says, "I stopped being coroner after about 20 minutes, because there were no bodies there. It became like a giant funeral service." Thousands of people -- the locals estimate up to 1,000 a week -- have arrived at an old coal-mining access trail called Skyline Road, where finally they can see what remains of Flight 93: nothing. "There's not really much to it, is there?" Wally Miller often says to families and other visitors who are bewildered by what they don't see. Immediately after the crash, the seeming absence of human remains led the mind of coroner Wally Miller to a surreal fantasy: that Flight 93 had somehow stopped in mid-flight and discharged all of its passengers before crashing. "There was just nothing visible," he says. "It was the strangest feeling." It would be nearly an hour before Miller came upon his first trace of a body part." - Washington Post (05/12/02) "No bodies were recovered here, at least not as we normally think of bodies. In the cataclysmic violence of the crash, the people on Flight 93 literally disintegrated. Searchers found fragments of bones, small pieces of flesh, a hand. But no bodies." - Miami Herald (09/07/02) "Wallace Miller, the lanky, Civil War-studying county coroner, did see it. He sat at the family funeral home, his father, Wilbur, with him. They watched the second plane sweep in low, from nowhere. They winced when it hit. He takes off his glasses, cleans them with his T-shirt. "This is the most eerie thing," he says. "I have not, to this day, seen a single drop of blood. Not a drop." - Pittsburgh Live (09/11/02) Strange Finds If Flight 93 and all of it's passengers disintegrated upon impact in which only small pieces were found, then how did fragile items made of paper, plastic, and fabric survive the crash so well intact? Exh. GX-PA00111 (intr'd: unknown) Red bandana recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site - http://rcfp.org/moussaoui Exh. GX-P200069 (intr'd: 04/11/2006) Photograph of the personal effects of CeeCee Lyles found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed. - http://rcfp.org/moussaoui (Source: http://thepittsburghchannel.com) "United Airlines Flight 93 slammed into the earth Sept. 11 near Shanksville, Somerset County, at more than 500 mph, with a ferocity that disintegrated metal, bone and flesh. It took more than three months to identify the remains of the 40 passengers and crew, and, by process of elimination, the four hijackers. Those remains were gathered by the FBI and other investigators from the 50-foot-deep pit the Boeing 757 jet gouged in a reclaimed strip mine, and from the woods adjoining the crash site. But searchers also gathered surprisingly intact mementos of lives lost. Those items, such as a wedding ring and other jewelry, photos, credit cards, purses and their contents, shoes, a wallet and currency, are among seven boxes of identified personal effects salvaged from the site. For example, about two weeks ago, FBI agents presented the wedding ring and wallet of passenger Andrew Garcia to his wife, Dorothy, in Portola Valley, Calif. Around Thanksgiving, Jerry and Beatrice Guadagno of Ewing, N.J., received word that their son Richard's credentials and badge from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had been found by the FBI at the crash site. "It was practically intact," Richard's sister, Lori, said of the credentials, which were returned in their wallet. "It just looked like it wasn't damaged or hadn't gone through much of anything at all, which is so bizarre and ironic. The families of college student Toshiya Kuge of Tokyo and computer specialist Waleska Martinez of Jersey City, N.J., already have claimed some of their remains. Miller said Martinez's family took possession of her remains within weeks of the crash -- she was one of the first victims identified -- and Kuge's did the same before Thanksgiving. Miller identified the last of the bodies Dec. 19. He is still doing DNA tests on additional tissue samples. Hendrix said the personal effects that survived the crash were ejected from the plane at the moment of impact. In the meantime, Douglass is refurbishing jewelry, straightening credit cards and photos with steam heat, and topically disinfecting most other items. When the FBI releases to Douglass the "unassociated" material gathered from the crash site -- items that haven't been matched to an individual on Flight 93 -- the company will photograph each item and compile a catalog for victims' families. Members can then make claims for items they recognize. Miller said Douglass also was helping with the disposition of unidentifiable remains from the site." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (12/30/01) "The wind played with paper scraps: a Bible page, some bank-machine receipts, the corner of a business card. Fox stepped over a seat back. He saw a wiring harness, and a piston. None of the other pieces was bigger than a TV remote. ------------ They found chunks of seat cushion foam, and honeycombed sound insulators. Then a shoelace, some shirt buttons, and a wedding ring. Then part of a passport, and a necktie, still knotted. Wallace Miller, the lanky, Civil War-studying county coroner, did see it. He couldn't believe the scene. He saw the burnt trees, and some debris smoking in the dirt. He saw half a window frame. He saw shreds of that white cloth they put over the headrests." - Pittsburgh Live (09/11/02) 'Fighting' knife found in Flight 93 wreckage FBI investigators found a stout "fighting" knife among the wreckage at the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site in western Pennsylvania, says a federal official who reviewed photographs of evidence at FBI headquarters here. It's no secret that Islamic terrorists carried knives on board Flight 93 and the three other planes they hijacked on Sept. 11, but they were widely thought to be box cutters and possibly other short-bladed knives. Any knife with a blade less than four inches, including box cutters, was allowed on planes under Federal Aviation Administration rules before the attacks. "One of the knives found at the crash site in Pennsylvania was one of those belt-clip, serrated, locking-blade knives," the official said. "Its design is purely and simply a fighting knife." He added: "Knives such as these should not have been allowed through (airport) checkpoints," assuming the knife was not stowed in checked baggage. The FBI declined to comment on the Flight 93 knife. "That would be considered evidence in an active investigation, so we can't comment," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson." -WorldNetDaily (03/22/02) "Hijacking Letter Found at Three Locations" - FBI (09/28/01) "U.S. authorities found this letter handwritten in Arabic in the suitcase of Mohamed Atta. It includes Islamic prayers, instructions for a last night of life, and a practical checklist of reminders for the final operation. The FBI released an untranslated copy of the letter; the British newspaper The Observer published this translation. Additional copies of this letter were found at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania and at a Dulles International Airport parking lot in a car registered to one of the hijackers on American Flight 77. "When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers." -PBS/Frontline How did these large pieces of fuselage debris escape being burned, or buried and land outside in the forest and why did it take so long for these photos to be released? Exh. GX-P200061 (intr'd: 04/11/2006) Photograph of an airplane part found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed. - http://rcfp.org/moussaoui Exh. GX-P200062 (intr'd: 04/11/2006) Photograph of an airplane part found at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed. - http://rcfp.org/moussaoui If a Boeing 757 burrowed itself down to 45ft below the ground of "soft dirt" and its voice recorder was found at 25ft under, then how come one of its alleged engines, the strongest and heaviest part of the plane, only managed to barely penetrate underground and why is there no other plane debris near it in the crater? (Photo source: http://rcfp.org/moussaoui) Å8; Somerset Crash Site "FBI and other investigators at the scene have excavated the crash site down to a depth of about 45 feet looking for clues. Digging a trench that deep requires special care to avoid cave-ins and constant monitoring to ensure any fumes from soil contaminated with jet fuel and hydraulic fluid do not present a hazard to emergency workers." - dep.state.pa.us (09/16/01) Å8; Small town shoulders a nation's grief "The site had been mined for coal, then refilled with dirt. It was still soft when Flight 93 crashed, and firefighters said the Boeing 757 tunneled right in. They had to dig 15 feet to find it." -St. Petersburg Times (09/10/03) Å8; Exh. GX-P200060 (intr'd: 04/11/2006) Photograph of an airplane part found in the crater at the scene in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed. - http://rcfp.org/moussaoui Å8; September 11, 2001 - The FAA Responds "Thursday night, as the backhoe was moving mounds of dirt in a crater that was about 30 feet deep, the flight data recorder fell to the ground. The cockpit voice recorder was found later." -FAA Å8; 2 planes had no part in crash of Flight 93 "The voice recorder would have picked up the last 30 minutes of conversation in the cockpit, unless the hijackers turned it off or it was too severely damaged in the crash. It was found around 8:25 p.m. Thursday, 25 feet below the ground in the crater gouged out by the doomed jet. It appeared to be in good condition." