Monday, September 6, 2010

Radio Transmission from Flight 93, audio shows hijackers had demands?

To start with, here is an mp3 recording of the air traffic controllers during the moments leading up to the crash of United Flight 93. It lasts 3 minutes and 58 seconds.

In the tape, there are two communications which purport to be from the hijacked aircraft.

...Now then, let us filter out that tone.

Here is the filtered version of the first transmission.

Note the claim that they have a bomb on board the plane.

Here is the filtered version of the second transmission.

This radio transmission clearly mentions a list of demands! If indeed this transmission is coming from Flight 93, then the hijackers believe that they are planning to land the plane at some point and trade hostages for whatever those demands are. They do not appear to be aware of a plan to crash into a building. More to the point if this is what the hijackers are saying, then this is what the passengers of Flight 93 also think.

And here is the most important part. From the transmission about a list of demands to the first report of a puff of smoke in the air where Flight 93 was flying at altitude is just 45 seconds. From the transmission about the list of demands it is clear that the hijacker is untroubled by any unruly passengers. We know the plane is at 35,000 feet altitude, as that is the confirmation the controller is asking for as the tape starts. The only way that United Airlines Flight 93 could have crashed in the 45 seconds after the second transmission regarding the list of demands would have been to point nose directly down and power down the whole way without any interruption. This leaves no time for the passengers to burst through the door, or the hijacker pilot to react. Any struggle over the controls would have sent the plane spiralling across the sky, pointed up as much as down.

Therefore, if these radio transmissions are genuine, we now know two facts. The hijackers were talking about a list of demands, not suicide. And the story of the passengers crashing the plane during a fight with the hijackers simply could not have happened that way.

via THE FINAL MOMENTS OF FLIGHT 93 - A CLOSE LOOK AT THE RADIO TRAFFIC.

6 comments:

victor said...

Wow, these are big leaps to make. Couldn't it also have been that the hijackers don't want people to know their true intent? And who reported the smoke after 45 seconds? Was his clock exactly right? Did he check his clock right after seeing it or could he have been a bit unreliable?? Witnesses are freq. Unreliable....

Xeno said...

Interesting idea. You think they pretended to have demands? Perhaps the hijackers themselves were double-crossed. They thought the plan was to hijack the planes and to issue demands, but the REAL secret plan was that the plane they hijacked was then electronically hijacked and flown by remote control ... by OBL ... or Satan.

victor said...

Or maybe they pretended to have demands so the people on the plane were more passive if they thought there was a good chance at survival. Pretty obvious actually. Why the massive leaps to conspiracy?

Pangolin said...

Look, it was just a random event that the last hijacked plane did a sustained vertical dive into the earth immediately after the hijackers on board contacted air traffic controllers. It's only an odd coincidence, one of the many that day, that the plane happened to be one of the tiny minority of jumbo jets flying that day that had a fly-by-wire control system capable of locking out the cockpit crew and being controlled by hostile software.

The laws of probability were just really, really, off that day. Too many butterflies in Brazil.

Xeno said...

For this crash i read that the shoot down was authorized, the engine fell off in mid air and the name of the pilot who shot down the plane was identified. Fly by wire crash is one i hadn't heard. Thought it was a Missile shoot down, because storming a cockpit is not going to cause an engine to fall off.

Pangolin said...

Shooting an engine off and a powered vertical dive seem to be contradictory scenarios to me. Then again, I'm not the guy who designed the plane.