Better Pentagon Image
Apparently there were two videos released. Wizbang has a screen cap that shows quite a bit more of the plane. I'm trying to get the second video to play on my machine with Real Player, but there seems to be some problem (first guess is the servers are overloaded).
Here's the CNN coverage (which does not show the new videos). I like what Barbara Starr has to say about the CT crowd near the end.
This also is expected to put to rest some of the internet chatter, some of the sort of fringe comments that have been out on the internet for years now about whether or not a plane really hit this building, and of course a plane did hit this building.
A commenter over at Hot Air pointed us to this excellent debunking of the cruise missile theory.
Eyewitness accounts of folks who saw the crash located here, here and here. And here, which I believe was the one I was looking for in the first place.
posted by Pat @ 2:47 PM
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22 Comments:
This picture contradicts the findings of that site you posted. It clearly shows 3 exit holes on the 3rd ring.
ROTFMLAO Wow,a perfectly rectangular exit hole. What are the odds? That isn't an exit hole genius, that is a door.
If there are three exit holes, how could it have been a missile?
LOL! Look here for what could have caused 3 different holes, blast points, exit "wounds", whatever you want to call them.
The official conspiracy theory has us believe the plane was so fragile; it vaporized on impact, yet was strong enough to produce the 3 holes you see in that picture and through two rings of the Pentagon. You can't have it both ways.
Wow,a perfectly rectangular exit hole.
Damn! You guys are dense. Look at all the wall sections, obviously, the surround of that section collapsed the way the wall was constructed. The one with the circular exit hole didn’t collapse like the others.
Here's the "nose cone" we're probably seeing in the new videos:
AGM-86C/D Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile
I'm sorry, is there STILL idiots out there who beleive that a cruise missile can punch through a reinforced structure, detonate inside, then misteriously manage to continue on it's path after detonating, punch through another wall, detonate again, punch through two more walls, and then create three exit holes?
That calls for, what, somewhere in the neighbourhood of 5-6 seperate warheads? Each one of which is able to penetrate through concrete and survive the explosion of neighbouring warheads?
Hell while you're at it you may as well suggest that they just shot up the pentagon with space-based lasers. Or maybe photon torpedoes.
Paul,
My strong but respectfully submitted opinion: The Popular Mech. Article didn't debunk anything.
BG - You're very mysterious. You leave these comments that just throw out your various opinions, but they never go on to explain your reasons for having them.
I just found this site today. Please explain to me WHY the PM article debunked nothing in your opinion.
Please explain to me WHY the PM article debunked nothing in your opinion.
Not speaking for BG, but the PM article left out the various war games that were underway on that day. They are the corner stone of many in the truth movement feel NORAD stood down. There were no orders in place but there were sufficient "operations" going on that delayed their responses. This is all documented and strangely not even mentioned once in the PM piece.
Why the PM article debunked nothing:
Debunking PM's supposed debunk of 9/11 Truth
You do know, Chad, that there was a pretty big personnel shake up at PM 3 or 4 months before the hit piece.
You do, know, Chad, that they contacted Alex Jones prior to the story. The interviewed him for the story. They assured him that they were not writing a hit piece. They gave him no chance see or rebut the article.
If you have been studying 9/11 intensively as some of us had, the PM article didn't mean squat.
Chad,
For anyone like you, (new and hopefully open minded), check out
911 Eyewitness Video (Google Vid)
Again, eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate. Anything going hundreds of miles per hour would just look like a blur from close by. Witnesses certainly knew they saw something, but it wasn't until they spent the day hearing from the TV, radio, and people they talked to that it was an airplane that they could then 'remember' 'seeing' anything specific. I'm not blaming them, however, as this is a psychological phenomenon exhibited by everyone.
My point is, you can't rely on eyewitness testimony.
OMG that is a stupid theory. The Blue Angels visit Seattle every summer for Seafair. I have seen them perform several times, and even at the high speeds they fly, I have never once mistaken them for a Boeing 767. In fact I don't think even the most nearsighted Seattleite ever has.
A cruise missile is even more disimilar than an F-18.
On the eyewitnesses; if you're going to be fair, why link them from "urbanlegends.about.com?" Here's are more complete account and as you can see; they include most of what people saw. From missiles to small commuter plane to the AA plane. Many people saw many different things.
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/flight77/witnesses.html
No, one guy thought he saw a small commuter plane, everyone else thought it was a commercial jetliner. Not a single person claims they saw a missile. There are people who say it "sounded" like a missile, or "acted" like a missile, which I would imagine a jetliner crashing into a building at 500 MPH would. Please look up a dictionary and introduce yourself to the concept of a simile.