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (09/16/01) If Flight 93 nosedived in the ground at nearly 90 deg and one of its engines was found in the crater, how did its other engine wind up hundreds of yards away from the crater near a pond behind the forest? Blue circle is where Popular Mechanics say an engine was found in or near the pond behind the crash site. (Map source: http://popularmechanics.com) (Satellite map: Google) Small pond seen near upper middle of photo to the left of the "reddish" tree. (Photo source: epa.gov; mirrored at: http://usaattacked.com) Å8; Black box recovered at Shanksville site "State police Maj. Lyle Szupinka said investigators also will be searching a pond behind the crash site looking for the other recorder and other debris. If necessary, divers may be brought in to assist search teams, or the pond may be drained, he said. Szupinka said searchers found one of the large engines from the aircraft "at a considerable distance from the crash site.” “It appears to be the whole engine,” he added." -Pittsburgh Live (09/14/01) Å8; Flight 93 probe involved trooper with local ties "I found a lot of parts," said Marshall, who was awarded a 2000 Law Enforcement Agency Directors award for identifying a man nearly four years after he was found murdered. "The biggest part I found was one of the plane's engines. It was about 600 yards from the crash site itself. I think they took it out with a winch on a bulldozer." Marshall, who served four years in the Air Force, said he found many parts that he couldn't specifically identify. Whenever he found a suspected part, he would notify the FBI or United employees." - http://sharon-herald.com (10/08/01) [Wayback] Å8; Town embraces role it never sought "While the FBI and other authorities have said the plane was mostly obliterated by the 500 mph impact, they also said a 1,000-pound piece of one of the engines was found "a considerable distance" from the crater in the wide open spaces of the Svonavec Coal Co." -Standard-Times (09/11/02) How did debris from the crash site travel up to 8 miles away? Å8; America Under Attack: FBI and State Police Cordon Off Debris Area Six to Eight Miles from Crater Where Plane Went Down "DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, we want to take our viewers live to Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Our Brian Cabell is standing by. This of course is the site where United Airlines flight 93 crashed on its way from Newark to San Francisco, crashed on Tuesday, and I understand, in this investigation, there's some breaking news. Brian, what can you tell us? BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Daryn, in the last hour or so, the FBI and the state police here have confirmed that have they cordoned off a second area about six to eight miles away from the crater here where plane went down. This is apparently another debris site, which raises a number of questions. Why would debris from the plane -- and they identified it specifically as being from this plane -- why would debris be located 6 miles away. Could it have blown that far away. It seems highly unlikely. Almost all the debris found at this site is within 100 yards, 200 yards, so it raises some question. We don't want to overspeculate of course. But there were some cell phone callers, one cell phone caller in particular, who said saw a bomb, or something that looked like a bomb with one of the hijackers. Also, the man who took over the plane apparently announced at one point, he had -- there was a bomb on board the plane. Again, we don't want to speculate, we don't want to jump to conclusions. But what we do know is that there's a site about half mile behind me, where the plane went down, where most of the debris is, and then about six miles away up by a lake, there is another area that's been cordoned off, and state police and the FBI have said definitely there is debris from the plane located there. We have a crew on the way right now. We should have pictures of that a little bit later on. KAGAN: Which was first question, so I'll move on to my next one, Brian. WE don't want to speculate about this large debris field. But it seems to me from covering a number of plane crashes on the scene, that if nothing else, this is not typical for a plane crash to be spread across an area this large. CABELL: It's certainly doesn't make sense, because most of the debris has been found in a very compact area, within 100 yards, 200 yards, maybe a little bit beyond that. Then all of a sudden they're telling us six miles away, they have another concentration of debris, very small pieces. Most peoples here no bigger than the size of briefcase. The debris six miles away may be smaller. We have talked to a number of individuals here. They say they have talked to people who saw this plane during the final moments. They haven't confirmed whether they saw -- whether they talked to anybody who saw this plane actually land, or crash rather, and as to whether it broke up on the way, we don't know that. The FBI being very tight-lipped about that. But again, at It leads to that possibility. It certainly leads to a number of questions." - CNN (09/13/01) Å8; Black box recovered at Shanksville site "Crowley confirmed that there were two other aircraft within 25 miles of the United flight that were heading east when it crashed, scattering debris over 8 miles. Crowley said the recorders from Flight 93 did not send out any emissions. It was discovered by an “integrated search team” of state police and federal Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists were among experts who came to the site yesterday to aid investigators in searching the wide debris field to help retrieve potential evidence and human remains. Crowley said the FBI and NTSB have not determined whether a bomb exploded inside the aircraft before it crashed. Residents of nearby Indian Lake reported seeing debris falling from the jetliner as it overflew the area shortly before crashing." -Pittsburgh Live (09/14/01) Å8; 2 planes had no part in crash of Flight 93; Business jet, military cargo plane were in area of hijacked United Flight 93 "Two other airplanes were flying near the hijacked United Airlines jet when it crashed in Somerset County, but neither had anything to do with the airliner's fate, the FBI said yesterday. A C-130 military cargo plane was also within 25 miles of the passenger jet when it crashed, FBI spokesman Bill Crowley said yesterday, but was not diverted. Debris from the crash has been found up to 8 miles from the crash site, but searchers are concentrating on the crater where most of the remains are located. Papers and other light objects were carried aloft by the explosion after impact of the plane and they were transported by a nine-knot wind." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (09/16/01) Å8; WHAT DID HAPPEN TO FLIGHT 93? "India Lake also contributes to the view there was an explosion on board before the Newark-San Francisco flight came down. Debris rained down on the lake - a curious feat if, as the US government insists, there was no mid-air explosion and the plane was intact until it hit the ground. "It was mainly mail, bits of in-flight magazine and scraps of seat cloth," Tom said. "The authorities say it was blown here by the wind." But there was only a 10mph breeze and you were a mile and a half away? Tom raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes and said: "Yeah, that's what they reckon." Light debris was also found eight miles away in New Baltimore. A section of engine weighing a ton was located 2,000 yards - over a mile -from the crash site. Theorists point out a Sidewinder heat-seeking missile attacks the hottest part of aircraft - the engine. The authorities say the impact bounced it there. But the few pieces of surviving fuselage, local coroner Wallace Miller told us, were "no bigger than a carrier bag". -Daily Mirror (09/13/02) Was it just a coincidence that the crash happened right next to a service road? Red line = plane outline Orange dotted line = service road Green dotted line = fire damage (Click pic for hi-res.) Google satellite map location If a plane didn't crash in Shanksville, then what caused the crater and where did all the small pieces of debris come from? Notice there is no fire damage to the rim of the crater. (Photo source: http://rcfp.org/moussaoui. Click for larger image.) "Miller was among the very first to arrive after 10:06 on the magnificently sunny morning of September 11. He was stunned at how small the smoking crater looked, he says, "like someone took a scrap truck, dug a 10-foot ditch and dumped all this trash into it." - Washington Post (05/12/02) "State police Maj. Lyle Szupinka said investigators also will be searching a pond behind the crash site looking for the other recorder and other debris. If necessary, divers may be brought in to assist search teams, or the pond may be drained, he said. "The best I can describe it is if you’ve ever been to a commercial landfill. When it’s covered and you have papers flying around. You have papers blowing around and bits and pieces of shredded metal. That’s probably about the best way to describe that scene