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...were once again aloft, some of them anyway, even as the airlines announced they were canceling 20% of their scheduled flights and laying off workers by the tens of thousands. Consigned to history are the luxuries of curbside check-in, e-tickets and the right to carry a corkscrew onboard. Peter Hannaford, a passenger aboard United Flight 564 from Denver, wrote in the Washington Times about the pilot's remarks that day: "I want to thank you brave folks for coming out today," the pilot said. "We don't have any new instructions from the Federal Government, so from...
...great deal about airline schedules, aircraft capabilities and fuel loads, perhaps even seat configurations. The car was found there again Tuesday night, containing a "ramp pass" to enter restricted areas of Logan Airport. Maybe that someone was reconnoitering with accomplices who worked on the planes, who could plant weapons onboard. Monday night, some of the Boston suicide squads collected at the Park Inn in suburban Chestnut Hill. By Wednesday dozens of police in bulletproof vests descended on Room 432 to collect and remove evidence...
...karate and flight manuals investigators would later discover. Two teams of five rendezvoused at Boston's Logan, a third group of four at Newark and the last five men at Dulles, with their knives and their box cutters either stashed in their shoulder bags or perhaps already concealed onboard. Wail Alshehri, Waleed Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami boarded American Airlines 11 and drove it square into the World Trade north tower at 8:45 a.m. A few minutes later, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi departed on United Airlines...
Bavis was a passenger onboard United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, which was hijacked Tuesday morning and steered into the second World Trade Center tower...
...very, very different in these rooms from Cleveland to Washington to Boston. Instead of the normal 'data blocks', controllers were virtually blind in trying to track at least one of the planes, and perhaps as many as all four. One or more had 'lost' their transponders: the onboard cockpit device that sends the plane's critical information to the ATC system. Or more worrying, someone had known enough to turn them off. "Those planes were essentially invisible," says one veteran controller. "A controller tracking that plane would not be sure of where it actually...