This does not make your case.
Excerpts from an interview with Major Lincoln Leibner, who worked in Cables Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon.
"I was just about to make my turn up the sidewalk towards one of the entrances when I heard jet engines. It was not the normal jet track into National Airport, which is very, very different. I turned my head about maybe 90 degrees towards the sound of the engines, which were very loud. I fully expected to see A-10s or F-15s or something, and I saw the American Airlines airplane coming down. I watched the entire terminal descent into the building. It’s probably the loudest noise I ever heard in my life. I have heard artillery very close. I have heard rock concerts, but nothing came close to that noise. I watched the entire airplane go into the building. I was personally shook by whatever percussion, and not hit, and the fireball from my angle wasn’t as dramatic as I have subsequently seen on the file tape.
I got to the building. Remarkably, there was no debris from the airplane. In the immediate area around the Pentagon, the grass was all scorched and blackened. Windows were obviously knocked out and you could hear a fire inside the building but the fires weren’t that prevalent at that point. It was just smoke, and it wasn’t even all that bad.
One man in the ambulance with me had no idea what happened, kept asking whether it was a bomb.
I told them what I had seen and what I gather is that I was the first personal account that he had. Even at this point, I don’t believe the Secretary was confident that, in fact, a civilian airliner had hit the building. I think **they** still speculated about a bomb, a cruise missile, a small aircraft, but I was glad I was able to give useful information. I told them the plane came in full throttle, level, flaps up, wheels up, wasn’t crashed into the building, was flown into the building.
The Secretary was essentially incredulous, but, then again, maybe that was just his manner. He asked me if I was sure. And as I said, I was close enough to look into the windows of the airplane as it flew passed. There was no doubt in my mind what I had seen."
So who's this "they" he's talking about? Why so much speculation? Either a plane hit or it didn't, end of story.
Others:
D. S. Khavkin - my husband and I heard an aircraft directly overhead. At first, we thought it was the jets that sometimes fly overhead. However, it appeared to be a **small** commercial aircraft.
Steve Patterson - He said the plane, which sounded like the high-pitched squeal of a fighter jet, flew over Arlington cemetary so low that he thought it was going to land on I-395. He said it was flying so fast that he couldn't read any writing on the side.
The plane, which appeared to hold about eight to 12 people, headed straight for the Pentagon...
There are more, even one on Loose Change.
Boeing does provid specs on the 757:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/757family/pf/pf_300tech.html
The tail height is 44.5 feet; wingspan is 124 feet.
As a former Air Force officer (not a pilot, but an engineer working on air-to-air missiles) and an FAA consultant, there is something else about the Pentagon strike that bothers me: how could a 757 not following a flight plan (routing info required to be supplied to the FAA) disappear from FAA radar?
At the speed and altitude Flight 77 was reported to be traveling at, it should have been a red flag to the FAA and they should have had plenty of notice that it was flying toward DC. Given that, there was plenty of time to scramble fighters from Andrews Air Force Base to intercept Flight 77. There's no way this could have been a surprise to the government.
Also, the speed and altitude of Flight 77 would have made it extremely difficult to fly for seasoned pilots, let alone a neophyte terrorist who did not even know how to land it.
I find it highly unlikely that 1) the government did not see Flight 77 coming and did not do something about it; and, 2) that the terrorist had the ability to pilot it into the Pentagon.
"The 747-400 tail height is 63 feet 8 inches (19.4 m), equivalent to a six-story building."
That's a 747 which is much bigger than a 757. It also happens to be the height of the aircraft (747) INCLUDING IT'S LANDING GEAR. I somehow doubt the hijackers lowered their landing gear before slamming into the building. You can subtract, at the very least, 10 feet for the landing gear, which would give you a height of 53 feet for a 747, and more like 30 feet for a 757. And even those numbers are more than likely too large since I'm just judging the height of the landing gear from the last time I stood beside one.
As for the nonsense about IFF transmitting missiles, please do us all a favour, firmly grab hold of the back of your head with an overhand grasp, and, with a smooth but firm motion, remove it from your posterior. An IFF system on a missile would be absolutely useless.
..if you guys believe that those are clear videos of a plane hitting the Pentagon...well...i am sorry...ah ah ah ah ....OH My God...can't stop laughing...!!!
Can you exactly tell me where do you see a plane hit the Pentagon in those videos....those videos are an insult to people intelligence.
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