Flight 11: The Mystery of Gate 32

An Independent Investigation

One of the earliest discrepancies surrounding American Airlines Flight 11 (AAL 11) is the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) not having a record of AAL 11 departing on September 11^th 2001. The data is automatically generated and recorded electronically when a flight takes off, so there is not human error involved in this process. To compound matters further, early mainstream media reports suggest that two different gates from which AAL 11 departed from, Gate 32 and Gate 26.

The Boston Globe: http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/globe_stories/0912/Crashes_in_NYC_had_grim_origins_at_Logan+.shtml

The Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1340686/At-8.46am-the-world-changed-in-a-moment.html

The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/articles/sept_11_2001.html

Gate 32 was the scheduled gate, which the flight controller transcripts say, and that is what the 9/11 Commission accepted. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/national/16TEXT-FLIGHT11.html?ex=1071378000&en=4b6d66a63bf99b3a&ei=5070

Ground crew accounts in this video clip, shows chief ground crew Donny Bennett recalling after a flight cancellation he was assigned to AAL 11. No gate number is mentioned in his account, although he talks of AAL 11 getting ready for push-off into the taxi way. Another crew member Howard Crabtree recalls attending to ALL 11, while another ramp crew member Richie Sorbello recalls waving-off Pilot John Ogonowski. No gate number is mentioned in their accounts in this video, it is only implied with a video of Gate 32 being shown.

Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Gm8M40NjT2Vk/

Adding further confusion to the discrepancy is flight attendant Betty Ong’s phone call at 8:18 a.m. to the North Carolina Reservations Center, where Betty Ong told Vanessa Minter she was on Flight 12, and then repeated it to Winston Sadler.

To compound matters even further, Amy Sweeney in her first phone call at 8:30 a.m. said: “Flight 12 at Gate 32 had two flight attendants stabbed.”

Source: Phone Call Transcription FBI Document: https://www.scribd.com/document/14094215/T7-B17-FBI-302s-of-Interest-Flight-11-Fdr-Entire-Contents

Sweeney’s phone call message prompted Michael Woodward and his colleague Elizabeth Williams to proceed directly to Gate 32, and according to the FBI’s interview with Williams she said that they found “an empty plane”. See below:

WILLIAMS stated on September 11, 2001, at approximately 8 a.m., she was working in her office at LOGAN AIRPORT when MICHAEL WOODWARD, Manager of Flight Services for AMERICAN AIRLINES AA, advised her that they needed to go to Gate 32 because two flight attendants had been stabbed. Upon arrival at the gate, WILLIAMS and WOODWARD found an empty airplane. WOODWARD then got on the phone and contacted EVELYN NUNEZ, an employee of AA at LOGAN AIRPORT. While WOODWARD was on the phone, WILLIAMS searched the gate-side computer for information for the flight time of the airplane at Gate 32.

https://www.scribd.com/document/18775594/T7-B10-FBI-302s-Olsen-Fdr-302s-Re-Michael-Woodward-372

This important detail disclosed by Williams about the “empty plane” at the Gate 32, that both Williams and Woodward observed is omitted in the – 9/11 Commission Memorandum “For the Record” interview with Michael Woodward. https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/2609599/content/arcmedia/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00013.pdf

According to Elizabeth Williams they found “an empty plane” at Gate 32, yet according to the official narrative AAL 11 was in the air, and had been for 30 minutes, which begs the question why Amy Sweeney said it was at Gate 32 in her phone call? If Elizabeth Williams is telling the truth, and I have no cause to disbelieve her, and if she is not mistaken or misreported, then we may have the key to explain what might have happened to AAL 11.

According to the BTS database entry which lists no wheels-off time for AAL 11 for that day, there has been two explanations for this discrepancy. In the official record, the NTSB say that the data was not reported, in the confusion of the day. The “conspiracy theorists” say that it proves AAL 11 never existed. But the data does not say either of these things. If we just take the data at face-value, rather than assuming it is incorrect, misreported, or falsified, what does the data tell us? It tells us that AAL 11 existed but that it never took off. See below:

The wheels-off data is recorded automatically and electronically, the fact that the entry exists shows that AAL 11 was scheduled. The fact that the data shows the time as 00:00 indicates that the wheels never moved. This corresponds exactly to what Elizabeth Williams saw and described in her account. The plane was there and had not taken off. If Elizabeth Williams is correct in what she saw, then the entry in the BTS database for AAL 11 exactly matches what she described.

So we have two witnesses who testify that the plane labeled as AAL 11 never took off that morning: Elizabeth Williams, who says it twice, unambiguously, and the BTS data, which shows that the plane never moved from Gate 32. Another fact is, the 9/11 Commission alleged that some passengers boarded AFTER pushback from gate, which is troubling. 

To conclude…

Does this suggest passengers boarded a plane at Gate 26 instead of Gate 32? Does this explain why there is no tail number listed in the BTS data for the plane listed? Does this lead more support for Wayne Kirk’s account. Wayne Kirk was a cleaner for American Airlines, and his team cleaned AAL 11 on 9/11. Kirk told FBI agents in his interview, that when he was leaving the plane, between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. on 9/11, he only observed two crew members on the plane, which he thought was unusual, as normally most of the crew would be gathered and really for duty.

What Kirk revealed is very important, and gives us insight as to what was at play. It should’ve been the case regarding more crew being gathered at that time, especially as passenger boarding allegedly began for AAL 11 at 7:31 a.m. Where were the rest of the crew? Why were they not at the plane ready for duty?

I shall be answering these questions in my book I am writing, which covers this incident in more detail, along with piecing together the evidence to reveal what really happened that morning at Boston Logan with Flight 11 and its passengers.

Thanks for reading & caring!