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December 31, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a page concerning Eleanor Hill, Staff Director for the Congressional Joint Inquiry.\u00a0 Ms Hill was interviewed recently concerning the failed terrorist attempt against Northwest Air Flight 253.<\/p>\n

December 18, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article summarizing what was going on during the period 9:40:30-9:47:30<\/strong><\/a>, a fleeting window of opportunity for NEADS to acquire UA 93 as a target. \u00a0A new category, times of interest, was created and the article has been posted there. \u00a0I am working on the UA 93 story at Cleveland Center and realized the summary should stand alone; hence today\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n

December 14, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article under NEADS to provide additional information concerning the MCC\/T log<\/strong> <\/a>maintained on 9-11.\u00a0 I establish that all annotations were made by the Commission Staff.\u00a0 I also provide a link to an unannotated copy archived by the Staff.<\/p>\n

December 10, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an additional article on the NEADS tapes and logs<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 In that article I discuss the General Moore email request on the night of September 16, 2001, for clarification of the 9:24 FAA notification time for AA 77.\u00a0 I show that NEADS did review both the logs and the tapes prior to NORAD publication of its September 18, 2001 time line.\u00a0 I also provide additional insight into the NORAD\/CONR prepration for the May 23, 2003, air defense hearing.<\/p>\n

December 5, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a quick update to the 9-11 Education category.\u00a0 My 9-11 Google alerts surfaced an email with a recent article<\/a><\/strong> concerning the teaching of 9-11 Truth in a California public school.<\/p>\n

December 4, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article on SVTS<\/a><\/strong> under Linear Processes. \u00a0 It is important to get this piece of the puzzle in place as we home in what was going on at FAA Headquarters and begin to address the issue of what Jane Garvey knew and what she was doing and what Norman Mineta knew and where he was.<\/p>\n

In this article we establish that the SVTS conference was genetically wired to isolate agency leaderships from their working staffs.<\/p>\n

December 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a preliminary article, a work in progress, on the Air Threat Conference<\/a><\/strong>, posted under linear processes.\u00a0 The article draws upon what we do know from the Commission Staff\u2019s orientation tour of the NMCC, the personal memoir of Major Chambers, and notes of interview with Commander Gardner.<\/p>\n

Researchers interested in the tape and transcript of the Air Threat Conference need to know that the original tape and transcript were held by the National Security Council and are most likely archived at the Bush Library.\u00a0 They will not be available through FOIA until five years after the end of the Bush administration.\u00a0 A second copy of the transcript may be held in DoD\u2019s master files concerning what it forwarded to the Commission.\u00a0 Even if still held by DoD it will likely fall under the same restriction as the original.<\/p>\n

December 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article under Chaos Theory<\/a><\/strong> concerning battle actions taken by Ben Sliney at Herndon to deal with Chaos by attacking the bounds.\u00a0 Chaos is bounded randomness and Sliney\u2019s approach was, at once, belated and effective.\u00a0 In this article we speak to his order for an airborne inventory, which followed a series of local ground stops culminating in a nationwide ground stop.\u00a0 The airborne inventory order surfaced within seconds specific information about UA93, to include location.\u00a0 That timely information reported shortly after 9:30 did not find its way to the NCA or to NEADS.<\/p>\n

December 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

August 24 note clarification. <\/strong>There seems to be some confusion abut my August 24 note concerning UA 175 lost as a primary target.\u00a0 The internal link is to an FAA document and, yes, UA 175 under its assigned<\/strong> transponder code<\/strong> was lost as a primary target; that \u201cplane\u201d ceased to exist except on TSD.\u00a0 What showed up on air traffic control scopes was a transponding intruder, an aircraft squawking an unassigned code.\u00a0 That intruder was, first, 3020, and then 3321.<\/p>\n

December 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Addendum to USA 93 article. <\/strong>Added a Google Earth plot of the RADES radar returns when the UA 93 transponder came back on.\u00a0 Also added a link to my powerpoint slide set concerning UA 93 built in summer 2003.\u00a0 A note of caution.\u00a0 Times on those graphics are uncorrected RADES times; add 25 seconds to all times.<\/p>\n

UA 93. <\/strong>I switched gears and published an article on UA 93.<\/a> It made sense to do so as we start pulling together the several threads of analysis we have going.\u00a0 I created a separate category under 9-11 for UA 93.\u00a0 In the article we establish that FAA air traffic control discretely reported on both D 1989 and UA 93.\u00a0 The two were never conflated.<\/p>\n

