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''MythBusters'' and Flight 93

Mar 8, 2006 8:57PM PST

Hi there. My name is Yan. I'm from Montreal, Canada. Since my first language is french, i didn't quite get all the details about the guys from ''mythbusters'' who did some tests. But one thing that caught my attention is when he say he left ''forgot'' is cell phone opened and saw that he couldn't get any regular coverage.

He said that the signal coverage was building up, than dropping away again and again, making it impossible to have a conversation more than 30 seconds to a minute.

This might sound i little paranoiac but i just saw this controversial documentary of sept 911 ''Loose Change 2nd edition'' the other day. They were basicly saying the same thing. They were questioning the fact that some poeple on flight 93 ware able to make long and clear calls to the 911 central and to their love ones when in fact, it is proven to be impossible.

Maybe i'm on the wrong track again (as we all are on sept 911) but i just tought it would interest you guys.

http://www.loosechange911.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose+change
(at around 1:08:00)

Great show. Keep on that good work...

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He was overinternetional water...

He said that he was on his way home to austrailia and was probably over the ocean. The people on Flight 93 were over land. That may have had something to do with it.

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mmm sure he was?
Mar 9, 2006 9:49AM PST

What I understood is that wherever he could get signal coverage, there were some doppler effect of some kind that made the signal unstable. He said the signal was building up, then dropping down...

I don't want to spend too much energy on this but i just think it's funny.

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a miracle?
Mar 9, 2006 10:04AM PST

Maybe the fact that they were able to make phone calls on Flight 93 was another of the miracles that happened that day. I know it was a bad, horrible day and a lot of awful things happened. But, (I keep thinking of this) I was in a meeting that morning and missed all the news coverage. I knew the 2 planes had hit the WTC but at the time we still thought they were small private plans and had no idea the buildings would collapse. Someone in the meeting got a phone call from someone near a TV and she told us, "both buildings have collapsed and 100,000 people are dead." But it wasn't nearly that many, most who were below the floors where the planes hit got out, Flight 93 never hit it's intended target -- who's to say there wasn't someone helping the cell phone signals get through that day.

But then again, the mythbusters people did say that their test indicated that the cell phones didn't have any effect on the plane's electronics, so maybe what he observed about his cell phone that time was some kind of fluke, too.