Delta 89: The Fake Hijacking Exercise - Squawk Code 7112

An Independent Investigation

Three minutes after the Pentagon was hit, a strange aircraft with call sign “Delta 89” popped up on the radar screens of air defense commander Kevin Nasypany’s crew. It signaled a hijacking and was tracked by NEADS for three minutes before it suddenly disappeared again. 90 seconds before Delta 89 appears, NEADS receives a verbal message from Colin Scoggins, the military liaison controller at Boston Center, regarding Delta 1989, they detect two planes “really close together” — Delta 89 and Delta 1989 — and obtain the squawk code of one of them: 7112. This is not Delta 1989’s code, which is 1304, so it must be the code of Delta 89. The first digit “7” indicates that it’s not the ID code of a usual civilian airliner - they never begin with a 7. Instead, the 7 is reserved for emergency cases. By squawking 7112, Delta 89 manages to pop up on the NEADS radar screens and signals a hijacking.

At 9:44, Delta 89 is suddenly “lost” Obviously the pilot has turned off the transponder, making himself virtually invisible. The radar technicians resume the search. At 9:46:25, they are able to identify an eligible blip, but it's Delta 1989 this time. Their comment: "that's not the guy then" - the 7112 guy they lost and were looking for.

Was Delta 89 a simulated hijacking, as part of the many military exercises taking place on 9/11? We can deduct Delta 89 was a fake call sign, because the regular Delta Airlines Flight 89 was sitting at JFK airport and scheduled to depart for Los Angeles at 3:00 p.m.

Interestingly, Delta 89 was reported South West of Toledo at 9:43.

9:43:45, did you get the word I got a Delta eight-niner south - excuse me - south-south-east of Toledo

This is near to the vicinity were an Emergency Locator Transmission (ELT) was reported at 9:53 over in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

You can listen to the ELT report below in the video:

Source: Channel 3, NEADS Communication Recordings & Transcripts.

Was Delta 89 Part of the War Games Hijacking Simulations on 9/11? After all there was not reports of any plane crashing over in Ann Arbor. Delta 89 fulfills all conditions for an "exercise fake aircraft" whose job was to simulate a hijacking.

Why did the 9/11 Commission overlook these discrepancies?

On January 23rd, 2004, Miles Kara, Kevin Schaeffer, and Geoffrey Brown interviewed Sgt. Susan Marie Rose, whose voice is recorded on Channel 21 as she spots "code 7112":

Commission staff asked Rose is she recalled details on tracking Delta Airlines Flight 1989 or United Airlines Flight 93 (UAL 93). She replied that she and LaMarche tracked a specific suspected hijack that they believe was flight planned from Boston to Las Vegas through Cleveland and Minneapolis Center airspace. This flight, she believed, was headed to a specific airport, and he was maneuvering to turn into the airport to land.

Rose noted that she is uncertain whether the aircraft reflected in Commission staff's recording was one that was search only or one that was a mode three. She surmised there being two aircraft that they followed based on listening to the tapes in which she pointed out a mode three squawking code 1304.

The "surmise" of Susan Marie Rose is certainly correct, but squawk code 7112, evidence for a second plane, is simply omitted in the report. Miles Kara and his colleagues don't seem to be interested in this other aircraft, despite the strange code and the fact that it was considered a hijacking. Code 7112 and Delta 89 were simply glossed over.

The NORAD tapes belong to the most authentic sources for the events of 9/11, and they are certainly not faked, as everyone will attest who has listened to them. As matters stand, the tapes provide watertight proof that Delta 89 was NOT Delta 1989, Delta 89 being defined as the aircraft that was tracked by NEADS between 9:41 and 9:44.

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