Of all major U.S. airline crashes within the U.S. investigated
and published by the National Transportation Safety Board
during the past 20 years, the 9/11 'black boxes' are virtually
the only ones without listed serial numbers.
NTSB American Airlines flight 77 flight data recorder report,
not noting a device serial number:
http://www.911myths.com/AAL77_fdr.pdf
NTSB United Airlines flight 93 flight data recorder report,
not noting a device serial number:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/doc04.pdf
The United States government alleges that 4 registered Boeing
commercial passenger aircraft were used in the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks, yet has failed to produce any physical
evidence collected from the 3 9/11 crash scenes positively
tied to these federally registered United and American airlines
aircraft. Despite the release of abundant information regarding
the 9/11 flights and the aircraft reportedly used, specific
information that would confirm official allegations regarding
the identity of these aircraft has been mysteriously withheld
or denied upon request.
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The federally registered aircraft reportedly used during
the 9/11 attacks:
- American Airlines flight 11 (N334AA), United Airlines flight
175 (N612UA), American Airlines flight 77 (N644AA) and United
Airlines flight 93 (N591UA).
With flight data recorder serial number data that is virtually
always provided within NTSB reports of major U.S. commercial
airline crashes that occur within U.S. territory, one can
trace an installed device to a particular registered aircraft
through manufacturer or Federal Aviation Administration records.
The following e-mail was provided by a Susan Stevenson of
the NTSB on 12/26/2007, in response to a 12/16/2007 public
correspondence e-mail inquiry:
"Yes. NTSB investigators rarely encounter a scenario
when the identification of an accident aircraft is not apparent.
But during those occasions, investigators will record serial
numbers of major components, and then contact the manufacturer
of those components in an attempt to determine what aircraft
the component was installed upon."
A 11/26/2007 Freedom of Information Act request of the Federal
Aviation Administration for the last known serial numbers
of the flight data recorders and other components contained
by the aircraft said to have been used during the 9/11 attacks,
was unlawfully denied.
Background:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/13149
A 1/3/2008 e-mail reply from a Loren Cochran, a FOIA specialist
with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, regarding
the FAA FOIA denial reads as follows:
"It is unusual and unlawful for them to not cite an
exemption. “[W]e are not in a position to release the
said records at this time,” certainly isn’t an
exemption any where in the Freedom of Information Act, and
I can’t think of any case law that supports that answer
either."
The RCFP site:
http://www.rcfp.org/
Because of the criminal nature of the 9/11 attacks, the FBI
became the lead investigative agency into the 9/11 aircraft
mishaps, along with the requested aid of the NTSB. It is possible
that the FBI seized FAA 9/11 aircraft records containing component
serial number data for aircraft identification purposes and
that the FAA no longer possesses them.
http://www.ntsb.gov/pressrel/2001/010913.htm
By document labeled "Testimony of Marion C. Blakey,
Chairman National Transportation Safety Board before the Committee
on Commerce, Science and Transportation United States Senate",
it is indicated that the NTSB assisted the FBI with the process
of "aircraft parts identification" regarding the
said aircraft.
http://www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/blakey/mcb020625.htm
Flight data recorder information provided by the NTSB, for
all major U.S. commercial passenger aircraft crashes within
U.S. territory, involving major aircraft and/or loss of life,
since 1988, with noted FDR serial numbers:
Comair Flight 5191, August 27, 2006, CRJ-100, 49 Dead, Fairchild
Model F-1000 FDR, Serial Number: 102368
http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2007/AAR0705.pdf
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