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9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Ed Jewett - 26-04-2011
Yukoner tackles 9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery
2 flights that had been transmitting hijack signals landed in Whitehorse
The Canadian Press Posted: Apr 25, 2011 8:51 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 25, 2011
11:36 PM ET
When Max Fraser started collecting footage and stories about how Sept. 11, 2001, played out in the Yukon capital of Whitehorse, he set out to make a point-of-view documentary about the terrifying spectre of 2 supposedly hijacked jumbo jets landing in or on Whitehorse.
It's hard to forget the images of an American Airlines jet slamming into the World Trade Center in New York City, followed by a United Airlines jet hitting the second tower minutes later. The images were beamed to television sets around the world.
What Fraser ended up with is the mysterious tale of how Korean Air Flight 085, bound for New York City, came to land at the then-Whitehorse International Airport at 11:54 a.m. that day, instead of descending at one of the many better-equipped Alaskan runways it passed on its way.
'Nowhere else in the world on 9/11 was a community under an evacuation order and nowhere else were emergency authorities told to prepare for a mass casualty incident involving a hijacked airliner.'
Max Fraser, filmmaker
And even more mysterious is why 2 Korean planes were transmitting a hijack "squawk" (a satellite code that can be discreetly set by a pilot to alert authorities on the ground of a hostile takeover), even though all was well on board the flights.
In response, American and Canadian fighter jets were deployed to accompany those planes to the Whitehorse airport.
Fraser was one of the many parents scrambling to find their children after learning that every student in Whitehorse was being evacuated from school, and that everyone in the capital had to get away from the city.
That inspired the local filmmaker to make the 45-minute documentary titled Never Happen Here the Whitehorse 9/11 Story. It premiered Sunday night at the Dawson City Short Film Festival.
The film was a way of answering at least some of the many questions he had in the weeks, months and years following the deadliest terrorist attack ever committed on North American soil.
"Nowhere else in the world on 9/11 was a community under an evacuation order and nowhere else were emergency authorities told to prepare for a mass casualty incident involving a hijacked airliner," Fraser said.
"What we experienced, what we went through, is a story that should be told the world over."
He began by interviewing other parents who rushed to Whitehorse Elementary School as government buildings emptied and the streets filled with people trying to get out of town.
He also filed a number of access to information requests to the Canadian and American governments, trying to piece together the timeline of what was happening in the air above.
He began with what Whitehorse residents knew that brilliantly sunny day that 2 potentially hijacked 747 jets were headed their way.
This belief was based on reports from the RCMP, who were at the airport waiting for the airliners.
The RCMP, in turn, were working with information from North American Aerospace Defence Command, which was tracking the Korean Air passenger jets.
One of the double-decker planes first raised an alarm at 9:06 a.m. PT, three hours and 21 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 plowed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
That was when the United States Federal Aviation Administration was informed that a text message containing the international code for hijacking HJK had passed between the cockpit of Flight 085 and Korean Air's ground control at 8:09 a.m. Although it was, and still is, unclear which end was sending the message, it was remarkable as it was the only such text message sent that day.
It was also remarkable for those monitoring the plane at the time because when ground control spoke to the plane's pilot, he reported all was well.
Meanwhile in the U.S., then-vice-president Dick Cheney had authorized his country's war planes to "intercept civilian tracks of interest and shoot them down if they seem to be threatening a U.S. city. Clearance to shoot is authorized to save lives on the ground."
In other words: If the Air Force brass believed a plane full of people was going crash into another American building, they were to blow it out of the sky.
The 230 souls on board Flight 085 had no idea they were being tracked by two fighter jets with shoot-to-kill authorization, and only the crew knew what had happened in New York City to justify such an order.
In the three years Fraser spent investigating the orders and communications bouncing around North America that day, he has not discovered why the HJK texts were sent, but he did uncover an even bigger mystery: Why did the FAA order Flight 085 to squawk 7500 an unequivocal hijacking distress signal?
Using actual audio footage obtained through his information requests to the American military, Fraser shows the incredulous Korean Air pilot asking ground control to repeat what must have been an unbelievable order.
