No Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) Activated When the Four Planes Crashed on 9/11

By Mark Conlon 

The Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) 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 in the airplane, and designed to be triggered upon impact. 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

According to the 9/11 Commission, AAL 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. [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 crashed into 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 crashed into the WTC North tower, 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 

Additionally, while an ELT went off two minutes before AAL 11 crashed into the WTC, it appears that no ELT went off at the time of the crash itself at 8:46 a.m., as it should have done. Likewise with United Airlines Flight 175 (UAL 175), which “allegedly” crashed into the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. An ELT signal was transmitted in the New York area four minutes before, at 8:59 a.m. The pilot of Flight 583, who had reported the previous ELT signal, 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." Again, the same as the previous crash with AAL 11, with the ELT being transmitted four minutes before UAL 175 crashed into the South Tower. Interesting there was no ELT transmission activated at the time of the two crashes themselves, which should have happened.  

Furthermore, there is no evidence cited of any ELTs reported for American Airlines Flight 77 or United Airlines Flight 93 at the times of both crashes. This indicates that none of the four planes listed as being involved on 9/11 crashed at any of the named targets in the official 9/11 narrative.

The ELT activated over Ann Arbor, Michigan at 9:53 a.m.

Interestingly, an ELT was transmitted over Ann Arbor in Michigan at 13:53 p.m. PST, 9:53 a.m. EST. This ELT has not been officially related to any of the four alleged planes listed on 9/11. However, according to this evidence it indicates that a plane crashed in Ann Arbor at 9:53 a.m., but has never been accounted for or addressed by the authorities. Note, in the communication between the two controllers it appears there is an audio drop-out, or has been editing done, just after when the controller says "wait that doesn't make sense", and the other controller replies "yes it does, it... (audio drops-out or is edited)". The controller seems to go on to explain something to the other controller, however there's an audio drop-out or edit towards the end? Why was this information omitted? What was being concealed about this ELT occurrence?

Does this indicate that ELTs were being falsely transmitted which were part of the many military war games training exercises taking place on 9/11, where simulated scenarios of plane hijackings were taking place. The Ann Arbor ELT could explain why ELTs were being transmitted too early in the case of AAL 11 and UAL 175, ahead of their alleged crashes?
       
The official ELT evidence alone implies that none of the four planes crashed at their targets. The evidence of ELT signals being transmitted in the New York area before the World Trade Center towers were hit raises serious questions about the official plane’s narrative on 9/11. If ELTs had been activated, this should have been at the times the airplanes crashed into the towers and not several minutes beforehand. But while a number of Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) mentioned the ELT signals in their interviews with the 9/11 Commission, the 9/11 Commission Report offered no explanation for these discrepancies. For example, where the sources of the ELT signals originated from? Or were they from somewhere else? And were the ELT transmitters themselves ever found? After all, according to the FAA, "In most installations the [ELT] is attached to the aircraft structure as far 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

What we can determine from all the available evidence is, no ELT transmissions were activated at any of the four plane crash impacts on 9/11, which is what should have happened.

Update: Feb 2024

This is document is from the 9/11 Commission investigation files, in relation to an ELT being manually triggered. According to the Commission document, and their experienced pilot testimony of Paul Thumser, ELTs cannot be manually triggered in Boeing 767s.

This is damming evidence, because AA11 which is a Boeing 767 triggered an ELT two minutes too early before it allegedly crashed into the North Tower, which is impossible, but also even more seriously damaging is, there was no ELT at the point of the impact of the plane into the North Tower, where the ELT should have been activated. Also, UA175, which was also a Boeing 767, also triggered an ELT four minutes too early before it allegedly crashed into the South Tower, which again is impossible, and also did not activate an ELT at the point of impact into the South Tower either, which should have happened. Just to add, neither AA77 or UA93 which were Boeing 757s, triggered any ELT either before or at the points of impact which is highly questionable, and seriously damaging for the official plane narratives of the four planes. This calls into question all four plane crash stories, but also indicates that none of the four planes named by authorities crashed into the named targets. Something else took place instead with these four events. The evidence points to this conclusion.