Monday, August 23, 2004
 A new analysis asks questions about an unidentified plane that landed at the Cleveland airport on 9/11. Could it have been AA 77?
See 9/11 Cleveland airport mystery for background.
So, here's excerpts of the latest from "Woodybox" at INN 2004/8/17: In the morning of September 11, Delta Flight 1989 made an emergency landing at Cleveland Airport. This is a well established fact. Less known to the public is that another airplane landed under similar circumstances about half an hour later, on a different runway. This second airplane is confirmed by news reports and eyewitnesses, but its existence is covered under a murky haze of disregard. I've called it "Flight X".
The purpose of this analysis is to find out more about Flight X. Browsing through documents and private messages from September 11, we will encounter two airplanes whose existence seems to have been kept secret in a similar way. These airplanes are then checked for possible correspondences with Flight X.
The first airplane under inspection is the "Fifth Plane". Many people remember the broadcast media reporting a fifth hijacked airplane for a short time in the morning of September 11. [There are] four [key] characteristics: 1) it was widely broadcasted between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., even abroad; 2) it was said to be hijacked; 3) it was heading for Camp David/Washington D.C., but was distingished from UA 93; 4) it vanished from the news as if it never had existed, without any explanation.
The second airplane is the "Radio Hijacker Plane". A lot of people know the distorted audio messages which were allegedly sent by the hijackers of UA 93: "Keep remaining sitting, we have a bomb on board". Air controllers and pilots reported also screams coming from this airplane.
In a kind of "airplane algebra" I will show now that with a high degree of probability
- the "Fifth Plane" existed
- the "Radio Hijacker Plane" was not UA 93
- Flight X from Cleveland, the "Radio Hijacker Plane", and the "Fifth Plane", are the same plane.
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In the huge history encyclopedia called the Internet we find this message:
I'm sure there was a fifth plane involved that was headed toward Camp David; however, that plane was forced (yes forced, militarily) to land in Cleveland. I thought the target could also have be NASA's Glen/Lewis Research Center that is right next to the Cleveland Airport. The news reported that the plane landed because of a suspected bomb on board but they haven't released anyone that was on that plane. The closed NASA and transported everyone that was on the plane there for questioning. They are going through the plane and luggage with a fine toothed comb. The original flight plan was from Boston to LA.They closed all exits from the freeway to get into the airport and even bus drivers were told that if they attempted to exit, they would be shot. People that were already at the airport were forced to walk for miles to get transportation home because they were not even allowed to remove their cars from the parking lots. Source
This message is the missing link between the Fifth Plane and Flight X. Admittedly, the author is an unknown individual with nickname "Connie" and no star reporter from the Washington Post. Nevertheless, it appears that "Connie" was at or near Cleveland Airport on 9/11. The report sounds credible and corroborates the thesis that Flight X and the Fifth Plane are identical.
The Radio Hijacker Plane
Here is an excerpt from the recording (and here you can listen to it):
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Cleveland: United ninety-three, three-five-zero, Roger. United ninety-three, you have traffic to your one o’clock, twelve miles eastbound three-seven-zero.
United 93: Negative contact, we’re looking United ninety-three.
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United 93: [unintelligible] this is captain, please sit down, remain sitting, we have a bomb on board. [Signal strength 5, readability 1.]
Cleveland: Uh, calling Cleveland Center, you’re unreadable, say again slowly.
Executive 956: [unintelligible] sounded like he said he had a bomb on board.
Cleveland: Uh, say again, you there, United ninety-three? (Translation and Comments: Joe Vialls)
Joe Vialls has analysed the recording and gives two reasons why the distorted radio messages didn't come from UA 93:
1) When UA 93 checks in to Cleveland ARTCC Airspace (in the beginning of the tape), its message is clear and understandable (Signal strength 5, readability 5). But later, the hijacker's voice is distorted by heavy background noise (Signal strength 5, readability 1). This means that the two messages have different origins, i.e. they came from different locations.
2) Air controllers have the technical means to determine the direction where a radio signal comes from (per RDF, Radio Direction Finding). Vialls: "Though the Cleveland controller appears to infer that two distorted radio calls about a 'bomb' originate from United Flight 93, this is not actually the case. By repeatedly calling Flight 93, the controller is actually trying to determine whether or not the calls originated from that aircraft....Nor are there any proper RDF logs available to prove the point of origin of the wholly independent 'bomb' claims, which could easily have been transmitted from another unidentifeid aircraft, or from the ground."
Vialls concludes that the "bomb" messages are faked, but he doesn't seem to know that the air controllers had already determined their origin: it was Delta 1989!
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the screams and the first hijacker messages were apparently coming from Delta 1989's position. The airplane was at that time 25 miles away from UA 93. But there were no screaming people aboard Delta 1989, no bomb, no hijackers. How do we solve this contradiction?
The most logical solution is: there was an airplane flying parallel to Delta 1989, probably some thousand feet higher or lower. The transponder was turned off, and its radar blip was not visible to the controllers because it was "covered" by the Delta 1989 blip. It was flying in the "radar shadow" of Delta 1989. This airplane was the origin of the famous radio messages and likely hijacked. This on the first view daring explanation will turn out to be perfectly consistent with the reports of the Fifth Plane.
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If we put together the paths of Flight X, UA 93 and Delta 1989, we get an interesting picture:
The paths of this sketch are just approximate, of course, and rely in part strongly on estimations...
The thesis of the secret hijacked airplane helps to explain many hitherto unsolved peculiarities of 9/11. It looks like the existence of this flight was meant to be hidden from the public by interested circles, so the question arises: Why was it kept secret?...
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