Scope of 9/11 blamed on American Airline's silence, the article says...

[FN FAL]

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=12071

9/11 WORSENED BY AIRLINE SILENCE

Monday, May 01, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com

The post-mortems on September 11th continue. This time it's James Ridgeway, noting in CounterPunch, that there was plenty that could have been done after Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center towers, made impact. As Ridgeway puts it, "The only people to defend the United States on 9/11 were the passengers and crews of the four hijacked planes."

He cites taped evidence showing that flight attendants from Flight 11 were in communication with American Airlines ground control "minutes after the hijacking began," and notes that American's management was more concerned with "keeping things secret" than with alerting other airlines, or even their own pilots, to possible further dangers. Had they done so, Ridgeway says, "There is a real likelihood people at least could have evacuated the second tower."

Meanwhile, he continues, Flight 93, which was at that time still "sitting on the Newark airport tarmac," might well have avoided its subsequent hijacking. The 9/11 Commission report found "no evidence...that American Airlines ever sent any cockpit warnings to its aircraft on 9/11," while only the relative "mutiny" of a United Airlines dispatcher, acting against the order to maintain silence, gave Flight 93's pilot a too-late warning about his own plane's possible jeopardy. - ST


staff reports - Free-Market News Network

 

[81Horse]

Oh, for God's sake. That's total, callous BS. He should be ashamed of himself.

There was a total paradigm shift that morning -- American Airlines was supposed to be more on top of the new meaning of "hijack" than Bush, Rice, the FBI?

 

[PacoPollo]

Blame the current Administration they were warned about it..

 

[FN FAL]

Oh, for God's sake. That's total, callous BS. He should be ashamed of himself.

There was a total paradigm shift that morning -- American Airlines was supposed to be more on top of the new meaning of "hijack" than Bush, Rice, the FBI?

True, but it wasn't Bush's, Rice's or the FBI's planes getting hijacked, was it?

 

[dseagrav]

This is so far below bullsh-t that bullsh-t would be ashamed to be compared to this. Even if the crews had been warned it wouldn't have helped much. These guys were armed and prepared to die; Even if the airplane was still on the ground they would have taken the cockpit and taken off by themselves. Our security failed when they set foot beyond the security area at the airport. Depending on what books they read they may even have been able to take a cold and dark aircraft with nobody on it. They didn't need the crews to take off for them. It was just easier for them that way.

 

[mar]

Right. The article is unfair.

Our security failed when they set foot beyond the security area at the airport. Depending on what books they read they may even have been able to take a cold and dark aircraft with nobody on it. They didn't need the crews to take off for them. It was just easier for them that way.

I agree. And it's much more dramatic (and terrifying) to wipe out a plane full of innocent people.

Sept. 11 was a once in a lifetime event that will never happen again.

The next attack will be equally terrifying but won't resemble Sept 11 at all.

 

[User546]

Agreed with 81Horse.

There was simply too much information coming in that morning (most conflicting) for them to have been able to act properly to prevent another attack. No one had EVER suspected that someone would hijack multiple airliners to create a terrorist attack on America. Even if they knew of the one hijacked airplane, or the one that slammed into the WTC, there was probably not a lot of reason to expect anything else. It was viewed at first as an isolated incident.

You have to realize everyone was working in a relatively tiny timespan here. It's easy to second and third guess later what should've been done. But the amount of info they had to process, pass along, receive, it just doesn't seem logical they could've done anything more then they did.

I get so tired of this gibber jabberish constantly going on about the attacks from idiots like this.

 

[inline]

Blame the current Administration they were warned about it..

Thank you Howard Dean. Blame Bush? Your hero, Clinton and his politically correct incompetent regime ignored loads of intel on islamofascist activity. Virtually all the planning for 9/11 happened on Clinton's watch. His regime absolutely gutted the intelligence gathering tools for counter terrorism.

 

[81Horse]

... Our security failed when they set foot beyond the security area at the airport. ...

Our security failed when they first set foot in the US.

 

[Gorilla]

How quickly the public, and idiot pundits like this, forget that prior to 9/11, hijackers wanted a free ride, or money, or asylum, and all training was geared towards cooperation. Simultaneous, multiple hijackings? Not in the lexicon.