Flight 93 headlines Post Gazette/Cell phone usage on September 11, 2001

http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/93index9.asp
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO408B.html

http://www.wanttoknow.info/911cellphonecalls
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New cell phone technology allows call from flights?

What about all those 9/11 calls?

"Once you get to a certain height, you are no longer in the range of the cellular network, because cell phone towers aren't built to project their signals that high."

Washington Post, 12/9/04

"Today's vote by the FCC is intended to address whether technology has improved to the extent that cell phone calls now are possible above 10,000 feet -- they weren't in the past."

San Francisco Chronicle, 12/15/04

Cell Phones In Flight Considered

FCC Examining Loosening Ban

Bloomberg News
Thursday, December 9, 2004; Page E06

The Federal Communications Commission is considering loosening a ban on using cell phones in airplanes.
FCC officials will discuss at a meeting Wednesday changes to rules that bar people from using wireless devices while flying, spokeswoman Lauren Patrich said yesterday. "Relaxing or replacing" the rules are among possible outcomes, and the prohibition may be scrapped altogether, she said.

Can you hear me on a 747?

FCC set to consider in-flight cell phones

David Lazarus

San Francisco Chronicle December 15, 2004 04:00 AM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Air travel, already a less-than-pleasant experience, soon may become a whole lot worse.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected today to begin a process to relax the agency's ban on the use of cell phones aboard aircraft.
If the FCC determines that technological issues can be adequately addressed, and if a separate study by the Federal Aviation Administration finds that cell phones don't affect aircraft safety, it's likely that passengers will be allowed to jabber away during flights within the next few years.

http://ask.metafilter.com/77504/How-were-cell-phone-calls-completed-from-hijacked-planes-on-911
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO408B.html

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"Wireless communications networks weren't designed for ground-to-air communication. Cellular experts privately admit that they're surprised the calls were able to be placed from the hijacked planes, and that they lasted as long as they did. They speculate that the only reason that the calls went through in the first place is that the aircraft were flying so close to the ground ( http://www.elliott.org/technology/2001/cellpermit.htm

Expert opinion within the wireless telecom industry casts serious doubt on "the findings" of the 9/11 Commission. According to Alexa Graf, a spokesman of AT&T, commenting in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks: