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I believe therefore that the controller (or someone else) who received the message misheard the pilot of the plane. If we take "Indian Lake" instead of "Indianhead", the data begin to make sense: 11 miles south of Indian Lake/just north of Cumberland - this fits together and is very close to 39.51N,78.46W.

It's difficult to re-interpet an obviously erroneous message, but does someone have a better idea how "Indianhead" has to be interpreted?


Indianhead is also a sector in Cleveland Center, but I haven't looked into the geographical references, yet.

The pilot that spotted Flight 93 shortly before the crash was flying N56865, a Piper Arrow (PA-28/R).

September 19, 2001 newspaper article.

Controller's written statement from 911 Working Group FOIA. Page 12.

John Farmer posted the recording a few days ago:

AAL77.com



If you're curious, the transcript you linked to earlier, between Cleveland and Huntress, came from this recording:

http://www.aal77.com/faa/faa_atc/zob/mp3/2%20ZOB%2036%20MOS%201401-1440%20UTC%20AP.mp3


N20VF being vectored to the crash scene.

N20VF over the crash scene. The pilot mentions an open field near a line of trees at the end of the dirt road.




Edited by Boonedoggled, Apr 7 2009, 04:37 PM.
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