United Flight 23

I was watching the History Channel last night. The show was called Grounded on 9/11. They mentioned a flight United Flight 23. The pilot heard of the attacks before he took off. He informed the passengers that there was a "mechanical issue" with the plane. Once at the gate they deplaned some "mid eastern looking men" ran off the plane never to be seen again. The authorities searched there bag and found some Al Queada literature and false id's. It was said that they couldnt track them down since their Id's were false. I Dvr'd it last night and can make a you tube video since I havent found much on the web about this flight. I am like WTF this was the worst terrorist attack and they havent found (or tried it seems to me) to find them. Sorry if I am beating a dead horse but this seems ridiculous to me that they would allow terrorists to run off a plane and not look and find them.


Only News Article I found


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Flight 23 was discussed, and reviewed. Why it was not mainstream was that the news networks had little to go on, as well as the FBI. This was a big reason for the Patriot Act, which was designed to search, what was not allowed.

http://www.house.gov/list/hearing/il...14_flight.html

(Read near the bottom) the guy that DID the rescuing was not the pilot, but the Control Tower.

(Copy and paste of the large article)
Ballinger said he didn't wait for orders from his supervisors, or for Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta's decision to ground all flights. He immediately tried to get his pilots down on the nearest Tarmac.
"As soon as I had a grasp of what was going on ... I sent it out immediately. It was before Mineta, and even before the airlines told us to alert the crews," he said.
Dispatchers were told by superiors: Don't tell the pilots why we want them to land.
"One of the things that upset me was that they knew 45 minutes before that American Airlines had a problem. I put the story together myself (from news accounts)," Ballinger said.
"Perhaps if I had the information sooner, I might have gotten the message to 93 to bar the door."
Perhaps, but Kirk is adamant that Ballinger did save the passengers and crew of United Flight 23, which on Sept. 11 was about to depart from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles. Kirk believes Flight 23 was going to be commandeered.
Thanks to Ballinger's quick call, the flight crew told passengers it had a mechanical problem and immediately returned to the gate.
Later, Ballinger was told six men initially wouldn't get off the plane. Later, when they did, they disappeared into the crowd, never to return. Later, authorities checked their luggage and found copies of the Qu'ran and al-Qaida instruction sheets.
"I felt good about that one," Ballinger said.
Kirk admits it's speculation, but said he believes "there are 200 people walking around today because of Ed Ballinger."




Blacksteel

Also, I forgot to add that the 9/11 Comission Report also covered the events. The Government was doing the right things.

If you would like to read the report here is the .PDF (its 7.22 megs in size and its a 585 page document) but the point is that many things come up, that not many people know or knew about.

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

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