Thanks, I think this is the first reasonable response from anyone objecting to what I was saying. The vast majority of responders, as predicted, seem oblivious to basic logic and basic literacy.
Sounds correct to me for all planes except AA 77.
Yes, AA 77 was the only one that ATC didn't track, because it turned around while being transferred between controller stations, and ATC was continuing to search westward. Which of course means that PM blatantly lied about ATC's inability to track the hijacked planes.
This “idiocy” claim seems to be based on the false assumption that primary signals and secondary signals were displayed together on the radar screen of FAA controllers on 9/11. Therefore misleading.
I think that the notion of ATC being unable to look at both primary radar and transponder info simultaneously is propaganda infesting the official story. If it were true, it would be almost a willful avoidance of information useful in monitoring the skies. In any case, if one chooses to look, the aircraft without a transponder stands out blatantly among those with transponders.
http://www.indybay.org/olduploads/20040825-wed1400.mp3
About 3/4 the way through this radio broadcast (from public radio), the pilot interviewee discusses ATC.
OK, here’s my two cents on this. Herndon Tapes indicate that a new flight plan for UA 93 was entered into the system at 9:58. This was done by Linda Justice and is confirmed at least by John Werth, both at ZOB. Also staff members from the 9/11 Commission looked at the TSD Tapes to check.
Flight paths continue to move on the TSD for a while even after the plane they are associated with stopped to move (e.g. landed or crashed). The TSD path for UA 93 ended at Reagan National at 10:28, according to the Commission’s staff member Miles Kara. Furthermore, Lynn Spencer claims she visited controllers at Washington National Airport who told here they were calling out the position of United 93, based on the projected track on their TSD to the White House, the FBI at the Pentagon and DC Guard F-16 pilot Billy Hutchison.
Such a projected path from the UA 93 crash scene to D.C. fits with the path Mineta described in an interview to the Acadmey of Achievement as the path of a plane unaccounted for and going to D.C. There is no other such path known of a plane unaccounted for on 9/11. Therefore we have no better hypothesis than the hypothesis that Mineta was referring to the projected path for UA 93. The plane Mineta spoke about was the plane the Secret Service referred to. Therefore, we have no better hypothesis than the hypothesis that the Secret Service was referring to the projected path of UA 93, too.
To conclude, until there is a better hypothesis what plane the Secret Service could have referred to, the projected flight path for UA 93 is the best available one.
Did the 9/11 Commission Report discuss all of this? I couldn't find anything. There was absolutely nothing near that passage I quoted. Was there any discussion of coast mode or any kind of projection? Or did the Report just slip something over on us? As far as I can tell, there was no careful discussion, which they would have if they were actually trying to tell an honest account.
Possibilities for the "approaching aircraft" identified as Flight 93:
1. Coast mode projection, which is clearly indicated in ATC displays.
2. The actual Flight 93, not having actually crashed.
3. Another aircraft approaching, perhaps part of the military hijack exercises.
4. A phony insert from the military hijack exercises -- Delta 1898, Delta 89, United 177, may be such examples.
5. The story itself is false -- an alternate version, perhaps, of stories told by Mineta and Woodward.
Which is most likely, given that the 9/11 Commission sloughed off any discussion of the evidence and only said, "may have"?