itself." - Pittsburgh Live (09/14/01) "If you would go down there, it would look like a trash heap," said state police Capt. Frank Monaco. "There's nothing but tiny pieces of debris. It's just littered with small pieces." - http://post-gazette.com (09/12/01) Who are the landowners of the crash site area? Å8; Flight 93 crash site touted as memorial to victims "The landowners, a pair of coal companies, said yesterday that they are inclined to donate the ground to become a permanent memorial to the passengers and crew of the Boeing 757. "If we have a say about it, there's no problem with it," John Weir, land manager with PBS Coals Inc., said yesterday. "I'd be willing to cooperate in whatever way I could," said Michael Svonavec, secretary-treasurer of the local coal company Svonavec Inc. "It's a site of national interest -- certainly, the way I see it, where we as Americans fought back against terrorism." Precisely which parts of the site PBS Coals and Svonavec own has yet to be determined. It is hidden from nearby roads, and officials from the companies have not been allowed to examine the well-guarded site." http://-Post-Gazette.com (09/20/01) Å8; More land donated for Flight 93 memorial "A coal company will donate 29 acres, including part of the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, and will become the third group to give away land that could be used for a national memorial. PBS Coals Inc., based in Friedens, Somerset County, announced Tuesday that it was giving the land to The Conservation Fund, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit group working with Somerset County landowners and officials to preserve land for a memorial for the 40 passengers and crew who died on the flight. With the coal company's donation, officials have garnered 175 of the 1,500 acres that a federal panel has said it would like for a permanent memorial around the crash site. Last week, Pittsburgh-based Consol Energy announced that it had donated 140 acres of company-owned land. Last year, Tim Lambert, a Harrisburg-area resident, donated six acres to the nonprofit Families of Flight 93 Inc. The National Park Service will lead a federal commission in designing a memorial to be placed at the crash site. President Bush has ordered that the design be completed and delivered to the Interior Department and Congress by 2005." - http://Post-Gazette.com (12/11/03) Å8; About WITF FM 89.5 News: Tim Lambert Morning Edition host/reporter "Since September 11, 2001, Tim has spent much of his time in Shanksville, Somerset County, where he owns some of the United Flight 93 crash site, working to assure the property will be home to a fitting memorial." -WITF Is it just a coincidence that the C-130 military cargo plane seen flying near the Pennsylvania crash site was the same one that allegedly saw Flight 77 before it supposedly crashed into the Pentagon? "A C-130 military cargo plane was also within 25 miles of the passenger jet when it crashed, FBI spokesman Bill Crowley said yesterday, but was not diverted." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (9/16/01) "Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien started his day at the controls of a Minnesota National Guard C-130 cargo plane. He and his crew were heading back to the Twin Cities after moving military supplies around the Caribbean. About 9:30 a.m., O'Brien throttled the lumbering plane down a runway at Andrews Air Force Base, just southeast of the District of Columbia. "When we took off, we headed north and west and had a beautiful view of the Mall," he said. "I noticed this airplane up and to the left of us, at 10 o'clock. He was descending to our altitude, four miles away or so. That's awful close, so I was surprised he wasn't calling out to us. "It was like coming up to an intersection. When air traffic control asked me if we had him in sight, I told him that was an understatement - by then, he had pretty much filled our windscreen. Then he made a pretty aggressive turn so he was moving right in front of us, a mile and a half, two miles away. I said we had him in sight, then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was. "That caught us up, because normally they have all that information. The controller didn't seem to know anything." O'Brien reported that the plane was either a 757 or 767 and its silver fuselage meant it was probably an American Airlines jet. "They told us to turn and follow that aircraft - in 20-plus years of flying, I've never been asked to do something like that. With all of the East Coast haze, I had a hard time picking him out. "The next thing I saw was the fireball. It was huge. I told Washington the airplane has impacted the ground. Shook everyone up pretty good. I told them the approximate location was close to the Potomac. I figured he'd had some in-flight emergency and was trying to get back on the ground to Washington National. Suddenly, I could see the outline of the Pentagon. It was horrible. I told Washington this thing has impacted the west side of the Pentagon." O'Brien asked the controller whether he should set up a low orbit around the building but was told to get out of the area as quickly as possible. "I took the plane once through the plume of smoke and thought if this was a terrorist attack, it probably wasn't a good idea to be flying through that plume." He flew west, not exactly sure where he was supposed to land. Somewhere over western Pennsylvania, O'Brien looked down at a blackened, smoldering field. "I hoped it was just a tire fire or something, but when I checked with Cleveland center, he told me he'd just lost a guy off the scope pretty close to where we saw it. By then, we were able to patch in AM radio, so we heard about all the planes. It was like a domino effect - a really bad day for airplanes." He finally landed at the Youngstown, Ohio, airport. "For awhile there, almost every night, I found myself stone awake at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. Took awhile to get over it." - Minnesota Star-Tribune (09/11/02) [Reprint at: Cooperative Research] "Northern Virginia resident John O’Keefe was one of the many commuters who witnessed the attack on the Pentagon. “The eeriest thing about it, was that it was like you were watching a movie. There was no huge explosion, no huge rumbling on ground, it just went ‘pfff.’ It wasn’t what I would have expected for a plane that was not much more than a football field away from me. “The first thing I did was pull over onto the shoulder, and when I got out of the car I saw another plane flying over my head, and it scared ...me, because I knew there had been two planes that hit the World Trade Center. And I started jogging up the ramp to get as far away as possible. “Then the plane -- it looked like a C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a complete turnaround." - New York Law Journal (09/12/01) - See also: Flight 77 witnesses Was it just a coincidence that a simulated terrorist attack was being conducted in Westmoreland county, which borders Somerset county, just 2 1/2 months before that attacks? Å8; COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND, PENNSYLVANIA; COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT, For the Year Ended December 31, 2001 "On June 16, 2001 the Department of Public Safety and the County Local Emergency Planning Committee conducted the largest full-scale emergency exercise ever conducted in the County. The exercise, called Mall Strike 2001, occurred at Greengate Mall and involved over 600 emergency first responders and emergency managers who responded to a weapons of mass destruction event involving the simulated release of a toxic chemical agent and the simulated release of radiation and radiological contamination. The exercise was a major training success. The department dedicated its new Public Safety and 9-1-1 Center, located at 911 Public Safety Road in Hempfield Township, on September 11, 2001. This long awaited day was marred, however, by the terrorist attacks on the United States that also occurred on that date. In response to those attacks, the first official action at the new Center involved several days of 24 hour operations in the new County Emergency Operations Center. The 9-1-1 Center was the only Center that had direct cell-phone communications with a passenger on United Flight 93. United Flight 93 was the aircraft that crashed in Somerset County." - Westmoreland County Å8; In the wake of Sept. 11, just how safe are we? "...officials with Westmoreland and Fayette counties and local municipalities say security hasn't been increased. Rather, security plans were in place before Sept. 11 and communications channels exist between Fayette, Westmoreland and its neighboring counties in preparation for a terrorist attack. Daniel Stevens, public information officer for Westmoreland County's Department of Public Safety, said the department has held trainings for fire departments and municipal officials when these are requested. The department, just 2 1/2 months before the terrorist attacks, held a training drill simulating a terrorist attack. "When the terrorists struck the World Trade Center, Flight 93 was above Westmoreland County and actually wound up in Shanksville," stated Stevens. Stevens said that Westmoreland County is one of 13 southwestern Pennsylvania counties and the City of Pittsburgh that make up a regional task force