The Zacarias Moussaoui 9/11 trial has resulted in the release of the United Flight 93 cockpit tape transcript. The transcript reveals much about the hijacking and cause of the destruction of the plane.
The transcript reveals that, despite believing the hijackers had a bomb, and despite the death of at least one of the flight crew, the passengers rose up to fight the terrorists and try to take back the plane. The passengers knew they would probably bring about their own deaths, but they also knew that, if they did nothing, many more people would die as the plane was used as a weapon. The passengers succeeded in stopping the terrorists, and almost took back the plane. Rather than face defeat, the surviving terrorists cowardly crashed Flight 93.
Capitol Hill Blue has several articles about United Flight 93, including two articles ridiculing the conspiracy theorists who claim there was no one on the plane, or that the plane was flown by agents of Mosad or that the plane was radio controlled or that the plane was shot down by the American military.
Regular readers know that I was at the crash site of United Flight 93 in Somerset as part of the rescue effort. The fire at the crash site and jet-fuel-splashed trees beyond was out, but both areas were still smoldering. For the next two weeks, I worked with several agencies, including the FBI, the NTSB, and most importantly the DMAT and DMORT III teams that analyzed and cared for the remains of the passengers. We knew almost from the start that we were the caretakers of heroes.
Those of us who worked at the morgue know the conspiracy theories were false. We would have had to be part of the cover-up. There was no cover-up. I would have spoken out had there been an attempt to create an "official truth" that differed from reality. My speaking out would have made no difference, because many others — forensic anthropologists, coroners, pathologists, etc. — would have beaten me to the punch. I'm not the only one who knows the smell of various high-power explosives. I'm not the only one who could have detected staging — in fact, several people there taught me more about what to look for had someone tried to fake something!
Had there been a cover-up, the FBI would have never let me near the investigation. They had the perfect excuse — apparently my leaving Pittsburgh EMS raised some questions as I was being checked out. The FBI agent approved me when she learned I left because I was going to testify against co-workers and superiors, and did not wish risk them having the ability to pressure me over my testimony. Her exact words, as she signed me off, were "You're the sort of person we need down there."
Perhaps we are so jaded that the only heroes we can believe in are Peter Parker and Clark Kent and Diana Prince in the movies and on TV. But I know for a fact that ordinary people rose up to defend America, knowing it would cost their lives. I know that some of the very people Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blamed for 9/11 were the very ones who were the first to fight back.
The people of United Flight 93 were heroes who gave their lives for their fellow Americans.
I just wanted you to know that.
Those who try to tell you differently either doesn't know what they are talking about or are lying.
I’d just like to tell you that you referred to two opinion articles to as to the riticuling of conspiracy theorists. Yes I realize it is hard to fathum the governments involvement in anything on 9/11 but I ask you just to read a few papers with an open mind heres one found here http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html and others found on the Scholars for 9/11 truth website at http://www.st911.org/
I also referred to my own first-hand knowledge.
What parts of the second site I know about from first-hand experience, I can definitely say are nonsense. Flight 93 was not shot down, despite the claims of “Scholars for 9/11 Truth.” There would be evidence of that, and there wasn’t. I’d have seen the evidence. I’d have been able to smell residue from high power explosives typical of the apropriate military weaponry. I spoke with eyewitnesses to the crash the first day. The debris field was similar in pattern to US Air’s Flight 427, which went down due to rudder failure and which I also worked.
The United Flight 93 plane wasn’t shot down.
I’m married to an engineer who helped design One Mellon Bank Place as well as quite a few other buildings, bridges, steel mills, and nuclear reactor cores (ok, so that last one was a different job). She was able to describe the failure mechanism of the Twin Towers before the first one collapsed. She left the house before the collapse to go to an appointment.
The Pentagon? Definitely hit by an airplane, based on first responders I know. There’s a vast difference between a missile strike and an airplane crashed into a building. Anyone who has worked a crash site will mention the wiring. It’s quite a surprise for the first-timers.
The sites you just mentioned simply convince me more that they are either scams or people who don’t know what they are talking about.
