02-09-2016, 04:08 PM
The Kentucky incident is referred to in the History Commons Timeline:
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When Indianapolis flight control reported the loss of contact with Flight 77 to the FAA's Great Lakes Regional Operations Center (see 9:09 a.m. September 11, 2001), an employee at an FAA flight service station (which particular one is unspecified) picks up on the communication and mistakenly calls the Ashland, Kentucky police to report a confirmed crash. Indianapolis controllers had noted the last known position of Flight 77 as being near the Ohio-Kentucky border, so this becomes part of the employee's report. Indianapolis Center personnel, suspecting that Flight 77 may have crashed, subsequently contact the same police office, requesting information on any crashes. (An FAA report describes them contacting the West Virginia State Police at about 9:15 a.m. Ashland, though in Kentucky, is only a few miles out of West Virginia, so this may be referring the same incident.) Using the flight service station report as an actual accident, the police mistakenly confirm the crash, even though it never actually happened. A state helicopter is even dispatched to the plane's last known coordinates, but there is nothing there. Time is lost in all the confusion. [FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, 9/17/2001![[Image: pdfbw.png]](http://www.historycommons.org/pics/icons/pdfbw.png)
; FRENI, 2003, PP. 29] It is not until about 9:20 a.m., when Indianapolis Center learns there are other hijacked aircraft in the system (see (9:20 a.m.-9:21 a.m.) September 11, 2001), that it will start to doubt its initial assumption that Flight 77 crashed. [9/11 COMMISSION, 8/26/2004, PP. 32] However, the report of a downed plane persists. Shortly before 10 a.m., Dale Watson, counterterrorism chief at the FBI, will say to counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke over a video teleconference, "We have a report of a large jet crashed in Kentucky, near the Ohio line." [CLARKE, 2004, PP. 13] According to USA Today, "The reports are so serious that [FAA Administrator Jane] Garvey notifies the White House that there has been another crash. Only later does she learn the reports are erroneous." [USA TODAY, 8/13/2002]
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I've been all over the place about what happened at the Pentagon, but I'm now pretty convinced that a large plane that looked like an airliner did crash into it, though it was probably remotely piloted, since no human could fly it that way. Certainly not Hani Hanjour. And there may have been some pre-planted explosives to help increase the destruction. It's the simplest explanation, since like the WTC there were thousands of witnesses in the area. You'd want them to see something that looks like an airliner, not a cruise missile or something else.
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Soon After 9:09 a.m. September 11, 2001: Mistaken Report of Flight 77 Crash Causes Confusion
When Indianapolis flight control reported the loss of contact with Flight 77 to the FAA's Great Lakes Regional Operations Center (see 9:09 a.m. September 11, 2001), an employee at an FAA flight service station (which particular one is unspecified) picks up on the communication and mistakenly calls the Ashland, Kentucky police to report a confirmed crash. Indianapolis controllers had noted the last known position of Flight 77 as being near the Ohio-Kentucky border, so this becomes part of the employee's report. Indianapolis Center personnel, suspecting that Flight 77 may have crashed, subsequently contact the same police office, requesting information on any crashes. (An FAA report describes them contacting the West Virginia State Police at about 9:15 a.m. Ashland, though in Kentucky, is only a few miles out of West Virginia, so this may be referring the same incident.) Using the flight service station report as an actual accident, the police mistakenly confirm the crash, even though it never actually happened. A state helicopter is even dispatched to the plane's last known coordinates, but there is nothing there. Time is lost in all the confusion. [FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, 9/17/2001
; FRENI, 2003, PP. 29] It is not until about 9:20 a.m., when Indianapolis Center learns there are other hijacked aircraft in the system (see (9:20 a.m.-9:21 a.m.) September 11, 2001), that it will start to doubt its initial assumption that Flight 77 crashed. [9/11 COMMISSION, 8/26/2004, PP. 32] However, the report of a downed plane persists. Shortly before 10 a.m., Dale Watson, counterterrorism chief at the FBI, will say to counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke over a video teleconference, "We have a report of a large jet crashed in Kentucky, near the Ohio line." [CLARKE, 2004, PP. 13] According to USA Today, "The reports are so serious that [FAA Administrator Jane] Garvey notifies the White House that there has been another crash. Only later does she learn the reports are erroneous." [USA TODAY, 8/13/2002][/FONT]
I've been all over the place about what happened at the Pentagon, but I'm now pretty convinced that a large plane that looked like an airliner did crash into it, though it was probably remotely piloted, since no human could fly it that way. Certainly not Hani Hanjour. And there may have been some pre-planted explosives to help increase the destruction. It's the simplest explanation, since like the WTC there were thousands of witnesses in the area. You'd want them to see something that looks like an airliner, not a cruise missile or something else.
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