on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Also included is Fayette County, according to Roy Shipley, director of Fayette County's Emergency Management agency." - http://PittsburghLive.com/Daily Courier (09/11/02) Å8; U.S. Department of Homeland Security FEMA Preparedness Smart Practices Spotlight A Regional Approach to Terrorism and All-Hazards Preparedness Pennsylvania Region 13 Working Group "Summary: In 1998, 12 Pennsylvania counties and the City of Pittsburgh together became the first group in the state to try a regional approach to terrorism preparedness. While attending a Pennsylvania emergency management conference in 1998, a number of county emergency managers began to discuss threats of terrorism and the resources needed to respond effectively should a weapons of mass destruction incident occur in their region. In searching for a way to pool their resources, they created the Pennsylvania Region 13 Working Group. Since formalizing the mutual aid and inter-government agreements, the Region 13 Working Group has established an incident command system for response operations, created a Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS), and developed plans and procedures for surveillance and notifications, and mass immunization and fatality management. They have organized major training exercises such as "Mall Strike 2001," a simulated nerve agent and radiological incident; a simulated gas attack exercise in the Pittsburgh subway system; and a full-scale exercise testing the ability of 27 hospitals in three of the 13 counties to decontaminate victims of a chemical attack. When United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in rural Somerset County on Sept.11, 2001, the chair of the working group was immediately in touch with other members of the group and emergency teams were deployed swiftly to the site. The group's four years of working together and preparing for terrorist events allowed them to develop and train teams that could work efficiently together during an event of this magnitude." - FEMA (03/12/03) Any coincidence that a Raytheon and Northrop defense contractor is in the same county where Flight 93 crashed? Kuchera Defense Systems, 345 Hillside Drive, Windber, PA 15963 - (Driving distance from Windber, PA to Shanksville, PA = 22.1 miles) Our Customers: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION RAYTHEON Å8; Pitt program takes first-response technologies from lab to market "For a dozen years, Kuchera Defense Systems in Somerset County has built a robust business producing high-tech equipment for military defense customers such as Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and McDonnell Douglas." - Pittsburg Post Gazette (10/14/05) Site Off Limits The crash site almost three years later. The site remains protected and visitors are not allowed to get closer than this point. - http://dcpages.com The Somerset County Police maintain the Memorial and have an officer on site twenty-four hours a day. A Fence Surrounds the Crash Site of Flight 93 What Happened to Flight 93 Then? Did Flight 93 land safely on 9/11 at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport? l Plane Lands In Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard Reported by: 9News Staff Web produced by: Liz Foreman 9/11/01 11:43:57 AM "A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White. White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport, and was evacuated. United identified the plane as Flight 93. The airline [didn't] say how many people were aboard the flight. United said it was also "deeply concerned" about another flight, Flight 175, a Boeing 767, which was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. On behalf of the airline CEO James Goodwin said: "The thoughts of everyone at United are with the passengers and crew of these flights. Our prayers are also with everyone on the ground who may have been involved. "United is working with all the relevant authorities, including the FBI, to obtain further information on these flights," he said." -WCPO-TV (09/11/01) [Reprinted at: http://911Truth.org, Global Free Press, http://Rense.com] Flight 93: Forty lives, one destiny "At some point -- the best estimation is about 40 minutes into the flight west -- at least three of the hijackers stood up and put red bandanas around their heads. Two of them forced their way into the cockpit. One took the loudspeaker microphone, unaware it could also be heard by air traffic controllers, and announced that someone had a bomb onboard and the flight was returning to the airport. He told them he was the pilot, but spoke with an accent. U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Johnstown, a ranking Democrat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, described the announcement this way: "As they got toward Cleveland, the hijackers said 'Look, just be calm, we're going to land this plane.'" -Pittsburg Post-Gazette (10/28/01) What Happened on Flight 93? "Suddenly Flight 93's transponder, which sends controllers a radar signal with identifying information, switched off. That got Cleveland Center's attention. It was just after 9:30. As the president was appearing before cameras in Florida, Cleveland air traffic controllers were hearing an American voice aboard Flight 93 yell, "Get out of here!" "Someone had keyed the mic," says Feith. "They had an open microphone when all this commotion was going on." Perhaps it was Captain Dahl or his co-pilot, LeRoy Homer. Then Cleveland heard screaming. Investigators can only speculate whether it was Dahl and Homer fighting to defend the aircraft, or being murdered. But at 9:32 a.m., a chilling radio transmission - intended for the passengers. It said: Hijacker: "Ladies and gentlemen, here it's the captain, please sit down. Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb aboard." Two minutes later, Cleveland control picked up another bizarre transmission from one of two hijackers now locked in the cockpit. It said: Hijacker: "Hi, this is the captain. We'd like you all to remain seated. There is a bomb aboard, and we are going to turn back to the airport. And they have our demands so please remain quiet." - MSNBC (09/03/02) [Reprinted at: http://billstclair.com] Cleveland Hopkins International Airport 5300 Riverside Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44135 (Red star = Hopkins Airport. Map zoomed out to "6".) NASA Glenn Research Center 21000 Brookpark Rd, Cleveland, OH 44135 "NASA Glenn is located at Lewis Field, a 350-acre site, adjacent to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, upon which the main campus is built." - NASA Notice that the flight path of Flight 93 makes a hard turn very close to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport which the NASA Glenn Research Center is located right next to. (Click maps for source.) Plane makes emergency landing by Paul Singer "A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport because of concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White. The plane was sitting on a runway at the airport's west end with approximately 200 passengers on board. The mayor had said earlier that the plane was being evacuated, but an airport spokeswoman said the passengers remained inside. It was unclear whether any passengers had been taken off the plane. A SWAT team and bomb unit were at the scene. However, White said, "As of this moment we do not know that this plane is in stress or duress." The airplane landed at about 10:45 a.m., but the airport released no information about the plane's intended destination. Normally, planes of this size do not land at Hopkins. "We have no confirmed information that this was a hijacking," the mayor said. But White said authorities are still concerned that there may be a bomb aboard the plane. Cleveland police blocked off all entrances to the airport terminal, and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in to the baggage pickup areas. He said airport officials reported that a second airplane in distress had passed through Cleveland airspace earlier Tuesday morning before being handed off to Toledo. Officials at Toledo Express Airport did not immediately have any information about a plane headed from Cleveland. Six other planes were diverted to Akron-Canton Airport, said airport aviation director Fred Krum. "They were told to get down," Krum said. The planes were bound for Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Boston when they were asked to land at Akron. White said air traffic controllers said they could hear screaming within the Boeing 767. Additional details were not available. WTAM radio reported that NASA had closed its Glenn Research Center, which is located near the airport. The mayor ordered the evacuation of all major public buildings downtown, including City Hall, the Justice Center and the convention center. He has asked owners of large commercial high-rises downtown to evacuate. Federal buildings downtown also were closed. Traffic in downtown Cleveland was backed up for blocks as people tried to get home. