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Wallace Miller is the coroner of Somerset
County, Pennsylvania. He was among the first
people to arrive at the alleged Flight 93
crash site on the morning of 9/11.
He later recounted to the Washington Post
what he'd seen when he first got there: "I
stopped being coroner after about 20
minutes, because there were no bodies there.
It became like a giant funeral service."
(Peter Perl, "Hallowed Ground," Washington
Post, 5/12/2002)
Since there were 44 people on board Flight
93, a crash site with "no bodies" makes no
sense. Where were the victims? Something
appears to have been seriously wrong.
Yet Miller now seems to dispute his earlier
claim. In the recent BBC documentary 9/11:
The Conspiracy Files, he explained: "I said
that I stopped being a coroner after about
20 minutes because it was perfectly clear
what the cause and manner of death was gonna
be. It was a plane crash but yet it was a
homicide because the terrorists hijacked the
plane and killed the people, and the
terrorists committed suicide. So from that
point, yes it was a misquote, because the
point that I was trying to make was, after
that it more or less became a large funeral
service." The BBC documentary's producer Guy
Smith endorsed this claim, telling Loose
Change creator Dylan Avery that Miller meant
his earlier statement only as "a simile. ...
It looked as if that had happened. ... But
he didn't mean that literally." (9/11: The
Conspiracy Files, BBC 2, 2/18/2007)
Was the Washington Post mistaken? Did they
"misquote" Wallace Miller? Other reports
suggest differently. In the 12 months
following 9/11, Miller in fact described the
surprising lack of human remains at the
Flight 93 crash site, repeatedly and
unequivocally:
He told author David McCall: "I got to the
actual crash site and could not believe what
I saw. ... Usually you see much debris,
wreckage, and much noise and commotion. This
crash was different. There was no wreckage,
no bodies, and no noise. ... It appeared as
though there were no passengers or crew on
this plane." (David McCall, From Tragedy to
Triumph, 2002, pp. 86-87)
He told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "It was
as if the plane had stopped and let the
passengers off before it crashed." (Tom
Gibb, "Newsmaker: Coroner's quiet
unflappability helps him take charge of
Somerset tragedy," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
10/15/2001)
He told CNN: "It was a really a very unusual
site. You almost would've thought the
passengers had been dropped off somewhere.
... Even by the standard model of an
airplane crash, there was very little, even
by those standards." (CNN, 3/11/2002)
Author Jere Longman wrote: "Wallace Miller,
the Somerset County coroner, arrived and
walked around the [crash] site with
[assistant volunteer fire chief Rick] King.
... They walked around for an hour and found
almost no human remains. 'If you didn't
know, you would have thought no one was on
the plane,' Miller said. 'You would have
thought they dropped them off somewhere.'" (Jere
Longman, Among the Heroes, 2002, p. 217)
Recalling the crash scene, Miller told the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "This is the most
eerie thing. I have not, to this day, seen a
single drop of blood. Not a drop." (Robb
Frederick, "The day that changed America,"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 9/11/2002)
Australian newspaper The Age reported:
"Miller was familiar with scenes of sudden
and violent death, although none quite like
this. Walking in his gumboots, the only
recognisable body part he saw was a piece of
spinal cord, with five vertebrae attached.
'I've seen a lot of highway fatalities where
there's fragmentation,' Miller said. 'The
interesting thing about this particular case
is that I haven't, to this day, 11 months
later, seen any single drop of blood. Not a
drop. The only thing I can deduce is that
the crash was over in half a second. There
was a fireball 15-20 metres high, so all of
that material just got vaporised.'" ("On
Hallowed Ground," The Age, 9/9/2002)
It would be ridiculous to claim that these
accounts were all 'misquotes.' Furthermore,
several other witnesses also made the same
observation, and later said they saw
virtually no human remains at the Flight 93
crash site:
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
when former firefighter Dave Fox arrived at
the scene, "He saw a wiring harness, and a
piston. None of the other pieces was bigger
than a TV remote. He saw three chunks of
torn human tissue. He swallowed hard. 'You
knew there were people there, but you
couldn't see them,' he says." (Robb
Frederick, "The day that changed America,"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 9/11/2002)
Local FBI agent Wells Morrison told author
Glenn Kashurba what he saw when he arrived
at the crash site: "We arrived in the
immediate area and walked up to the crater
and the burning woods. My first thought was,
'Where is the plane?' Because most of what I
saw was this honeycomb looking stuff, which
I believe is insulation or something like
that. I was not seeing anything that was
distinguishable either as human remains or
aircraft debris." (Glenn Kashurba, Courage
After the Crash, 2002, p. 110)
After hearing a plane was down nearby, Jeff
Phillips, who worked at Stoystown Auto
Wreckers, "left work to locate the crash
site," along with a colleague. "But when we
arrived," he says, "Almost nothing was
recognizable. The only thing we saw that was
even remotely human was half a shoe that was
probably ten feet from the impact area."
(David McCall, From Tragedy to Triumph,
2002, pp. 29-30)
Jon Meyer, a reporter with WJAC-TV, says:
"We were so early that they hadn't had a
chance to set up a barrier for the press.
... I was able to get right up to the edge
of the crater. ... All I saw was a crater
filled with small, charred plane parts. ...
There were no suitcases, no recognizable
plane parts, no body parts."(Newseum,
Running Toward Danger, 2002, p. 148)
Faye Hahn, an EMT, responded to the first
reports of the crash. She says: "Several
trees were burned badly and there were
papers everywhere. We searched. ... I was
told that there were 224 passengers, but
later found out that there were actually
forty. I was stunned. There was nothing
there." (David McCall, From Tragedy to
Triumph, 2002, pp. 31-32)
Despite this absence of human remains at the
Flight 93 crash scene, the Washington Post
reported: "[T]he 33 passengers, seven crew
and four hijackers together weighed roughly
7,000 pounds. ... Hundreds of searchers who
climbed the hemlocks and combed the woods
for weeks [after 9/11] were able to find
about 1,500 mostly scorched samples of human
tissue totaling less than 600 pounds, or
about 8 percent of the total." (Peter Perl,
"Hallowed Ground," Washington Post,
5/12/2002)
By December 19, 2001, "the remains of the 40
passengers and crew, and, by process of
elimination, the four hijackers" had all
been identified. (Steve Levin, "Flight 93
victims' effects to go back to families,"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/30/2001)
How was this possible?
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