In the weeks and months after 9/11, once everyone knew Flight 085 carried nothing more threatening than airplane food, officials said the hijack signal was the result of language barriers the pilot didn't speak very good English, they said, and wires got crossed.
"That's not true," Fraser said bluntly at a press screening of his film last Thursday afternoon. "Anyone flying a 747 anywhere in the world speaks English."
It is not a statement based on assumption. The retired RCMP commander who interviewed the pilot once the plane was grounded says the same thing to Fraser's camera.
Fraser weaves these surprising revelations with the recollections of parents and students of Whitehorse Elementary, who describe the confusion and terror of being stuck in traffic as the planes headed toward downtown.
Fraser's movie leaves the watcher with more questions than answers about the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
Why did NORAD officials direct supposedly hijacked planes to Whitehorse when they could have ordered them to land in any number of Alaskan airfields?
Who sent the hijack text messages and why?
Why were the pilots ordered to squawk 7500?
Why have officials been so reticent to explain their actions related to the Korean Air flights?
The questions aren't answered, but they are certainly worth asking.
With files from the CBC's Al Foster
© The Canadian Press, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/04/25/korean-air-flight-911-mystery.html?ref=rss
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Peter Lemkin - 26-04-2011
Very weird and totally new to me....:mexican:
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Christer Forslund - 26-04-2011
Quote:Very weird and totally new to me...
But of course, very logical: if need be / just in case - direct attention somewhere else...
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Jan Klimkowski - 26-04-2011
Christer Forslund Wrote:Quote:Very weird and totally new to me...
But of course, very logical: if need be / just in case - direct attention somewhere else...
Yes.
And for some currently unknown reason the Korean planes were not needed for The Official Narrative.
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Charles Drago - 26-04-2011
Some hastily formed thoughts and questions offered after a single quick read:
1. Asking the pilot(s) to send an official "we're being hijacked" text message or squawk: How many pilots of the officially "hijacked" planes were given the same or similar orders in order to support the official "conspiracy theory"?
2. Are passenger manifests of these planes intact? Accessible?
3. At the scene, would there have been any natural (geograhpical, meteorological, etc.) and/or artificial barriers to systems designed to take remote control of these planes?
4. Would it be possible to conduct meaningful forensic investigations of the scene based upon deep political knowledge bases? Where did the passengers on the manifests go? Where are the pilots today? Were the planes taken out of service for purposes of examination? What was the relationship at the time of RCMP intel services and suspect U.S. intel services?
For starters. Gotta run.
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Magda Hassan - 27-04-2011
Fascinating! And totally new to me too. Wonder if there are any others like this in obscure corners.
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Peter Lemkin - 27-04-2011
Magda Hassan Wrote:Fascinating! And totally new to me too. Wonder if there are any others like this in obscure corners.
Good point. A magician always tries to misdirect the audience's attention to perform a trick. I'll bet there are many such little 'odd' incidents all over the map on that day [or just before, practicing]. Perhaps, we in the research community have looked a bit too exclusively at D.C., Shanksville and NYC. The better known odd incident [not yet nailed down] that took place in Ohio is another example. I'd like to add to the list of questions, what time was this and why the adept fighters to escort, when none could be mustered where the real damage was being done? I think we were 'had' on 9-11 by a team of 'magicians' with very evil intent, much as in Dallas......
No doubt they had multiple scenarios [as in Dallas] in the event of X, use Y; in the event of B, use plan Z...etc. Part of it might have been misdirection; part these alternate scenarios, if needed - or excuses, if needed; or it could have been planned to have been bigger than it was. The Shanksville plane blown out of the sky wasn't to plan...whatever the plan was.....
I believe the Master Plan was to head the US toward a Police State under the Puppet Govt., Military and Elites; and perpetual wars. Seems they did quite well on both accounts.
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Pamela Grim - 24-05-2011
'Nowhere else in the world on 9/11 was a community under an evacuation order"
This is incorrect. I was in Cleveland, Ohio at the time and the entire downtown was ordered evaculated. If you think evacuating Whitehorse was difficult, imagine trying to clear out downtown Cleveland. If I remember correctly everyone was ordered out--just get out--of the airport as well.
