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Date Posted: 12:32:29 09/29/01 Sat
Author: Shirleym
Subject: Oh my... that's really unbelievable.
In reply to: PJ 's message, "OT" on 19:55:12 09/26/01 Wed


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[> [> Urban Legends follow-up on the wing dings... -- PJ, 14:52:13 09/29/01 Sat

From the UL website:

Which brings us, lastly, to "Q33NY," which we are now being told in email lore was the flight number of one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In Wingdings it looks like this:

(this part didn't cut and paste)

Obviously we're supposed to interpret this as a direct reference to the terrorist attack. It's all there — the airplane, the twin "towers" (okay, that's a stretch — they look like documents to me), a skull and crossbones (symbolizing death) and the Star of David (evidently meant to represent anti-Israeli sentiments on the part of the hijackers).

There's just one problem: Neither of the airliners involved in the attack on the World Trade Center bore the number "Q33NY." The actual flight numbers were as follows: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. It's clear, then, that someone carefully fabricated the sequence of numbers and letters in the email to achieve the desired effect.

No "spooky prophecy" or "weird coincidence" there — just a hoax.


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