Subject: Re: WTC
From: Carole Beth Arnette (nautilus@ev1.net)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 10:08:50 EDT
David, seems like just reading and listening to all that has gone on that the many people "dropped the ball." If I have can get into Flight Tracker, surely someone else could. When all the panels meet, people testify, etc. so much blame will be passed around. "It wasn't my responsibility" will be common. Americans have shaken as never before. Carole Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Weintraub" <davidw@eclipse.net> To: "Diabetes Discussion List" <diabetic@Lehigh.EDU> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:30 PM Subject: Re: WTC > > On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 01:16 AM, G. Chakravarthi wrote: > > > I do not understand why the Airlines were not monitoring their flights > > on > > the "Flight Tracker". If they had done, it must have been clear that > > the > > flights have been hi-jacked. Then immediate action could have been > > taken at > > least to save the WTC and the consequent colossal losses. > > That day, there were actually six flights that weren't following their > normal course. Only four involved hijackings. The flights were tracked > by the flight controllers, but they didn't know what was going on. > Normally hijackers immediately inform the controllers what is going on > because they want to make demands, but these planes were silent and one > of them turned off their tracking system. > > The traffic controllers did warn pilots in the New York area about these > two planes heading for New York. However, the traffic controllers had > probably assumed that the flights were heading to a New York airport, > and not being used to crash into the World Trade Center. They probably > assumed that the pilots were having some sort of plane trouble and > wanted to land in Newark or JFK for service. > > Besides, what action can you take? When a plane is hijacked, you have > two choices: Wait till it lands somewhere and listen to the hijacker's > demands or shoot it down and kill everyone inside. Even if the air > traffic controllers thought the planes were being hijacked, they had no > idea that the planes were on a suicide mission. Until this time, the > second option seemed extreme. > > The fourth plane never made it to its target. It could be that by the > time it was hijacked, the pilots or passengers on the plane already knew > what had happened in New York and did what they could to have the plane > crash into an unpopulated field. > > -- > David Weintraub _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > Tellium _/ _/ > davidw@eclipse.net _/ I am the Great and Powerful Oz*_/ > dweintraub@tellium.com _/ _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtains) >
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