Flight 93 United Airlines

The flight 93 United Airlines carried out the September 11th 2001, by a plane of the type Boeing 757-200, the connection between the International airport Newark Liberty (New Jersey) and San Francisco (California) with the the United States. After having taken off with 8:42 with 41 minutes of delay, it was radio-dumb man with 9:27, had his cut transponder and left its road to 9:30. According to the thesis originally formulated by the great media, taken again by the authorities and supported by the official board of inquiry, the plane could not reach the target envisaged following the intervention of passengers against the commando, and was finally crushed in the commune of Shanksville in the south of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, at a distance of approximately 170 km of the capital towards which it moved (11 min of flight to 850 km/h). It transported 38 passengers, 5 team members and 2 pilots, there was no survivor.

Hour of the fall

The exact hour of the impact on the ground is discussed. An analysis of the seismic recordings carried out by the surrounding observation stations, the precise moment of the loss of the echo by the air control of Cleveland, the local testimonys collected by the press, the recordings radars published by FAA, indicate 10:06. The Commission Kean, which takes again the chronology of NORAD (10h03), rejects this schedule while referring to nonaccessible data (recordings FDR, CVR, ATC and radar).

Presence of hunting

During his hearing of September 13rd, the Myers general, chief of the staff interarmes, stated that the fighter plans having been implemented with mission of intercepting and authorization to cut down the pirated planes had arrived tardily near flight 93 - a few moments before it is crushed (10h03) - and that they had not cut down it.

The dissenting thesis of flight 93 shot down by hunting accepted the involuntary reinforcement of the secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfeld, which, in a discussion with the brigadier general James Marks on December 24th, 2004 carried out by CNN, stigmatized “ people who '' drew and cut down (" shot down") the plane above Pennsylvania ”.

Dispersion of the vestiges

According to the accounts of witnesses, the plane went abruptly into a nose dive, fell like a stone and was pulverized on the ground, the kerosene exploding in fireball. The deep crater in the shape of print of the plane signs the verticality of the impact as much as the weak compaction of the ground of this old mine with open sky. In addition, two whole of remains located at the south of Indian Lake and New Baltimore, 3 and 12 km of the impact, is aligned with an engine (single part of found notable size, to 600 m of the impact). The impact is not on this alignment, announcing a drift of the plane following the separation of with this engine and these remains. These data, coherent with an explosion in flight announced by a passenger are absent from final report of the Commission Kean.

“Block boxes”

The recorder of cabin (CVR) was found, of normal appearance. As regards its exploitation, it was initially made state of a damage having made its reading impossible (ABC News). But according to Newsweek (November 2001) which refers to the partial transcription transmitted by “ an anonymous official source ”, the recording implies a fight, swearwords and prayers with Allah and God. The NewYork Times had, two months before, made state of a fight wild and despaired in the cockpit by quoting the same type of source. It was added there that the recording did not give a clear image of the events. The marked last words a sucking noise suggesting succeeded a decompression of the cockpit. One actually knows thus nothing certain of the eight last minutes flight which make following the frantic call of the passenger locked up in a toilette.
No forever made mention second block box localized in the tail of apparatus (FDR). However, a report/ratio of NTSB dating from at the beginning of 2002, made public by the Public records of Safety in August 2006, presents a reconstitution partial of the course of flight 93 mentioning the recordings of this " block box ".

Phone calls

The heroic account selected then put in scene by cinema industry takes its source in the recording mentioned above and especially in the phone call that a passenger, Todd Beamer, leader of a group eager to take again the control of the plane, carried out with 9:45 on the Airphone network, conversation which was completed on the watchword since then famous of " Lets roll " (" Roulons").
A last call was that, to 9:58, of a thrown into a panic man, taken refuge in a toilet, supposed to be Edward Felt, which brought back an explosion, outline of white smoke and announced that the plane was going down.

Other testimonys

Bill Wright controlled a small Piper single-engined aircraft when it was for flight 93, at a distance of approximately 5 km. It accepted the order then to move away as soon as possible and to land with the nearest airport.

Six witnesses paid to the local mediums to have seen a small twin-engine, a Mystery-Falcon without disctinctives marks, to fly over with height of the summits of trees the site shortly after the crushing of Boeing. According to the FBI, it was about a business aircraft which was to about thirty kilometers of flight 93 and with which it was required to leave its altitude of cruising (11 km) to go down to 1.500 m and to fly over the place of fall in order to transmit the coordinates of them to the rescue squads. No identification of the plane was provided and its pilot did not appear.

List terrorists on board

Ziad Jarrah (the pilot?)
Saeed Al-Ghamdi
Ahmad Al-Haznawi
Ahmed Al-Nami

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