Many questions have been raised about the phone calls made by the victims on the four hijacked planes. Dozens of calls were made, most of which were placed from seat-back phones, however, some were also reportedly made from cellphones.
Professor Emeritus Kee Dewdney of the University of Western Ontario conducted an experiment to see if cellphone calls could be made at high altitudes. He found that by 8000 feet, calls rarely connected.
Dewdney’s experiment is routinely cited by those who doubt the official account of 9/11. Conspiracy theorists say that if cellphone calls weren’t possible, then they must have been faked – which would mean the phone calls made from seat-back phones were also faked.
Few recordings of the phone calls from passengers exist. However, here are two:
On Flight 11, which crashed in to the North Tower at 8:46am, flight attendant Betty Ong made a call to American Airlines using a seat-back phone.
On Flight 93, which crashed in to a field in Shanksville Pennsylvania, flight attendant CeeCee Lyles left a message to her husband using a seat-back phone.