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Magda Hassan - 25-05-2011
Pamela Grim Wrote:'Nowhere else in the world on 9/11 was a community under an evacuation order"Welcome Pamela :humble: Thank you for the update. Much appreciated. For us non-US members can you tell us how big Cleaveland is? I can imagine it being quite a reasonable size provincial center. Just curious about the logistics.
This is incorrect. I was in Cleveland, Ohio at the time and the entire downtown was ordered evaculated. If you think evacuating Whitehorse was difficult, imagine trying to clear out downtown Cleveland. If I remember correctly everyone was ordered out--just get out--of the airport as well.
9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery - Peter Lemkin - 25-05-2011
The Cleveland 'incident' is one of the better looked into of the 'obscure' side-shows of 911 and while not fully fleshed out, it [like any good op] turns up more questions, than answers, when poked and explored. A plane landed there - resembling one the errant flights, was taken to a very remote part of the airport; some were told there was a bomb threat or hijack threat aboard and all were mysteriously deplaned from it. The incident both did and did not officially occur and try to find any of those passengers......
9/11 Review http://911review.org/inn.globalfreepress/Cleveland_Airport_Mystery.html
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The Cleveland Airport Mystery
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Update (06/21): WoodyBox found new witnesses, which point on two different "quarantined" planes at Cleveland Hopkins (see "comments")
WoodyBox ("Flight 11 - The Twin Flight") new article is yet another groundbreaking analysis.
It appears, that the majority of 9/11 Researchers and the 9/11 family members, who lost their loved ones, have to compile a new list of questions about an airport, which didn't receive much attention yet: Cleveland Hopkins, Ohio.
Among the disturbing new details are two flights, which apparently had been part of yet another "mirror flight" scenario. "Both" got grounded in Ohio.
One of them was Delta1989, the other one was identified as, most shocking: "Flight 93"!
But there are also many new questions about some "200 passengers" of that day...
The Cleveland Airport Mystery
200 passengers got lost on 9/11 - by mailto:woody_box2000@yahoo.de Woody Box
Exclusive for INN Report -May 30
Inmidst the chaos breaking out in the hours after the WTC and Pentagon attacks, between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m an airplane made an emergency landing at Cleveland Hopkins Airport . Rumours were going around that it was hijacked or had a bomb on board. The FBI evacuated the plane and searched it with bomb-sniffing dogs after the passengers had left. It turned out to be false alarm. The plane - Delta flight1989 - was not hijacked, and there was no bomb.
However, a closer examination reveals a bunch of conflicting statements concerning Delta 1989. Neither the moment of landing, nor the number of the passengers, nor the location of the grounded plane is clear. For every aspect of the incident there are two different versions. Not one or three or four versions, but two.
This article will prove that not one, but two planes made an emergency landing in Cleveland - in close succession. The proof is based on local newspaper and radio reports from September 11th and 12th (mainly from the Akron Beacon Journal and the Cleveland Plain Dealer), statements of eyewitnesses and internet postings in the morning of 9/11 (people were listening to the radio and immediately submitted the breaking news to the net). One of the flights was indeed Delta 1989. We don't know the identity of the other one, so we call it "Flight X"...
We start with a short summary of the events in Cleveland. At 10 a.m., the airport was evacuated. Without doubt, this had to do with the rumours that a hijacked plane was going to land. The passengers had to leave the airport but were not allowed to take their car. They had to walk or got a ride at the highway. Busses were not allowed to leave the airport. People around the airport were told to go home. It was a very tense situation. These facts are undisputed.
Cleveland Mayor Michael White held a televised news conference at 11 a.m., after the emergency landing. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he said there was an unconfirmed report that the plane might have been hijacked or was carrying a bomb. But in the middle of the news conference, he reported that it had not been hijacked, and later in the day he said no bomb had been found. This was not the only detail that changed in the course of the day. In the morning, White said that air controllers could hear screaming on the plane. In the afternoon, he didn't mention the screams anymore.
