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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 09:48 PM
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from an article:

"FBI Records Chief Describes Unsuccessful Search For Identifying Records Of 9/11 Aircraft Wreckage & Flight Data Recorders:

...The following is a statement by the Section Chief of the Record/lnformation Dissemination Section ("RlDS") of the FBI regarding the unsuccessful search for records or facsimiles of records, pertaining the 4 aircraft identified by the FBI and NTSB as being used during terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 or wreckage generated by them, including 2 flight data recorders. This statement is a defense exhibit for use in an upcoming oral arguments hearing pertaining to a federal court case for records for the 4 aircraft used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

SEARCH FOR RECORDS RESPONSlVE
TO PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST

Plaintiff's original FOIA request sought "documentation pertaining to any formally and positively identified debris" from the aircraft used in the September 11th attacks. In response to this request, RIDS personnel at FBIHQ understood that any potentially responsive records would have been compiled for law enforcement purposes and would be located in a pending file because of an ongoing law enforcement investigation. RIDS personnel therefore determined that any records would be withheld in their entirety pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). The FBI then received a copy of plaintiff's complaint for injunctive relief, later amended, wherein plaintiff requested the FBI to "produce agency records, concerning documentation revealing the process by which wreckage recovered by defendant, from the aircraft used during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, was positively identified by defendant (with the aid of the National Transportation Safety Board) as belonging to the said aircraft, presumably through the use of unique serial number identifying information contained by the said aircraft wreckage, that was collected by defendant and which defendant has improperly withheld from plaintiff." In response to this request, RlDS conducted a search for potentially responsive records at FBIHQ on February 11, 2008. A search of the CRS was conducted using the following subjects: "Airline Debris," "Debris Identification," "Commercial Aircraft," "Aircraft Identification," "Aircraft Debris," "Aircraft Wreckage," "Aircraft," "Recovered Debris," "National Transportation and Safety Bureau," "National Transportation Safety Board," "NTSB," "American Airlines," "American Airlines Flight," "American Airlines Flight Eleven," "American Airlines Flight Number 11," "American Airlines Flight 77," "N334AA," "N612UA," "N644AA," "N591UA," "Flight 175," "Flight 11," "Flight 77," "Flight 93," "Identifying Aircraft Parts," "Factual Report Aviation," "Federal Aviation Administration," "Pentbomb," "Ground Zero," "Freshkills Landfill," and "Fresh Kills Landfill."

Despite this extensive and detailed search effort, RlDS has been unable to locate any FBI records responsive to plaintiffs request. RIDS' search efforts included a verification by the case agent for the investigation. The case agent stated that since the identities of the four hijacked aircraft have never been in question by the FBI, NTSB or FAA (evidence collected after September 11, 2001 has corroborated the fact that American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Flight 93 were the aircraft hijacked), no records would have been generated responsive to plaintiffs request for documents."

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Bleeding Cubbie Blue Donating Member (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 11:30 PM
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1. IBTB
(in before the badgers)

:D
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-08 11:34 PM
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2. lol
:hi:
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-27-08 07:00 AM
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3. The key quote
The case agent stated that since the identities of the four hijacked aircraft have never been in question by the FBI, NTSB or FAA (evidence collected after September 11, 2001 has corroborated the fact that American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Flight 93 were the aircraft hijacked), no records would have been generated responsive to plaintiffs request for documents."

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tetedur Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-27-08 07:33 AM
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5. The plane that hit the Pentagon was not officially id'd as AA77
AA77 went OFF the radar around the Ohio/Kentucky border. The airplane parts and FDR found at the Pentagon were not id'd according to their serial numbers as belonging to AA77. For other airplane crashes there is no question as to what plane crashed, still, serial numbers of the FDRs are included in the NTSB reports.

Because of assumptions made by investigators we have gaps in information of what should be routine in the official reports.

Who is to blame for the questions that come up about these gaps?

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biermeister Donating Member (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-27-08 07:30 AM
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4. since most of the major components of those planes
had individual serial numbers and are tracked and documented in the maintenance records, it would be very easy to identify, without any doubt or discussion, the exact planes that crashed on 9/11. I can't understand why more of an effort wasn't made to document that information.
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-27-08 08:50 PM
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6. indeed! nt
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-27-08 08:54 PM
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7. Was there any response from a similar request of the NTSB? ( n/t )
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-29-08 11:30 AM
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8. good question. I don't know. Yet.
Edited on Fri Aug-29-08 11:30 AM by wildbilln864
do you? :shrug:
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-08 11:47 AM
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9. bada....
bump! :hi:
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