THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
May 7, 2007
The Wisdom Fund

United Airlines Flight 93 Shot Down on 9/11

by Enver Masud

[Watch Enver Masud rebut The 9/11 Commission Report in a television interview broadcast to Sub-Saharan Africa.]

Rare television footage taken on September 11, 2001 reveals facts that contradict the generally accepted explanation that United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after four passengers attacked the hijackers in an attempt to gain control of the airplane.

According to the 9/11 Commission Report, at 8:42 United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark, NJ, bound for San Francisco. It's last "normal contact" with the FAA was at 9:27.

Around 9:28 the Cleveland, OH, controller heard "a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin."

Other transmissions followed, and at 9:30 Ziad Jarrah, the alleged hijacker - a fragment of whose passport was found at the crash site, was heard saying, "There is a bomb on board and are going back to the airport, and to have our demands [unintelligible]. Please remain quiet."

At 10:01 another aircraft is reported to have witnessed "radical gyrations in what investigators believe was the hijackers' effort to defeat the passenger assault."

United 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03, 125 miles from Washington, DC.

Video footage, however, appears to support the theory that Flight 93 was shot down upon orders from U.S. officials.

In the NBC and Fox News footage from September 11, 2001 we hear:

"the debris here is spread here over a 3 to 4 mile radius";
"the pictures really do tell the story";
"one of the most horrifying aspects of this is how little debris is visible";
"the investigators out there, and there are hundreds of them, have found nothing larger than a phone book";
"nothing there except a hole in the ground";
"20 to 15 feet long" . . . "10 feet wide";
"nothing that you could distinguish that a plane crashed there";
"nothing going on down there, no smoke, no fire";
"you couldn't see anything, your could see dirt, ash, and people walking around".

Indeed the Flight 93 crash site looks remarkably different from other plane crash sites.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad, said "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania." The Pentagon says Rumsfeld "simply misspoke."

There's also the statement by Lee Hamilton, Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

While questioning Norman Y. Mineta, Former Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Hamilton refers to an "order given, I think by the President, that authorized the shooting down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists."

The second order referred to in this questioning of Mr. Mineta appears to be a do not shoot order given by Vice President Cheney for the aircraft (or missile) headed toward the Pentagon.

Like the 9/11 Commission's explanation for the collapse of 1 and 2 World Trade Center, the damage at the Pentagon, and their silence on the collapse of 7 World Trade Center, the Commission's explanation for the crash of United 93 yields more questions than answers.

---

Woody Box, "Plane Swap Over Pennsylvania," 911review.org, January 16, 2006

Enver Masud, "Fatally Flawed: The 9/11 Commission Report," The Wisdom Fund, November 1, 2006

[The only retrieved CVR . . . The transcript of Flight UA93's CVR does not mention any such sounds and particularly no crash sound at the end . . . differed significantly from authentic CVR transcripts by failing to mention the aircraft's ID, the name of the person and agency who issued the transcript and the date the transcript was issued.--David Eliasson, "The Events of September 11, 2001 and the Right to the Truth," aldeilis.net, April 14, 2008, p. 16]

"Evidence: The Crash of Flight 93," Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice

back button