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The FAA has airport on-ground video 24/7 and keeps track of every airplane.
The videos of the pentagon air-craft collision are (nearly) all being withheld...
...and no evidence of airplane wings or wreckage have been recovered from any of the sites in question.
There's, in my opinion, marginal evidence that the planes hitting the twin towers didn't have the correct airline paint job/colors.
I haven't seen this in any convincing video but I wouldn't be surprised.
Also, I heard that in 2001 cell phones from planes couldn't make calls to people on the ground (anyone know? heard from one person with no specific evidence).
Computerworld - How many times have you heard this?
"At this time, all electronic devices, including cell phones and two-way pagers, must be turned off and put away. After takeoff, I'll let you know when you may use approved electronic portable devices."
Of course, those "approved electronic portable devices" won't include your cell phone, not until after you land.
The reason is that cell phones interfere with the airplane's electronics, right?
Well, no, actually. The risk posed by cell phones to airplane equipment is unknown, and will remain unknown for as long as possible.
Phones are banned for two official reasons:
Cell phones "might" interfere with the avionics (aviation electronics) of some airplanes.
Cell phones aloft "might" cause problems with cell tower systems on the ground.
Both of these risks are easily tested, yet somehow neither the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nor the Federal Communications Commission has been able to get a definitive answer in the past 20 years as to whether phone calls in flight cause these suspected problems. (The FAA is responsible for the flight safety portion of all this, and the FCC is responsible for the cell tower part.)
The government's dirty little secret is that it cultivates uncertainty about the effects of phones in airplanes as a way to maintain the existing ban without having to confront the expense and inconvenience to airlines and wireless carriers of allowing them.
Why airlines want the ban
The airlines fear "crowd control" problems if cell phones are allowed in flights. They believe cell phone calls might promote rude behavior and conflict between passengers, which flight attendants would have to deal with. The airlines also benefit in general from passengers remaining ignorant about what's happening on the ground during flights, including personal problems, terrorist attacks, plane crashes and other information that might upset passengers.
One way to deal with callers bothering noncallers would be to designate sections of each flight where calling is allowed -- like a "smoking section." But the ban is easier.
Also: If real testing were done, and the nature of the problem fully understood, it would become obvious that airplanes could be designed or retrofitted with shielding and communications systems that would enable safe calling through all phases of flight. But that would cost money. The ban is cheaper.
However, the airlines know that some kind of plane-to-ground communication is coming, and they want to profit from it. Simply allowing passengers to use their own cell phones in flight would leave the airlines out of the profit-taking. Airlines would prefer that phones be banned while they come up with new ways to charge for communication, such as the coming wave of Wi-Fi access. Meanwhile, the ban is potentially more profitable.
A lot of what I said above could be hear-say...
The security company at the WTC up until 2001 was Securacom/Stratesec. On it's board of directors from 1993-2000 was younger brother to George W. Bush, Marvin Bush. And from 1999-2002, Wirt D. Walker III, a cousin of the Bush brothers, was the CEO. That would be "Walker" as in George Herbert-Walker Bush. The Bush-family Walker's.
What about the prior report that called for a "Pearl Harbor type event in order to get the people behind going into the middle east
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Now there is a flat out lie. Wirt Walker is NO relation to the Bush family.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Not to mention that Securacom was NEVER in charge of security at the World Trade Center.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
they had to be excused from the contract because they could not live up to it.
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Either way, Wirt Walker is not related to the Bush family
Securacom got the $8.3 million World Trade Center security contract in October 1996 and received about $9.2 million from the WTC job from 1996 (a quarter of its revenues that year) to 1998. But in 1998, the company was "excused from the project" because it could not fulfill the work, according to former manager Al Weinstein, and the electronic security work at the WTC was taken over by EJ Electric, a larger contractor
A former colleague of the head of the company, Wirt Dexter Walker III, suggested to me that Walker is a distant relative of the Bush family. While any blood relationship to the Bush Walkers would have to be remote (the first Wirt D. Walker, two generations ago, was based in Chicago; the second in McLean, Virginia, in the DIA),
Originally posted by grapesofraft
reply to post by ATH911
So are you saying thhat they did not dig most of that plane out of the ground. If that is true then I would begin to question what they have to say about it as well.
I do have one point to make. One thing I could easily be led to believe is that flight 93 was actually shot down, but nobody wants to admit to it. Not because of a huge conspiracy where the whole thing was executed by the government, but one where the President knows there is one more out there and he does anything he needs to do to bring it down.