Pilots for 9/11 Truth just posted an article titled “9/11: PENTAGON AIRCRAFT HIJACK IMPOSSIBLE” on their website and an accompanying forum thread titled “9/11: Pentagon Aircraft Hijack Impossible, FLIGHT DECK DOOR CLOSED FOR ENTIRE FLIGHT” was posted on 27-Nov-2009.
Reported by CNN, according to Ted Olson, wife Barbara Olson had called him from the reported flight stating, “…all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers…”[2]. However, according to Flight Data provided by the NTSB, the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight.
First of all Ted Olson likely fabricated or was coerced into telling the story about his wife having called him. He has changed his story several times and FBI, Pentagon and American Airlines officials have all denied the call ever took place. It couldn’t have taken place because the technology to place cellular phone calls from an aircraft in flight at altitude did not exist in 2001, nor does it exist now as far as i know. A very basic understanding of radio frequency and cell tower antenna geometry is all that is needed to verify this fact.
It appears that the Flight Deck Door on AA77 may never have been opened during the entire flight according to the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) which began recording when the engines were started. If this is the case, how could the hijackers have gained access to the cockpit? How could the pilots have been herded to the back of the plane?
It appears Pilots for 911 Truth submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in 2006 for data from the Flight Data Recorder for American Airlines flight 77 which allegedly struck the Pentagon. They said they reviewed this data over 2 years ago but hadn’t noticed the anomaly because of the way the data was presented.
The data in the CSV file begins with 12,19,5 “CLOSED” and ends with 13,37,49 “CLOSED”. Never do we see “OPEN”. The times appear to be GMT hours, minutes and seconds. The FDR polled a sensor on the door every 4 seconds and all of this data is in the CSV file which is available in the Pilots for 9/11 Truth forum thread.
Among the many posts in the 5 page thread (as of this writing) are the following snippets:
painter:
Having been on this forum for years I understand that this data was received by Pilots for Truth (and other organizations) from the NTSB (National Transportation and Safety Board, the federal agency tasked by Congress to investigate every civil aviation accident in the US) via a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) submitted in 2006. I also understand that the NTSB regard this FDR data as a “work product” generated FOR the FBI’s 9/11 investigation “Pentbomb” team. In other words, the NTSB was not investigating an “accident” but the FBI was investigating a crime scene and requested the NTSB decode the FDR for their investigative purposes.
rob balsamo (pilot and forum admin):
We actually had this parameter when we decoded the raw file ourselves more than 2 years ago. But, it showed all zero’s so i just skipped it. Once Warren provided it in terms of the Data Frame Layout (0=CLOSED, 1=OPEN), is when i decided to scroll through and see when it was open and if it corresponded with the roughly 3 min hijack timeline (which in itself is an absurdly short time frame to take over an aircraft). As you can see, the data shows the door closed through the entire flight.
rob balsamo:
Here’s a little tech for those interested. The Flight Deck Door was most
certainly assigned as a recorded parameter as per this chart:(IMG:http://procision-auto.com/911/911_flight_deck_door1.jpg)
(IMG:http://procision-auto.com/911/911_flight_deck_door2.jpg)
A port that is not used looks like this in the documentation:
(IMG:http://procision-auto.com/911/911_spare.jpg)
It is clear, without debate that Flight Deck Door was assigned and being
polled by the system.
Read the rest of the forum thread here.
