On 9/11, Three Commercial Airliners Flying Over the Atlantic Were Sending Out Distress Signals

From USA Today, Dec. 8, 2002.

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Officials at Cleveland Center rush word to Washington: Hijackers have another flight.

At the Federal Aviation Administration's command center in Herndon, Va., Delta Flight 1989 joins a growing list of suspicious jets. Some of their flight numbers will be scrawled on a white dry-erase board throughout the morning. Eventually, the list will grow to 11.

One, a TWA flight, refuses to land in Pittsburgh and wants to fly on toward Washington. Another, a Midwest Express flight, disappears from radar over West Virginia. And three jets over the Atlantic Ocean are sending out distress signals, the Coast Guard reports.

Top managers at the FAA's command center fear the worst: Jets all over the country — including some over the oceans — are being hijacked. One after another. (snip)

(Italics and bold added)

So what the hell ever happened to these jets? Were they real hijacked planes? Did they go down over the Atlantic?

Very bizarre.

The whole article is worth a read, but this section I snipped out really sets off alarm bells.