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jacobs Field, Gund Arena and Browns Stadium also were closed, and the mayor said he asked two downtown college campuses to close. White said there would be a parking ban on downtown streets." -AP (09/11/04) [Reprinted at: http://911truth.org, Global Free Press] Hijack Ends in Pennsylvania Crash "ABCNEWS has learned that shortly before changing directions, someone in the cockpit radioed in and asked the FAA for a new flight plan, with a final destination of Washington. An FBI official said the crash "appears" to be an act of terrorism, but Pentagon officials firmly denied to ABCNEWS rumors that the U.S. military shot down the aircraft to prevent it from being crashed into Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, or another government facility." - ABC (09/11/01) [Reprinted at: http://newsmine.org] Was this original AP news article from WCPO-TV about Flight 93 landing at Hopkins airport taken off it's website because it was "factually incorrect," or was it taken off because it was correct? If this story was "factually incorrect," why didn't they explain the mistake instead of removing it? l Å8; Plane Lands In Cleveland; Bomb Feared Aboard Reported by: 9News Staff Web produced by: Liz Foreman 9/11/01 11:43:57 AM "This story has been removed from http://WCPO.com. It was a preliminary AP story, and was factually incorrect." -WCPO-TV Was it Delta flight 1989 and not Flight 93 that landed at Hopkins airport, or did both planes land there? l Å8; No explosives found on Cleveland plane by Paul Singer CLEVELAND - No explosives were found aboard a Delta flight from Boston that was forced to land at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport because of fears it had been hijacked, city officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration had been informed at 9:45 a.m. of a possible hijacking of a plane headed for Cleveland, said FBI spokesman Mark Bullock. Flight 1989 to Los Angeles was not hijacked but was grounded by Delta because it was in the same flight pattern as a plane that was hijacked and struck the World Trade Center in New York, Bullock said. The plane landed about 10:45 a.m. today with 78 passengers aboard, airport officials said. The Boeing 767 was evacuated and searched, said Della Homenik, spokeswoman for Mayor Michael R. White. Passengers were taken to a nearby NASA facility. FBI spokesman Bob Hawk said that since the Delta plane left Boston about the same time as the hijacked plane, passengers were being interviewed to see if they saw anything unusual this morning. After the plane landed, the airport was closed and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to baggage pickup areas. Meanwhile, White said a second airplane in distress had passed through Cleveland airspace Tuesday morning before being handed off to Toledo. Officials at Toledo Express Airport did not immediately have any information about the plane." -The Post (Ohio Univ.)/AP (09/11/01) Å8; CHAOS SPREADS TO OHIO BOEING JET MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN CLEVELAND. BUILDINGS EVACUATED, OFFICES SHUT, MEETINGS CANCELED "The mind-numbing chaos that descended with the terrorist attacks on the Northeast United States spread this morning to Northeast Ohio. Cleveland Mayor Michael White said at a news conference this morning that a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport because of fears a bomb was aboard. He reported that air traffic controllers could hear screaming aboard the plane. The 200 passengers were reportedly released from the plane at 11:15" Published on September 11, 2001, Page AE3, Akron Beacon Journal (OH) [Reprint at: globalfreepress] See also: The Cleveland Airport Mystery, by Woody Box Why was an executive jet owned by Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett "tracking" Flight 93 instead of a military jet intercepting it? "Additional recordings would be played from the cockpit of an executive jet that tracked Flight 93 on Sept. 11... An official for NetJets, a company that sells shares in private business aircraft, confirmed that the plane tracking Flight 93 belonged to the company. The official, who asked not to be identified by name, said the company was asked not to comment on the Sept. 11 flight but would not say who made the request." -Holland Sentinel/AP (8/09/02) In 1995, world-renowned financier Warren Buffett purchased his first fractional share in the NetJets® program. Three-and-a-half years later, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway purchased NetJets Inc. "As a NetJets fractional aircraft Owner, I had Three-and-a-half years to examine the service of NetJets before Berkshire Hathaway purchased NetJets Inc. We knew we were purchasing the premier provider of aviation solutions in the world. And you can quote me to the world on that." - WARREN BUFFETT Chairman and CEO Berkshire Hathaway Inc. More about Warren Buffett and his connections with 9/11 Timeline Discrepancy / From takeoff to takeover; Putting it all together (Click photo for source.) 1. 7:49 a.m. Mark Bingham calls friend. Says that he is sitting in first class and drinking orange juice. 2. 8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 departs from Newark International Airport in New Jersey, 41 minutes late. 3. 8:47 a.m. Plane passes through 10,000 ft. 4. 9:02 a.m. Plane reaches cruising altitude of 31,000 feet. Estimated cruising speed is 515 mph, but actual speed on this flight may have varied. 5. Just after 9 a.m. United warns all aircraft of the potential for cockpit intrusion and to take precautions to barricade cockpit doors. 6. 9:20 a.m. Hijacking begins. Tom Burnett calls wife, reports takeover. 7. 9:28 a.m. Keyed microphone reveals someone in cockpit saying, "Get out of here!" 8. 9:29 a.m. Jeremy Glick calls his wife and describes the hijackers. He is told about the attacks in New York. 9. 9:34 a.m. Cockpit intercom: In broken English, a man announces there is a bomb and that the plane is returning to the airport. 10. 9:35 a.m. Hijacked plane is turned around near Cleveland. 11. 9:41 a.m. Marion Britton calls friend. She tells him that two people have been killed and the plane has been turned around. 12. 9:45 a.m. Todd Beamer's cell phone call is transferred to Verizon operator Lisa Jefferson. He tells her about the passengers' plan to fight the hijackers. 13. 9:49 a.m. Pittsburgh International Airport flight tower is evacuated. 14. 9:50 a.m. Sandra Bradshaw calls her husband. She tells him that they are in the rear galley filling pitchers with hot water to use against the hijackers. 15. 9:58 a.m. • Todd Beamer's call ends as he and others begin to carry out their plan to force their way into the cockpit and take over the plane. • CeeCee Lyles has called her husband. Screams and jumbled noises heard in the background. Call disconnects as confrontation with hijackers begins. 16. 10:04 a.m. Johnstown-Cambria Country Airport reports the plane is 15 miles south and coming fast. 17. 10:05 a.m. People on the ground witness the plane flying low and erratically. 18. 10:06 a.m. Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, approximately 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. 19. 15-20 minutes away Possible terrorist target: Washington D.C. approximately 124 miles, or 15-20 minutes, from crash site. Source- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The following timeline is for United Airlines flight 93, scheduled to fly from Newark International Airport to San Francisco. The flight crashed in Pennsylvania. --8:42 a.m.: United Airlines flight 93 takes off from Newark International Airport. --9:16 a.m.: FAA informs NORAD that United Airlines flight 93 may have been hijacked. --9:40 a.m.: Transponder signal from United flight 93 ceases and radar contact is lost. --10:02 a.m.: After a review of radar tapes, a radar signal is detected near Shanksville, Pennsylvania." - CNN (9/17/01) What was the real reason the FBI didn't want to release Flight 93's cockpit recordings? FBI refuses to release cockpit tape from hijacked flight "The FBI has turned down family requests that it release the cockpit voice recording from an airliner hijacked on Sept. 11 that crashed in a Pennsylvania field, saying the horror captured on the tape would do little to assuage their grief. "(FBI) Director (Robert) Mueller has personally listened to the recording from the hijacked flight and advised that the FBI will not be releasing the tape at this time," an FBI spokesman said in a letter to U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher. "While we empathize with the grieving families, we do not believe that the horror captured on the cockpit voice recording will console them in any way," the spokesman said. Tauscher, a California Democrat, had written to the FBI on behalf of Deena Burnett, whose husband Thomas was among those aboard the plane when it was hijacked on Sept. 11. Unlike three other passenger jets hijacked that day that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, United Flight 93 crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, apparently brought down amid a passenger revolt against the hijackers." -Houston Chronicle/Reuters (12/20/01) Three-minute discrepancy in tape - Cockpit voice recording ends before Flight 93's official time of impact "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. Aviation experts said there could be several explanations for the gap. ...President Bush and other top government officials continue to invoke the story - based largely on the cell-phone calls - of fighting between the passengers and the hijackers as a "Let's roll" rallying cry to continue the war against global terrorism. But the FBI has clamped a tight lid of secrecy on