Reply #35: Update: the 5th plane

[Woody Box]

After visiting several forums and chatrooms dating from the first hours after the 9/11 attacks I found out that a lot ot people indeed heard about a 5th hijacked plane, and they wondered why this plane vanished in later reports. The earlier reports were not denied or corrected. The plane simply was not mentioned anymore.

A few quotes:

I remember when the World Trade Center first got hit, there was the first news reports saying that 5 planes crashed.  Within 2 hours though, apparently only 4 planes crashed and I never heard about the 5th plane again.  I didn't imagine this because several other people also remember there being a 5th plane.

One of the things I want to know is why all morning I heard reports about a fifth plane that had been hijacked, one without a known location. The question I asked myself is: how you can lose an airliner, and why that piece of news seems to have gone away.

In and among the tidal wave of coverage, most of which was the same stuff from differing angles, I heard a reporter say that FIVE planes had been hijacked. Later in the day I heard about only four with no explanation of why they had said five earlier.

There was definitely a news blackout about the fifth and plus plane(s). i was watching the news in the day, and by the evening i thought i had probably imagined the whole fifth plane thing. combined with the fact that the net seemed to be ahead of the tv, the news censorship has almost been as scary as the event itself.

Regarding the fate of this plane, there were rumours going around: it was headed to Washington, it crashed near Camp David, it crashed in Colorado, it was shot down, etc.

Maybe it was Delta flight 1989, but this version came up some days later; on 9/11, nobody was talking about a hijacked Delta flight.

Is the 5th plane just a piece of disinformation, or what?

Weird.