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From: LM <lm@omnicorp.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 3:07 PM
Subject: Some good questions...forwarded from a friend.
Friend of mine from US had this to say to a friend of his:
Hi John,
Good stuff from Cooper, www.williamcooper.com
but the questions I want answered are these.
1) Flight 11 was a Boeing 757/200. This plane holds 239
passengers. There were 81 passengers and 11 crew. The 11 crew members included
2 pilots and 9 flight attendants. Is it normal that this flight would not be at
capacity, based on other Flight 77's that leave Boston to LA, at the same time every day.
Flights within the Airline industry operate on standardized schedule.
They don't make the schedules after the passengers book the flights. The only days
that they schedule deviate are Saturdays and Sundays and holidays. So, is it customary
that this flight is so underbooked? (About 30% capacity)
I flew out west from Florida about three months ago, and every flight I got on was either
full or overbooked.
2) Same question of all the flights. #175 had 54 passengers.
The pentagon plane (#77) had 56 passengers, and the PA flight 38. All less
than 25% of capacity. Why? I don't have access to the files of AA or United,
but some reporter should be able to find out this information.
[Fewer people, easier to control the situation. And the less likely that something
could go wrong, maybe? I'm just speculating, of course. I don't know, and I
don't have access to AA or United archives and files.]
3) Four planes at once with no transponder info on the FAA screens and
Air Force screens. All of them just showing up as blips on radar. One plane is
in a "NO FLY ZONE";.. within constantly monitored, restricted airspace. A
pilot has already remarked that when a plane deviates just a little, that the FAA
oversight will call and/or allow for course corrections.
But, we are talking about planes that were miles off course. In these instances, the
FAA reports it to the Air Force. But also, in these instances, the Air Force has
already locked onto these planes, because they monitor the commercial system as well as
their own. That's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. They
have to, so that we don't have military and commercial aircraft flying into one another,
constantly.
In a circumstance like Flight 11, this plane is so far of course it is ridiculous and they
are not responding normally to communications. They did a hard bank (90 degrees to
the south) somewhere north of Albany, NY. The Air Force is to scramble at least a
recon aircraft to monitor. Why no recon, on any of the first three flights?
Let's look at the second plane. It was 18 minutes until it hit the second building.
This plane flew over NYC, pass the city and went to somewhere around Newark,
NJ. At that point it did a 360 degree bank to fly back to NYC. By this time
"they" know that this is no accident happening. They know that they have
hijacked planes in the air. An F-15 strike eagle flies at 1850+ nmps.
That is Mach 2.5+ A sidewinder with heat seeking infrared
guidance, has a range of 18 miles. This aircraft, according to the USAF's own
website, goes from "scramble order" to 29000 feet in 2.5 minutes. New York
City is 71 miles from McGuire AFB in NJ and 147 from Westover AFB in MA. At Mach 2,
this plane could travel from the ground in NJ to NYC, in under 7 minutes.
I am being generous. Mach 2 is 20+ miles per minute and Mach 2.5 is 30+ miles per
minute. This is 150 to 210 seconds to cover the 71 miles. If we factor in the
time for the scramble order, to being in the air; we are at 5 to 6 minutes for an F-15 to
bypass flight 175, turn, and sit at the WTC to wait for the plane (175) to arrive.
This is far less than 18 minutes, and
this plane (175) had to fly back over the Hudson Bay to reach its target. (Remember the
range of the sidewinder is over 10 miles. Is it even necessary to mention the speed
of this missile?)
4) Let's apply these same standards to the Pentagon plane #77. This
plane is over restricted airspace. It is 40 minutes after the second attack in NYC.
At some point, here, Barbara Olsen calls her husband to let him know the plane is
hijacked. Mr. Olsen calls "officials" who claim that they don't know about
Flight #77 being hijacked. Barbara Olsen makes a second
phone call to her husband. Other passengers were FORCED TO CALL their families to
tell them that they were going to die. Why would the hijackers put out this warning?
The article definitely says "forced to call". <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/dc/schools/A14365-2001Sep11html>On
Flight 77: 'Our Plane Is Being Hijacked' (washingtonpost.com)
This plane flies over the White House, which has automatic turret style anti-defense
weaponry on top of the building. NO shots are reported to be fired, no anti-aircraft
missiles were fired. This plane, still in restricted airspace, does a 270 degree
bank to turn around and fly toward to Pentagon. Andrews AFB is 13 miles away.
This is already within the range of a sidewinder. All that is required is to
put the plane in the air (maybe up to 3000 ft.), lock and fire.
Remember it is 40 minutes and they already know that these planes are being used as
weapons. They have been reporting it on ABC, CBS, and NBC for 30+ minutes.
They have received phone calls from passengers, telling them that the plane is
hijacked. (By the way, what time were these cell-calls made? Before or after they
entered the "no fly zone"?)
These planes could have been knocked out of the sky EASILY, but weren't. Why?
DP
P.S. It's not that I want to believe that something stinks,
here. It's just that I would like credible answers as to what was/is going on.
I was in the military. As a Navy Nuclear Reactor Operator, we had to
stand duty 24/7, to monitor operations. An Air Force base is constantly manned, in
case of an unforeseen event or attack. They fly recon missions, every single day.
Some of these recon flights may be armed, and some may not. But, there are a
certain number of planes are armed at all times and the pilots do 24-hour rotating shifts
so that the Air Force can respond quickly. The Air Force and Nuclear Aircraft Carriers
constitute America's first line of defensive readiness. They were 13 miles from the
Pentagon, with planes
that can fly circles around a commercial jet. Were they on vacation or what?