I’m back again. I do not want to refute what you saw. This is obviously a very emotional topic for anyone and especially someone as closely involved as you. I just want to point out what else could have happened. Theories are theories for a reason, they are meant to be tested and worked at through time. The more information that comes out the more theories change. I personally cannot sit here and tell you that this plane was shot down, but I can tell you that there is evidence that needs to be investigated. Here is a list of sites below to look further into it. The first site from CNN is an article writing about when Rumsfeld said it was shot down and then later said he was misspoken. That to me just does not seem like a fact that you should misspeak about. The 2nd article is about Rumfeld’s quote again but then goes more in depth. The 3rd article is about the military jets that were scrambled.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/27/rumsfeld.flt93/
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42112
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38207
You will also see in the last article that 3 mins for the cockpit voice recording is missing. No where in the transcript do the passengers get past the cockpit door.
In comparison to US Air Flight 427 the size of the debris field is extremely different. Flight 93’s debris field has been described around 6 miles. While flight 427 debris field was compact (found here) http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/archive/january2003/hutchinson.shtml
The two crashes can be related though as the Trib Review put it:
“Reporters who had covered the USAir Flight 427 crash in Hopewell said that the scene was eerily reminiscent of that crash, with a rural scene, beautiful weather, and lack ambulances coming to the scene.”
Soon I fear with the upcoming movie that the government/movie’s explanation will be taken as truth with an investigation into what happened.
When I started looking into the events of 911 there was no way I ever thought that the gov’t could be involved at all. Of course my first question along with everyone elses first question is why? You then learn you cannot jump to why first you have to find out how it happened. The more I look into it the more convinced I am that there was gov’t involvement. I know it is hard to even imagine as anyone who looks into this knows. I know too that it has to be harder to anyone that knew a victim or worked in the area. I just want to encourage you and whoever else reads this to read more and inform yourself about the events of 911.
1. Yes, I get emotional when people claim that United Flight 93 was empty of people or shot down and that the Pentagon was hit by a missile, not a plane. I also happen to get emotional when people try to tell me that dihydrogen monoxide needs to be banned. I get emotional about ignorance.
Let’s test the theory “The plane was shot down.” Hmmm. Structural damage to the plane inconsistent with being shot down: check. Odor of high-power explosive? Nope — and it would have been detectable. Phone calls tell a story consistent with the flight recorder and forensic evidence? Check.
Rummy says it was shot down? Given the option of believing the evidence I’ve seen with my own eyes and Rummy, it’s no contest. Unless they’ve stopped using air-to-air missiles and fighter jets and attacked United Flight 93 with pixie dust delivered by Tinkerbell, the plane wasn’t shot down.
I was at both crashes 427 and 93. Again, first hand. Both major debris fields were “contained.” Some debris wound up 6 miles away in both cases. The crashes were amazingly similar. Where there are differences (Flight 93 was reflected off a layer of rock underneath the strip-mined soil, also contained far more fuel) it shows up. But both debris fields are considered “contained” for the purpose of air crash investigation.
When we looked into how United Flight 93 crashed, we had no idea why the plane went down. We went in with ano open mind. Was it explosives from the hijackers? Was it shot down by a military jet? Did something fail on the plane or the hijackers not know how to fly well enough?
We were the ones who told everyone else how the plane went down.
One other question: United Flight 93 (as well as the plane that hit the Pentagon) should have been shot down. If the military had splashed 93, we should have rejoieced — it would mean our military wasn’t totally incompetent on 9/11.
That they didn’t is a horrid stain on the military’s reputation. If they shot down either plane, why not brag about it? Rummy trying to start a cover-up of the military’s incompetence by claiming the plane was shot down would make more sense than the theory the plane actually was shot down.
I don’t think the theories you’re promoting are worth investigating, any more than the theory that the Earth is hollow and a super magical civilization lives inside and comes out through the North Pole flying UFOs is worth investigating, either.
I’ll admit the theory that Flight 93 was shot down is more plausible than the hollow Earth theory, but not by any significant amount.
Question for you: If there was a cover-up, those of us at the temporary morgue would have had to be in on it.
Why would they let someone like me be involved?
Had there been a conspiracy, I would not have been allowed to live through those two weeks.
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