Participants in the Cover-Up of 9/11: The Case of American and United Airlines,

Participants in the Cover-Up of 9/11: The Case of American and United Airlines,: "It is argued here that the information AA did not want to 'leak' to the public was the same information that AA refuses to reveal to the families of the victims and to the public in general since 9/11. Such information includes:
(a) Names of ground personnel who saw off the passengers and crew at the departure gate on 9/11 and could testify on what they saw;
(b) Authentified copies of the flight manifests, which would show the names of the alleged hijackers and of the passengers;
(c) Copies of boarding cards, which would show the names of the alleged hijackers and of the passengers and confirm their seat numbers;
(d) Computer listing of the boarding times of individual passengers and hijackers;
(e) Positive evidence that the aircraft which left the airport was indeed the aircraft which later crashed into the known target (aircraft serial number, tail number, engine serial numbers, black boxes, etc.);
(f) Names and contacts of AA personnel who reportedly communicated by cellphones with crew or passengers on the hijacked aircraft and could publicly testify on these conversations.
The present author asked both American and United Airlines to provide some of the above information. Both airlines declined to provide the information and referred the author to the FBI for all such data. The last attempt to obtain information from American Airlines (a letter to AA spokesman Marty Heires of October 6, 2004) did not elicit any response at all. Neither airline, however, justified in its answer its refusal on a legal restraining order or on the need to protect the privacy of the families of the victims or of its personnel. The author has not come across any Justice Department order, or any legal ruling, that prohibits airlines fr"