the flight data recorder - which could best show how Flight 93 actually crashed - and on the cockpit voice recorder. An FBI spokesman, Steven Berry, said the bureau continues to officially list the time of the Flight 93 crash as 10:03 a.m. The NTSB referred all questions to the FBI. But the relatives of Flight 93 passengers who heard the cockpit tape April 18 at a Princeton hotel said government officials laid out a timetable for the crash in a briefing and in a transcript that accompanied the recording. Relatives later reported they heard sounds of an on-board struggle beginning at 9:58 a.m., but there was a final "rushing sound" at 10:03, and the tape fell silent. "There is no sound of the impact," said Kenneth Nacke, whose brother, Lou Nacke Jr., is one of the passengers believed to have fought with the hijackers. Nacke confirmed that the government said the tape ended at 10:03 a.m. "The seismic signals are consistent with impact at 10:06:05," plus or minus two seconds, said Terry Wallace, who heads the Southern Arizona Seismic Observatory and is considered the leading expert on the seismology of man-made events. "I don't know where the 10:03 time comes from." None of the family members interviewed for this story recalls any explanation of a discrepancy between the times on the tape recording and the actual crash at 10:06. Investigators typically nail down the correct times very early in a probe, experts said. Todd Curtis, who runs the Web site http://AirSafe.com, said the three-minute gap "does not make sense." But the three-minute gap is certain to fuel ongoing debates on the Internet over how Flight 93 really crashed, and whether the plane could have been shot down by military jet fighters that were sent aloft as the Sept. 11 hijackings unfolded. The government insists there was no shoot down. Numerous witnesses in the Shanksville area have told the Daily News and other publications since last September that a mysterious, low-flying unmarked white jet, military in nature, circled the area at the time of the crash. The FBI has claimed this was a business jet that had been asked by air-traffic controllers to inspect the Flight 93 crater. The debate has also been driven by the wide debris field from Flight 93 - including papers found eight miles away - and by conflicting accounts over whether a 911 caller reported an explosion and white smoke on board. Grose, the former NTSB member, said he doubts the entire story of Flight 93 will ever be told. "I don't think so," he said. "It's like David Crockett at the Alamo. We need heroes." -Philadelphia Daily News (9/16/02) [Reprinted at: http://newsmine.org] NORAD's Flight 93 Response Time Missing Note: On October 27, 2004, NORAD took this timeline off their website with no explanation as to why. NORAD'S Response Times, Sept. 11, 2001 [Reprinted at: Wayback Machine] ***** The FAA and NEADS established a line of open communication discussing AA Flt 77 and UA Flt 93 United Flight 93 – Newark to San Francisco FAA Notification to NEADS N/A ***** Fighter Scramble: Order (Langley F-16s already airborne for AA Flt 77) Fighters Airborne (Langley F-16 CAP remains in place to protect DC) Airline Impact Time (Pennsylvania) 1003 (estimated) Fighter Time/Distance from Airline Impact Location approx 11 min/100 miles (from DC F-16 CAP) Witnesses to the Mysterious 'Small White Jet' A-10 "Warthog" "It was white with no markings but it was definitely military, it just had that look. It had two rear engines, a big fin on the back like a spoiler on the back of a car and with two upright fins at the side. It definitely wasn't one of those executive jets," said Susan Mcelwain. NetJets Gulfstream VSP "Decker and Chaney described the plane as a Lear-jet type, with engines mounted near the tail and painted white with no identifying markings." NetJets Falcon 2000 "The FBI's later explanation for the white jet was that a passing civilian Fairchild Falcon 20 jet...Susan Mcelwain says a Falcon 20 was not the plane she saw." Jim Brandt - Somerset County resident Jim Brandt said that he saw another plane in the area. He said it stayed there for one or two minutes before leaving. -The Pittsburgh Channel (9/12/01) Dale Browning - "It's the damndest darn thing," said Dale Browning, a farmer. "Everybody's seen this thing in the sky, but no one can tell us what it is." -The Bergen Record (9/14/01) Rick Chaney - Chaney described the plane as a Lear-jet type, with engines mounted near the tail and painted white with no identifying markings. -The Bergen Record (9/14/01) Susan Custer - said she saw a small white jet streaking overhead. -The Bergen Record (9/14/01) Dennis Decker - "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. -The Bergen Record (9/14/01) Robin Doppstadt - was working inside her family food-and-supply store when she heard the crash. When she went outside, she said, she saw a small white jet that looked like it was making a single circle over the crash site. "Then it climbed very quickly and took off. " -The Bergen Record (9/14/01) Val McClatchey - Val McClatchey heard the 757 roar over Indian Lake, three miles east of where it would crash. She had been watching the "Today" show, with footage from New York, and now the Pentagon. She looked out the window, above the red barns. She caught a glimpse of it, like light off a watch face. Then nothing, and then a boom that nearly knocked her off the couch. "I thought it was a small plane. I figured they were just trying to get out of the air." - Pittsburgh Live (09/11/02) (Note that officials said Flight 93 came in from the west towards Indian Lake, not over it coming from the east.) Susan Mcelwain, 51 - who lives two miles from the site, knows what she saw - the white plane rocketed directly over her head. "It came right over me, I reckon just 40 or 50ft above my mini-van," she recalled. "It was so low I ducked instinctively. It was traveling real fast, but hardly made any sound. "Then it disappeared behind some trees. A few seconds later I heard this great explosion and saw this fireball rise up over the trees, so I figured the jet had crashed. The ground really shook. So I dialed 911 and told them what happened. "I'd heard nothing about the other attacks and it was only when I got home and saw the TV that I realized it wasn't the white jet, but Flight 93. I didn't think much more about it until the authorities started to say there had been no other plane. The plane I saw was heading right to the point where Flight 93 crashed and must have been there at the very moment it came down. "There's no way I imagined this plane - it was so low it was virtually on top of me. It was white with no markings but it was definitely military, it just had that look. "It had two rear engines, a big fin on the back like a spoiler on the back of a car and with two upright fins at the side. I haven't found one like it on the internet. It definitely wasn't one of those executive jets. The FBI came and talked to me and said there was no plane around. "Then they changed their story and tried to say it was a plane taking pictures of the crash 3,000ft up. "But I saw it and it was there before the crash and it was 40ft above my head. They did not want my story - nobody here did." Mrs Mcelwain, who looks after special needs children, is further convinced the whole truth has yet to come out because of a phone call she had within hours from the wife of an air force friend of the family. "She said her husband had called her that morning and said 'I can't talk, but we've just shot a plane down,' " Susan said. "I presumed they meant Flight 93. I have no doubt those brave people on board tried to do something, but I don't believe what happened on the plane brought it down. "If they shot it down, or something else happened, everyone, especially the victims' families, have a right to know." -Daily Mirror (9/13/02) More - 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. " -The Bergen Record (9/14/01) - Video testimony Lee Purbaugh, 32 - was the only person to see the last seconds of Flight 93 as it came down on former strip-mining land at precisely 10.06am - and he also saw the white jet. He was working at the Rollock Inc. scrap yard on a ridge overlooking the point of impact, less than half a mile away. "I heard this real loud noise coming over my head," he told the Daily Mirror. "I looked up and it was Flight 93, barely 50ft above me. It was coming down in a 45 degree and rocking from side to side. Then the nose suddenly dipped and it just crashed into the ground. There was this big fireball and then a huge cloud of smoke." But did he see another plane? "Yes, there was another plane," Lee said. "I didn't get a good look but it was white and it circled the area about twice and then it flew off over the horizon." -Daily Mirror (9/13/02) Tom Spinelli, 28 - was working at India Lake Marina, a mile and a half away. "I saw the white plane," he said. "It was flying around all over the place like it was looking for something. I saw it before and after the crash." India Lake also contributes to the view there was an explosion on board before the Newark-San Francisco flight came down. Debris rained down on the lake - a curious feat if, as the US government insists, there was no mid-air explosion and the plane was intact until it hit the ground. "It was mainly mail, bits of in-flight magazine and scraps of seat cloth," Tom said. "The authorities say it