I opted to start with part 2 since that establishes what the natonal level should have known about UA 93.\u00a0 In Part 1 we will tell the ZOB story and in Part 3 we will tell how FAA Heaquarters handled the information about UA 93.<\/p>\n

For bookkeeping purposes let me restate the analytical threads on the table.\u00a0 They include: chaos theory as applied to 9-11; the linear processes available to and used by the government; the hunt for each hijacked aircraft; and the battle as fought by Ben Sliney and Colonel Marr.\u00a0 I make no apologies for jumping around a bit in some apparent chaotic manner.<\/p>\n

That is a teaching point.\u00a0 Chaos is deterministic, bounded, and self-organizing.\u00a0 My publication schedule has and will reflect that.\u00a0 It becomes an exercise for the reader, then, to think chaotically.<\/p>\n

Also, as much as possible, I will tell the story in the voices of the day.\u00a0 It was Team 8\u2019s intention to publish an audio monograph.\u00a0 We did considerable work on that; it lacked transcription of the multiple embedded audio clips.\u00a0 We ran out of time.\u00a0 Hopefully, NARA will be able to pull that draft monograph off of the archived server.<\/p>\n

November 30, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m putting the Wikileaks review on the back burner.\u00a0 I\u2019ve appended a summary comment to the top of that page.<\/p>\n

November 26, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Started a new page for wikileaks<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 I will post relevant messages<\/a><\/strong> as I identify them.\u00a0 Work in progress.<\/p>\n

November 25, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve updated the \u201cWhat\u2019s in the Queue\u201d page to add and give priority to the creation of two catalogs; key audio clips from the two entities that fought the battle of 9-11\u2013NEADS and the Herndon Command Center.\u00a0 This effort will save researchers value time and effort in researching and using primary source information.\u00a0 Depending on who it goes, I may go into rolling production as the effort proceeds.<\/p>\n

I will continue to follow the flight of AA 77 and will begin to merge what we are finding back into chaos theory.<\/p>\n

The Air Threat Conference article is nearly complete and should be out within a week.<\/p>\n

November 24, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a fourth article under Transponders and Ghosts<\/strong><\/a> continuing the track of AA 77 toward the Pentagon.\u00a0 In this article we establish that Eastern Region called IAD shortly after 9:29 to ask not about AA 77 but UA 175.\u00a0 By the end of the conversation AA 77 is 34 miles from the Pentagon and no one at any level is aware of the looming threat.<\/p>\n

November 23, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a third article under Transponders and Ghosts<\/strong> <\/a>covering the tracking of AA 77 into Dulles TRACON airspace.\u00a0 I discuss the period 9:25 to 9:29 and establish what IAD saw and did and what FAA assessed in the immediate aftermath and subsequently.\u00a0 I talk briefly about the Administrator\u2019s Briefing Book that prepared her for Congressional testimony and likely served as a baseline for FAA input at a key White House meeting.\u00a0 I explain how the wording in the Commission Report was determined concerning IAD awareness of the approaching primary track that was AA 77.<\/p>\n

November 21, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a Current News<\/a><\/strong> page to post links to items of interest.\u00a0 Posted a link to a New York Times article,\u201dU.S. reviews costly air defenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

November 20, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a slide link, American Air Flight 77 ZDC ZID Slide Show<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> to the AA 77 \u201cTransponders and Ghosts\u201d article.\u00a0 The link provides transcripted slides in powerpoint for the ZID\/ZDC conversation as well as a brief summary slide and relevant Google Earth and Flight Data Recorder screen prints.\u00a0 Slides are timed and will advance automatically.\u00a0 Embedded audio not yet active; working on it.<\/p>\n

Added a page for an Air Force History<\/a><\/strong> Operation Noble Eagle project.\u00a0 The project will include material on the US Air Force response to the 9-11 attacks.\u00a0 I will update the page as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n

November 17, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a second article under \u201cTransponders and Ghosts<\/a>,\u201d expanding on the first article by discussing AA 77 as a ghost.\u00a0 The article includes as audio links the critical conversation between ZID and ZDC and, then, at ZDC, among the Operations Manager and the Area Supervisors.<\/p>\n

