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Woody Box	May 24 2009, 03:34 PM
Posts: 118 Group: Members Member #109 Joined: 01/17/08	Boonedoggled May 20 2009, 04:19 PM Do they have to say toward DC? If the F-16 departing out of Andrews radios DCA TRACON and says that he is there to check out the aircraft coming up the river, wouldn't you assume that the aircraft is doing just that, coming up the river toward DC? No, I wouldn't assume that automatically, because my understanding of an aircraft "coming up the river" is that it flies upstream. If it "comes down the river", it flies downstream. Because the Potomac runs from the Appalache mountains down toward DC, the aircraft seems to head away from DC. Additionally, the time (10:34) suggests that this blip was not the same one that was heading to Washington at 10:15 - you know, PEOC, Mineta, Cheney, the young man, and the shootdown order. Quote: According to the transcript: "1404:02: to John: Secret Service is saying there is a Northwest airline inbound from Pittsburgh to DC that is unaccounted for. John: We'll track it down." The Secret Service had 93 confused with a Northwest airline flight, initially. If you follow the transcript all the way through to the end, you will see that they only mention one aircraft, United 93. This is the aircraft they are referring to as "coming up the river." There are two fundamental problems with this Northwest flight: 1) National ground stop was active since 9:26. How managed the Northwest flight to take off from PIT? 2) The BTS database shows that - on 9/11 and generally - there is no Northwest flight going from PIT to DCA. So it looks like this Northwest flight was either pure disinformation, or it was in fact identical to UA 93. The Secret Service was responsible for this mess. Why did he do that?
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UA93: "Transponder On" at 10:05 · United Flight 93