UA Flight 23 Out of JFK Was to be the 5th Plane Seized on 9/11/2001 by Arab Terrorists in 1st Class Seats

UPDATE Mon 20th, 2023 from original article of Sept 11th, 2022. NYP: The captain of United Airlines flight #23 scheduled to take off the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, is convinced his plane was intended to be part of the coordinated terrorist attack. “There is a good chance that somebody was plotting to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction,” pilot Tom Mannello says in “TMZ Investigates: 9/11: The Fifth Plane,” premiering Monday at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. TMZ said it spent six months investigating the “suspicious and alarming activities” aboard Flight 23, a Boeing 767 that was due to leave JFK Airport for LA at 9 a.m. and more than 50,000 gallons of jet fuel. In the hour-long special, flight attendants aboard the plane that day share their suspicions about four people in first class — two men, a child and a person who was dressed in a hijab, with the crew believing it was a man pretending to be a woman — and a man profusely sweating in business class. They all fled from the plane when it returned to the terminal. Box cutters and Al Qaeda documents were later found in their luggage.

FYI: If United Airlines Flight #23 was to be hijacked on Sept 11, 2001 by the 4 Muslims sitting in 1st Class, that means there was a 5th trained pilot to take over the controls of UA Flight 23. Would that have been Adnan El Shukrijumah who was in Florida and a pilot in 2001 and a known pal of Mohamed Atta? Did he train with Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah in Venice Fl or Hani Hanjour in Phoenix AZ? Adnan El Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' was born in Saudi Arabia, he was an al-Qaeda operative and a boss, he was also a trained commercial pilot. Adnan Shukrijumah is/was one of several young, street-smart leaders of Al Qaeda handpicked by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, to keep the terrorist network alive and humming in the face of U.S.-led efforts to unravel it. Sources described El Shukrijumah as an al Qaeda field commander who trained under alleged terror financier Ramzi Binalshibh. They told ABCNEWS that the 27-year-old lived for years in Florida, and was identified by captured al Qaeda attack planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Mohammed also said that El Shukrijumah had been sent to the United States to carry out an operation. He does not have a pilot's license registered with the Federal Aviation Administration, but that does not mean he is not a trained pilot. El Shukrijumah is believed to have trained at a flight school in Florida, he spent his teenage years in Brooklyn NY. Shukrijumah's father, said that Adnan left the United States for Trinidad (by way of Panama) about five months before the 9/11 attacks, or did he? Adnan, who had lived in Trinindad as a small child, was a permanent resident alien of the U.S., a status he has since lost since being out of the United States for more the six months. It is unclear what he was doing in Trinidad and much about Shukrijumah remains a hazy mystery. In late 1999, he started traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan. While there, it is believed that he trained in an Al Qaeda training camp.

So who are they, names would have been on their tickets and boarding passes, WTF? The entire crew of Flight 23 was interviewed the next day. Pilot Mannello said that during his “three- or-four-hour interview” an agent told him that “there were actually seven Arabs or Muslims who might have been Saudis on the plane. Three were a couple with a two or three-year-old baby. ‘We’re looking for the other four gentlemen,’ the agent said.’ The 4 known terror flights on 9/11 were out of Newark Intl Airport NJ (1), Washington Dulles Intl Airport VA (1) and Boston Logan Intl Airport MA (2). No known terror flights originated out of JFK airport or LaGuardia airport on Sept 11, 2001.

Flight 23 was the 5th plane to be seized on 9/11 and the 4 Arab terrorists in 1st class seats who got away, so who and where are these guys?. At JFK Airport, United Airlines Flight 23 was a flight scheduled to depart to Los Angeles (LAX) at 8:30am on September 11 2001 with a full load of jet fuel. United Airlines Flight 23 suspected as the 5th plane to be hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists makes seance. Al-Qaeda boss OBL wanted to hit the 2 WTC Towers, the Pentagon, the Capitol Building and the White House, he needed 5 planes. United Airlines Flight 23 was late in pushing back from the gate. Flight 23 captains, Carol Timmons and Tom Manello have heard a report over their radio that a plane has flown into the World Trade Center. They then receive an ACARS message, An ACARDS message is a digital datalink system for transmission of short messages between aircraft and ground stations via airband radio or satellite. The message is from Ed Ballinger, “We have gone to heightened security. Do not open cockpit doors. Secure the cockpit.” Soon after the flight attendant tells the passengers that the flight has been cancelled, the 4 Arab men become abruptly agitated and the argument becomes so heated that she called airport security to the gate. Authorities will later check the men’s unclaimed on board baggage and find box-cutters, copies of the Koran, and al-Qaeda instruction sheets. On September 14, it is reported that investigators believe at least one of these passengers was among a number of individuals taken into custody at JFK and LaGuardia Airports the previous day on Sept 13, 2001. However in 2004, Representative Mark Kirk (Illinois) will say the suspicious Flight 23 passengers were never found and are likely still at large.

