An update to “10-5 the message about the remote controlled plane”

I received a lot of email regarding the potential existance of a paper trail related to the arrests of the two suspects in the exploding-mural-van event, located in an NYPD radio transmission from 9/11.

Although I’ve looked in to this question to no avail, this presented another question of whether or not there were additional paper trails associated with this compartment of the operation.

In my piece entitled “Tan Ford Alpha Van at Holland Tunnel Exit”, I dissect an NYPD transmission in which the following statement is made:

MALE C : (Inaudible) from the Holland Tunnel exit, a tan Ford alpha van . New York tags . delta (Inaudible), November 8970 . (N8970)

If you’ve read the piece you’ll know that I speculate that this is the same van that appeared at King St. between 6th and 7th avenue and allegedly exploded.

What’s interesting about this license plate number, less the delta, is what follows, N8970, which also represents a registered tail number for a government owned 1956 Corvair, fixed-wing, single engine aircraft. Perhaps, yet another paper trail.

-Culhavoc