Reply #19: All explainable [View All]

"One, a TWA flight, refuses to land in Pittsburgh and wants to fly on toward Washington. Another, a Midwest Express flight, disappears from radar over West Virginia. And three jets over the Atlantic Ocean are sending out distress signals, the Coast Guard reports.
A bomb is reported aboard a United Airlines jet that just landed in Rockford, Ill. Another jet disappears from radar and might have crashed in Kentucky."

First one: some asshole pilot. The three distress signals ove the Atlantic probably had to do with fuel worries. Once planes couldn't land in the US, some were afraid that they couldn't make it to Canada or back to Europe or wherever. I remember reading there was a real worry about that with one plane in particular. Bomb report: probably people freaking out after they heard about the 9/11 attacks from airfone calls and suspecting a piece of luggage or something. The last sentence is most likely a garbled account of Flight 77.

The only potential interesting one is the second one about the Midwest Express flight, esp. since that's where Flight 77 disappeared. It would be good to know more on that one, esp. the timing.