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originally posted by: Scrubdog
a reply to: neutronflux
You have a way of taking every statement and making it strangely personal, it's quite weird.
I said that I found it odd that they would litigate a request for the video. You first tell me (with certainty) that they would be trying to hide the inadequate security around the Pentagon. Ok, that's one explanation, definitely not the only one, no matter how certain you might be.
And yet If make me the Justice Department or Defense Depart attorney, or officer in possession of the video, faced with that suit making that request, I would immediately note the downside of withholding such information, that it would needlessly cause people to question the motivations for doing so. When one sees what all was released, then it becomes an even bigger mystery because the disclosure itself did not speak to obvious security vulnerability, it spoke to the fact they do not have a picture of the airplane - something they would've been FAR better off simply admitting first off.
The dynamic here is just strange. I haven't made any assertions, made no claim to know anything, DID make clear that I'm not comfortable with anything about being a "truther" (and yet you lump me into buying into "them" wholesale), basically think out loud about some very simple questions that have always bothered me, and I get, in equal parts, answers, scorn, challenged, and derision. Almost as if it is wrong for one to have questions at all.
Deal with it: I find it extremely ODD that there is not one picture, anywhere, of an airplane in and around the Pentagon.
THAT is IT.
Sometimes I get the distinct feeling that there are people who are obligated (somehow) to ensure that those who question accepted positions, come to regret doing so.
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: Scrubdog
You are correct about the absence of photographic or video evidence of AA77 streaking across the front yard of likely the world's most secure building and front yard.
It is also interesting that the FBI quickly seized videos from hotels and other private businesses in the vicinity before the sun went down. Apparently they were protecting the public by not letting it see AA77 striking the front door.
It gets even better. The FDR data provided by the government 5 years after the request was not assigned to airframe. According to Dennis Cimino, an expert in such instrumentation, not being assigned to an airframe is a sure sign of the counterfeit nature of the government supplied information.
If the government has such a solid case, if the government has nothing to hide, why is it hiding so much?
Bringing Closure to the 9/11 Pentagon Debate
911truth.org...
911truth.org...
Pentagon Security Videos: Recent work on the video from two Pentagon security cameras shows that they captured images of the approaching, low-flying plane. In his paper “The 85 Pentagon Area Surveillance Cameras,” Ken Jenkins explains the images, how the date error came about, and the likely origins for the trailing white smoke. There is no evidence at this time that the government is withholding other images of the event captured by the surveillance cameras.
Ken Jenkins and David Chandler also recently took pairs of sequential images from the Pentagon surveillance video cameras, putting them together as you would see them in what is called a blink comparator. In this way, the image of the plane “pops out.” If you watch the image cycle a few times, the details of the plane are clearly visible. You can find the blink comparisons on David Chandler’s website, 911SpeakOut.or
The 85 Pentagon Area Surveillance Cameras
www.9-11tv.org...
www.9-11tv.org...
From that starting point, the numbers of useful recordings regarding the Pentagon event begin to fall dramatically:
Very nearly 2/3rds of the 85 recordings, specifically 56 “of these video recordings did not show either the Pentagon building, the Pentagon crash site, or the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11.”
Of the remaining 29 video recordings, 16 did show some part of the Pentagon, but “did not show the Pentagon crash site and did not show the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon.”
Of the 13 remaining recordings, 11 “only showed the Pentagon after the impact of Flight 77.” An example is the video that was released from the Doubletree Hotel. That camera was initially pointed away from the Pentagon, then repositioned minutes after the crash to point towards the smoke cloud rising from the Pentagon crash site.
The two remaining recordings, from the Pentagon’s two security cameras both clearly showed the Pentagon impact fireball. One of those two recordings seems to show only the fin of the plane, due to a foreground obstruction. The other recording seems to show the entire plane, but also at low resolution.
www.judicialwatch.org...
Judicial Watch v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No.06-1135)
November 01, 2011
Judicial Watch lawsuit to obtain previously unseen footage of Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request on December 15, 2004, seeking all records pertaining to camera recordings from the Sheraton National Hotel, the Nexcomm/Citgo gas station, Pentagon security cameras and the Virginia Department of Transportation.On May 16, 2006, Judicial Watch forced the Department of Defense to release video footage of American Airlines flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11. The videos had been kept secret by the DoD until Judicial Watch filed the FOIA request and, eventually, a lawsuit stating that the DoD had “no legal basis” to refuse release of the footage. On September 15, 2006, Judicial Watch released videos from the CITGO gas station near the Pentagon, which was released by the FBI in response to the FOIA request.Judicial Watch is committed to completing the public record of the 9/11 attacks.
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
I have truthful narratives NF, and that makes you angry.
The bloody pentagon has no cameras, is what you want me to believe. Sorry, all I can do is laugh at such ridiculous claims.
The 85 Pentagon Area Surveillance Cameras
Why very few cameras captured the impact event
www.9-11tv.org...
There are a number of valid reasons why only 4 of the 85 videos were released by the FBI in response to a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request filed in 2004, which was fulfilled in 2006. Because of a number of factors (listed below and detailed in the footnotes) only 2 of the 85 cameras captured any useful footage of the plane-impact event[1].
Most of those 85 cameras were not aimed in the direction of the Pentagon and/or at the part of the Pentagon in question.
Most cameras were located a considerable distance from the impact event, and virtually all surveillance cameras had wide-angle (fisheye) lenses which cause some geometric distortion and render distant objects at very low resolution.
Many cameras had obstructed views of the Pentagon impact area.
In 2001, virtually all surveillance cameras had low spacial resolution.
In 2001, most or all surveillance cameras recorded at low frame rates (low temporal resolution), generally at one frame per second.
