Well, page 7 has some bits on the Pentagon that'll get truthers riled up!
Such as the mention that the aircraft which crashed into the Pentagon was not a "
regular scheduled flight, and did *NOT* file a flight plan"? Yeah... I
love how people can take some statement made in the immediate aftermath of the event (the time/date on that item was 4:21pm, Sept. 11) and conclude that it's somehow more accurate than the reflective, examined, deduced conclusion that took all the known facts of the day - many of which corrected items that at the time were thought to be true (e.g. Delta 1989) - into consideration.
If they believe that FL77 crashed on the Ky/Oh border, then they're claiming that the radar, FDR, and all other pieces of data are faked. Not merely wrong, but openly faked. Yeah, good luck with that. Occam's Razor dictates that the person summarizing the information had simply compiled inaccurate reports that were made in the heat of the moment (and most likely done much earlier that afternoon). What time did NORAD stop getting reports of hijacked airliners again? The
Vanity Fair article noted that "
False reports of hijackings, and real responses, continue well into the afternoon, though civilian air-traffic controllers had managed to clear the skies of all commercial and private aircraft by just after 12 p.m.", meaning that they were still trying to straighten out the story well past the last crash. That's why After Action Reports exist: They're a chance to reflect and soberly consider the events outside of the stress of dealing with the events.
And page 8 talks about a 767 from JFK being intercepted by two f-16s. Could that be what Ultima was going on about? This comes just after a paragraph discussing flight 93 crashing, so maybe he got confused. I know Ultima being confused is hard to believe, but it's just barely possible
Frankly, I'd rate it well above "barely possible". I'd go so far as to call it "creatively superficial reading mixed with willing gullability".
But pages 9-12 really crack the case wide open!
I know! I'm reading them eyes wide open and I can't put them down!!
Thanks for putting in the time on this 16.5, and MikeW.
I posted this on reddit/r/conspiracy for discussion
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/dobac/new_documents_regarding_flight_93_released_via/
The mention of a fifth plane and the intercept seems to have them all hot and bothered.
I need to go back and reread the Vanity Fair article as well as many of the original and only one-step removed sources for FAA-ATC/NORAD stuff that day. I wonder how many jets did end up getting tracked by fighters; remember, Delta 1989 did end up warranting it's own fighter after Boston Center reported them NORDO and Cleveland Center mistook a transmission from FL93 as one from Delta 1989. There had to have been more cases like that.
They seem to think that the idea of Flight 77 crashing elsewhere is something new and confirmed? Not sure why, it's been public knowledge that local ATC suspected a crash initially for a very long time, and this is just a public record of that early mistake.
Agreed. FL77 crashing elsewhere, FL93 landing in Cleveland, yadda yadda... things like that fell off the truther radar once stuff about demolitions and MIHOP regarding the towers became more "in vogue" than their NORAD woo. But the real facts behind those mistaken stories haven't changed.