Article by Gail Sheehy, New York Observer2/26/04:
"Melody Homer is another young widow of a 9/11 pilot. Her husband, LeRoy Homer, a muscular former Air Force pilot, was the first officer of United's Flight 93. The story put out by United-of heroic passengers invading the cockpit and struggling with the terrorists-is not believable to Melody Homer or to Sandy Dahl, widow of the plane's captain, Jason Dahl. Mrs. Dahl was a working flight attendant with United and knew the configuration of that 757 like the back of her hand.
"We can't imagine that passengers were able to get a cart out of its locked berth and push it down the single aisle and jam it into the cockpit with four strong, violent men behind the door," said Ms. Homer. She believes that the victims' family members who broke a confidentiality agreement and gave their interpretation of sounds they'd heard on the cockpit tape misinterpreted the shattering of china. "When a plane goes erratic, china falls." http://www.observer.com/node/48805
Interview with Wolf Blitzer, CNN 8/8/03:
Wolf Blitzer: A new report suggests a hijacker may have deliberately crashed United Flight 93 into a Pennsylvania field the morning of September 11, 2001. Officials say an FBI analysis of the cockpit voice recorder indicates the hijackers were trying to end a passenger uprising. Earlier speculation was that the passengers stormed the cockpit and crashed the plane themselves.
I'm joined now by Sandy Dahl. She's the widow of Flight 93's captain, Jason Dahl. She listened to the actual voice recorder.
Sandy, thanks very much for joining us. Welcome.
What you to make of the new information the FBI is putting out?
Sandy Dahl: I don't understand it, Mr. Blitzer.
I heard the tape. I listened to it twice, listened to the transcripts. I didn't hear anything that indicated to me the hijackers were intending to crash the airplane.
Wolf Blitzer: What they're suggesting, that a -- sort of an enhanced audio of that cockpit voice recording suggests that perhaps one of the hijackers ordered the hijacking pilot who managed to get into the cockpit to go ahead and crash the plane, as there was a disturbance among the passengers in the back. You've actually heard, though, the discussion, the cockpit voice recorder. And what did it say deliberately, clearly, to you?
Sandy Dahl: There was no discussion of crashing it right now. They talked about ending their mission earlier.
And they -- and they decided not to do that. So I don't think -- I don't think it was deliberate and it certainly wasn't planned.
Wolf Blitzer: One of the suggestions they've suggested, at least some of the experts who heard the cockpit voice recording, was that, in the Arabic, that there may have been a different translation, there may have been a more precise explanation of what was going on that than in the translation or in the English, whatever you may have heard in English. Is that possible?
Sandy Dahl: I heard the translation that the FBI gave us that day.
And I wanted to say, I would really love for the government to come out and marry the flight data record with the voice recorder. And we would have a very clear picture of what went on. I'm kind of disappointed in reading this report.
(CROSSTALK)
Wolf Blitzer: Well, tell us why, Sandy, you are disappointed, because there clearly was resistance aboard the plane, the United flight. The passengers clearly took the matter into their own hands, even if the final order to crash the plane came from the hijackers, as opposed to the passengers, who decided to save, let's say, Washington, D.C., the White House or the Capitol, knowing what happened at the World Trade Center.
Sandy Dahl: I'm disappointed at the FBI report, because I heard something other than what they reported. And I don't understand how they came up with it.
For instance, they talk about passengers indicated that the pilots were dead and laying in the first-class section. I heard evidence to the contrary on this tape. And I don't understand why they would report that.
Wolf Blitzer: Tell us exactly what you heard.
Sandy Dahl: Oh, I can't do that. I have signed papers with the FBI saying that I wouldn't.
I am still confused. Do you believe that flight 93 landed? or do you believe it was shot down? If you believe it was shot down then why are you advertising this picture?
saying that it landed directly contradicts that it has been shot down. Where did you get this picture anyway? it’s not genuine because the plane was delayed. This contradicts the picture where it said departure (on time) in small green text
“The plane left the gate just one minute late, at 8:01 am, and ordinarily would have taken off about 15 minutes after pulling away from the gate. However, take-off was delayed because of the airport's typically heavy morning traffic. When Flight 93 left the ground at 8:42, the flight was running more than 25 minutes late” Sources and Detailed Information - Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
in fact that picture looks like an amateurish attempt to mimic other sites like flightaware
“Where is the body part map? Normal everyone gets GPS position. See the map below!”
did they have body part map for flight 77?
what is wrong with the crater? why would the trail be destroyed, when it was not impacted by anything? The trail is flat too. what do you think had caused the crater? explosives? why didn’t the explosives destroy the path then? The path condition is totally irrelevant. I am surprised that an intellectual person like yourself would bring up the trail.
lastly the Sandy Dahl: comment. I think it’s disingenuous not to include the full quote.
(Sandy Dahl) “just wish that they would come out and tell the truth, the FBI, with the evidence they know. I'm not saying that they're deliberately trying to he deceive.. I would just like the evidence out, so that people can know what really happened. It is kind of a folktale at this point. There was a riot of passengers and crew at the end. And they did crash into the cockpit.”
please be more honest with your sources in the future
Lets talk about what Sandy Dahl heard on the cvr black box
"For instance, they talk about passengers indicating that the pilots were dead and laying in the "first-class section. I heard evidence to the contrary on this tape. And I don't understand why they would report that." Sandy Dahl
If Sandy is saying the original flight 93 Pilots were in control then they were the ones who typed D-C-A into the flight control management system causing the radar data block to update and also caused the electronic domino effect on 9/11 which leads to the "Landing" issue on FlightAware system and the results are frozen is a JPG image. I not sure if those updates are confirmed by other means or if it assumed to have “landing or going to land” based on the Flight Plan adjustment during the flight 93 flight.
“However, take-off was delayed because of the airport's typically heavy morning traffic.”
This was an updated ticket after takeoff on 9/11, so this information is being made while the flight is in the air on 9/11 and is relative to AFTER take-off, wheel-up. So they can say “on time” because the plane is in the air at 8:43 therefore “on-time”. The shoot down happened soon after this update, but no one sees a shoot down. We have people talking about Stand Down Orders, but no visual evidence as of yet.
“did they have body part map for flight 77?” YES!!!!
“ why would the trail be destroyed” What? When it was not impacted by anything? Dead center of the area of impact is the footpath. If something impacted this area the footpath should be gone too.