Reply #20: Bingham, BTS, Hoglan

[Kevin Fenton]

"Bingham still had twelve minutes to call her back before the passenger's attack started."
Perhaps he was too busy doing other stuff, like preparing to storm the cockpit. Perhaps he thought he'd call again after they took the cockpit, to give her the good news. There are lots of reasons he may not have called back in those 12 minutes.

If the BTS were there, the cell phone calls could have been successful. If they weren't, they couldn't. As don't have a map of all BTS locations in Pennsylvania at that time, I don't know.

There was no flight headed towards San Francisco under the control of hijackers at that time, so the information Alice Hoglan is said to have given is erroneous. United 93 had been headed towards SF until the hijackers turned it round. Alice Hoglan clearly knew that there was a flight bound for SF that had been hijacked, as her son had previously informed her of this. She may well have confused information from two sources - the media and her son, in the manner everybody is always confusing information.
Further, there is the problem of where Longman got this information. Did he listen to the transcript and copy it out verbatim, or did he obtain it in another manner? Often when dealing with transcripts I find that people say, "er" and "um" and that the end of one sentence doesn't match it's beginning. At the very least, the Hoglan transcript appears to have been tidied up.