Humint Events Online: 9/11 Timeline with Some Interesting Details

Thursday, February 17, 2005

9/11 Timeline with Some Interesting Details

Here.

Has a bunch of details about 9/11 advance warnings, WTC building 7, United flight 23 as well as a Korean Air flight that was sending a hijack signal for 90 minutes.

I'm curious what the original departure time for flight 23 was (it was supposed to leave from Newark). It says in this timeline that four Arab men got very agitated and demanded the flight leave when the flight didn't take off at 8:45am. If the flight was originally scheduled for 8:45am, then it was leaving much later than anyone of the 9/11 flights except for flight 93 (which also was leaving from Newark), which was delayed 45 minutes and didn't leave until 8:45am or so. There could have been a substantial delay at Newark, I suppose.

What is odd is the 8:45am departure time for flight 23 completely is at odds with this story, where the United flight controller Ed Ballinger specifically grounds flight 23 long after flight 93 has taken off-- which must have been well after 9:00am.

A 8:45am departure makes more sense for the flight being another 9/11 attack plane, but Ballinger's story suggests the flight was supposed to take off much later and doesn't mention Arabs wanting the plane to take off. I don't know how to reconcile these two accounts.

Actually, reading it again, the Ballinger story doesn't make sense since the article is talking about Flight 11 hitting the WTC and Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon BEFORE Ballinger realizes flight 175 is lost. So the Ballinger timeline is way off. Perhaps Ballinger got very confused on that day or the story is just wrong, I don't know.

The main question is-- if United flight 23 was supposed to be a fifth hijacked 9/11 plane, when was it supposed to take off? Why was it so delayed?

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