Even Bigger Mystery of the Passenger Lists

by Frank Levi

11th Mar 2002

Summary:

We were told there were 81 passengers on Flight 11.

We were told this on the afternoon of Sept 11th. Not much time for investigation.

Not all the passengers names were published in the list that was given out that day.

People assumed that some of the missing names were the hijackers.

Now all 81 names have been published - they DO NOT include the names of the 5 hijackers.

So if they really existed at all, how did they get on the plane?

And if they got on the plane, how do we know they were on the plane? And where did the seat numbers come from?

You may have read the article by Gary North: The Perplexing Puzzle of the Published Passenger list.

http://www.rense.com/general15/perplexingpuzzle.htm

In this article - questions are raised about the missing names on the lists of passengers and crew produced by American Airlines and United Airlines very shortly after the crash. No explanation was given for the missing names - the names of the hijacker suspects were also missing. You could have explained this by suggesting that the missing names were a combination of the hijackers and some people who's relatives had not been contacted.

More names have now been released- it appears all of the 81 passengers on Flight 11 have now been identified, none of them were our 5 suspects. Here's what I found.

Anywhere you look on the internet, Flight 11 had 81 passengers and 11 crew.

Not a hard sum 81 +11=92

Here is a list of passengers only - I compiled this from two sources.

There are 86 names on this list: 81 real passengers and 5 probably (imaginary?) hijackers.

http://www.memorialquilt.com/Flight11.asp

This list has 94 names. None of the suspected hijackers names are on the list. Two of these are errors: William Weems was on flight 175, Elkin Yuen died in the WTC. Makes 92 again.

This leads me to believe that the suspected hijackers weren't on the plane at all and someone created that information after the event - so we could blame Bin Laden and invade Afghanistan. Or am I being an idiot?

I checked www.archive.org to see when the numbers first became available. CNN's site had the figures in the early afternoon of Sept 11th. So maybe the FBI got to AA and UA very early that day and asked them to take anyone with an Arab name off the list and not include them in the total??

Remote controlled planes with NO hijackers anyone?

Further amendments (19th Mar) - James Roux should have been on flight175, however, I missed Robin Caplin, there was also a Robin Kaplan on the flight which led me to believe that this was a mistake. There remains some confusion about Robert Jalbert - CNN reported he was on flight 175, www.portland.com reported him as being on flight 11. There is also a Roberta Jalbert listed for flight 175 (can anyone confirm this?) So we still have 80 names which leaves room for one possible hijacker.

A nearly correct list of passengers can be seen at the archive of the Boston Globe site

http://web.archive.org/web/20010914225345/http://boston.com/news/daily/13/victims_list.htm#aa11