Q24, on 24 July 2012 - 01:30 PM, said:
Flight 77 was last positively identified on radar at 08:56 before disappearing from the display screen (both primary and secondary readouts). At 09:25, an unidentified aircraft assumed to be Flight 77 was sighted headed for Washington. I don't see we can assume based on this evidence that we are dealing with the same aircraft throughout. Especially when we have a historical record at hand that the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff had planned to switch civilian aircraft in such a deception before.
There is no way that could have been done. You still have to account for passengers and the airframe of American 77, and there was no way to modify a B-757 for remote control purposes using a B-757 from American Airlines and not attract attention. Did ACARS depict American 77 landing anywhere else? Did radar track American 77 anywhere else other than toward the Pentagon?
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A good question - if the Pentagon impact aircraft had been physically identified then I'd be able to answer.
If I were at the crash site of American 77, all I have to do and to pick up parts and record part and serial numbers listed on pieces of the wreckage since certain numbers pertain only to the B-757 and any time-sensitive change item found within the wreckage can be used to reveal the aircraft as well. For an example, when I was supervisor/inspector for the airframe overhaul crew of a major defense contractor at Travis AFB, on the Air Force's TF-39 jet engines, I kept a log of serial numbers and dates of every translating cowl and inlet we worked on. From that information, I could track every inlet and translating cowl anywhere in the world and
identify the aircraft they are attached.
I also kept a log of part numbers for every part of the TF-39 engine inlet and translating cowl, which I used to order parts, including all fasteners and other hardware. If there was a part where I could not read the part number, all I had to do was to pull out the tech manual for a particular aircraft or engine and compare the part in the manual with the part I needed, and the tech manual will provide me with the part number I need to order that particular part.
In addition, I kept a log on dates on certain components that were changed, so if the Air Force needed certain information about a particular inlet or translating cowl, I could have supplied all of the needed information, which I kept in my government file cabinet and on government computers.
As I have said before, I can reveal a switched aircraft in less than 30 minutes and I can safely say a switch never occurred in regards to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Edited by skyeagle409, 24 July 2012 - 05:23 PM.