Was Flight 93 Shot Down?
September 18, 2004
After spending a week in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 went
down, I can say that most people there believe it was. It should be noted that
this rural part of southwestern Pennsylvania is a Republican stronghold. The
truth behind what happened to United Airlines Flight 93 is not a partisan issue;
it's a matter of finding the truth.
It is clear that the laws of physics do not apply to the official version of
events from 9-11. I've seen that before, for example in the final report of the
"Estonia" catastrophe which took the lives of 852 people in September 1994 and
in the TWA Flight 800, which certainly appears to have been shot down. If
Flight 93 was shot down, it would explain why one wing and engine were found
more than a mile away and how 6 trash bags full of mail were found in Indian
Lake, more than a mile from the crash site. This would also explain why the
plane was flying upside-down, or very close to that.
Eyewitnesses told me that they heard the plane gun its engines three times, as
if trying to regain altitude. With one wing missing, however, that effort was
doomed to fail. This would also explain why the U.S. government was so quick to
call the 40 passengers on this plane heroes. Perhaps a better word is martyrs;
martyred by the state and its corrupt military. And lastly, this could explain
why the smoke cloud from the crash site was so small and short-lived. Plane
crashes are usually attended by huge fuel fires with huge clouds of black smoke
pouring into the sky.
Eyewitnesses to the "crash" of Flight 93 report having heard a massive explosion
- not a crash of a plane into the soft reclaimed soil of a former strip mine.
Nena Lensbouer, who had prepared lunch for the workers at the scrap yard
overlooking the crash site, was the first person to go up to the smoking
crater. Lensbouer told me that the hole was five to six feet deep and smaller
than the 24-foot trailer in her front yard. She described hearing "an explosion,
like an atomic bomb -- not a crash," she said.
A photograph taken after the crash shows what more closely resembles the smoke
cloud from a 500-pound bomb than it does a plane crashing with two-thirds of its
fuel still on board.
The ground liquefied, according to the official explanation, and the plane and
its contents "buried itself" into the soft ground, but it left this
explosive-like smoke cloud. "It [the ground] liquefied," Bob Leverknight, an
active member of the Air National Guard and correspondent with Somerset's Daily
American, told me about how the wreck and much of the fuel supposedly
disappeared. One of the plane's massive engines, Leverknight said, however,
bounced off the ground and was found in the woods. Asked what had caused the
smoke cloud seen in Val McClatchey's photo, Leverknight said, "Dirt,
combustibles, and the trees." This answer seems baffling.
Eyewitnesses report hearing a huge explosion, having seen a huge mushroom cloud
of flame, and the smoke cloud that resulted from that explosion resembles a bomb
blast more than it does the crash of a plane loaded with jet fuel.
Susan Mcelwain, an eyewitness who saw a military plane over Shanksville before
the "crash", spoke to Richard Wallace of The Mirror (UK), whose article from
2002 provides interesting information not reported in the U.S. media:
The unmarked military-style jet swooped down at high speed through the valley,
twice circled the smouldering black scar where Flight 93 had careered into the
ground just seconds earlier and then hurtled off over the horizon.
At least six eyewitnesses saw the mysterious aircraft on the morning of
September 11 last year. But the U.S. authorities deny it ever existed.
What was the white jet doing there and why won't they admit to its presence? Why
did other witnesses see smoke and flames trailing from Flight 93 as it fell from
the sky, indicating a possible explosion aboard?
Susan Mcelwain, 51, who lives two miles from the site, knows what she saw - the
white plane rocketed directly over her head.
"It came right over me, I reckon just 40 or 50 ft. above my mini-van," she
recalled. "It was so low I ducked instinctively. It was travelling real fast,
but hardly made any sound.
"Then it disappeared behind some trees. A few seconds later I heard this great
explosion and saw this fireball rise up over the trees, so I figured the jet had
crashed. The ground really shook. So I dialled 911 and told them what happened.
"I'd heard nothing about the other attacks and it was only when I got home and
saw the TV that I realised it wasn't the white jet, but Flight 93.
I didn't think much more about it until the authorities started to say there had
been no other plane. The plane I saw was heading right to the point where Flight
93 crashed and must have been there at the very moment it came down.
"There's no way I imagined this plane - it was so low it was virtually on top of
me. It was white with no markings but it was definitely military, it just had
that look.
"It had two rear engines, a big fin on the back like a spoiler on the back of a
car and with two upright fins at the side. I haven't found one like it on the
internet. It definitely wasn't one of those executive jets. The FBI came and
talked to me and said there was no plane around.
"Then they changed their story and tried to say it was a plane taking pictures
of the crash 3,000 ft up.
"But I saw it and it was there before the crash and it was 40ft above my head.
They did not want my story - nobody here did."
As the Mirror also reported: "Light debris was also found eight miles away in
New Baltimore. A section of engine weighing a ton was located 2,000 yards - over
a mile - from the crash site. Theorists point out a Sidewinder heat-seeking
missile attacks the hottest part of aircraft - the engine.
"The authorities say the impact bounced it there. But the few pieces of
surviving fuselage, local coroner Wallace Miller told us, were "no bigger than a
carrier bag".
"Nearly all the passengers were reduced to charcoal on impact and the largest
piece of human tissue found was a section of spine eight inches long," Richard
Wallace reported from what Wallace Miller said. How were the passengers
"reduced to charcoal on impact?"
One of the local residents told me that his biggest question is: "How did 6 bags
of mail wind up in Indian Lake, a mile from the crash site?" The wing and
engine found more than a mile from the crash site and the mail found at Indian
Lake suggest that the plane was shot down, while eyewitness testimony and
evidence from the crash site suggest explosives accompanied the crash.