Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim A “stand down” order was issued which meant that the U.S. Airforce was not to shoot down the hijacked planes0. Background The claim is used together with another claim, namely that then Vice President Dick Cheney allegedly first had ursurped power...
Prelude
Claim CIA ordered visas for 15 of the hijackers0. Background J. Michael Springman is a former employee at the American Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia. During an interview with radio host Alex Jones, he claimed that, despite him refusing to grant 15 of the 19...
Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim “On top of the pile of suspicious things, add the unusually low number of passengers onboard each of the hijacked planes on that morning.”0 Background The claim indicates that it should have been advantageous to the hijackers if the planes carried particularly...
WTC 2 hit
Claim A standard Boeing 767 cannot fly at a velocity of 950 km/h close to sea level without being torn apart.0 Background The claim is based on the assumption that Flight 175, a Boeing 767-222, was not designed to fly as fast as it did, when it hit the World Trade...
Pentagon hit
Claim Flight 77 could not fly fast close to the ground0. Background The claim can be found in several places on the Internet and was also made on the Danish radio station Radio24syv on January 16, 2015, by journalist Tommy Hansen0: “A Boeing 757 was supposed to...
Flight 77 hijacked, Pentagon hit
Claim Flight 77 did a complicated 330 degrees turn before it hit the Pentagon0. Background The claim is used to support the claim that Flight 77 was not flown by one of the hijackers, Hani Hanjour, because the maneuver was supposedly too complicated for an untrained...
Epilogue, Flight 93 crashes, Pentagon hit, WTC 1 hit, WTC 2 hit
Claim “Where did they get the original dna of a bunch of middle-eastern Islamic madmen?”0 Background Radio host Charles Goyette, KFNX Radio, Arizona, stated: “I want to know, even if we presume you’re correct that they recovered the dna of the 19...
Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim Passenger manifests are not evidence of the persons having been on board0. Background Jeppe Severin, representative and spokesperson for the Danish Truth Movement, claims that there is no evidence that Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Hani Hanjour, who the...
Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked, Prelude
Claim Procedures regarding hijacking were made slower0. Background Until June 1, 2001, the procedures for how the U.S. civil aviation authorities should handle hijackings were described in Directive CJCSI 3610.01, from Juli 31, 19971. On June 1, 2001, a new directive...
Flight 11 hijacked
Claim The claim was made by Thomas Nørgaard, physics teacher at Nørre Gymnasium, Copenhagen, on July 26 2017 on 911facts.dk’s Facebook wall:1 Dear 911facts This is a claim I would like you to investigate for me. Thanks. The publically accessible audio file of...
Epilogue, Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim Some of the hijackers were later found to be alive but their names were still listed in the official report0. Background The claim originates from an article on BBC’s website on September 23, 2001. The claim is indirectly used to claim that there...
Epilogue, Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim The 19 “hijackers” were all identified within 72 hours. How is that possible, if there was no prior knowledge of the attack and the 19 persons0? Background If it is impossible to identify the persons in question within the given time frame, it must...
Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim “There are some who maintain that the mythical 9/11 hijackers, although proven to be too incompetent to fly a little Cessna 172, had acquired the impressive skills that enabled them to fly airliners by training in flight simulators.” “…de...
Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim “Ben Sliney is lying, when he claims, at 36 minutes and 45 seconds, that the air defense didn’t work, because “All these agencies didn’t have lines of communication between themselves.” “Ben Sliney lyver når han 36:45 ind i...
Epilogue, Flight 11 hijacked, WTC 1 hit
Claim The passport found in the ruins of the World Trade Center was planted0. Background A passport, belonging to Satam al-Suqami, one of the terrorists on bord Flight 11, was found moments before the World Trade Center 2 (South Tower) collapsed and given to a...
Flight 11 hijacked, Flight 175 hijacked, Flight 77 hijacked, Flight 93 hijacked
Claim “United Airways pilot Buck Rogers lies, when he at 13:00 claims that “Before 9/11 they flew with the cockpit doors open””0. Background The claim is made on 911facts.dk’s Facebook debate page0 by Thomas Nørgaard, high school teacher...