Reply #57: Seat numbers

[Ferry Fey]

"Similarly the BBC reported the transcript of the conversation from the cell-phone of stewardess Madeline Amy Sweeney on United Airlines flight 93 to Boston air-traffic control. She gave the hijackers' seat-numbers; these were not the seats of the alleged Arab hijackers."

DulceDecorum, I'm very impressed by your research, and have been trying to find the threads where you are a major participant. Thank you. Would you happen to have a list of links to your threads that you feel would be most crucial to read?

I have a question about seat numbers. Am I right in assuming that the only way we have of determining who was allegedly in any particular seat is from implied or overtly stated information given in alleged phone calls from the planes? (If I don't say so, you can probably mentally insert an "alleged" in front of much of the information where I otherwise omit it)

Being someone who prefers to take in information visually, high on my wish list is diagrams of the 4 planes with "known"/assumed positions of the people involved throughout the flight, noted by the differing narratives that may conflict for the same flight, and also able to be sorted by the implied or overtly stated time, or movement of particular people.

It would of necessity be fairly sophisticated graphically (calling Edward Tufte!). You'd have to make sure that whatever symbols you used to represent individuals was clear enough to differentiate them at a glance. Different colors or shapes for crew, hijackers, passengers, with initials on each? Perhaps some very slow animation might be in order, but nothing that couldn't be stopped at any point by viewers who need to be able to see every individual component.

Something like that might more vividly underscore the contradictions in the information that has been claimed, compared to the endless details of narrative which all begin to blur together.