I establish that ZDC was concentrating on a transponding aircraft with a limited data tag; it never saw AA 77.\u00a0 I detail what was and was not happening shortly after 9:20, the same time that Norman Mineta testifies that he was aware of AA 77.<\/p>\n

I make a personal observation about the hijacker tactics and, briefly, reverse engineer the flight path that Hani Hanjour took en route his target.\u00a0\u00a0 I also state that the discussion will be continued to consider the next FAA facility in the path of AA 77, Dulles TRACON, IAD.<\/p>\n

November 10, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

A correspondent alerted me that Kevin Fenton blogged about the NEADS tapes and the Commission\u2019s staff work.\u00a0 Kevin had emailed me with his thesis and I was already crafting an article to clarify the issue.\u00a0 Given Kevin\u2019s article I have revised my draft article and just published it under the category NEADS files<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 As always, I caution that snapshots of the Staff\u2019s work are just that, snapshots.\u00a0 In this instance the snapshot is beneficial.\u00a0 Kevin highlights that the Staff was working formal and informal processes at the same time.\u00a0 That should come as no surprise to historians and researchers, or to anyone who has served on a Congressional, Commission, or other staff.<\/p>\n

At the end, the Commission Staff obtained all available NEADS audio files.\u00a0 How we got there is interesting, even a bit fascinating, but not probative.<\/p>\n

November 5, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a WTC 7 link<\/a><\/strong> which I happened across today while doing other research.\u00a0 The site is a clear, logical explanation of events of the day concerning that building.\u00a0 WTC 7 was fatally damaged during the attack on the World Trade Center complex; it became unstable, was going to collapse and those on the scene knew that.\u00a0 Post 9-11 attempts to explain otherwise are ingenuous diversion with no credibility.<\/p>\n

I did not work on the Trade Center portion of the Commission Staff\u2019s work.\u00a0 I make WTC reference in my articles only to the fact that it was the primary target of the successful northern prong of the terrorist attack that morning.\u00a0 Ten men hijacked two aircraft and flew them into the North and South towers fatally damaging the WTC complex, incluidng WTC 7.<\/p>\n

There is nothing more to be said.<\/p>\n

November 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Made a small but important edit to the Scott III article, as follows: \u201cIt took NEADS, once alerted,<\/strong> the<\/span> Otis pilots, once scrambled<\/span>, (edited Nov 1, 2009) on the order of thirteen minutes to get fighters <\/strong>(edited Nov 1, 2009) airborne.\u201d\u00a0 The fighters were actually airborne seven minutes after scramble.\u00a0 The whole process, alert-battle stations-scrambe-airborne, was on the order of 13-15 minutes.<\/p>\n

October 28, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published the final article in the Scott Trilogy<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Ultimately, the third Scott article is about Rules of Engagement (ROE).\u00a0 At some point I will need to write a separate article on ROE but, for now, what I\u2019ve written will have to suffice.\u00a0 Once again in this article we lay to rest any notion that the Andrews fighters were at all relevant to the battle of 9-11<\/a><\/strong> (second article at link).<\/p>\n

This was a difficult article because it gets into speculation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I speak to the NORAD rationalization\u2013speculation really\u2013that they would take lives in the air to save lives on the ground.\u00a0 Ultimately, I place a burden on the reader to do his or her own speculation and simply provide some things to keep in mind.<\/p>\n

October 21, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added the sub-category \u201clinear processes\u201d under Chaos Theory and posted an article there on NOIWON, the National Operational Intelligence Watch Officers Network.\u00a0 At the same time the NMCC and FAA were attempting to establish formal communications via the FAA\u2019s Primary Net and the NMCC\u2019s Significant Event Conference the two entities were in secure communication via a NOIWON conference.<\/p>\n

Moved the list of linear processes previously developed to be an article in the new sub-category.<\/p>\n

October 13, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a short article under Exercises to provide a link to and brief comments on a qualitative research effort to compile the universe of Commission interview comments concerning training, exercises and war games.\u00a0 This effort pulls together information which has heretofore been treated in \u2019snap-shot\u2019 form on the web.\u00a0 The perspective will be useful to all researchers interested in this subject.<\/p>\n

October 8, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a reponse to Kevin Ryan\u2019s letter under the category Bloomington Group.<\/p>\n

Added a new link \u201c911 Myths, 911 Commission Files.\u201d\u00a0 This is a user friendly way of getting at the universe of Commission files that have been made public through FOIA and by History Commons.<\/p>\n

