Re flight 93, A Boeing captain comments

[xmasdale]

>Received the following comments from a 757/767 captain who now flies 777s.
>He raises some very interesting points...
>
>
>Nila,
>
>This does seem like a lot more passenger shuffling than normal. If flight
>91
>had a broken windshield then the Customer Service Agents would try and
>re-book as many passengers as possible that morning. What is really odd is
>that with most flights running full or nearly full that day, flight 93 was
>nearly empty????
>
>It is not uncommon to keep the flight crew with a broken airplane so they
>are in position to fly it when fixed. A windshield replacement would take
>several hours if they had one in stock. We had maintenance in Boston, but
>I'm not sure if they would stock B-757 windshields, they are over $20,000
>apiece. Bigger parts like that they often fly in if needed. That would be a
>question for the Mechanics at Boston.
>
>I know that United keeps every company e-note ever sent by any employee, I
>wonder if they keep reservations data. I am wondering if they were even
>advertising Flight 93 as having seats available that day. If the next
>flight
>was overbooked, reservations agents would have been steering customers
>toward flight 93 for days, and you would think it would have had a bigger
>load. If it was empty but not showing seats available, then something is
>really fishy. There were many bad things said about our CEO Jim Goodwin
>back
>in those days, but I did also hear some grumbling about how 9-11 was
>handled.
>
>I wonder if there are Internet archives showing seats available for any of
>the 9-11 flights. That information is considered propitiatory, so not given
>out on public web sites other than if there were NO seats available for
>sale. It would be interesting to do a lawsuit and demand the computer
>records in the weeks leading up to 9-11 and see if the Hijack flights had
>something fishy about the listings. Like not showing up on reservations
>computers so no one booked them??? Or, showing full when they weren't? We
>would need to enlist the aid of a reservations agent who knows how to read
>all the cryptic code and would see inconsistencies.
>
>God I hope this thing busts wide open so we can finally get some closure on
>what was done to us that day. I know it will be hard for many Americans to
>swallow, and the implications of what we have done around the world in the
>name of 9-11 would require some serious apologies, but we need some truth
>on
>this so we can move forward as a nation, and not just down the toilet like
>we are being taken now.
>
>Don