We will now examine several parameters of the emergency landing:
1) The moment of landing
2) The begin of the evacuation of the passengers
3) The number of passengers
4) The place the passengers were interviewed after the evacuation
5) The exact location of the grounded plane
We will see that there are two different data for every parameter, suggesting that we are dealing with two different planes. We will omit the "a.m." because it's clear that everything is happening in the morning.
1) The moment of landing
AP and two Ohio newspapers report a landing at 10:45 (1A). However, Delta Airlines has registered 10:10 as the landing time and Cleveland firefighters can confirm that the landing took place before 10:30 (1B). Because Delta Airlines did not loose the track of its plane, the 10:10 plane was surely Delta 1989. So the 10:45 plane is - by definition - Flight X.
2) The begin of the evacuation of the passengers
The Akron Beacon Journal writes in an extra edition from 9/11 that the passengers were released from the plane at 11:15. This is confirmed by internet postings describing the events in real-time (2A). However, a passenger from Delta 1989 relates that she had to stay more than two hours in the plane before the FBI started to search it and took the passengers away for questioning. The Plain Dealer has learned about a evacuation time of 12:30, confirming the witness' statement. (2B).
Thanks to the most valuable statement of the passenger, we can conclude that Delta 1989 landed at 10:10 and was evacuated at 12:30. Flight X landed at 10:45 and was evacuated at 11:15.
3) The number of passengers
The first press reports tell us that the plane carried 200 passengers. Mayor White mentioned this number on his 11 o'clock conference (3A). He did not say how he got the number. The passenger of Delta 1989 however, she must know it, made an estimation of "sixty or so" passengers. This is confirmed by later reports - the story changed quickly. Now, 69 passengers have been released from the plane, going well with the "sixty or so" (3B).
We can conclude that Delta 1989 landed at 10:10, the 69 passengers being evacuated at 12:30. Flight X landed at 10:45, the 200 passengers being released at 11:15.
4) The place the passengers were interviewed after the evacuation
The most reports say that the passengers were brought into a nearby NASA facility (4A). This is the NASA Glenn Research Center, located near the west end of the airport. It was already evacuated. The passenger of delta 1989 however tells us that she was taken into a "secure building at the airport". This is confirmed by a report that the Delta 1989 passengers were interviewed in the FAA headquarter (4B). Surely the FAA headquarter is not located in the NASA facility.
We can conclude that Delta 1989 landed at 10:10, and at 12:30 the 69 passengers were taken into the FAA headquarter. Flight X landed at 10:45, and at 11:15 the 200 passengers were taken into the evacuated NASA Center.
Cleveland Hopkins Airport - note that the blue runways were in planning yet on 9/11. The big black rectangle in the South is the I-X Center
5) The exact location of the plane
This is the final proof that we have to do with two different planes. Both planes were sitting on a runway, but miles away from each other. One plane was at the west end of runway 28/10 near the NASA center (point 10 in the map). This is confirmed by Associated Press and an eyewitness (5A). The other plane was sitting at the south end of runway 18/36 near the I-X-Center (point 36), also confirmed by two eyewitnesses (5B). The geographic conditions on the airport suggest that the passengers at the West end were taken to the NASA Center and the passengers at the South end to the FAA headquarter.
We summarise our findings:
..........................................................Delta 1989...................Flight X
Moment of landing................................10:10...........................10:45
Begin of evacuation...............................12:30...........................11:15
Number of passengers............................69................................200
Passengers brought to............. ..........FAA/Airport...................NASA
Exact location.................................Runway 18/36 ............Runway 28/10
.....................................................near I-X Center..........near NASA Center
The 69 passengers of Delta 1989 are (hopefully) alive and well. Questions remain:
Where did Flight X come from, who were the 200 passengers, and what happened to them?
