By Mark Conlon
This is an updated version of an article I posted on 8th October 2018, showing that American Airlines 'Flight 11' (AAL 11) was still in the air after it "allegedly" crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. It appears from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) communications recordings that AAL 11's last known coordinates were located 5.77 miles away from the North Tower after the crash.
Some debunkers have tried to distort this fact by saying it was mixed-up with American Airlines 'Flight 77' (AAL 77). This isn't correct, as the tail number: N334AA is reported in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) communications and shows it was AAL 11 and not AAL 77 as suggested. AAL 11 was heading towards JFK Airport which is off-course from the World Trade Center's North Tower.
AAL 11's last known coordinates were (40'38N
074'03W) which locates AAL 11 - 5.77 miles away from the North Tower after its alleged crash at 8:46 a.m. It says in the ATC communications that it was heading towards the Washington area. See below:
Official explanations for this evidence...
In the aftermath of 9/11 the scramble of Langley Fighters has been described by the Defence Department as a response to the hijacking of AAL 77, or United 93 (UAL 93), or some combination of the two. Yet the report of AAL 11 heading towards Washington as the reason for the Langley Fighter Jets to be scrambled is not just reflected on the taped conversations at NEADS, but in taped conversations at FAA centres, on chat logs compiled at NEADS and NORAD, and other records.
In reality at 9:24am when fighter jets were scrambled from Langley, NEADS wasn’t even aware that AAL 77 or UAL 93 were hijacked. Why did the Defence Department lie about this?
Shortly after 9/11, a time-line provided by senior Defence Department officials to CNN will state, NORAD orders jets scrambled from Langley in order to “head to intercept” AAL 77.
Major General Larry Arnold, the CONR commander, will give a different explanation. He will tell the 9/11 Commission, “we launched the aircraft out of Langley to put them over top of Washington DC, not in response to AAL 77, but really to put them in a position in case UAL 93 were to head that way.” Major Nasypany will tell the 9/11 Commission that the real reason for the Langley jets are scrambled and directed toward Baltimore area is to position them between the reportedly southbound AAL 11 and Washington, as a “barrier cap.” It seems NORAD deliberately misled Congress and the 9/11 Commission by hiding the fact that the Langley scramble takes place in response to the report that AAL 11 is still airborne. From my own perspective after studying the official data/evidence, neither of these accounts can be true.
Emergency Transmitter Locator went off over two minutes before American Airlines ‘Flight 11’ allegedly crashed into the World Trade Center..?
Again the official evidence tells a different narrative which supports the case that AAL 11 didn't crash into the North World Trade Center due to the 'Emergency Transmitter Locator' going-off over two minutes before AAL 11 "allegedly" crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m.
The Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) are emergency transmitters that are carried aboard most general aviation aircraft in the U.S. In the event of an aircraft accident, these devices are designed to transmit a distress signal on 121.5 and 243.0 MHz frequencies. ELTs are mounted aft in the airplane, and designed to be triggered upon impact or may be manually activated using the remote switch and control panel indicator in the cockpit. Activation of the ELT triggers an audio alert, and 406-MHz ELTs transmit GPS position for search and rescue. [Emergency Locator Transmitters – AOPA]. https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/aircraft/aircraft-operations/emergency-locator-transmitters
AAL 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. and 40 seconds. [9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 7.]
However, two and a half minutes earlier, David Bottiglia, an air traffic controller at the FAA's New York Center, received an important message from one of the planes in the airspace he was monitoring. At 8:44 a.m. the pilot of U.S. Airways Flight 583 told Bottiglia: "I just picked up an ELT on 121.5. It was brief, but it went off." (121.5 megahertz is an emergency frequency that ELTs are designed to transmit their distress signals on.) A minute later, about 90 second before AAL 11 hit the WTC another plane in the New York Center's airspace reported the same thing. The pilot of Delta Airlines Flight 2433 told Bottiglia: "We picked up that ELT, too. But it's very faint." [Transcript of United Airlines Flight 175] - https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national/transcript-of-united-airlines-flight-175.html
According to author Lynn Spencer, "several" facilities picked up the ELT signal around this time. [Lynn Spencer, Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11. New York: Free Press, 2008, p. 50.]
