From Calls from Plane - Was That Real?

[endlessvista]

The so called phone calls from plane "fight back" which happened. Can someone confirm for me once and for that it was TECHNICALLY impossible for a call to be made from a moving airline in 2001?

Are there recordings?

[biblegirl]

There is one "recording" that I know of.

[graflok]

Some info here:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO408B.html

[endlessvista]

More significantly, what this carefully drafted script fails to mention is that, given the prevailing technology in September 2001, it was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to place a wireless cell call from an aircraft traveling at high speed above 8000 feet:

"Wireless communications networks weren't designed for ground-to-air communication. Cellular experts privately admit that they're surprised the calls were able to be placed from the hijacked planes, and that they lasted as long as they did. They speculate that the only reason that the calls went through in the first place is that the aircraft were flying so close to the ground ( http://www.elliott.org/technology/2001/cellpermit.htm

Expert opinion within the wireless telecom industry casts serious doubt on "the findings" of the 9/11 Commission. According to Alexa Graf, a spokesman of AT&T, commenting in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks:

"it was almost a fluke that the [9/11] calls reached their destinations... From high altitudes, the call quality is not very good, and most callers will experience drops. Although calls are not reliable, callers can pick up and hold calls for a little while below a certain altitude" ( http://wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_final_contact/ )


Weird.

[keystone]

The so called phone calls from plane "fight back" which happened. Can someone confirm for me once and for that it was TECHNICALLY impossible for a call to be made from a moving airline in 2001?

Are there recordings?It WAS technically and OPERATIONALLY possible to make telephone calls from a moving aircraft in 2001 PROVIDED such calls were made on the Airfone system which is totally different to cellphones. Airfone has all but been withdrawn from many aircaft due to low usage rates and the operator (Verizon) has sold the business.

It was technically possible in 2001 to use a cellphone from an aircraft at height but the technolgy was in it's infancy and not commercially available. I IIRC the technology has now been developed to commercial viablity but requires ia significant investment in kit by the airlines per aircraft. Can't see it flying.

Oh I can give you scource for the above but I'm away at present and so that will have to be at the weekend.

Now if they had said telephone calls using airfone then it would be credible. Why did they say cellphones?