Sources
(1A) Landing at 10:45
The airplane landed at about 10:45 a.m., but the airport released no information about the plane's intended destination. Associated Press 9/11/01
The flight to Los Angeles landed at Hopkins at 10:45 a.m., and was directed to a secure area of the airport. Akron Beacon Journal 9/12/01
Delta Flight 1989 made an emergency landing at Hopkins about 10:45 a.m., nearly two hours after the World Trade Center towers were hit by two hijacked planes. Cleveland Plain Dealer 9/12/01
(1B) Landing at 10:10
10:30 a.m. Flight quarantined. On a remote taxiway at Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Delta Flight 1989 is quarantined. Since early reports that a bomb, then hijackers, might be aboard, Delta CEO Leo Mullin, 58, had nervously tracked the flight from the company's headquarters in Atlanta. Every five minutes, a new report came in. None seemed clear. Still, the flight landed uneventfully in Cleveland at 10:10 a.m. USA Today, 8/12/02
After treatment and transport to the hospital, reports over our radio confirmed the south tower had collapsed. ... My chief put out an order to return to quarters. He received reports there was a plane sequestered on the runway of Cleveland Hopkins Airport, because of a possible hijacking or a bomb on board. Responding back to our firehouse my heart started pounding faster as we became closer to our station, which is only a few hundred yards from the south side of the airport. The second tower now had collapsed. There it was a huge plane standing eerily still. Police, EMS and fire are positioned in the distance. Scott Boulton, Cleveland firefighter. The reports of the suspicious plane on the runway obviously came in BEFORE the WTC North Tower collapsed (10:28). A 10:10 landing time fits very well into Boulton's chronology (set between the first and second WTC collapse), while a 10:45 landing time contradicts it.
(2A) Evacuation at 11:15
The 200 passengers were reportedly released from the plane at 11:15 a.m., though White said the pilot was still concerned that a bomb remained. Akron Beacon Journal 9/11/01
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. WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, 9/11/01, 11:43:57. So at 11.43, the evacuation was already finished.
"We have lost track of a number of planes," quote from FAA. From Scott P at PTE - Just heard an unconfirmed report that a plane on the ground at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport has a bomb on board with approximately 200 people on board. PT Cruiser Club Forum Posted by Cruisin in Calgary at Sept?11,?2001,?8:14?AM PST (=11:14 EST)
The plane at Hopkins has been deplaned and they are going to search it for a bomb now. PT Cruiser CLub Forum Posted by Terry J at Sep?11,?2001,?8:41?AM PST (=11:41 EST) . So there were no passengers on the plane anymore at 11:41.
(2B) Evacuation at 12:30
After our emergency landing, our plane was directed to go to an isolated area of the airport, and we waited for over two hours in quarantine before FBI agents and bomb sniffing dogs came out to the plane. Delta 1989 passenger's story
About 12:30 p.m. baggage cars and shuttle buses approached the plane. The 69 passengers and nine crew members then walked down a portable staircase and onto the buses, which took them to FAA headquarters nearby. Cleveland Plain Dealer 9/12/01
(3A) 200 passengers
The 200 passengers were reportedly released from the plane at 11:15 a.m., though White said the pilot was still concerned that a bomb remained. Akron Beacon Journal 9/11/01
The plane was sitting on a runway at the airport's west end with approximately 200 passengers on board. Associated Press, 9/11/01
About 200 passengers were aboard the plane. It will be checked for a bomb. News Channel 5, Cleveland-Akron,9/11/01
A few hours after Mayor White's first news conference, FBI Special Agent Mark Bullock confirmed that the Delta jet with 200 people aboard had landed safely and had not been in danger. WCPN radio, 9/12/01
The mayor of Cleveland has announced that an airplane containing 200 passengers has been sequestered at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport. They believe there may be a bomb on the plane. Metafilter.com forum posted by turaho at 8:37 a.m. PST (=11:37 EST)
(3B) 69 passengers
The sixty or so passengers were thus able to gather some alarming details of the unbelievable fates of the other two LA-bound planes. Delta 1989 passenger's story
The 69 passengers and nine crew members then walked down a portable staircase and ontothe buses, which took them to FAA headquarters nearby. Cleveland Plain Dealer 9/12/01
The plane was evacuated of its 78 passengers shortly before 1 p.m. Akron Beacon Journal 9/12/01( 78 = 69 passengers + 9 crew members)
(4A) Interview in NASA Center
They (the passengers) were taken to NASA Glenn Research Center to be interviewed by FBI agents. The center had been evacuated about an hour before.) Akron Beacon Journal 9/12/01
The Boeing 767 was evacuated and searched, said Della Homenik, spokeswoman for Mayor Michael R. White. Passengers were taken to a nearby NASA facility. The Post, Athens, Ohio, 9/11/01
I thought the target could also have be NASA's Glen/Lewis Research Center that is right next to the Cleveland Airport.The news reported that the plane landed because of a suspected bomb on board but they haven't released anyone that was on that plane. The closed NASA and transported everyone that was on the plane there for questioning. E-Mail Repository, posted by "Connie", time unknown.
