Of course David, that was my original point about the calls.
I meant near the end of the descent to slam into the towers!
I think it is inconceivable that they landed those planes and swapped the people or whatever.
a) Such a plan is far too complicated and likely to fail.
b) The phone calls were not essential to the plot.
c) The effort to rush the Saudi relatives out of the US was obviously rushed and ham-fisted - if there had been a plot, they would have dealt with that.
d) A huge number of perfectly decent ordinary people would have been in on the plot, and the horror of what was done would have weighed on their consciences - that is the problem with these elaborate conspiracy theories.
However, there is an explanation for the phone calls - one that should be obvious to people here! A plane full of people under such stress would have been the
perfect situation to expect psychic effects, and communication with loved ones - sometimes via a phone call - at the point of death is a fairly commonly reported phenomenon!
The other day, I saw the most likely explanation for what really happened in 9/11:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...s-funding-barack-obama-knew-all-a7362071.html
I.e. the attack was unexpected, but the US did not want to confront Saudi Arabia, so it tried to deflect the blame elsewhere.
(I already posted this on two political threads).
Likewise some people are suspicious about how few people were actually in those towers - did they know something, and deliberately stay away? Again, a far more plausible explanation is that they had a premonition of some sort. Rupert Sheldrake mentions some study that was done of trains and planes that crashed. The number of passengers was significantly lower than on other occasions when no crash took place.
David