Reply #49: First and foremost ?

[RH]

For somebody who wants to find the truth Captain Mike does not seem to know much too much about it.

Where does this "cell phone" idea come from?

Ted Olsen was quite specific about it:

"She had had trouble getting through, because she wasn't using her cellphone, she was using the phone in the passengers' seats,"

"I guess she didn't have her purse, because she was calling collect, and she was trying to get through to the Department of Justice, which is never very easy."

If she called collect then there must have been a record of it, so where does that leave you?

How could he lie about that, when it was not even himself but his secretary who first took the call?

The first and foremost source of actual hijackers on board would be the passenger lists, hence those who attest to them boarding the plane, and others who had seen them in Maryland the week before.