Received an open letter response from Kevin Ryan of the Bloomington Group.\u00a0 I made\u00a0 the Bloomington page a category and move my open letter and Ryan\u2019s response to that category.\u00a0 I will respond, but in the interim am reviewing Ryan\u2019s position<\/a><\/strong> established in March, 2006.\u00a0 It is not clear if Ryan\u2019s position has changed to incorporate new information or if his response is representative of the Bloomington Group, at large.<\/p>\n

October 5, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a new article under Chaos Theory, \u201c9-11; a battle, not a war.\u201d\u00a0 Therein, we identify Colonel Robert Marr and Ben Sliney as the Battle Commanders; and General Larry Arnold and Jeff Griffith as the Battle Managers.\u00a0 We specify that battles are not fought at the national level and that the national voices\u2013Bush, Cheney, Mineta, Rumsfeld, Myers, Eberhart\u2013were largely irrelevant.\u00a0 We continue the discussion of \u2019strange attractors\u2019 and assess that for there to be any success at all in the battle the flow of information had to be between NEADS and the FAA\u2019s Herndon Command Center.\u00a0 We also assess that Richard Clarke\u2019s secure video conference was counter-productive.<\/p>\n

October 4, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

My open letter to the Bloomington Working Group is now published as a page.\u00a0 In the letter I express my confidence that the Working Group will understand that John Farmer\u2019s book, The Ground Truth <\/em>says that the Commission Report is accurate and that what is not accurate is the Government\u2019s reconstruction of events in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

Today, I note the following entry on the Bloomington site:<\/p>\n

2. The 9\/11 Commission Report has been exposed as almost entirely untrue by John Farmer, the Dean of Rutgers School of Law\u2013Newark who served as Senior Counsel to the Commission:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/media-newswire.com\/release_1098894.html<\/a><\/p>\n

A confidence misplaced, it seems.
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October 2, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a short addendum to the Delta 1989 post.\u00a0 A Commission Staff MFR<\/a><\/strong> of the NEADS Identification Technicians interview contains information concerning the confusion over the destination of Delta 1989.<\/p>\n

October 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two subjects have been added to What\u2019s in the Queue: The Otis Scramble and UA 175; both subjects at the request of correspondents.<\/p>\n

On September 29 I sent an open letter to the Bloomington 9-11 Working Group.\u00a0 I will post that letter as a page within a week.<\/p>\n

September 28, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ground Truth\u201d<\/em> comment has been moved to be its own page.\u00a0 It appears that several, if not most, articles claiming John Farmer discounts the 9-11 Commission Report are simply replications of one article at Salem-News.com<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The new page will be updated as developments warrant.<\/p>\n

September 23, 2009, Ground Truth <\/em>by John Farmer, a comment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moved to a separate page<\/p>\n

September 17, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today I posted a short article under Delta 1989 with a slide depicting the relationship between Delta 1989 and UA 93.\u00a0 The recent Fox News special contains footage of Major General Arnold declaring that\u00a0 NORAD was following UA 93.\u00a0 They did not.\u00a0 The plane that \u201cmeandered\u201d and that NORAD was following was Delta 1989, the only track forwarded by NEADS to NORAD that morning.<\/p>\n

September 11, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all know where we were that morning eight years ago.\u00a0 I memorialized my location on the page \u201cJoining the Commission Staff<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 Immediately after the Staff disbanded I started a Google alert, \u201c9-11 Commission\u201d to monitor news and events.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, two articles popped up in\u00a0 my alert queue concerning the teaching of\u00a0 9-11 history.\u00a0 The dichotomy between the two articles prompted me to publish an article today under a new category, \u201c9-11 Education<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 If you are interested in 9-11, in history, and in education I strongly recommend a look at the two articles.<\/p>\n

I also published an article under NRO to clarify snaphots in Commission workfiles that are misleading, out of context.\u00a0 In sum, I over-analyzed the routine flight of the early morning traffic helicopter that day and briefly equated it to the NRO exercise scheduled later in the day.\u00a0 There was no such correlation; the traffic helicopter flight was an analytical non-event.<\/p>\n

