(Cont'd) Everything is speculation

Robert Sterling

(Cont'd) Everything is speculation

Mon Feb 13, 2006 23:25

Everything is speculation - that is the problem with the story of Flight 93. And unless the US government reveals more of what it
knows, provides a detailed account of the last 10 minutes in the life of Flight 93 and the 44 people who were aboard, there will not only
be scope but sound reasons for the conspiracy theorists to continue to speculate as to what really happened in those last few minutes
before the plane plunged into the earth; to cast doubts on the soft-focus legend that the traumatised American public has seized upon so
gratefully.

Some conspiracy theorists will say that the plane was shot down by a missile, perhaps a heat-seeking missile that honed in on one of the
plane's engines - a theory possibly substantiated by the 2,000yd flight of the 1,000lb engine part, but arguably refuted by consistent
eye-witness accounts, including Lee Purbaugh's, that when last sighted the plane was not emitting smoke.

Others might say, as they have done about a TWA flight that fell to the sea in 1996 after taking off from New York, that the plane was a
victim of electromagnetic interference. In the case of the TWA flight, the argument, put forward in a series of exhaustive articles
written in the New York Review of Books by the Harvard academic Elaine Scarry, is that it happened accidentally. However, as Scarry's
articles relate, documentation abounds showing that the Air Force and the Pentagon have conducted extensive research on "electronic warfare
applications" with the possible capacity intentionally to disrupt the mechanisms of an aeroplane in such a way as to provoke, for example,
an uncontrollable dive. Scarry also reports that US Customs aircraft are already equipped with such weaponry; as are some C-130 Air Force
transport planes. The FBI has stated that, apart from the enigmatic Falcon business jet, there was a C-130 military cargo plane within 25
miles of the passenger jet when it crashed. According to the Scarry findings, in 1995 the Air Force installed "electronic suites" in at
least 28 of its C-130s - capable, among other things, of emitting lethal jamming signals.

In decades to come, film-makers, future Oliver Stones, may come up with theories of their own, and the story of Flight 93 may come to
acquire the morbid mystique of the Kennedy assassination.

None of which is to question the bravery of passengers such as Todd Beamer, who left behind a pregnant widow and two children aged two
and three; or Tom Burnett, who had three small daughters and told his wife Deena over the phone, in the face of her anguished protests,
that he and his fellow-passengers were "going to do something" because if not the terrorists were "going to run this plane into the
ground". Evidently, as the Newsweek article relates, there was fighting of some kind, but as to whether the terrorists held off the
passengers or the passengers seized control of the plane, and perhaps even made an attempt to fly it themselves (one passenger aboard was a
qualified pilot of small planes), nobody knows - or is willing to admit that they know.

If evidence does exist further substantiating the hero narrative, it would be a surprise if the authorities had not released it. Bravery,
though, there undoubtedly was. This we do know. As Lee Purbaugh says, and it would be churlish to disagree, "they were heroes on that
plane". Such a consensus has been built around this view that the crash site at Shanksville - an anonymous-looking field save for the
American flags that flutter all around, the crosses, the pictures of the dead passengers, the messages of goodwill and of good cheer
("Don't mess with the US!") - that it has become a place of pilgrimage, much as has happened with ground zero in New York but on
a smaller scale, attracting some 150 visitors from all over the US every day. "In truth," said Wally Miller, who as coroner remains
legally in charge of the site, "that field is a cemetery. It should be treated with due respect."

What does Miller think happened? Did he attach any credence to the stories doing the rounds, to those - including a number in
Shanksville - who dissent from the official version of events? Miller, who has seen as much evidence as anybody at the scene of the
crash, does not dismiss the dissidents out of hand. He keeps an open mind. "The order had been given to bring the airplane down," he
said. "I do not rule anything out."

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Re: 9/11 cell calls impossible/Flight 93/Flight 11
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I fly alot. I have never attempted to use my cell in flight because
They say at the beginning of the flight that all cells must be turned
off because they are not approved for in flight use. I was speaking to
someone about 6 months ago who said he tried to use his cell because he
thought it was a scam to get everyone to use the higher priced verizon
cell phones that are available and of course you must use a credit card
to activate it. Anyway he said... His cell phone lost it's programming
and he had to go back to his dealer and have it reprogrammed. So I have
wondered if this is for all types of cells or just certain ones.
Willow
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