Reply #78: Flightarrivals.com....some details.......

[seatnineb]

Reorg........

I played a similar game.

With an American Airlines flight from Boston to Orlando.
The flight number was 2067.(August 20)
As the plane was ascending after take-off.
FlightArrivals.com gave... within the space of 2 minutes...
....the changing speeds and altitudes.
Once it had reached cruising altitude ,FlightArrivals.com then gave the amount of time left for the journey.

Now you may question the discrepancies between variouse flight tracker web-sites which still amount to no more than a few minutes.....

Which is far different to an update regarding the crash of AA11 on 9/11/01 which came 1 hour AFTER AA11 had supposedly crashed.

FlightArrivals.com is regarded by many to be the fastest flight tracker on the web .....so fast that U.S airports such as Dulles,Reagan and SanDiego use FlightArrivals.com to provide their passengers with the latest info.

The FlightArrivals.com website is run by Technology Integration Sevices who have deals with 35 U.S airports.

The website uses an OpenBase 6.5 relational database(from which all the data is stored) with a WebObjects application server.

FlightArrivals.com are based in........you Guessed it.......
Herndon ,VA!
Which just happens to also be the local hangout of the good ol' F.A.A Head-Quarters.........

My guess is that flight arrivals.com retrieves information from the F.A.A Traffic Management System and adds it to their own database......

For their part the F.A.A get their information from the Airline Companies who in turn extract information via the ACARS/ARINC link from the relevant aircraft itself(in this case American Airlines Flight 11).

So according to this web-site ,American Airlines Flight 11 was still in the air for the best part of an hour after the North Tower took a direct hit?

And the existence of an NBC report about Flight 11 being hijacked and diverted to JFK airport at least 50 minutes after it had crashed is backed up by 2 different posters on 2 different forums from the morning of 9/11 itself.....

To: Diogenesis
american flight number 11 was told it was being diverted to
jfk.....
44 posted on 09/11/2001 6:37:06 AM PDT by missouri4bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520268/posts


Username: Cre
From United States, joined Jun 2000, 159 posts, RR: 0
Reply: 83
Posted Tue Sep 11 2001 15:36:46 UTC+1 and read 30163 times:
NBC saying it was AA11, 1 757 from bos to lax and was hijacked and diverted to jfk?
flightarrivals.com says that flight is still underway?
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/568641