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Flashback: The 5th plane to be seized on 9/11, and the terrorists who got away
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Posted on 09/11/2018 5:02:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Have you heard about the airliner which was ordered back to the gate on 9/11 when the terrorist attacks began, only to have four young Arab passengers jump off the plane, after which box cutters and Al Qaeda documents were found in their abandoned bags?

I’ve heard that story before, but since it was never reported by the U.S. government, and not mentioned by the 9/11 Commission in their official report, I thought it might be another of those urban myths. Until now. Yesterday’s Wilmington (Delaware) News-Journal featured a front-page article on the Delaware Air National Guard’s first female general, Carol Timmons, who was promoted to that rank at a ceremony on Saturday. General Timmons has had a long career as a pilot, including time as a commercial pilot for Pan Am and United Airlines. The profile of General Timmons recounts that on the morning of September 11, 2001, she was the first officer on United Airlines flight 23 preparing to take-off from New York’s JFK Airport bound for Los Angeles. The plane had already pulled away from the gate and was taxiing down the runway when the airport was shut down and the crew was ordered to secure the cockpit. Timmons confirmed that as the pilot grabbed the crash ax, she jumped from her seat and started barricading the cockpit door. From the other side of the barricade the cabin crew relayed their concern about four young Arab men in first-class who became agitated when the take-off was cancelled, and fled from the plane when it returned to the terminal. Box cutters and Al Qaeda documents were later found in their luggage. Timmons, the pilot, and the rest of the crew were repeatedly questioned by the FBI, though the findings were never shared. The pilot concluded that Flight 23 would have been the next plane hijacked by terrorists if the airport shutdown order had been delayed.

“The FBI asks questions,” General Timmons is quoted as saying, “They don’t tell you things.”

Why wouldn’t the U.S. government want to report the incident? Why didn’t the 9/11 Commission mention it in their official report? Were they concerned about panicking the public? Were they trying to apprehend the four passengers who fled? Why maintain official silence about the incident a decade later?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Delaware; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 911anniversary; caroltimmons; delaware; fbi; flight23
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

luggage: suitcases OR OTHER BAGS in which to pack personal belongings for traveling.

“Carry ons” are LUGGAGE.

It didn’t say that the box cutters were in “checked” luggage.


41 posted on 09/11/2018 6:38:30 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“The government should have been able to figure out the identities of the Arabs who ran away.”

Arabs are like Mexicans. The have multiple names & documents.


42 posted on 09/11/2018 6:47:11 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

The most likely scenario is the Saudi Arabian government agents in the uS had already phoned up their docs and IDs


43 posted on 09/11/2018 6:48:12 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

The 9-11 hijackers all sat in first class seats and the cattle passengers get patted down for knives, going forward no passenger can carry a blade on a plane but those seated in first class get knives (and forks) courtesy of the airlines


44 posted on 09/11/2018 6:50:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: Tunehead54; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin

Darn it! They missed the Capitol Bldg. (Might have woken up a few democrats. )


45 posted on 09/11/2018 6:53:35 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: TigerClaws

This is simply my story........could it have been a .......’dry run’?

One week before 9/11, I flew from Los Angeles to Chicago
Seated next to me and directly across the aisle were four Middle East men.....the one next to me in his 20’s.....very young......all dressed nicely in civilian clothes.......

The number and proximity seemed a bit odd, but I had no history (yet) to feel ‘spooked’.......but in retrospect, after trying to engage the young man in chit chat and getting dark looks from the others......I scrunched down in my seat and endured the over 4 hour trip uncomfortably.

A week later......and for evermore......I always wondered.

I actually flew back to LA 3 days before 9/11

Was there ever any speculation that Los Angeles was on their list?


46 posted on 09/11/2018 7:21:08 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: rxsid

How is it that it has taken 17 years to learn about a fifth plane?


47 posted on 09/11/2018 7:30:57 PM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: Guenevere

The plane with the Frazier producer was headed to the west coast. Possibly Los Angeles.

Read today that James’s woods saw and reported something similar to what you saw. Middle eastern men together. Not eating. Intense.


48 posted on 09/11/2018 7:44:28 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: null and void

Conspiracy ping!


49 posted on 09/11/2018 8:02:34 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

How long will the Feds keep kissing Moslem ass?


50 posted on 09/11/2018 8:07:44 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: killermosquito

Because President Trump is our President now.


51 posted on 09/11/2018 10:09:57 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: TigerClaws

I remember hearing about a plane “or two” where box cutters and such were found onboard after the passengers disembarked.
Never heard it confirmed though, at least not back then.


52 posted on 09/11/2018 10:17:53 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Robert A Cook PE. I'm pretty sure I'd never heard of this prior to this topic.

53 posted on 09/11/2018 10:20:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“[Washington, DC] is ringed with Air Force bases and Navy bases and the ability to get defensive planes in the air is very, very high, and at the same time you would do what is being done and that is closing off the entire airspace, so that in effect, the whole Washington area is a no-fly zone, so that any planes that can’t identify themselves and get into that are to be shot down.”

— Former US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on DC precautions on 9/11. And yet, AAL77, ostensibly the plane that went into the Pentagon did so over an hour after the first plane went into the World Trade Center. No fighters were flying in the DC area, nor were any ground-based Pentagon defenses put into play.


54 posted on 09/11/2018 10:48:14 PM PDT by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Could be they left them in carry-ons in overhead compartments or under the seats.


55 posted on 09/11/2018 11:13:59 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Guenevere

The planes that attacked the east coast were heading to the west coast. That way they had a lot more fuel on them when they hit so close to where they started.


56 posted on 09/11/2018 11:39:01 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


57 posted on 09/11/2018 11:40:35 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: rx

IIRC, the “defensive” planes that were in the DC area had to be loaded and armed with missiles, etc. The first couple that they got off the ground that were headed to the plane in Pennsylvania weren’t armed. Although the Air Force pilots were ready to ram the airliner if necessary.


58 posted on 09/11/2018 11:42:45 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: rx

You are correct about the Pentagon’s job on 9/11 also, the ONE DAMNED thing the government is in place for is protecting this nation and her people YET it FAILED in every department!!! The government has become such a massive BEAST it doesn’t succeed at much of anything any longer!!!! They seem to have PLENTY OF TIME to text and tweet each other however!!!!


59 posted on 09/12/2018 12:13:30 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: 21twelve

Yes I realize that....
.....but if a plane loaded with fuel to go from LA to Chicago had as its altered destination Los Angeles or San Francisco......it would be the same type of situation.


60 posted on 09/12/2018 2:22:26 AM PDT by Guenevere
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