Details Emerge on Flight 93

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON, July 22 — The idea of a hijacking on Sept. 11, 2001, was unbelievable, even to many of the people who could have responded in time to change the course of events. One of those was Capt. Jason Dahl of United Flight 93, which had taken off from Newark on a flight to San Francisco.

Flight 93 became part of American lore when passengers banded together to try to storm the cockpit of the hijacked airliner, which crashed in Pennsylvania. New details of the hijacking and the passenger uprising were made public in the report released today by the 9/11 commission.

A United Airlines dispatcher near Chicago who knew that Flight 175 had been hijacked and crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center sent a message to the other planes he was following that morning, one of them United 93. In a text message, the dispatcher, Ed Ballinger, told Flight 93 at 9:23 a.m.: "Beware any cockpit intrusion two a/c hit World Trade Center."

At 9:26, Captain Dahl sent a message back, in quick, abbreviated and slightly mistyped language: "Ed, confirm latest mssg plz Jason."

Two minutes later, the hijackers attacked Captain Dahl and his first officer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/politics/22CND-FLIG.html?hp

[Corgigal]

1. OK I'm official freaked out

You know I would understand if the govt wanted to lie to the families on this one to possibly give them some comfort. However if this actually did occur and if we did not shoot down that flight and forced those passengers to do the job of the US military we are damned.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Do you really think we didn't shoot down Flight 93?....

Crash debris found 8 miles away
<http://www.flight93crash.com/MyPittsburghLIVE.htm>

Secondary Debris Field
<http://www.flight93crash.com/flight93_secondary_debris_field.html>

5 REPORT SECOND PLANE AT PA. CRASH SITE
<http://www.flight93crash.com/second-plane-at-flight93-crash-site.htm>

Investigators locate 'black box' from Flight 93; widen search area in Somerset crash
<http://post-gazette.com/headlines/20010913somersetp3.asp>

Flight 93 Eyewitness Accounts
<http://www.flight93crash.com/flight93_eyewitness.html>

Flight 93 Timeline
<http://www.flight93crash.com/flight93_timeline.html>

[Corgigal]

3. Actually I hope like hell we did

I was just commenting about the original issue.

[Pastiche423]

4. Bullshit

Flight 93 was shot down.

[JohnLocke]

5. Links, please.

[leanings]

9. Counterrevolutionary!!! I denounce you! n/t

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[frylock]

6. hey maybe we'll get a neato animated film depicting what happened..

like that crazy ass bullshit cartoon released after TWA 800 was accidently shot down by the Navy.. errrrrrrrrrrr I mean, after the main fuel cell erupted.

[Corgigal]

8. CBS news

actually had this.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

cbs news video called
voices from flight 93

[frylock]

11. yeah.. i saw that tonight

[DemoTex]

7. ACARS text message.

Sad, but a true. The whole ACARS business of all the hijacked airliner's on 9/11 will have been scrutinized by now. There should have been a lot of good data there.

BTW: ACARS ® (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) is a private business run by ARINC. It is another stage in privatizing the ATC system in the USA. Can you say Ronnie Ray-gunz?