How Could the Flight 93 Phone Calls Been Faked?

My assumption is that flight 93 was a fake hijack, part of a hijacking drill. There are a few reason for thinking, the main reason is that it makes sense with the oddness of the phone calls and the fact that there was a live-fly hijacking drill being run by NORAD on 9/11.

I think the real passengers were making the calls. The Airphone calls may have been from a plane in the air, but the cell phone calls may have been made separately, by people on the ground.

The big question, I think, is if flight 93 was a fake hijacking, why weren't the people alarmed when they called their loved ones and heard of the WTC attacks?

This has been a puzzle to me. But I think I finally realized the answer.

These people were on a "terror preparedness" drill. They were supposed to figure out the best way to respond to a hijacking situation. They were supposed to problem-solve. And that is how they came up with the passenger revolt plan.

In terms of the calls, then, I think the flight 93 passengers (as were the passengers on flights 175, 11 and 77) were told to call their friends, loved ones and emergency personnel-- and that the "terror drill" organizers told the passengers that the people they called had been pre-briefed and were working from a script. The "callees" would then provide information to the passengers about terror attacks (such as the WTC attacks), which would help the passengers decide what to do. However, the people the passengers called were never briefed or given scripts-- they were just telling the passengers the news that they heard of the 9/11 attacks.

With this in mind, the calls make more sense.

There are still a number of discrepencies in the calls about how the hijacking was occurring, when the passenger revolt was starting and so forth. (I will do a big post in the near future outlining all the contradictions in the flight 93 calls.)

The discrepencies may be because there were no real hijackers in the "terror drill", and they were simply told to make up details about the hijackers. Another possibility is that there were two different "terror drills" run with the flight 93 passengers, each with different fake hijackers, and each drill used a separate group of the flight 93 passengers.

The remark by Tom Burnett, that he heard the hiajckers crashing the plane into the ground, may have been one hijack outcome that was discussed by the "terror drill" organizer. Much like on flight 175, one passenger called his dad and said he thought the hijackers might crash the plane into a building.