was blown here by the wind." But there was only a 10mph breeze and you were a mile and a half away? Tom raised his eyebrows, rolled his eyes and said: "Yeah, that's what they reckon." -Daily Mirror (9/13/02) More - Another Somerset County resident, Tom Spinello, said that he saw the plane. He said that it had high back wings. -The Pittsburgh Channel (9/12/01) - See maps of all witnesses at: NineEleven2001 Alleged Hijackers 1) Saeed Alghamdi -Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida Reported alive - "Meanwhile, Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, a London-based Arabic daily, says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt." -BBC (9/23/01) "FBI Chief Raises New Doubts Over Hijackers' Identities * Saeed Alghamdi, a name used by one of the alleged hijackers on United Airlines Flight 93, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. A Saudi Arabian pilot, currently on a mission to Tunisia, has the same name." -LA Times (9/21/01) "It's impossible for us to believe [the United States] anymore," said Taha Alghamdi, a salesman in Jeddah whose brother Saeed was mistakenly confused with another man by the same name who hijacked United Flight 93, which crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. "What sort of intelligence agency doesn't know that there are thousands of Saeed Alghamdis in Saudi Arabia?" Alghamdi said. "It is like accusing Tom from New York." Like others, Alghamdi said his family would be pursuing legal action against the U.S. government for defamation." -Chicago Tribune (10/04/01) 2) Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi - Possible Saudi national -Date of birth used: October 11, 1980 -Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida Four hijackers of Flight 93 eluded grasp of authorities "Al Haznawi was Jarrah's roommate when they lived in Delray Beach. It is believed he may have trained in Afghanistan to fight in Chechnya against the Russians. He made a "video will" six months before the attacks in which he talked about plans to attack this country and send a "bloodied message" to the world. "It is time to kill Americans on their own soil among their sons and next to their soldiers and intelligence agencies. <#201> We killed them outside their country, praise is to God, and today we kill them on their own soil." -Pittsburg Live (09/08/02) 3) Ahmed Alnami -Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida Reported alive - "FBI Chief Raises New Doubts Over Hijackers' Identities * Ahmed Alnami, a name used by another suspected hijacker on Flight 93. A 33-year-old Saudi Arabian pilot with the same name is alive in Riyadh." -LA Times (9/21/01) 4) Ziad Samir Jarrah -Believed to be a pilot More about Jarrah: The Two Ziad Jarrahs by Paul Thompson - Photos source: FBI (9/27/01) Jarrah stopped by CIA in January 2001 in United Arab Emirates, stopped by Maryland police Sept. 9th for speeding, and a fragment of his passport was supposedly found at Shanksville crash site! "One of the September 11 hijackers was stopped and questioned in the United Arab Emirates in January 2001 at the request of the CIA, nearly nine months before the attacks, sources in the government of the UAE, and other Middle Eastern and European sources told CNN. The CIA suspected Ziad Jarrah had been in Afghanistan and wanted him questioned because of "his suspected involvement in terrorist activities," UAE sources said. The FBI believes Jarrah, a Lebanese national, was at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania shortly after 10 a.m. on September 11. U.S. officials believe the plane's target was the White House. A CIA spokesman vigorously denied that the CIA knew anything about Jarrah before September 11 or had anything do with his questioning in Dubai. U.S. and UAE officials say Jarrah was stopped at the airport in Dubai on January 30, 2001, after the CIA notified UAE officials that he would be arriving from Pakistan on his way back to Europe. UAE sources say the CIA wanted to know where he had been in Afghanistan and how long he had been there. Told of the CIA's denial, UAE government officials repeated to CNN that Jarrah was questioned at the request of the United States. Senior UAE sources said they had no reason to question him for their own purposes because he was in transit. Jarrah was questioned after he had already spent six months in the United States learning to fly. He had a valid U.S. multiple-entry visa in his passport, a fragment of which was found at the Flight 93 crash site. Investigators have confirmed that Jarrah had spent at least three weeks in January 2001 at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. He was released because U.S. officials were satisfied, according to sources. The CIA spokesman repeated the agency's denial that there was any such contact. After his release, Jarrah boarded a KLM flight in the early hours of January 31 and flew to Europe. Between then and September, Jarrah traveled to the United States, Lebanon and Germany before returning to the United States. There is no sign that he ever again drew the interest of any intelligence agency. On September 9, two days before the hijackings, a Maryland state trooper cited Jarrah for speeding on Interstate 95 in Cecil County, near the Delaware state line. Registration showed that the red 2001 Mitsubishi Galant that Jarrah drove that night was owned by Garden State Car Rental at Newark International Airport in New Jersey. After the September 11 hijackings, the car was found at the airport with the speeding citation was still in the glove box. Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley has said local law enforcement officials should have been told by the FBI that Jarrah was on a CIA watch list. The FBI disputes his criticism, which came during O'Malley's testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last fall. A month after the hijackings, U.S. authorities also discovered a letter written by Jarrah to his girlfriend in Germany and postmarked September 10. In the letter -- which was mistakenly addressed and returned to the United States, where authorities found it -- Jarrah told his girlfriend he had done his duty. "I have done what I had to do," he wrote. "You should be very proud. It is an honor, and you will see the result, and everyone will be happy." -CNN (08/01/02) Four hijackers of Flight 93 eluded grasp of authorities "Ziad Samir Jarrah didn't fit the profile of an Islamic terrorist. He liked women. He drank. He didn't pray or attend a mosque. He didn't wear a beard. He acted more like a Westerner than someone from the Middle East, according to published reports on his background. Jarrah, 26, of Lebanon, was able to travel between the United States and Middle East even though his name was on a watch list of suspected terrorists. And twice, law enforcement authorities had him in their grasp and let him go. On Sept. 9, 2001, a Maryland state trooper stopped Jarrah for speeding on Interstate 95. He had a valid Virginia driver's license, so the trooper let him continue driving to Newark, N.J., where he boarded United Airlines Flight 93 two days later. When the jetliner crashed, Jarrah was believed to have been at the controls. Seven months before Jarrah and three others — Saeed Alghamdi, 25, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, 20, and Ahmed Alnami, 23, all of Saudi Arabia —- hijacked the plane, Jarrah was detained by authorities in the United Arab Emirates on a request from the United States for being a suspected terrorist. Jarrah lived in Delray Beach and later in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla. He trained at a flight school in Florida, where he also worked out at a gym and studied martial arts, kickboxing and knife fighting." -Pittsburg Live (09/08/02) "Mr Glick is said to have explained to his wife that the plane had been taken over by three men of Middle Eastern appearance wearing red headbands." The microphone went off again, then on, and a voice in broken English - an Arabic accent, according to a source who heard the tape - said: "There is a bomb on board. This is the captain speaking. Remain in your seat. There is a bomb on board. Stay quiet. We are meeting with their demands. We are returning to the airport." The hijacked United Airlines flight was the only plane to crash without causing damage to structures on the ground." -BBC (9/13/01) "While visiting the crash site Thursday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said translators were helping to work on a transcript of the tape -- confirming that more than one language is heard on the tape. Officials say there are shouts heard in Arabic and English." -CNN (9/22/01) In Atta's alleged letter, which was written in Arabic, it tells the hijackers to shout "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great") when the "confrontation begins." One or more of alleged hijackers on Flight 93 reportedly yelled out in English, "Allah is the greatest! Allah is the greatest!," two times right before their plane crashed. Wouldn't it seem more natural for Arab hijackers who are under the sever stress and pumping adrenaline from knowing they are about to die to yell out a religious phrase in their native and more comfortable Arabic language then it is to shout it out in an awkward foreign language? Flight 93: Forty lives, one destiny "The night before boarding Flight 93, in their hotel