The FBI said Barbara Olson's phone didn't make any calls. Perhaps she borrowed the phone from "Unknown Caller" whose phone was obviously working, and, according to your link, made five calls. I can imagine with little difficulty Barbara Olson approaching the Unknown Caller and saying "My husband is a high-ranking Federal official, may I use your phone to call him and tell him what's going on?"
1. There would have been a record of that call---there is no record. Not with any cell phone company--not with the airline
2. There was no reason for her to call collect--she had his direct number--she had called him on it before she got on the plane.
3. You can't call collect from a cell phone.
4. You can't call collect from a seat phone.
5. There were no seat phones on that flight.
6. No other passengers made calls to their loved ones.
AA simply said there were no airphones on the aircraft. Ted's confusion about airphones is easily explained. Ted could mistakenly assume his wife, calling from Unknown Caller's phone, was calling from an airphone when his wife's cell phone number didn't show up on the display.
1. There would have been a record of that call---there is no record. Not with any cell phone company--not with the airline
2. There was no reason for her to call collect--she had his direct number--she had called him on it before she got on the plane.
3. You can't call collect from a cell phone.
4. You can't call collect from a seat phone.
5. There were no seat phones on that flight.
6. No other passengers made calls to their loved ones.
The Pentagon rejects only the assertion that the pilots themselves were herded to the back, and they do so without any evidentiary support. Perhaps Barbara simply saw a number of uniformed aircraft personnel in the herd, and erroneously concluded the pilots were among them. Or perhaps the Pentagon is incorrect.
1. Olson said his wife asked what she should tell the pilots.
2. "According to Olson, his wife had said that "all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers."12 This is an inherently implausible scenario. We are supposed to believe that 60-some people, including the two pilots, were held at bay by three or four men (one or two of the hijackers would have been in the cockpit) with knives and boxcutters. This scenario becomes even more absurd when we realize that the alleged hijackers were all small, unathletic men (the 9/11 Commission pointed out that even "[t]he so-called muscle hijackers actually were not physically imposing, as the majority of them were between 5'5" and 5'7" in height and slender in build"13), and that the pilot, Charles "Chic" Burlingame, was a weightlifter and a boxer, who was described as "really tough" by one of his erstwhile opponents.14 Also, the idea that Burlingame would have turned over the plane to hijackers was rejected by his brother, who said: "I don't know what happened in that cockpit, but I'm sure that they would have had to incapacitate him or kill him because he would have done anything to prevent the kind of tragedy that befell that airplane."15
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Snoofy rejects Buffalo Bob's claims.
They aren't my claims.
1. The FBI makes a claim.
2. American Airlines makes a claim.
3. The pentagon makes a claim.
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