In retrospect, it seems now
blindingly obvious. Of course there must have been picocells installed. That's the only way to make cell phone calls work on an in-flight aircraft. The wonder is that it took as long as it did for someone, Robert Wagner in this case, to figure it out.
Remember how it used to go back in the heady days of 2003-2003-2004: the cell phone calls were "impossible", therefore they could not have happened, they must have been faked, or the flights must not have existed yada yada yada? Remember when Professor Dewdney hired a plane in Canada for test flights to actually see if a cell phone would work at 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 feet? Of course, it didn't. That whole cell phone thing threw us all off course for more than a decade. It's time to rewind.
Picocells. That's the only way to make a cell phone call from a plane. Ok, fair enough, the technology was not in the public domain back then in 2001 for picocells in aircraft. But now we know it, we can plug this result back into all of the other evidence that has been built up, and, I suggest, make some significant breakthroughs.
Because the key point is this: someone had to have installed those picocells in the planes. Who? And why?
I admit that I was also trying too hard to make the cell phone story fit the narrative of flight 11 not existing on 9/11, like the famous NTSB data which shows that the wheels did not move. And then there was the whole business of the empty plane at the gate. So, I got a bit ahead of myself and assumed that this picocell business, though I didn't fully understand it, must have been set up in some secret room at Logan Airport. But I was wrong, and this can be proven now.
Congratulations to new forum member
Ruby Gray who also figured this bit out: the cell phone electronic records which were released show a bunch of different ground station ID's from the different calls, and even from the same calls at different times. This definitively rules out the possibility that the calls could have been made from a fixed location. (I hear people already saying, maybe the electronic records were faked, which point I will address in a moment).
Ruby Gray tracked down the location of the Ground Station ID's from the records for flight 77 from hand-written notes helpfully left on the cell phone record receipts by the FBI. You can read about this in the first Fog thread on
this page.
But in the case of the flight 11 Ground Station IDs, there are no such handwritten notes. So, unfortunately it is not possible to work out which geographic locations these correspond to. I have searched high and low on the internet in vain for a list of these Ground Station ID's because obviously it would be extremely valuable information. What do you know, it doesn't appear to be anywhere available. Perhaps, do you suppose, it has been scrubbed? Whatever, it's not available.
So this means we cannot track the ground station locations that the flight 11 phone calls were routed through. That would potentially be very interesting as it might show if the flight went off-route, or was diverted. It would be tricky, as there are satellites involved also so it's hard to be sure of the relationship between plane and satellite and ground station, but it doesn't matter. We don't have the ID's so we can't go down that route.
What we can say for sure is that the calls were made from a moving location, as the Ground Station IDs change, which rules out my half-baked theory in the first part of this thread. The calls were not made from Logan Airport. This opens back up the issue of the NTSB data and the empty plane, but that's ok. I'm tracking the phone calls wherever they lead and let the chips fall where they may. (For completeness, it's still possible I suppose that they disembarked everyone after the doors closed and put people on other flights, or something, leaving the empty plane at Gate 32. I don't know. But whatever: those flight 11 calls were made from a moving, flying location, so it may as well have been "flight 11". Let's not get bogged down on this point for now....The calls weren't made from a room at Logan Airport is the point.)
So before we move on: could the electronic records have been faked? Well. Sure. Anything can be faked. But they weren't. If they had been, they would have taken care to get the phone numbers sorted out so that it didn't reveal the existence of the picocell plugged into external port 4 on the Claircom box. Perhaps someone screwed up? Look: if you want to go down that route, then absolutely every piece of evidence could been faked, so where do you stop. Does New York even exist? You tell me it does, maybe you're lying how do I know? See what I mean. If everything is faked then we can know nothing. So basically if you think the cell phone records were faked, best to just stop reading. For the rest of us, let's keep going. The cell phone records were released, and were real, and tell a fascinating story.
So now let's move forward and look at what this new information does to the narrative which has been uncovered in part I of this thread. Let's discuss who could have installed those picocells in the comms compartment of the various aircraft. Who would have had access? Who could have planned this and got the necessary clearances? Who would have had to be in-the-loop?
Then let's look at the other implications of the picocells. How would the flight crews have known that cell phone use was possible? And why did they even bother to go to the trouble of installing these picocells anyway?
And we also need to have a look at the Israeli connection too.....
So plenty still to work through....
Quote:
"Did I assume she was on a cell phone, is that correct?"
- AA head of security Larry Wansley in phone conversation 9/12/01 with reservations supervisor Lydia Gonzalez, who had talked to Betty Ong on AA 11.
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