Hier noch weitere Berichte über "Gate 26", von den Tagen direkt nach 9/11 bis zum 1. Jahrestag:
The American flight left from Gate 26 in Terminal B, and the United flight from Gate 19 in Terminal C. One airport employee said nothing unusual was apparent when the American flight left, and airline workers learned almost simultaneously that there had been explosions at the World Trade Center and that air traffic control had lost contact with the American flight.
www.boston.com/news/packages/und ... gan+.shtml
American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, took off from Gate 26 in Terminal B at 7:59 a.m., carrying 92 passengers and crew members. That jet is believed to have been hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center shortly before 9 a.m.
www.boston.com/news/packages/und ... ope+.shtml
American Airlines Flight 11 had backed away from Gate 26 of Terminal B at Boston's Logan Airport and was rolling toward the runway for a six-hour flight to Los Angeles.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... -2001Sep15
By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff, 9/12/2002
Sylvio Amorino, just off a flight yesterday morning, simply stood there in front of Gate 26, Terminal B, Logan Airport. It was 7:55 a.m. The 70-year-old realized that, one year ago, American Airlines Flight 11 had idled here.
www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anni...es/091202_solemn.htm
Wenn nun aber, und dafür gibt es Zeugenaussagen, einige AA11 Passagiere wirklich nach 07:45 Uhr an Gate 26 geboarded haben,
muss dies eine andere, spätere Maschine gewesen sein, denn der pünktliche Push-Back von AA11 von Gate 32 ist belegt.
Einen möglichen Kandidaten haben wir hier:
By Ben Fenton in Washington
Published: 12:01AM BST 19 Sep 2001
THE FBI believes that a fifth hijack team could have been aboard an American Airlines jet that failed to take off from Boston on Sept 11 because of
mechanical problems, it emerged yesterday.
Meanwhile, evidence came to light that the FBI should have known that there was a possible threat to airlines at least three weeks before the attacks.
The flight under investigation now,
AA43 from Boston to Los Angeles, was almost identical to another, Flight AA11, which took off from Boston
to the same destination at 7.59am, 11 minutes earlier than the scheduled departure time of the aircraft that was cancelled.
The cancellation of AA43, for undisclosed mechanical reasons, may have prevented another hijack atrocity, the FBI believes, although it does not know the intended target.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...flight-says-FBI.html
AA43 sollte also um 08:10 Uhr starten, 11 Minuten nach AA11, blieb dann aber wegen "mechanischer Probleme" am Boden.
Tatsächlich
ist AA43 laut BTS-Datenbank um 08:10 gestartet... nämlich
planmäßig in
Newark, nicht Boston.
Quelle hierzu:
demopedia.democraticunderground.com/disc...all&address=125x6293
Die Implikationen aus diesem "falschen Flug" möge sich jeder selbst zusammenreimen.