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Hani Hanjour
quote from chief instructor
Hanjour obtained a commercial pilots license in 1999 and according to the chief instructor, "Despite Hanjour's poor reviews, he did have some ability as a pilot, "There's no doubt in my mind that once that [hijacked jet] got going, he could have pointed that plane at a building and hit it," he said.
rescue personel
[quote]"I saw the marks of the plane wing on the face of the building. I picked up parts of the plane with the airline markings on them. I held in my hand the tail section of the plane, and I found the black box." Kilsheimer's eyewitness account is backed up by photos of plane wreckage inside and outside the building. Kilsheimer adds: "I held parts of uniforms from crew members in my hands, including body parts. Okay?"[/quote]
As for eyewitness accounts only two conflicted. One said they saw what they thought was a small plane the other report said "sounded like a missile" so in other words...was not quoted as saying anything as such...whereas I presented 20+ eyewitness accounts, several from the highway itself.
Flight 93
For a fall at that height as concured by physics of freefall
"In freefall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 714 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, Kittinger opened his parachute at 18,000 feet. In addition to the altitude record"
average commercial airline jet height 26,000 feet
Commericial Jets are designed to fly at approx = 290 mph.
Impact speeds vs distance of passengers/objects thrown for automobiles
Half of these accidents occurred at street speeds, half at highway speeds. In cases where the point of impact and distance to point of rest of the body was known, this distance averaged 80.8 feet for automobiles and 82.3' for pickups and vans. There was, however, a wide range: 6-355' for cars and 15-207' for vans and pickups.
So at 35-60 mph bodies can be thrown as far as 355 feet...all of the sudden that 8 miles and 800 feet doesn't seem so unbelievable
Crater estimated officially at =30 feet deep...40 feet wide
The soil at the point of impact was soft and contained no rocks. ... Impact forces formed a crater that was 30 feet across its top from east to west and 40 feet from north to south; it was 12 feet deep. Most of that portion of the aircraft which struck the ground forming this crater disintegrated and was buried within it. ... Portions of the vertical tail were imbedded in the west rim of the crater with the crumpled upper end of the rudder protruding from the ground. ... The impact explosion hurled small pieces of wreckage (stickdog says: note that there is no mention of that this wreckage was metal) in all directions from the crater, the greatest distance being approximately 1,500 feet to the east and south-east. ...
"Upon removal of the wreckage from the crater it was apparent that the fuselage with its tail, most of the left wing, and the No. 2 powerplant had contacted the ground in an almost vertical nose-down position. All structure removed from the crater was found to be severely fragmented from ground impact. ...
"The excavation of the crater continued to a DEPTH OF 31 FEET until there was no further evidence of any structure remaining in either the sidewalls of the bottom."
Flight 93 phone calls
quote from chief instructor
Hanjour obtained a commercial pilots license in 1999 and according to the chief instructor, "Despite Hanjour's poor reviews, he did have some ability as a pilot, "There's no doubt in my mind that once that [hijacked jet] got going, he could have pointed that plane at a building and hit it," he said.
rescue personel
[quote]"I saw the marks of the plane wing on the face of the building. I picked up parts of the plane with the airline markings on them. I held in my hand the tail section of the plane, and I found the black box." Kilsheimer's eyewitness account is backed up by photos of plane wreckage inside and outside the building. Kilsheimer adds: "I held parts of uniforms from crew members in my hands, including body parts. Okay?"[/quote]
As for eyewitness accounts only two conflicted. One said they saw what they thought was a small plane the other report said "sounded like a missile" so in other words...was not quoted as saying anything as such...whereas I presented 20+ eyewitness accounts, several from the highway itself.
Flight 93
"It's not unusual for an engine to move or tumble across the ground," says Michael K. Hynes, an airline accident expert who investigated the crash of TWA Flight 800 out of New York City in 1996. "When you have very high velocities, 500 mph or more," Hynes says, "you are talking about 700 to 800 ft. per second. For something to hit the ground with that kind of energy, it would only take a few seconds to bounce up and travel 300 yards."
For a fall at that height as concured by physics of freefall
"In freefall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 714 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, Kittinger opened his parachute at 18,000 feet. In addition to the altitude record"
average commercial airline jet height 26,000 feet
Commericial Jets are designed to fly at approx = 290 mph.
Impact speeds vs distance of passengers/objects thrown for automobiles
Half of these accidents occurred at street speeds, half at highway speeds. In cases where the point of impact and distance to point of rest of the body was known, this distance averaged 80.8 feet for automobiles and 82.3' for pickups and vans. There was, however, a wide range: 6-355' for cars and 15-207' for vans and pickups.