September 9, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday, Rutgers University announced the publication<\/a><\/strong> of Dean John Farmer\u2019s 9-11 book, The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9\/11. <\/em>As Senior Counsel and Team 8 Lead on the 9-11 Commission Staff he was the primary author of the first chapter of the Commission Report.\u00a0\u00a0 This book continues his work on and interest in the events of 9-11.\u00a0 The press release states that; \u201cThe Ground Truth<\/span><\/em> <\/span>draws on Farmer\u2019s<\/span> experience with the 9\/11 Commission\u2026to show a disturbing disconnect between what those in charge of the country\u2019s security knew and what was actually happening on the ground<\/span> <\/span>and in the skies.<\/span><\/span>\u201c\u00a0 I am exploring that disconnect further in the series of Chaos Theory articles.<\/p>\n

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September 8, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s in the queue\u201d split off to be a separate page.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoining the Commission Staff\u201d moved to be a page, not a post.<\/p>\n

September 7, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second of three articles in the Scott Trilogy published.\u00a0 This article discusses the Air Traffic Services Cell (ATSC), the Central Altitude Reservation Function (CARF) and the Liaison Officers exchanged between FAA and NORAD\/NEADS.\u00a0 Scott only discussed the ATSC; this article completes the record in that respect.\u00a0 All of the three processes\u2013ATSC, CARF, Liaison\u2013were effective in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks.\u00a0 None of them played a significant role during the attack, itself.<\/p>\n

Bobcats article published under Mystery Plane category.\u00a0 I explain why the Bobcats were briefly of Commission Staff interest and why they were not a factor.<\/p>\n

Published under Chaos Theory a list of linear processes\/functions extant on 9-11.\u00a0 While researching the Scott Trilogy II article it struck me that a formal bookkeeping of linear processes extant was needed to keep track.\u00a0\u00a0 Qualitative analysis is in the offing, TBD.<\/p>\n

August 31, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

BTS<\/a> link to the Delta 1989 article added giving access to the official record of Delta flights that departed Boston Logan on 9-11.<\/p>\n

August 26, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

First article in the Scott Trilogy series published.\u00a0 The\u00a0 article introduces the Air Traffic Services Cell (ATSC) at Herndon.\u00a0 We will pursue the ATSC\u00a0 further when we consider Scott\u2019s second article, \u201cCommand Cells Speed Airspace Reactivation.\u201d\u00a0 However, there is a larger issue to consider\u2013the interface between FAA and DoD as it existed on the morning of 9-11.\u00a0 That interface included not only the ATSC, but the CARF (Central Altitude Reservation Function), and liaison officers at several echelons.\u00a0 The purpose of my second article is to put all of that in perspective.<\/p>\n

August 24, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Third article published under Chaos Theory, \u201cNEADS and ZBW; strange attractors, indeed.\u201d\u00a0 As with the first two articles this one is introductory.\u00a0 It lists four additional linear structures that were ineffective on 9-11: the Air Threat Conference Call; FAA\u2019s primary net; Clarke\u2019s SVTS conference; and the NOIWON conference.\u00a0 Absent effective national level structure, the nation\u2019s response self organized in a way that could not be predicted. NEADS and ZBW became two strange attractors; Herdon Center a third attractor without a partner.\u00a0 Those attractors were ultimately transient and the nation\u2019s response re-organized again at the only level that could make a difference, the passengers and crew aboard UA 93.<\/p>\n

Published an introduction to the Scott Trilogy, \u201ccutting to the chase.\u201d\u00a0 I talk about three barriers to research, analysis and writing about the events of 9-11\u2013time compression, event conflation, and the imposition of post-facto <\/em>understanding and awareness on facto<\/em> and pre-facto <\/em>events.\u00a0\u00a0 Most readers intuitively understand these barriers; nevertheless I felt it important to discuss them at least briefly before moving on to the Scott Trilogy.<\/p>\n

An August 24 note<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Two readers\u2013and there are perhaps more interested\u2013have commented in emails about UA 175, in reference to the article on transponders and ghosts.\u00a0 That interest prompts me to consider an article \u201c9-11: UA 175; the forgotten plane.\u201d\u00a0 UA 175 tends to get lost in the discussions about the other three hijacked planes, yet it is intriguing in its own right.\u00a0 For example, UA 175 crossed paths with AA 11 and its pilot is one of the voices that confirmed that AA 11 was still at 29,000 feet; its transponder code was changed, twice, and it was lost as a primary target<\/a><\/strong>; and its southerly path over central New Jersey made it a potential threat to Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

