Heres something to tickle some brains here, didn't know we had a 9/11 thread. My cup of tea.
Anyways, here's a wacky fun fact:
All of the phone calls from the planes were not only impossible to be made from cellphones, but they appear to have been illegally routed by a third party. Not just one plane,
all of them.
Truthfully I can't do this topic it's justice as there is an entire essay written about these calls and the suspicious witness reports concerning the Logan International Airport, as one witnessed an evacuated plane at a gate. Check it out if you have a lot of time to read.
https://archive.li/WgPzj
The phone calls that came from the 4 hijacked planes originated from a number 904-555-0004, which is assigned as a fake phone number. Prior to 2017, all numbers with 555 were considered inoperable for the basis of entertainment production. (That's why all of the GTA IV cheat codes had it, so gamers couldn't prank call a potentially real number). This alone is damning, how could these passengers, let alone Claircom themselves aquire this number? More importantly, how could this number be used across all 4 planes, and
specifically these planes? All other planes/flights ran normally under their Airphon systems, except the hijacked planes. Claircom is owned by AT&T, and the box was programmed in Jacksonville, FL, thus the 904 area code.
A common theory is that all the cell phone calls were faked, including the Airphon calls, as none of them would've been possible at the height and speed of the planes. In 2001, most cell phones wouldn't work over 5,000 feet, meanwhile a passenger stayed connected on a call for over a half hour while flying at over 15,000 feet at 500+ mph. Add this to the fact Betty Ong, the flight attendant that made the first call of the attacks made her's from a phone call at 29,000 feet. Impossible! This is pretty convincing, along with the whole Cleveland Airport Mystery which in my opinion is just a scrutinization of an incorrect statement by a news organization. However, CTV911 on youtube has put a video together explaining this away with a
picocell.
A picocell is a small base station that was installed on some planes during the time as a transition away from Airphon systems. Because of it's tendency to disrupt ATC communcation, it was banned by all airlines. Some smaller ones got away with them installed. The reason being is that the headset ID is listed as -ffff, which means it could not have been made from a seatback headset, it had to be specifically near the Claircom box.
Another detail is Thomas Burnett, who's records show that although using a cell phone,
had to dial a credit card number, which is not how Airphon billing works. Airphons will have you enter your credit card number to bill you for the time on the call. If you used a cell phone, you would be billed through your cellular carrier. This exposes a crucial detail,
his call although from a cell phone, was still being routed by a third party, otherwise he would've never punched in a card number. Another instance is Renee May, a flight attendant on Flight 77 who phoned her parents, billing a credit card number that wasn't even valid despite attendants having their own codes to bill the airline.
I'd write more if a could, but theres a lot of good information already out there on this topic, just thought I'd drop it here.