So at 35-60 mph bodies can be thrown as far as 355 feet...all of the sudden that 8 miles and 800 feet doesn't seem so unbelievable
Crater estimated officially at =30 feet deep...40 feet wide
The soil at the point of impact was soft and contained no rocks. ... Impact forces formed a crater that was 30 feet across its top from east to west and 40 feet from north to south; it was 12 feet deep. Most of that portion of the aircraft which struck the ground forming this crater disintegrated and was buried within it. ... Portions of the vertical tail were imbedded in the west rim of the crater with the crumpled upper end of the rudder protruding from the ground. ... The impact explosion hurled small pieces of wreckage (stickdog says: note that there is no mention of that this wreckage was metal) in all directions from the crater, the greatest distance being approximately 1,500 feet to the east and south-east. ...
"Upon removal of the wreckage from the crater it was apparent that the fuselage with its tail, most of the left wing, and the No. 2 powerplant had contacted the ground in an almost vertical nose-down position. All structure removed from the crater was found to be severely fragmented from ground impact. ...
"The excavation of the crater continued to a DEPTH OF 31 FEET until there was no further evidence of any structure remaining in either the sidewalls of the bottom."
Flight 93 phone calls
Much of what happened on the plane has been reconstructed from the many phone calls made by passengers and crew, mainly through cellular phones, although doubts have been raised about whether in-flight calls using cellular phones were technically possible in 2001. Ten passengers and two crew members made calls after the hijacking began. This was in marked contrast to the other three planes, where few phone calls were made. It has thus been possible to assemble a detailed yet incomplete picture of what happened on board through these calls.
All said that there were three rather than four hijackers. This has been interpreted as meaning that one of them (probably Jarrah, who was seated in the front row (seat 1B) and who is accepted as being the pilot) entered the cockpit right away and did not reemerge. He was thus not seen by the others on the plane.
In the passenger area, three hijackers wearing red bandannas herded most of the passengers and crew to the back of the plane. Two were armed with knives and the third held a box that supposedly contained a bomb. The remaining passengers were kept in the first class area. One male passenger was stabbed, probably before the herding started. This person was never named or described in the phone calls, but is believed by authorities to be Mark Rothenberg, the only first-class passenger who did not make a phone call. A flight attendant was held in the cockpit and may have been stabbed and killed - she was most likely the purser, Debra Welsh. It has been speculated by some that she attempted to perform CPR on either Mark Rothenberg or one of the pilots and refused to stop when the hijackers ordered her to.
The passengers and crew became aware through the phone calls of what had happened to Flights 11, 175 and 77.
He described the death of the male passenger, asked about the other planes and stated at the end of the fourth call: "Don't worry. We're going to do something."
The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered on the afternoon of September 13, buried 25 feet deep at the impact site, and have yielded additional information about the final half hour of the flight. In April 2002, in an unprecedented action, the cockpit voice recorder was played by the FBI to relatives of the victims of the hijackings. Further details were released by the 9/11 Commission in July 2004.
The transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder [1] were made public as part of the trial of Zacharias Moussaoui, but the actual recording is unreleased. A woman can be heard pleading for her life at the start of the tape. This is thought to have been a flight attendant.
The tape was reported to have contained voices saying "Allahu Akbar," English shouts that included "Let's get them!" and "In the cockpit. If we don't, we'll die" then screaming and other sounds followed by silence. Sounds of crockery smashing have led to the conclusion that a service trolley was used as a battering-ram to force the cockpit door open. The tape also debunks speculation about First Officer LeRoy W. Homer Jr. being injured when the hijackers can be heard saying, "Inform them, and tell him to talk to the pilot. Bring the pilot back." indicating that they were having difficulty controlling the plane and needed the assistance of LeRoy Homer.
The hijackers themselves appear to have all retreated into the cockpit prior to the charge, and they can be heard praying, reassuring themselves, and discussing on separate occasions, in Arabic, whether to use a fire axe in the cockpit on those outside or to cut off the oxygen to quell the charge. Jarrah said "Is that it? Shall we finish it off?" Another hijacker replied "No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off." Jarrah later said "Is that it? I mean, shall we put it down?" to which another hijacker replied "Yes, put it in it, and pull it down." then later "Pull it down! Pull it down!"
The 9/11 Commission found from the recordings that, contrary to what many have believed, the passengers did not succeed in entering the cockpit before the plane started its dive. It is more likely that they broke in after it was far too late and the plane was descending vertically at nearly 600 MPH. The 9/11 Commission ruled that the actions of the crew and passengers prevented the destruction of the Capitol building or the White House by causing the hijackers to abort the attack on their intended target.
While sifting through the wreckage, investigators reported finding a serrated belt-clip knife [2], as well a cigarette lighter with a concealed blade. [3]
full black box transcript said: