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originally posted by: LaBTop
Could you, pale5218, look into my BOBCAT14, BOBCAT17 and WORD31 (E-4B, Doomsday plane) remarks in this 2009 post of mine in there :
www.abovetopsecret.com...
BOBCAT14 disappears from the screen at UTC 12:37:19 after he got redirected to Washington Central (listen to the mp3), and ordered to change frequency and/or transponder setting to 284.7 . He probably changed his transponder setting and that's why he disappeared from the DCA TRACON radar screen. BOBCAT17 however, was all the remaining time visible on the DCA TRACON screen, even after he was ordered to change frequency or transponder setting to the same 284.7 setting, much later. I suppose Washington Central in the mp3 is a military air traffic controller.
Both fighters seemed to be reasonably close to flight 77, and with afterburners on, could perhaps have intercepted it. Why did it seem that the flight controller was not aware of the immediate danger of flight 77, flying low and without transponder signal on?
We know of the story of Cheney, getting informed of the plane being 20 miles out, 10 miles out, 5 miles out, and then he told an aid that ""the orders still stood"", and ""why should they have changed""; he asked that aid. So why were the FAA controllers not immediately informed, when the Secret Service was aware minutes in advance, that flight 77 was on course to Washington?
And SWORD31 (E-4B, Doomsday plane) was also very near to flight 77, at the same moment in time.
originally posted by: SisyphusG
a reply to: pteridine
My comment is opinion, I don't have the time at the moment to provide links. I simply provided questions that have not been answered, or they have been answered, but not to my satisfaction. My opinons were mostly formulated by the films, "Zeitgeist" and "Loose Change". There are people out there vastly smarter than I and those of you that are, forgive me if my punctuation is off or my quotes are paraphrased or I don't throw a link or five hundred in. My intent was to use my opinion to stimulate a need to work outside the box on the anomalies of September 11, 2001, including the ones where one of the most highly surveilled places on earth provided the public with a blur and a fireball. When that object hit, it immediately became a crime scene and it was immediately corrupted by the very people wo knew better, in my opinion.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: pale5218
The E-4B is a flying command post. It's basically a flying communications relay. They have a couple hundred handsets going to various radios, plus the capability to use ELF/VLF systems to talk to missile silos and subs if they're in the right location.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Salander
Three of them. At least two of the thee launched after the attack started. I don't remember what time the third launched.
originally posted by: LaBTop
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Yes WORD31 was westbound. VEN77 might have been planning an East Coast exercise but when he departed, it was not to join the exercise. He had a purpose ! He wouldn't even tell the Andrews Controllers.
After the impact of AA 77, VENUS77 was asked to fly its predetermined holding pattern SE of IAD, while WORD31 did the same NE of IAD.
VENUS22 was present in the air from the start of that radar animation, any news on that one.?
About Hani Hanjour : think "lookalikes and switched passports".
Everybody tries to neglect interviews with the father of the 9/11 hijackers their ringleader in Cairo, Egypt, who insisted that his son phoned him in the days AFTER the day of 9/11.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Salander
Three of them. At least two of the thee launched after the attack started. I don't remember what time the third launched.
09:44:41 (Tape 7982 B2A, Arrival Radar) Venus 77, heavy, set to go,talking to Washington ATC reported to Base Ops as 09:45 off Flight Strip 0945
09:31:40 (Tape 7982CIA,Ground Control) Gofer 06 requests temporary hold to enhance INS system
--snip-- all AWACS flying around while covering the east coast area where all events unraveled on 9/11/01, would radar-record all flights with, and without transponders on.
Their full radar profiles would have been transmitted to the E4B "white "Doomsday" planes
--snip-- For operators inside that E4B, hijackers who were switching-off transponders would immensely facilitate the filtering of just those 4 hijacked planes out of the thousands of other normal flights with their transponders on.
They just had to filter all the transponder-on flights out, with one entry in their keyboard, and only the four hijacked, no-transponder on flights would be left over on THAT screen.
Nobody in those AWACS would know, and nobody in the E4B would know, only that specific screen operator.
ONE INSIDE man/woman who could feed back accurate information on those four hijacked flights, to whomever wanted such secure and factual info. --snip--
Lawrence A. Dickerson says:
Anyway, what is even more phenomenal, is that this aircraft was flown down in a region less than ½ wingspan from the ground, known to any experienced pilot as `ground effect' region or zone. The importance of knowing this, is that no airplane at full throttle flown in ground effect, would want to continue to descend further. Matter of fact, at 465 knots, the plane, without full nose down pitch (which the flight data recorder shows was not the case) would have been required to overcome the `ground effect' cushion and lift coefficient while going on, and the plane would have had no choice but to climb. To force it into the building more or less at the base of the wall where it hit, on the ground floor level, the hijackers would have had to be using FULL NOSE DOWN PITCH to do this.
Not true, says the FDR data given to us by the N.T.S.B. No aircraft in GROUND EFFECT wants to descend further into it at high speed. They all want to climb and even with 10 or more degrees of commanded nose down pitch, a plane of that class would still want to climb out of ground effect due to a huge surplus of lift it was generating. Any pilot wants to challenge this, be my guest. Simply is not disputable here. It cannot be done. This particular aerodynamic fact is irrefutably the most damning road block to the whole cockamamie story about the final portion of this outrageous flight.
Interestingly, the N.T.S.B. gave us two sets of data. One set shows that the FL-180 reset took place per their recreation (and I will get to that again here in a second) and furthermore, the derivative data they provide to us shows that this reset did not take place at all, per the FDR data. How can this be? According to the N.T.S.B., the .csv or comma separated variable data was a derivative of the Crash Protected Memory file in the L-3 Model 2100 Flight Data Recorder on this airplane. Yet, this clearly is not the case at all
The last of the 5 cut-down lamp poles were cut by its wing-tips at a height of about 20 feet (6.10 meters), while the nose impacted the second floor slab at about 14 feet high above ground level.(4.26 meter), which is a 6 feet (1.84 meter) decrease in height over a circa 180 feet (54.8 meters) distance. There must have been damn little clearance for the undersides of both jet engines nacelles with the lawn. Perhaps even inches/centimeters only.
Description : I took this photograph from a hill between the Route 27 Overpass and the CITGO Service Station on Joyce St., Arlington, VA at approximately 12:15 p.m. on September 11th. It was a horrible but compelling sight to behold.