(4B) Interview in FAA/Airport building
While our personal effects were examined we were taken to a secure building at the airport where for three hours we were interrogated at length. Delta 1989 passenger's story
The 69 passengers and nine crew members then walked down a portable staircase and onto the buses, which took them to FAA headquarters nearby. Cleveland Plain Dealer 9/12/01
(5A) Plane at West end near NASA Center
The plane was sitting on a runway at the airport's west end with approximately 200 passengers on board. Associated Press, 9/11/01
At the same time that we passed the Cleveland airport, the radio was reporting that a plane had been quarantined at the airport and forced to stay away from the terminal. There was some concern that a bomb might be aboard. As we went by, we say the plane with a number of vehicles surrounding it. Lights were flashing. We wondered if there were hijackers aboard that very plane. Rudy K, personal report. Rudy K was on the way home from Toledo to Rochester, N.Y., taking Interstate 480. This highway runs parallel to runway 28/10, a few hundred yards more to the North. The I-X-Center is three miles away - too far away for Rudy K's eyes to recognize vehicles. He was watching a plane near the northern boundary of the airport. His report confirms the existence of a plane near the NASA Center. Thanks to his precise description, we can also conclude that he passed the airport at about 11 o'clock as he began his ride at 9:30 in Toledo and arrived at 4 p.m. in Rochester (with a little stop). Flight X was already there at 11 o'clock.
(5B) Plane at South end near I-X Center
Kurt Voelkel, 18, of Parma watched as the Delta sat on a remote area of the Hopkins tarmac near the I-X Center. Akron Beacon Journal 9/12/01
He received reports there was a plane sequestered on the runway of Cleveland Hopkins Airport, because of a possible hijacking or a bomb on board. Responding back to our firehouse my heart started pounding faster as we became closer to our station, which is only a few hundred yards from the south side of the airport. The second tower now had collapsed. There it was a huge plane standing eerily still. Police, EMS and fire are positioned in the distance. Scott Boulton, Cleveland firefighter. Boulton works with the fire department of Brookmark, a small city south-east of Hopkins Airport. His station is on Holland Street, just opposite the end of runway 18/36 ("only a few hundred yards from the southside of the airport"). So he is talking of the plane near the I-X Center, too.
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Footnotes
The 10 factual data presented in the text are each supported by at least two independent sources. Everybody who denies the occurring of two emergency landings should be able to provide us with clear answers to these five questions: When did the plane land, when was it evacuated, how many passengers dit it carry, where were they interviewed, where was the plan sitting at the airport. For every answer, he should also be able to disprove the contradicting two (or more) sources. I think this is very hard work. Good luck.
There are many rumours and uncorroborated messages around the events in Cleveland. I want to present them here, but I endorse careful handling as they are not independently verified.
Flight X = United Airlines Flight?
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 did say how many people were aboard the flight.WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, 9/11/01, 11:43:57 (Mirror)
This message, submitted at 11:43 in the morning, is nowhere else to find. It's the only hint that Flight X might be United Airlines 93, but you have to wonder about the differing passenger numbers (UA 93: 33 passengers; Flight X: 200 passengers). Very obscure the last sentence: If United Airlines told the reporters the number of the passengers, why don't they submit this news to the public? Did the airline tell them the number but on the condition not to publish it?