rooms, Jarrah would have opened a list of instructions, kept in a notebook that apparently was written by his old friend Atta. It instructed them to bathe, wear cologne, shave excess hair from their bodies and check the knives they carried. "You must make your knife sharp and you must not discomfort your animal during the slaughter," it read. "Completely forget something called 'this life.' The time for play is over and the serious time is upon us." -Pittsburg Post-Gazette (10/28/01) What Happened on Flight 93? "At least one of the four young Middle Eastern men in first class was carrying a knife hidden in a cigarette lighter and also a copy of a letter. United States Attorney Genernal John Ashcroft said in a news conference: "It is a disturbing and shocking view into the mindset of these terrorists. The letter provides instructions to the terrorists to be carried out both prior and during their terrorist attacks." His written instructions said to scream "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for "God is great" - because this was sure to terrify everyone." - MSNBC (09/03/02) [Reprinted at: http://billstclair.com] 'We Have Some Planes' "Five seconds later, Jarrah asked, "Is that it? Shall we finish it off?" A hijacker responded, "No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off." The sounds of fighting continued outside the cockpit. Again, Jarrah pitched the nose of the aircraft up and down. At 10:00:26, a passenger in the background said, "In the cockpit. If we don't we'll die!" Sixteen seconds later, a passenger yelled, "Roll it!" Jarrah stopped the violent maneuvers at about 10:01:00 and said, "Allah is the greatest! Allah is the greatest!" He then asked another hijacker in the cock-pit, "Is that it? I mean, shall we put it down?" to which the other replied, "Yes, put it in it, and pull it down."88 The passengers continued their assault and at 10:02:23, a hijacker said, "Pull it down! Pull it down!" The hijackers remained at the controls but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them. The airplane headed down; the control wheel was turned hard to the right. The airplane rolled onto its back, and one of the hijackers began shouting "Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest." With the sounds of the passenger counterattack continuing, the aircraft plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 580 miles per hour, about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C.89" -9/11 Commission [Local] Passengers Something Strange about Flight 93 Were any of the passengers supposed to be on the flight? by FrankL at Team 8+ Flight 93 passenger phone calls Name Age Home Job Employer Crew Lorraine G. Bay 58 East Windsor, N.J. flight attendant United Airlines Sandra W. Bradshaw 38 Greensboro, N.C. flight attendant United Airlines Jason Dahl 43 Denver, Colo. captain United Airlines Wanda Anita Green 49 Linden, N.J. flight attendant United Airlines LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr. 36 Marlton, N.J. first officer United Airlines CeeCee Lyles 33 Fort Myers, Fla. flight attendant United Airlines Deborah Welsh 49 New York, N.Y. flight attendant United Airlines Passengers Christian Adams 37 Biebelsheim, Germany foreign sales manager German Wine Fund Todd Beamer 32 Cranbury, N.J. account manager Oracle Corp. Alan Beaven 48 Hurleyville, N.Y. environmental lawyer Mark K. Bingham 31 San Francisco, Calif. owner The Bingham Group Deora Frances Bodley 20 San Diego, Calif. university student Santa Clara (Calif.) University Marion Britton 53 New York, N.Y. assistant regional director U.S. Census Bureau Thomas E. Burnett Jr. 38 San Ramon, Calif. senior vice president and chief operating officer Thoratec Corp. William Joseph Cashman 60 West New York, N.J. construction worker Georgine Rose Corrigan 56 Honolulu, Hawaii antiques and collectibles dealer Patricia Cushing 69 Bayonne, N.J. retiree Joseph Deluca 52 Ledgewood, N.J. systems business consultant Pfizer Inc. Patrick Joseph Driscoll 70 Pt Pleasant Beach, N.J. retired research director Bell Communications Edward P. Felt 41 Matawan, N.J. technology director BEA Systems Jane C. Folger 73 Bayonne, N.J. retiree Colleen Laura Fraser 51 Elizabeth, N.J. chairwoman New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council Andrew Garcia 62 Portola Valley, Calif. salesman Jeremy Glick 31 Hewlett, N.J. managing director Credit Suisse Boston Lauren Grandcolas 38 San Rafael, Calif. sales worker Good Housekeeping magazine Donald F. Greene 47 Greenwich, Conn. executive vice president Safe Flight Instrument Corp. Linda Gronlund 46 Greenwood Lake, N.Y. environmental compliance BMW Richard Jerry Guadagno 39 Eureka, Calif. manager Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Toshiya Kuge 20 Nishimidoriguoska, Japan student, Japanese Hilda Marcin 79 Budd Lake, N.J. retired teacher's aide Waleska Martinez Rivera 37 Jersey City, N.J. automation specialist U.S. Census Bureau Nicole Miller 21 San Jose, Calif. student West Valley College Louis J. Nacke 42 New Hope, Pa. distribution center director Kay-Bee Toys Donald Arthur Peterson 66 Spring Lake, N.J. retired president Continental Electric Co. Jean Hoadley Peterson 55 Spring Lake, N.J. retired nurse Mark Rothenberg 52 Scotch Plains, N.J. owner MDR Global Resources Christine Anne Snyder 32 Kailua, Hawaii arborist Outdoor Circle John Talignani 74 New York, N.Y. retired restaurant worker Honor Elizabeth Wainio 27 Baltimore, Md. district manager Discovery Channel stores Olga Kristin Gould White 65 New York, N.Y. freelance medical journalist -Source: Boston Globe Flight 93 Crash Site Photos: Killtown's Flight 93 Image Gallery EPA 9/11 Flight 93 Rare Footage Florida Today Flight 93 Crash Site Photo Essay one - two - Pittsburgh Live Maps USA Attacked Physics 911 Photo Duck Google satellite map location dep.state.pa.us Plane Crash Photos: USAir 427 & United Airlines 585 Plane Crashes - Loose Change Forum AirDisaster.Com Aviation Safety Network Aircraft Crashes Record Office Helios Airways Boeing 737 LINKS: Hunt the Boeing II! Shanksville edition! - Killtown Flight 93 Plume Photo Analysis - Killtown Flight 93 Resources - The Web Fairy Compilation on all aspects of UA 93 - Team 8+ The Disappearance of Flight 93 - Loose Change 2E Hopefully, My Last Analysis of the Flight 93 Crash - Humint Events Online Flight 93 Hoax - Spooked The Odyssey of Flight United Airlines 93 - nineeleven2001 911 reality - Shanksville - German site (un-translated) United Airlines 93 by Shanksville - WTC-Terror Attack Timeline: United Airlines Flight 93 - Center for Cooperative Research The Cleveland Airport Mystery - Woody Box Shanksville, deception or truth? - 9/11 File Unsolved Flight 93 - Sky Drifter (Scroll down halfway.) The Two Ziad Jarrahs - Paul Thompson 9-11 Mysteries Remain - American Free Press Information to prove flight United 93 did not crash land - Truth 9/11 Flight 93 and the A-10 - Mark O'Loughlin Timelines and maps for 9/11/2001 - Irving Shapiro How Did United Flight 93 Crash? - http://flight93crash.com Flight 93 - 9/11 http://Review.org Seismic Event: The Final Moments of Flight 93 - Robb Magley "Let's Roll!" On United Flight 93, The Saddest Lie Of All - Vialls Investigations Cleveland Smoking Gun Proves “Arab Hijacker” Calls From United Airlines Flight 93 Were Faked - Vialls Investigations Flight 93: The Improbable Truth - Paranoia Flight United Airlines 93 - Stony Creek Township, PA - Utopia X What Really Happened to Flight 93? - David McGowan Red Bandanas on Flight 93? - 7th Fire/Vialls "We have a bomb on board” messages faked - 7th Fire/Vialls Asking Questions at the Flight 93 Crash Site [2, 3, 4, Interview] - Devvy Kidd Il mistero di United 93 - Spanish Documentary News Articles: Flight 93 Archived Articles Team 4 Looks At Flight 93 Conspiracy Theories - WTAE-TV 4 (09/11/06) Photo under fire - Tribune-Democrat (09/09/06) Flight 93 crash photo target of conspiracy theorists - CNHI (09/08/06) Conspiracy theorists blog that Flight 93 photo is fake - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (08/06/06) Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane 'shot down' in Pennsylvania - WorldNetDaily (012/27/04) Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash - CNN (12/2704) The downing of United Airlines Flight 93 - WorldNetDaily (04/26/04) Was United Flight 93 shot down on Sept. 11? - WorldNetDaily (01/25/03) Did U.S. jet shoot down Flight 93? - Athens Banner-Herald (01/25/03) Three-minute discrepancy in tape - Philadelphia Daily News (09/16/02) [Cached: http://propagandamatrix.com] WHAT DID HAPPEN TO FLIGHT 93? - Daily Mirror UK (09/12/02) True or false? Did a US missile shoot down flight 93 - The Age (09/09/02) Unanswered Questions: The Mystery of Flight 93 - The Independent UK (08/13/02) [Reprint at: http://100777.com] 'Fighting' knife found in Flight 93 wreckage - WorldNetDaily (03/22/02) What Are They Hiding About Flight 93? by Reed Irvine - Accuracy In Media (12/28/01) Unanswered Questions About Flight 93 - SFGate (10/22/01) We know it crashed, but not why by William Bunch - AR Online/Philadelphia Daily News (10/15/01) The Story of Flight 93 - http://September11News.com Behind the Scenes of 9-11 - ABC video (Flight 93 info @ 29:00) Video- Pres. Bush talks about hearing that Flight 93 had crashed in Pennsylvania. -CBS To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic. 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