Wilmington (Delaware) News-Journal featured a front-page article on the Delaware Air National Guard’s first female general, Carol Timmons, who was promoted to that rank at a ceremony on Saturday. General Timmons has had a long career as a pilot, including time as a commercial pilot for Pan Am and United Airlines. The profile of General Timmons recounts that on the morning of September 11, 2001, she was the first officer on United Airlines flight 23 preparing to take-off from New York’s JFK Airport bound for Los Angeles. The plane had already pulled away from the gate and was taxiing down the runway when the airport was shut down and the crew was ordered to secure the cockpit. 

Timmons confirmed that as the pilot grabbed the crash ax, she jumped from her seat and started barricading the cockpit door. From the other side of the barricade the cabin crew relayed their concern about four young Arab men in first-class who became agitated when the take-off was cancelled, and fled from the plane when it returned to the terminal. Shortly after arriving at the gate, Timmons said one of flight attendants called up to the cabin with some disconcerting news. "She said, ‘We've got some guys back here that are very agitated that we're going back and that we're not taking off and they look Middle Eastern,' and the captain said there was really nothing that he could do but to let operations know about them," Timmons said.

As soon as we got to the gate and got the door open, those guys were off, she said. "It was total chaos at the airport and they just disappeared into the crowd and there was nothing we could do." Some believe that Timmons' plane was intended to be the fifth to be hijacked that day. After searching the plane, investigators found evidence of ties to al Qaeda in the bags of the men who disappeared. Timmons, the pilot, and the rest of the crew were repeatedly questioned by the FBI, though the findings were never shared. The pilot concluded that Flight 23 would have been the next plane hijacked by terrorists if the airport shutdown order had been delayed. “The FBI asks questions,” General Timmons is quoted as saying, “They don’t tell you things.” 

Adnan El Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' Was to be at Helm of United Airlines Flight #23 on Sept 11th 2001. In the weeks before 9/11, Abdulazziz al-Hijji -- then 27 -- and his wife, Anoud, daughter of an adviser to a member of the Saudi royal family, departed their home at 4224 Escondito Circle in the upscale gated community of Prestancia Sarasota Fl and returned to Saudi Arabia. An informant told authorities that the Saudi, Abdulazziz al-Hijji, once introduced him to Adnan El Shukrijumah -- another former Florida resident and suspected top al-Qaida operative at the Sarasota Mosque were they went to play soccer in 2001. al-Hijji and his clan left behind three cars and “numerous personal belongings including food, medicine, bills, baby clothing, etc,” according to the Flordia Department of Law Enforcement documents, which state the family departed Sarasota Fl on Aug. 27, 2001. After the 9/11 attacks, an alarmed neighbor contacted the FBI. When several weeks passed without action, Prestanica resident and administrator Larry Berberich alerted local law enforcement. Authorities, including the FBI, moved in. The investigation led to a stunning development, according to Berberich and a counterterrorism officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The car registration numbers of vehicles that had passed through the Prestancia community’s North Gate in the months before 9/11, coupled with the identification documents shown by incoming drivers on request, showed that Mohamed Atta and several of his fellow hijackers – and another Saudi terror suspect still at large – had visited al-Hijji's 4224 Escondito Circle in Sarasota Fl on multiple occasions,” the source said. The others included Marwan al-Shehhi, who plowed a United Airlines jet into the World Trade Center’s South Tower; Ziad Jarrah, who crashed another United jet into a Pennsylvania field; and Walid al-Shehri, who flew with Atta on the first plane to strike the World Trade Center. Also identified as having visited: Saudi-born fugitive Adnan Shukrijumah.  The source said law enforcement “also conducted a link analysis that tracked phone calls – based on dates, times and length of phone conversations to and from the Escondito house – dating back more than a year before 9/11. And the phone traffic also connected with the 9/11 terrorists – though less directly than the gate logs did.”

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