[11:01] (temas) there was an emergency landing safely completed in Cleveland
[11:02] (temas) potential bomb on the plane
[11:02] (temas) and it might be the missing UA flight
This jabber obviously followed the radio or TV news. He refers to what he's hearing, so it's not his own, but the radio's guessing that the plane in Cleveland might be the "missing UA flight". Very likely temas is talking about Flight X because Delta 1989's identity never was in question. Note that the time of the posting 11:01 points to a landing of 10:45, too.
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The Toledo Plane
White reported that another plane was diverted from Hopkins toward Toledo. Akron Beacon Journal 9/11/01
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. Associated Press, 9/11/01
So we have another obscure plane in an emergency situation, and in the light of the new evidence, we might ask if the Toledo Plane is identical to Flight X. It seems that Mayor White was not the best informed person in Cleveland since he changed his statements a couple of times during the day.
Virginia Buckingham's statement
A disturbing first-hand statement comes from Virginia Buckingham. She was not only security chief of Boston Airport on 9/11, but also CEO of MA Port Authority.
By 9:30, the FAA had grounded all flights out of Boston and New York. By 9:40, all US flight operations were halted. As we tried to account for all Boston-originating flights already in the air, we received word that a Delta flight out of Logan, bound for the West Coast, had lost radio contact with air traffic control.
When exactly did Delta 1989 loose radio contact? At 9:36, Cleveland Center warned the plane to stay away from UA 93, and this USA Today report confirms that the pilot asked the controllers to land in Cleveland shortly before 9:45 when the FAA released an order to ground all planes. So until about 9:40-9:45 Delta 1989 was in contact with Air Traffic Control.
Victoria Buckingham: I felt sick to my stomach. It would be more than an hour before we received word that the flight had landed safely in Cleveland.
So it took more than an hour after the lost radio contact that Mrs. Buckingham learned of the safe landing of the flight. This must have happened at about 10:45-11:00 and perfectly fits the landing time of Flight X. Did she refer to Flight X? Delta 1989 landed at 10:10 in Cleveland, and it is unbelievable that the pilot allowed the passengers to make phone calls but didn't inform his airline about the safe landing. If Mrs. Buckingham was talking about Delta 1989, why did she had to wait more than half an hour to get the reassuring message that the plane and the passengers were okay?
Col. Alan Scott's statement
Col. Scott testified to the 9-11 commission on 5/23/03:
MR. SCOTT: 9:27, Boston FAA reports a fifth aircraft missing, Delta Flight 89 -- and many people have never heard of Delta Flight 89. We call that the first red herring of the day, because there were a number of reported possible hijackings that unfolded over the hours immediately following the actual attacks. Delta 89 was not hijacked, enters the system, increases the fog and friction if you will, as we begin to look for that. But he lands about seven of eight minutes later and clears out of the system.
At 9:49, FAA reports that Delta 89, which had been reported as missing, is now reported as a possible hijacking. So again he is --
MR.: That's 9:41, sir.
MR. SCOTT: I'm sorry, 9:41. Again, he is in the system. He is kind of a red herring for us.
Plane Swap Over Pennsylvania Flight 93 Woodybox
World Premiere -WoodyBox: How to steal an airliner and fake a hijacking
Air Traffic Control Center Ronkonkoma- Red Herring or Cover-up?
The lost "terror drills ? Pt.11a This final chapter includes the real reason of "wargames"
as a planted distraction to "anti terror drills", two government "agents" on Delta1989 and Colgan5930?,
Amalgam Virgo "1.5", Rosetta Stone, the significance of 1951, Tinker AFB, White Sands, STARS,
The lost "terror drill"? Pt.11b
9/11 was a combination of older terror drills, NOT wargames! Major parts had been also tested during Amalgam Virgo 01 (June 2001) and during three until recently lesser-known drills in Westmoreland County, Buffalo and Dayton. These three drills had odd similarities with the fate of Flight 77, Flight 11, Flight 175 and Flight 93.
Michael Kane: "9/11 War Games No Coincidence"