August 19, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a valuable search engine link, Vivisimo<\/a><\/strong>, for exploring the 9-11 Commission Report.\u00a0 Thanks to Erik Larson for the tip.<\/p>\n

August 17, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added an addendum to the NRO exercise article.\u00a0 The scenario<\/a> <\/strong>is now available; the title is \u201cNRO Emergency Response to a Small Aircraft Crash.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added the following addendum to the beginning of the Ghosts of 9-11 article.<\/p>\n

Relevant Commission work files<\/strong> <\/a>recently became available.\u00a0 Information concerning AA 11A is modified accordingly.\u00a0 My notes taken while reviewing a replay of TSD tapes at Herndon reveal that\u00a0 \u201c0844 11A pops up\u201d and \u201c0851 11A disappears 290 FL 291 GS.\u201d\u00a0 This information is secondary source information; the TSD tapes themselves are the primary source information.\u00a0 The disappearance of AA 11A from TSD supports a Commission Staff working hypothesis (still our hypothesis to this day) that emerging information from Indianapolis Center about the loss of AA77 was conflated with continued uncertainty about the whereabouts of AA 11 and the fact of a plane missing in the system became AA 11.\u00a0 It is important to remember that American Airlines, itself, was confused at the same time and thought both AA 11 and AA 77 impacted the WTC.\u00a0 This time frame is one of the chaotic moments of 9-11 and I will have more to say about that as I continue my chaos theory discussions.<\/p>\n

August 12, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Made a small but critical correction to the Transponders and Ghosts article.\u00a0 In the last paragraph I changed \u201cAA 11\u2033 to be \u201cUA 93.\u201d<\/p>\n

August 9, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added a link to the History Commons timeline.\u00a0 The site is useful as one point of reference; however, it is, in part,\u00a0 conjectural.\u00a0 A good point to start research on any topic is a combination of three sources: the 9-11 Commission Report, Staff Statements and Monographs; 911myths; and the History Commons timeline.\u00a0 To get at the details of the Commission\u2019s work, both the History Commons project to upload Commission files to Scribd and the concurrent work at 911myths provide useful links.\u00a0 Check out both 911myths and 911files for links to primary source information obtained under FOIA.<\/p>\n

August 6, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a short article updating the May 23, 2003 hearing.\u00a0 History Commons uploaded two NORAD briefings prior to the hearing that clearly show that NORAD knew the actual paths of the air defense fighters from Otis and Langley.\u00a0 In addition, one slide contains the definition of a scramble.\u00a0 By definition a scramble does not mean that air defense fighters were actually launched<\/p>\n

August 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article on Delta 1989.\u00a0 The primary source information\u2013radar and tapes, complemented by transcripts\u2013shows conclusively that there is no correlation between Delta 1989 and the Mode 3 code 7112.\u00a0 M3 7112<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

July 30, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published a tutorial on the NEADS tapes and transcripts.\u00a0 While working on the Delta 1989 article it became clear that such a tutorial was needed.\u00a0 I will add to and refine it as I relearn what I thought I knew 5 years ago.<\/p>\n

July 23, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article under Chaos Theory about 9-11, thinking out loud.\u00a0 The paper is introductory.\u00a0\u00a0 It addresses the question of whether Chaos Theory can even be applied to events of 9-11.\u00a0 The preliminary answer is yes, metaphorically.\u00a0 The article also lists four linear processes that were in place that day and touches briefly on some of the chaotic aspects of the day.\u00a0 It closes with a question centered on the time frame shortly before 9:10.<\/p>\n

July 20, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published an article on the NORAD briefing slides used at the May 23, 2003 air defense hearing.<\/p>\n

July 19, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

I made a correction to the Andrews fighter article, based on Commission work files<\/a><\/strong>, to show that the Cap flight had oral \u201cweapons free\u201d instructions.\u00a0 The Wild flight which followed had written instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 31, 2009 Added a page concerning Eleanor Hill, Staff Director for the Congressional Joint Inquiry.\u00a0 Ms Hill was interviewed recently concerning the failed terrorist attempt against Northwest Air Flight 253. December 18, 2009 Published an article summarizing what was going on during the period 9:40:30-9:47:30, a fleeting window of opportunity for NEADS to acquire … Continue reading What’s New Archive 2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":106,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2176\/revisions\/2181"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}