Up to a seven-minute discrepancy? (flight 93)

[LARED]

Found this at

New York Observer

February 16, 2004

http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=Stewardess+&vs=www.observer.com&ei=UTF-8&u=www.observer.com/pages/story.asp%3FID%3D8612&w=stewardess&d=BFAF0C9551&icp=1&.intl=us


And know someone is interested. Enjoy


The timeline that is most disturbing belongs to the last of the four suicide missions -- United Airlines Flight 93, later presumed destined for the U.S. Capitol, if not the White House. Huge discrepancies persist in basic facts, such as when it crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside near Shanksville. The official impact time according to NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command, is 10:03 a.m. Later, U.S. Army seismograph data gave the impact time as 10:06:05. The F.A.A. gives a crash time of 10:07 a.m. And The New York Times, drawing on flight controllers in more than one F.A.A. facility, put the time at 10:10 a.m.

Up to a seven-minute discrepancy? In terms of an air disaster, seven minutes is close to an eternity. The way our nation has historically treated any airline tragedy is to pair up recordings from the cockpit and air-traffic control and parse the timeline down to the hundredths of a second. But as Mary Schiavo points out, "We don't have an NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigation here, and they ordinarily dissect the timeline to the thousandth of a second."

Even more curious: The F.A.A. states that it established an open phone line with NORAD to discuss both American Airlines Flight 77 (headed for the Pentagon) and United's Flight 93. If true, NORAD had as many as 50 minutes to order fighter jets to intercept Flight 93 in its path toward Washington, D.C. But NORAD's official timeline claims that F.A.A. notification to NORAD on United Airlines Flight 93 is "not available." Why isn't it available?

Asked when NORAD gave an order for fighter planes to scramble in response to United's Flight 93, the air-defense agency notes only that F-16's were already airborne from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to intercept American's Flight 77. The latter jet heaved into the Pentagon at either 9:40 a.m. (according to the F.A.A.) or at 9:38 a.m. (according to NORAD). Although the F-16's weren't in the skies over Washington until 9:49, the question is: Did they continue flying north in an attempt to deter the last of the four hijacked jets? The distance was only 129 miles.

[John Doe II]

1. Thanks

Thanks for the interesting article.
I've even some articles from 2002 that still claim that 10:10 is th crash time (but surely they are no proofs of anything).
Obviously you followed the other links.
LARED, I kindly like to invite you to share your opinion on the Glick issue. In the WTC 7 issue you've convinced me by your research and I conceded that you're right. Just to stress that I'm open for facts and infos, willing to change position and consider that you know a lot.
Does it interest you?

[stickdog]

2. Nice article. Once again, it's what the 9/11 Commission FAILED to

address that stands out.