Peter McCloskey, a traffic management coordinator at the New York Center, later recalled that the ELT had gone off "in the vicinity of Lower Manhattan." [Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Peter McCloskey." 9/11 Commission, October 1, 2003]
And, around the time AAL 11 hit the WTC, a participant in an FAA teleconference stated, "We got a report of an ELT in the area that (the radar track for Flight 11) was in." (Before it disappeared from radar screens, the track for AAL 11 had indicated the plane was about 20 miles from New York's JFK International Airport). [9/11 Air Traffic Control Transcript] https://www.scribd.com/document/13484898/9-11-Air-Traffic-Control-Transcript
However, while an ELT went off two minutes before AAL 11 hit the WTC, it appears that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself.
United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m. and 11 seconds. But, as with the first crash, an ELT was activated in the New York area several minutes before this plane hit the tower. At just before 8:59 a.m., over four minutes before the Flight 175 crash, the pilot of Flight 583, who had reported the ELT signal before the North Tower was struck, told David Bottiglia at the New York Center that he had noticed another ELT going off. The pilot said, "I hate to keep burdening you with this stuff, but now we're picking up another ELT on 21.5." As with the previous crash, although an ELT went off minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, it seems that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself. Also no ELT went off either with United Airlines Flight 93.
The strange evidence of emergency locator transmitter signals being broadcast in the New York area before the World Trade Center towers were hit raises serious questions about the official account of the 9/11 attacks. If ELTs had been activated, this should have been at the times the planes hit the towers, not several minutes beforehand. But while a number of air traffic controllers mentioned the ELT signals in their interviews with the 9/11 Commission, the 9/11 Commission Report offered no explanation for this anomalous evidence. Many questions remain unanswered. For example, were the sources of the ELT signals ever determined? Or were they from somewhere else? And were the transmitters themselves ever found? After all, according to the FAA, "In most installations the [ELT] is attached to the aircraft structure as far aft as practicable in the fuselage; or in the tail surface, in such a manner that damage to the beacon will be minimized in the event of a crash impact." http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgNPRM.nsf/0/ae86aa83c819fdbd86256819006c1c0f!OpenDocument
We clearly need to know a lot more, since a proper investigation of these emergency signals could help determine what exactly happened on September 11, and point toward those really responsible for perpetrating the terrorist attacks.
Thanks for reading and caring...
In this
short video I made using FAA and NORAD communication recordings I include
the relevant communication segments which I edited together to present here.
In the aftermath of 9/11 the scramble of Langley Fighters has been described by the Defence Department as a response to the hijacking of AAL 77, or United 93 (UAL 93), or some combination of the two. Yet the report of AAL 11 heading towards Washington as the reason for the Langley Fighter Jets to be scrambled is not just reflected on the taped conversations at NEADS, but in taped conversations at FAA centres, on chat logs compiled at NEADS and NORAD, and other records.
In reality at 9:24am when fighter jets were scrambled from Langley, NEADS wasn’t even aware that AAL 77 or UAL 93 were hijacked. Why did the Defence Department lie about this?
Shortly after 9/11, a time-line provided by senior Defence Department officials to CNN will state, NORAD orders jets scrambled from Langley in order to “head to intercept” AAL 77.
Major General Larry Arnold, the CONR commander, will give a different explanation. He will tell the 9/11 Commission, “we launched the aircraft out of Langley to put them over top of Washington DC, not in response to AAL 77, but really to put them in a position in case UAL 93 were to head that way.” Major Nasypany will tell the 9/11 Commission that the real reason for the Langley jets are scrambled and directed toward Baltimore area is to position them between the reportedly southbound AAL 11 and Washington, as a “barrier cap.” It seems NORAD deliberately misled Congress and the 9/11 Commission by hiding the fact that the Langley scramble takes place in response to the report that AAL 11 is still airborne. From my own perspective after studying the official data/evidence, neither of these accounts can be true.
Emergency Transmitter Locator went off over two minutes before American Airlines ‘Flight 11’ allegedly crashed into the World Trade Center..?
