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9/11: New Evidence Reveals Half Of Pilots Were Only Assigned Flights At The Last Minute

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 5:16
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Thomas McGuinness, the Co-Pilot of Flight 11


Thomas McGuinness, the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 before it became the first plane to be hijacked in the 9/11 attacks, only assigned himself to be on the flight the afternoon before September 11, 2001, and pushed from it the original co-pilot, who had put his name down for the flight less than half an hour earlier. This new information means that, curiously, half of the pilots and co-pilots originally at the controls of the four aircraft involved in the attacks are now known to have been assigned to the doomed flights at the last minute, very shortly before September 11. Additionally, more than half of the flight attendants and many of the passengers are known to have, similarly, not originally been booked onto those flights.

The details of McGuinness's late assignment to Flight 11 were revealed recently by Steve Scheibner, who was originally going to be the plane's co-pilot. In a short film released on the Internet just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Scheibner described how McGuinness came to replace him on Flight 11 and thereby saved his life.

FLIGHT 11 HAD 'NO PILOT ASSIGNED TO IT YET'
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Scheibner was a fundamentalist Baptist pastor and a commander in the Naval Reserves, but he also worked part-time as an on-call pilot for American Airlines. [1] He had been available to fly on September 11. "So at about three o'clock in the afternoon of September 10," Scheibner recalled, "I sat down at the computer and I logged in like I normally do, to check to see if there was any unassigned flying for the next day. And sure enough there was one trip that was available on September 11. It was American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles." Scheibner looked at the flight and could see that "there was no pilot assigned to it yet."

Scheibner checked if there were any reserve pilots available to take the flight. But, he said, "It just so happened [that] on September 11, 2001, there was only one guy available to go flying on that day and that was me." He therefore put his name down for Flight 11. He told his wife he would be flying the following day and packed his bags ready for the trip.

Once a particular pilot signed up for a flight, as Scheibner had done, there would follow a "30-minute window of opportunity" during which, if another pilot wanted to take their place, it would be possible for that pilot to push them from the flight. But at the end of that 30-minute period, Scheibner said, the "final assignment" of the pilot to the flight would be made when someone from American Airlines called them and said, "Hey, we wanna let you know you've been assigned a trip." "Once you have that phone conversation," Scheibner said, "even if a line pilot wants to, they can't bump you off that trip." However, on September 10, Scheibner recalled, "I waited for the phone call and the phone never rang." Later on, during the evening, Scheibner had concluded, "You know, they never assigned that trip to me."

ORIGINAL CO-PILOT PUSHED FROM FLIGHT 11
What happened, according to Scheibner, was that in the minutes after he signed up for Flight 11, Thomas McGuinness pushed him from the flight. McGuinness was one of American Airlines' "line holding pilots" who was a "little bit senior" to Scheibner. Scheibner said that, unknown to him, at "about three o'clock in the afternoon" of September 10, McGuinness "went over to the computer and he logged in, and he looked and he saw that [Flight 11] was open, but my name had been penciled in." Since McGuinness was "still in that 30-minute window of opportunity," he called American Airlines and asked: "Am I legal to take this trip? In other words, can I bump Scheibner off that trip?" American Airlines replied, "Yep, you're legal for that trip, but you gotta give us a call back in the next 20 minutes, or else we're gonna finalize the assignment."

Having decided to take the flight, McGuinness called the airline again and said, "Yeah, I'll take that trip." At that moment, Scheibner said, American Airlines "erased my name off the trip [and] they assigned it to Tom [McGuinness]." As a result, McGuinness was the co-pilot of Flight 11 when it took off from Boston the following morning and became a victim of the 9/11 attacks, while Scheibner's life was spared. [2]

For one pilot to take another's place, as McGuinness did, is a rare event. Scheibner recently noted, "I can count three times in 20 years at American Airlines that I've been bumped from a trip the night before." [3]

On September 11, although Scheibner knew about the terrorist attacks, it did not initially click that one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center had been the flight he'd signed up for the day before. He only realized this fact that evening. He had been thinking, "I wonder who was on that flight?" and so went on his computer and logged in with American Airlines. He recalled: "I logged in and when the screen came up in front of me, it looked exactly like it did the day before when it had that trip and it had my name penciled in. Except this time it had this trip sequence, my name wasn't there, and it said these three words: 'Sequence. Failed. Continuity.'" These words are the code the airline uses to say, "The trip never made it to its destination." [4

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  • Anonymous

    it was a total scam!

  • 9/11 could only have been planned and executed by the U.S with many different agencies linking up, Clinton put all the plans in place Bush had to accept it, it was almost 7 years of planning by the U.S military and Intelligence sector, with a whole section assigned to the operation, it they were called “Cyclops” the name was given as it was stated that they would have to look at every stage of this complicated operation and make sure no evidence survived. Their main aim was to take out major investigations looking into misappropriated money, 2.2 trillion $ missing from the Pentagon and other areas, the investigation was nearing its end, when over 5 years of evidence was wiped out in the 9/11 false flag operation, including killing many of the personel involved in the audit at the Pentagon. The WTC’s only had to have explosives in the top 4 floors for the kinetic energy to collapse the buildings, something that to my knowledge has never come up? building 7 housed the FBI investigations files and evidence into military fraud on a massive scale at the Pentagon, that was confirmed when 4 Generals and other high ranking personel were quickly retired or kicked out after 9/11, to stop any further investigations, many of those are now dead. Councillor Carl Clark, Thetford, U.K

  • Interesting that Cyclops is a one-eyed monster, which features in all the illuminati’s operations, from dollar bills to Lady Gaga. Even Madonna’s denim jacket in Desperately Seeking Susan.
    But I don’t wear the idea that the collapse of the top 4 floors of the TTs could bring the rest down. It is not possible. Most of the debris spread outwards, anyway, (you may have noticed!),so there could have been no major downward kinetic energy. Also, given that there was little if any seismic record of the Towers hitting the ground, it seems very clear that something else was going on that day. Vehicles were left curiously but only partially deformed at least a mile away. Dr. Judy Wood is the only person who is on the right lines.
    I am interested to hear that the dyed-in-the-wool Skull-and- Bones-man GWB “had to accept” the plan. Please! He comes from a long line of criminals, some of whom financed the rise of the Nazis, and thus the so-called holocaust. ( I put the word with a small “h” as there was a real holocaust 25 years earlier in revolutionary Russia, when 50 million, Christians mostly, were brutally and sadistically butchered by the Ashkenazi revolutionary leaders, funded out of NYC again.)
    There may well have been an investigation into missing cash from the defence budget, but even BIN posters will realise that black budgets are indispensable to the US military; no-one is going to bother too much about cash going missing. It is simply sent over to Area 51 or similar. We all know that.

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