Some Things I Found Out...
Regarding the 9/11 flights.
While searching through voluminous 9/11 records online, I found this one lengthy document: "T7 B20 Flights 77 and 11 No Show FDR - Entire Contents - Notes and FBI Reports 223". It covers people who were scheduled to fly on American Airlines Flights 11 and 77 on September 11th, 2001 but either cancelled their reservations, didn't show up at Logan and Dulles airports, or did show up but missed their flights. Flights 11 and 77 were, of course, the planes that are said to have been hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by al-Qaeda on 9/11.
[NOTE: The ones I find anomalous are outlined in red in the below screenshots. The none-anomalous ones are outlined in orange.]
Here's the document:
And here's where it gets really interesting:
For Flight 11, at pages 41-44, among those listed as having cancelled their reservations are David and Lynn Angell, Christopher Mello, Richard Ross, Antonio Montoya, and Alberto Dominguez (Dominguez is curiously listed as having cancelled reservations at 7:46 AM, one minute after all passenger boarding ceased and he was already supposed to be onboard. See the third screenshot below.)
Despite all six being listed in the same document as having still flown American 11 on that fateful day (see: pages 44-46), no proof is given that any of them rebooked their tickets for the plane, which is curious because, for instance, another AA11 passenger, Thelma Cuccinello, is shown in the first screenshot above to have rebooked her ticket for the flight a few weeks prior on August 23rd, 2001.
So why is such evidence not provided for the other purported passengers? Has the rebooking information been lost or was never made available by American Airlines to the FBI for some unexplained reason, like what was alleged to have happened with the BTS departure stats that would show if the two American flights indeed flew on 9/11? What do such inconvenient facts make of the veracity of Flight 11’s passenger manifest? Or the stories that some of the plane's victims were found and identified?
The same problems also appear for some of the purported passengers of Flight 77. At page 51, Leslie Whittington, her husband Charles Falkenberg, and their two children Zoe and Dana Falkenberg are listed as having cancelled their reservations on AA77 less than two months prior to 9/11, on July 16th, 2001.
On the same page below, Norma C. Khan, another alleged American 77 passenger, is listed as having cancelled reservations twice on June 6th, 2001 and June 18th, 2001. She must've been quite indecisive on whether to book tickets for the flight or not.
At page 52, “PET, SOPPER” - a probable reference to Mari-Rae Sopper and her cat Sammy - are also listed as having cancelled their reservations on American 77, this time on the same day the plane was supposed to have last flown: September 11th, 2001 at 7:55 AM, 15-25 minutes before Flight 77 left Dulles International Airport between 8:10-8:20 AM. Yet, she and her pet were supposed to have flown on Flight 77 shortly after cancelling their spots on 9/11? Weird.
Even weirder is that these people are all listed on pages 55-56 as having still flown the plane with, again, no evidence offered that they rebooked their seats on the flight. How can this be? Did they all fly on employee passes like Mark Bingham of Flight 93 allegedly did? Not so. Out of all the 64 occupants onboard Flight 77, only four passengers flew as AA employees. Those four were Barbara Edwards, Budd and Dee Flagg, and Eddie Dillard (pages 54-56). None of them cancelled their tickets and they all appear as passengers on the plane’s manifest. So Bingham’s case doesn't apply, either.
Then there are the “No Name” National Geographic cancellations on pages 52-53, which probably refers to NatGeo representatives Ann Judge and Joe Ferguson, teachers James Debeunere, Sarah Clark, and Hilda Taylor, and students Rodney Dickens, Asia Cottom, and Bernard Brown, who were all reportedly flying on a sponsored NatGeo trip to California on September 11th. As usual, no evidence is given that any of them rebooked tickets for American 77.
No dates are given above for when those cancellations were made, and only Hilda Taylor and Bernard Brown are listed as having flown AA77 on page 56 below. The six others are strangely omitted in that same page.
This also puts into question the photographic evidence depicting the National Geographic group at Dulles International Airport and boarding Flight 77. Why would they board a plane they had cancelled reservations for and evidently made no attempts to rebook seats on? And why didn't any of the airport staff or AA77’s crew notice they had people boarding a flight they shouldn't be on based on this information?
So if some of them cancelled their reservations and there's no evidence to date that they rebooked their tickets for American 77, what are the implications for the validity of its flight manifest? What do these facts make of the identification process carried out by Dover Air Force Base laboratories, who claimed to have identified almost all of the victims onboard Flight 77, in addition to the 125 deceased Pentagon personnel? Where had they really gotten some of the remains that were reportedly found at the Pentagon crash site?
Even the hijackers on both flights didn't have this issue: for example, on page 53, AA77 hijackers Salem and Nawaf al-Hazmi are listed as having rebooked their seats after cancelling them due to failed credit card transactions on August 27th, 2001, a few weeks before they were supposed to have boarded Flight 77 on September 11th. And as expected, they are listed as having flown the flight on page 54.
These anomalies are reminiscent of the oddities found with United Airlines Flight 93, one of which is the discovery that Mark Bingham - lauded as one of the heroes of the “Let's Roll!” flight - doesn't appear in early versions of UA93’s flight manifest, which indicates that he never boarded the plane under his own name. (This also poses questions for how his remains were reportedly found and identified.)
When his mother Alice Hoglan was questioned by the 9/11 Commission about this issue, she said that Mark was probably travelling on her United Airlines employee pass, inferring that because he was using her old work pass to board the plane instead of his own passport or ID he didn't appear on United 93’s passenger list.
But if the case of American 77 is anything to go by, Alice's explanation doesn't hold much water, because travelling with an employee pass doesn't exempt one from appearing on a flight manifest, nor, as 9/11 researcher Mark Conlon pointed out, does it make one immune from being assigned a seat number. But that's for a future post I may do covering similar issues with United Airlines Flights 175 and 93, the two other hijacked 9/11 planes.
So with all of that said, I have a few last questions to ask to anyone with expertise in how flight bookings and cancellations worked back then - or to those who know such experts - that so happen to stumble upon this article:
How can you explain the apparent anomalies I mention above?
Could people still board their flights after cancelling their reservations and without rebooking seats in 2001, with or without work passes?
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The nat geo photo is a composite. Put together. Fake
The 54 year old daniel lewin is the correct person the 2 names ann and eitan are his wife and son, it's absolutely crazy