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that the plane was evacuated at 12:30.

But the Akron Beacon reports that a plane was evacuated at 11:15.

Which would make that Flight 93.

Mayor White reported that the plane had 200 passengers.

But a passenger from

Delta 1989 describes "60 or so" passengers.

So at 11:
15, 200 or so

passengers were released from Flight 93.

The passenger from Delta 1989 states that she

was taken into FAA headquarters.

But other reports say that passengers were brought

into the NASA Glenn Research Center

located near the west end of the airport,

which had already been evacuated.

So, to sum up.

Delta 1989 landed at

almost two and a half hours later,

and 69 passengers were taken to FAA Headquarters.

Flight 93 landed at 10:45 and evacuated

within a half hour,

empty NASA Research Center.

Why did it take 140 minutes to evacuate 69 passengers,

when 200 were evacuated in a half hour?

We can assume that the passengers from

Delta 1989 are safe somewhere.

The question remains, what happened to the

200 or so passengers from Flight 93?

It's interesting to note that the combined total of all

the passengers from all four flights is 198.

Or 243.

Depending on who you ask.

We may never know what really happened to Flight 93.

But we do know what didn't

happen.

Whenever this evidence is presented to people,

you'll usually get one of many different questions.

The first one being, if different planes were used,

what happened to the original ones?

Unfortunately, we may never know

what really happened.

But if we could examine the black boxes

from the planes that were used,

we could prove that they weren't the original flights.

A commercial plane carries two different black boxes.

Each black box carries one of two different recorders,

a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder.

The cockpit voice recorder records sounds from inside the cockpit,

including engine noise, stall warnings, and other sounds of interest.

Communications between Air Traffic Control, weather briefings

and conversations between pilots and crew are also recorded.

The flight data recorder records at least 28 different parameters

such as time, altitude, speed and heading.

Some also record more than 300 other in flight characteristics,

anything from auto-pilot to smoke alarms.

The recorders themselves are made from

the most impervious metals known to man,

and the information is recorded along with date and time,

and spooled into a continuous roll.

Any damage that is done to the roll is done to the outside,

as opposed to the inside where the data is.

The 9-11 Commission says "The CVRs and FDRs from

American 11 and United 175 were not found..."

Yet, the FBI claims to have found the passport of

Satam al-Suqami, which managed to fly out of his pocket,

through the explosion and onto the streets of

Manhattan below.

So, four different black boxes, made from

the most resiliant materials known to man, were destroyed.

Yet, a passport, made from a fragile material known as paper,

managed to survive?

Who writes this stuff?

Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation

Safety Board, told CBS News that

"It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back.

I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders."

Turns out Ted's right. Nicholas DeMasi, a firefighter who

helped the recovery efforts claims in the book

Behind the Scenes: Ground Zero, "At one point I was

assigned to take Federal Agents around the site

to search for the black boxes from the planes. There were a

total of four black boxes. We found three."

I guess it all comes down to who you'd rather believe.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said Flight 77's data recorder

provided altitude,

speed, headings and other information,

but the voice recorder contained nothing useful.

And Donald Rumsfeld said the data on the

cockpit voice recorder was unrecoverable.

As for Flight 93, it was the only flight where

the cockpit voice recorded was recovered.

It was played for the families in April, 2002, but not before they

signed an agreement saying that they wouldn't talk about it.

They couldn't even take notes.

And for some reason, the last three

minutes of the tape was unaccounted for.

The FBI had no explanation for the

discrepancy.

Why would the 9-11 Commission tell us Flight 11

and 175's recorders weren't found?

Why would Robert Mueller tell us that there's nothing

interesting on Flight 77s?

What's on the last three minutes

of Flight 93's CVR?

These are vital questions that need to be answered.

It's an interesting postscript that Flight 93 was spotted on

April 10th, 2003 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport,

by David Friedman, a United Airlines

employee who records all of his flights.

The tail number, N591UA was spotted on

Flight 1111, a United Airlines 757.

And according the FAA, both N591UA and N612UA,

Flights 93 and 175, are still valid.

But Flights 11 and 77 are listed as destroyed.

Not to mention that they were not even scheduled

to fly on September 11th.

Next. What about the cell phone calls?

For starters, the calls themselves are

extremely peculiar.

Most of them are only a couple sentences long, before the

callers end the conversation, only to call back later.

Flight Attendant Betty Ong allegedly placed a call from Flight 11.

According to the 9-11 Commission, although the conversation

lasted 23 minutes, only 4 and a half minutes was recorded.

" What is your name? "

" Ok, my name is Betty Ong. "

" I'm number 3 on Flight 11. "

" Okay. "

" And the cockpit is not answering their phone.

And there's somebody stabbed in business class. "

" And there's... we can't breathe in business class.

Somebody's got mace or something. "

" Okay. Our number 1 got stabbed. Our purser is stabbed. "

" Nobody knows who is stabbed who, and we can't even get up

to business class right now cause nobody can breathe. "

" Our number 1 is stabbed right now. And who else is... "

"Okay, and do we... "

" and our number 5 - our first class passengers are - "

" galley flight attendant and our purser has been stabbed.

And we can't get into the cockpit, the door won't open. "

Does Ms. Ong sound like a woman on a

hijacked plane who just saw three people murdered?

Why is nobody in the background screaming?

Flight attendant Madeline Sweeney allegedly talked with her

ground manager Michael Woodward for 25 minutes.

She describes 4 hijackers.

The FBI says there were 5.

She says the hijackers were in rows 9 and 10.

The FAA says there were all in row 8.

Near the end, she screams, "I see buildings. Water.

Oh my God!"

Madeline was a flight attendant out of Boston for 12 years.

I think she would have recognized Manhattan.

A man claiming to be Mark Bingham called his mother, Alice,

who was visiting his sister-in-law.

The caller says,

"Mom? This is Mark Bingham."

When was the last time you called your

mother and used your full name?

" I just want to tell you that I love you.

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