Honor Elizabeth Wainio
From 911myths
Honor Elizabeth Wainio was a 27-year-old district manager for Discovery Channel Stores when she died on United Airlines Flight 93.
Controversies
Wainio called her stepmother from the flight to say goodbye. The FBI reported at the Moussaoui trial that this call was made via airfone, however other researchers point to media reports saying that a cellphone was used. The significance, they claim, is that calls from cellphone are almost impossible to make from altitude, the FBI realised this and changed their story about how the calls were made.
The most common quote used to support this comes from a Newsweek article:
However, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also discusses Flight 93, and according to them Wainio was passed an Airfone:
Doubtless some will argue that Newsweek is a bigger and more important source than the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and so more reliable. Or that more reports said "cellphone" than "airfone". But in reality that's just another way of trying to ignore an inconvenient truth. The reality is that we have contradictory media reports with no clear way to distinguish which one is accurate. They cannot therefore be used on their own to establish the truth, or to claim that somehow the FBI's Moussaoui phone call evidence represents a change of story.