Again the official evidence tells a different narrative which supports the case that AAL 11 didn't crash into the North World Trade Center due to the 'Emergency Transmitter Locator' going-off over two minutes before AAL 11 "allegedly" crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m.
The Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) are emergency transmitters that are carried aboard most general aviation aircraft in the U.S. In the event of an aircraft accident, these devices are designed to transmit a distress signal on 121.5 and 243.0 MHz frequencies. ELTs are mounted aft in the airplane, and designed to be triggered upon impact or may be manually activated using the remote switch and control panel indicator in the cockpit. Activation of the ELT triggers an audio alert, and 406-MHz ELTs transmit GPS position for search and rescue. [Emergency Locator Transmitters – AOPA]. https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/aircraft/aircraft-operations/emergency-locator-transmitters
AAL 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. and 40 seconds. [9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 7.]
However, two and a half minutes earlier, David Bottiglia, an air traffic controller at the FAA's New York Center, received an important message from one of the planes in the airspace he was monitoring. At 8:44 a.m. the pilot of U.S. Airways Flight 583 told Bottiglia: "I just picked up an ELT on 121.5. It was brief, but it went off." (121.5 megahertz is an emergency frequency that ELTs are designed to transmit their distress signals on.) A minute later, about 90 second before AAL 11 hit the WTC another plane in the New York Center's airspace reported the same thing. The pilot of Delta Airlines Flight 2433 told Bottiglia: "We picked up that ELT, too. But it's very faint." [Transcript of United Airlines Flight 175] - https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national/transcript-of-united-airlines-flight-175.html
According to author Lynn Spencer, "several" facilities picked up the ELT signal around this time. [Lynn Spencer, Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11. New York: Free Press, 2008, p. 50.]
Peter McCloskey, a traffic management coordinator at the New York Center, later recalled that the ELT had gone off "in the vicinity of Lower Manhattan." [Memorandum for the Record: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) New York Air Route Center Interview With Peter McCloskey." 9/11 Commission, October 1, 2003]
And, around the time AAL 11 hit the WTC, a participant in an FAA teleconference stated, "We got a report of an ELT in the area that (the radar track for Flight 11) was in." (Before it disappeared from radar screens, the track for AAL 11 had indicated the plane was about 20 miles from New York's JFK International Airport). [9/11 Air Traffic Control Transcript] https://www.scribd.com/document/13484898/9-11-Air-Traffic-Control-Transcript
However, while an ELT went off two minutes before AAL 11 hit the WTC, it appears that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself.
United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m. and 11 seconds. But, as with the first crash, an ELT was activated in the New York area several minutes before this plane hit the tower. At just before 8:59 a.m., over four minutes before the Flight 175 crash, the pilot of Flight 583, who had reported the ELT signal before the North Tower was struck, told David Bottiglia at the New York Center that he had noticed another ELT going off. The pilot said, "I hate to keep burdening you with this stuff, but now we're picking up another ELT on 21.5." As with the previous crash, although an ELT went off minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, it seems that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself. Also no ELT went off either with United Airlines Flight 93.
The strange evidence of emergency locator transmitter signals being broadcast in the New York area before the World Trade Center towers were hit raises serious questions about the official account of the 9/11 attacks. If ELTs had been activated, this should have been at the times the planes hit the towers, not several minutes beforehand. But while a number of air traffic controllers mentioned the ELT signals in their interviews with the 9/11 Commission, the 9/11 Commission Report offered no explanation for this anomalous evidence. Many questions remain unanswered. For example, were the sources of the ELT signals ever determined? Or were they from somewhere else? And were the transmitters themselves ever found? After all, according to the FAA, "In most installations the [ELT] is attached to the aircraft structure as far aft as practicable in the fuselage; or in the tail surface, in such a manner that damage to the beacon will be minimized in the event of a crash impact." http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgNPRM.nsf/0/ae86aa83c819fdbd86256819006c1c0f!OpenDocument
We clearly need to know a lot more, since a proper investigation of these emergency signals could help determine what exactly happened on September 11, and point toward those really responsible for perpetrating the terrorist attacks.
Thanks for reading and caring...
