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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (125526)9/25/2001 3:55:22 PM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (3) of 436258
 
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newsmax.com

"Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2001 1:01 a.m. EDT
Up to 12 Would-be Hijackers Shared Cockpits on Terror Tuesday..."

"...The cockpit voice recordings indicate that Flight 93's pilots believed their guest was a colleague "and was thereby extended the typical airline courtesy of allowing any pilot from any airline to join a flight by sitting in the jumpseat, the folded over extra seat located inside the cockpit," Cosby said.

After interviewing pilots on other flights that were grounded that day, probers now believe that "about a dozen Middle Eastern men [were] on numerous flights sitting in the jumpseats." The suspicious cockpit visitors have not yet been identified.

But those accounts have authorities now theorizing that up to a dozen other kamikaze attacks on U.S. landmarks were in the works that day...."

"..."There have been reports of stolen airline uniforms and stolen cockpit keys from various airlines since 1994," Cosby said.

Boeing, the manufacturer of the hijacked aircraft, says all of its cockpit keys are identical and therefore interchangeable...."

Regards, Don
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