Black boxes from 9/11 planes were never found – False
Question asked:
“The black boxes of the planes involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks have never been found.”
Summary
The flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders from the 9/11 aircraft were recovered; FBI and National Park Service documentation confirm the black boxes were found and examined. Therefore, the statement that they have never been found is incorrect.
Sources 60 searched
- 9/11 Responder's Hard Hat | Federal Bureau of Investigation
Responders found the hijackers’ notes and passports and a knife that investigators believe one of the hijackers used. They also recovered the plane’s black boxes—the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
- Investigation of United Flight 93 | Federal Bureau of Investigation
There was a lot of pressure from all of the sites, not just New York and the Pentagon, to locate the data recorder and the black box. It was a big deal when we did find it and I believe it was slightly over 25 feet into the crater.
- Flight 93 Cockpit Voice Recorder - Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
Flight 93 Cockpit Voice Recorder information page
- Flight Data Recorder - Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
Flight Data Recorder recovered from Flight 93 and the Flight Path Study
- 9/11 Poster, Flight Recorder Boxes Identification, New | Smithsonian Institution
High on the list of things to find were the two flight recorders (“black boxes”) from each of the two planes that had been used to destroy the Twin Towers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and National Transportation Safety Board ...
- List of unrecovered and unusable flight recorders - Wikipedia
↑ Aircraft Accident Report - Inadvertent in-flight slat deployment, China Eastern Airlines flight 583, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, B-2171, 950 nautical miles south of Sheyma, Alaska, April 6, 1993 (PDF) (Report). National Transportation Safety Board. 27 October 1993. NTSB/AAR-93/07. Retrieved 22 September 2021. – Copy at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University. ↑ "Investigation into the Crash of Dassault Falcon 50 Registration Number 9XR...
- DEBUNKED - 9/11 aircraft black boxes weren't recovered | Metabunk
In December 2005, CounterPunch reported that an NTSB source contradicted the official account: "Off the record, we had the boxes," the source says. "You'd have to get the official word from the FBI as to where they are, but we worked on them here."
- Point Flt-4: Unexplained Black Box Anomalies for the Four 9/11 Planes | Consensus 911
the official account’s claims about black boxes from the 9/11 planes appear to be false.
- Flights Point 4: Unexplained Black Box Anomalies for the Four 9/11 Planes - International Center for 9/11 Justice
the official account’s claims about black boxes from the 9/11 planes appear to be false.
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