To: Broken_Clock who wrote (2355 ) 9/14/2006 5:33:16 PM From: J.B.C. Respond to of 50729 >>They showed it on the radar. They said "This is the plane". << Yeah, show me a controllers screen of a recorded episode, where I know exactly which plane (remember this is now all after the fact) it was, and where it crashed and I can now follow it on it's journey, you could too. However in real time, the controller can have 20-30 aircraft on his screen and his flight status documentation to his side and his hand-off and receipt of IFR flights happening. And then add to that the alerts that there may be hijackings underway, he doesn't know which transponded plane to follow that ultimately dropped off.dsc.discovery.com The above link is the timeline for flight 93. This most likely is the flight that you refer to as the “freakin' idiots heard the hijackers speaking Arabic in the cockpit for an hour”:Message 22809020 If you click on 9:32 button, this is where the announcement is made that the air traffic controllers picked up. From the announcement, the ATC did not know which flight. In fact they thought it was Delta flight 1989 that was hijacked. Also note the time, 9:32. This is only 31 minutes before the crash, not an hour! (a 9/11 denier wouldn’t be prone to exaggeration would they? ) , AND according to the ATC, they think it’s Delta 1989. BUT, you’re sure you know (you haven’t told us how yet) which plane, so you’ve already scrambled your jets (from where?), even though ATC has zero authority over the military. OK, strike one. Now click on 9:35. This is where the plane begins to divert. Ok now the controllers are getting suspicious, because commercial jets pretty much follow their assigned routes otherwise they run into other jets and the flying public has a problem with that. But this confirms nothing yet, so the controller tries contacting the aircraft. But you’re so good that you have the jets which ARE NOT armed when they’re “combat ready” but rather at a state that can be called up within 24-72 hours: (http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/COMBATREADY) in the air. As an example: my personal vehicle is “trip ready” if I have it at my house and it runs (unlike the auto up on 4 blocks in your front yard). But if there is only a gallon of gas in it, I still have to go to the pumps before I’m able to drive 400 miles. The US does not maintain armed aircraft on the ground, they like to take their planes out and drive them around almost daily. AND people tend to have a problem with military jets that inadvertently lose a missile over residential areas of the US. I guess they’re just picky that way. Strike two. Now click on the 9:41 button. This is where the transponder is turned off. Note the comment: ”…and Cleveland Center loses contact”. I guess I just don’t know what that means other than STRIKE THREE! If you were a brave enough denier to attend the movie “Flight 93” you might have noted something pretty peculiar during the credits. The ACTUAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS FROM 9/11, PLAYED THEMSELVES! Guess what in the movie, the ATC folks, who were actually there, lost SIGHT OF WHERE THE PLANES WERE THAT TURNED OFF THEIR TRANSPONDERS. But there is still 22 minutes ‘till the crash. And you with your fictitious authority (don’t bother contacting the military brass who have to contact their generals, who in turn have to contact their bosses and then the process in reverse to get the word back to you, I guess that’s why the exaggerated time from you as 1 hour was made. Because you know it will take some time, AND hoping that I wouldn’t check your claim) have already called up your fictitious planes with fictitious munitions already onboard from a fictitious military base. Call me a little wary of a 22 year-old kid from loose change that blatantly implies the planes could have been shot down, but did NO research on active status of aircraft at military basis and what that means exactly. And call me extremely wary of people with BDS, such as yourself, that bought the whole package; hook-line and sinker. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!Message 22809020