Aidan Monaghan
A Freedom of
Information Act request of the Federal Aviation Administration,
seeking the last known serial number data of aircraft
components contained by the aircraft used to carry out
the 9/11 attacks, that are known to have been collected
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Transportation
Safety Board from all 3 9/11 plane crash scenes, has been
denied.
Refusal to
release this footnote data (that is crucial to confirming
the U.S. government's positions regarding the federal
registry identifications of the civil aircraft used during
the 9/11 attacks) was not per any established FAA information
request exemptions, normally cited by federal agencies
that deny FOIA requests:
http://www.faa.gov/foia/media/exemptions.pdf
The FAA along
with the FBI, have now declared that 9/11 aircraft component
serial number data that would confirm the publically known
opinions regarding the 9/11 planes, provided by the FAA,
FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board, is exempt
from public disclosure.
The FBI's refusal
to release the serial number data contained by aircraft
components collected from the 9/11 plane crash scenes
has resulted in a civil lawsuit filed in federal court,
seeking to obtain this information:
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd121/88Badmachine88/FOIACourtCase.jp...
Per U.S. Code
of Federal Regulations, all federally registered civil
aircraft are to contain uniquely numbered components:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=db393b5df37bdcf...
The cited 11/26/2007
FAA FOIA request specifically requested the following:
"That which
reveals or indicates the unique identifying information
(i.e.: serial numbers, etc.), of the Flight Data Recorders
(FDR's) and Cockpit Voice Recorders (CVR's) that were
last contained within the following deregistered aircraft,
used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/6392/faacvrfdrserialnumbersha1.jpg
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/2224/foiafaafdrcvrke8.jpg
The cited 12/4/2007
FAA FOIA request specifically requested the following:
"Documentation
that reveals any unique identifying information (serial
numbers, etc.), of the engines, landing gear or other
components that may be deemed relevant."
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3073/foiafaaserialnumbers113ds5.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9117/foiafaaplanedatatg2.jpg
The federal
government has released an abundance of data regarding
the planes used to carry out the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks:
- All airline
flight numbers.
- All alleged FAA aircraft registry data.
- All air traffic control audio recordings between ATC
and said flights.
- Aircraft flight path study data for 3 of the 4 said
flights that day.
- Aircraft departure times and departure locations.
- Crash times.
- Total numbers and identities of passengers who perished.
- The alleged identities of those accused of hijacking
each aircraft.
However, the
FBI and now the FAA, has refused to reveal aircraft component
serial number data in their possessions, that would confirm
the alleged federal registry identifications of the commercial
civil aircraft said to have been used to carry out the
9/11 attacks.
By document
labeled "Remarks of Carol Carmody Vice-Chairman, National
Transportation Safety Board Leadership in Times of Crisis
Seminar", it is indicated that the director of the FBI
requested that the NTSB "help identify aircraft parts"
belonging to the said aircraft.
http://www.ntsb.gov/speeches/carmody/cc020227.htm
By document
labeled "Testimony of Marion C. Blakey, Chairman National
Transportation Safety Board before the Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation United States Senate", it is
indicated that the NTSB assisted the FBI with the process
of "aircraft parts identification" regarding the said
aircraft.
http://www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/blakey/mcb020625.htm
A 12/16/2007
public correspondence e-mail inquiry of the NTSB posed
the following question:
"Will the NTSB
refer to recovered aircraft component serial number data,
to determine the positive ID of an aircraft following
a mishap, in the absence of other identifying data?"
The following
e-mail response was provided by a Susan Stevenson of the
NTSB on 12/26/2007:
"Yes. NTSB
investigators rarely encounter a scenario when the identification
of an accident aircraft is not apparent. But during those
occasions, investigators will record serial numbers of
major components, and then contact the manufacturer of
those components in an attempt to determine what aircraft
the component was installed upon."
The above cited
method of identification was apparently required to obtain
the positive identifications of American Airlines flight
11 and United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into
the World Trade Center towers.
By FAA documents
identified as "Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events",
pages 4 and 13, it is indicated that American Airlines
flight 11 (N334AA) and United Airlines flight 175 (N612UA)
were not transmitting proper transponder identification
data at the time of their respective destructions and
that therefore, proper aircraft identification cannot
have been obtained from this absent or erroneous data.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB165/faa7.pdf
By documents
labeled "NOTES TO CHAPTER 1", page 456, of the "Final
Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Upon the United States" (2004), it is indicated that "the
CVRs and FDRs from American 11 and United 175 were not
found" and that therefore, proper aircraft identification
cannot have been obtained from this absent data.
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report_Notes.htm
