This article from Iran's state run PressTV claim that the reported difficulty of getting a cell phone connection from a high altitude plane proves that the calls made by passengers on 9/11 could not have happened:
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/04/14/358474/mh370-call-exposing-911-coverup/
There are records of many of the airfone calls, depending on how they were placed: For example this one from Renee May.
Ted Olson ultimately did not know if the call came from a cell phone or an air phone.
Presumably the writers at PressTV know all this, and are simply trying to spin up an old debunked story for propaganda reasons.
More info here:
http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/evidence/calldetail.html - shows the seat number of the air phone used by each caller, where known.
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Barbara_Olson_calls
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/04/14/358474/mh370-call-exposing-911-coverup/
The key bunk here is that the vast majority of the calls from planes on 9/11 were not made from cell phones, they were made from air phones - the expensive telephones in the seats that you can use with a credit card. These are much less popular now (being phased out due to cost and lack of use), but were quite common in 2001. There were two types in operation, Airfone, and Air One, both of which were used on 9/11
Unless the plane has special equipment developed during the past few years (and MH370 did not) it is impossible to have a cell phone conversation from an airliner at even a few thousand feet of elevation. Below 7,000 feet, one could dial a number and, with luck, get a brief connection to a cell tower – but that connection would drop before the call could be put through and answered.
That is what happened to Fariq Abdul Hamid’s attempt to make a cell phone call from missing Flight MH370.
And yet we were told that on September 11, 2001, passengers on hijacked flights also made “desperate calls” and somehow engaged in long cell phone conversations with people on the ground!
For many years, the US government and mainstream media reported that at least fifteen cell phone calls had been placed from the allegedly hijacked airliners flying at over 30,000 feet. These reports began with the claims of Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson, who told CNN that his wife, right-wing commentator Barbara Olson, had “called twice on a cell phone” from allegedly-hijacked Flight 77 – the flight that supposedly hit the Pentagon. Olson said the first call from his wife lasted “about one minute” and the second call “two or three or four minutes.”
There are records of many of the airfone calls, depending on how they were placed: For example this one from Renee May.
Ted Olson ultimately did not know if the call came from a cell phone or an air phone.
Presumably the writers at PressTV know all this, and are simply trying to spin up an old debunked story for propaganda reasons.
More info here:
http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/evidence/calldetail.html - shows the seat number of the air phone used by each caller, where known.
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Barbara_Olson_calls
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