The high speed of the plane, accelerating to over 550 mph, caused some image blurring and offered a low chance of catching more than a single frame of the plane, given the low-recorded frame rate (one frame/sec).
Bringing Closure to the 9/11 Pentagon Debate
911truth.org...
Pentagon Security Videos: Recent work on the video from two Pentagon security cameras shows that they captured images of the approaching, low-flying plane. In his paper “The 85 Pentagon Area Surveillance Cameras,” Ken Jenkins explains the images, how the date error came about, and the likely origins for the trailing white smoke. There is no evidence at this time that the government is withholding other images of the event captured by the surveillance cameras.
Ken Jenkins and David Chandler also recently took pairs of sequential images from the Pentagon surveillance video cameras, putting them together as you would see them in what is called a blink comparator. In this way, the image of the plane “pops out.” If you watch the image cycle a few times, the details of the plane are clearly visible. You can find the blink comparisons on David Chandler’s website, 911SpeakOut.org.
Flight AA77 on 9/11: New FDR Analysis Supports the Official Flight Path Leading to Impact with the Pentagon
Frank Legge, (B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.) and Warren Stutt, ( B.Sc.(Hons.) Comp. Sci.) January 2011
www.journalof911studies.com...
Summary and Conclusion
In response to FOIA requests the NTSB provided a CSV file and a coded FDR file. All contradictions between the official account of the course of flight AA 77 and these files appear to be traceable to missing data. In the case of the CSV file the data stopped about four seconds short of the impact. In the case of the FDR file the final frame was not initially decoded. Some researchers recognized that data was missing, while others claimed that the files proved the official account was false, as it appeared the flight terminated at a point too high to have created the observed damage trail on the ground.
Previous analyses were further confounded by uncertainty of the position of the last data point; failure to consider possible calibration errors in the pressure altimeter data, caused by high speed and low altitude; and false information in the NTSB flight animation.
The recent complete decoding of the FDR file has enlarged and clarified the information available and has thereby enabled resolution of the contradictions. It is clear that this file supports the official account of the course of flight AA 77 and the consequent impact with the Pentagon. The file thus also supports the majority of eyewitness reports.
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: turbonium1
Can you even show one floor of the towers could handle more the the equivalent dynamic load of six floors hitting it.
You cannot even cite the capacities for the the floors of the towers.
We are supposed to believe one floor composed of relatively light weight tresses could take the falling weight of 12 falling stories?
Yes I get the context kinetic energy increases with velocity. We are shown a jet less than 300,000 pounds could cut through the vertical and core columns?
But you want use to believe that one floor of one tower could take the equivalent of 25 percent or 10 percent of the building falling into it and not fail?
www.nist.gov...
12. Was there enough gravitational energy present in the WTC towers to cause the collapse of the intact floors below the impact floors? Why weren't the collapses of WTC 1 and WTC 2 arrested by the intact structure below the floors where columns first began to buckle?
Yes, there was more than enough gravitational load to cause the collapse of the floors below the level of collapse initiation in both WTC towers. The vertical capacity of the connections supporting an intact floor below the level of collapse was adequate to carry the load of 11 additional floors if the load was applied gradually and 6 additional floors if the load was applied suddenly (as was the case). Since the number of floors above the approximate floor of collapse initiation exceeded six in each WTC tower (12 floors in WTC 1 and 29 floors in WTC 2), the floors below the level of collapse initiation were unable to resist the suddenly applied gravitational load from the upper floors of the buildings.
Consider a typical floor immediately below the level of collapse initiation and conservatively assume that the floor is still supported on all columns (i.e., the columns below the intact floor did not buckle or peel off due to the failure of the columns above). Consider further the truss seat connections between the primary floor trusses and the exterior wall columns or core columns. The individual connection capacities ranged from 94,000 pounds to 395,000 pounds, with a total vertical load capacity for the connections on a typical floor of 29,000,000 pounds (see Section 5.2.4 of NIST NCSTAR 1-6C). The total floor area outside the core was approximately 31,000 square feet, and the average load on a floor under service conditions on Sept. 11, 2001, was 80 pounds per square foot. Thus, the total vertical load on a floor outside the core can be estimated by multiplying the floor area (31,000 square feet) by the gravitational load (80 pounds per square foot), which yields 2,500,000 pounds (this is a conservative load estimate since it ignores the weight contribution of the heavier mechanical floors at the top of each WTC tower). By dividing the total vertical connection capacity (29,000,000 pounds) of a floor by the total vertical load applied to the connections (2,500,000 pounds), the number of floors that can be supported by an intact floor is calculated to be a total of 12 floors or 11 additional floors.
This simplified and conservative analysis indicates that the floor connections could have carried only a maximum of about 11 additional floors if the load from these floors were applied statically. Even this number is (conservatively) high, since the load from above the collapsing floor is being applied suddenly. Since the dynamic amplification factor for a suddenly applied load is 2, an intact floor below the level of collapse initiation could not have supported more than six floors. Since the number of floors above the level where the collapse initiated exceeded six for both towers (12 for WTC 1 and 29 for WTC 2), neither tower could have arrested the progression of collapse once collapse initiated. In reality, the highest intact floor was about three (WTC 2) to six (WTC 1) floors below the level of collapse initiation. Thus, more than the 12 to 29 floors reported above actually loaded the intact floor suddenly.
originally posted by: Salander
Thank you NF--none of the videos contained images or footage of AA77. Rather the point here isn't it?
In a rational world, that means that AA77 did not strike the building, and that is corroborated by Cimino's work showing the FDR provided by the government was counterfeit.
A logical question would be "Did they find other wallets? Other passports, other items KNOWN to be from a passenger? Because if that's the one single thing to be found, it stinks to high hell and I have NO idea how that doesn't eat at your brain, wondering "what are the odds?"