posted on Feb, 27 2022 @ 01:02 AM
originally posted by: Kester
a reply to: pheonix358
The fuel on one plane could easily be contained in a cubic tank with 11 ft 7 inch sides. There is a great reluctance to calculate how much burned
within the buildings. Firefighters reported wading through fuel ankle deep outside the building. The first thought of stage illusionists who witnessed
the event was, 'There's the distraction, where's the action?'
There are a number of issues which make reported observations like these often unreliable. First off, I have no doubt firefighters were wading
through ankle deep liquid of some kind, but it is highly unlikely that this liquid was pure JET-B fuel. Here's the problem, JET-B fuel has a very
(and I mean VERY) strong and distinct odor. It doesn't take much JET-B to make a large area smell like it is completely inundated with the stuff when
in fact it really isn't. I work around the stuff every day, so believe me I get to smell it a lot. If you drop something as small as even a couple
of cups of JET-B on the ground, even outside, an area the size of roughly a half a football field will smell like it is completely saturated in JET-B.
Even just a drop of this stuff on your clothes will make you smell like you just took a bath in pure JET-B fuel!
Couple this with the fact that everyone, including firefighters, were in an extreme-stress environment, and the fact that water pipes all over the
building had been severed, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of water down from above, and now you can see why firefighters were in "ankle
deep" in water mixed with extremely odorous diluted JET-B fuel, and when you combine those two things (i.e. stress and ankle deep liquid which smells
like pure fuel) you can kind of imagine why a firefighter in particular would be very conscious of the odors (out of self-preservation if nothing
else).
Secondly, and I mean no disrespect to anyone with this, eyewitness accounts of events like 9-11 (and others) are notoriously inaccurate. I was
talking with an NTSB investigator a while back and he was telling me that well over 95% of eyewitness accounts of aviation incidents are seriously
flawed, inaccurate or just flat out wrong, even from professionals in the industry such as other pilots and aircrews. The amount of information the
human mind has to process as every successive second elapses is incredible, and the human brain subconsciously tries to fill in gaps it can't fully
process in the moment. Consequently, what people remember seeing is often not what really happened. Many other professions suffer from this also.
For example, police officers involved in shootings often incorrectly recall how many shots they fired, and they'll swear to one number and evidence
will find a completely different number as being fact.
Lastly, you have to understand that horrific life changing events such as 9-11 affect people even thousands of miles away. People will construct
mental narratives about what happens and then they believe these to be the truth. So, I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in wherever you were headed
with the fuel discussion, there are probably numerous errors in what you perceive to be the facts you are drawing conclusions from.
edit on 2/27/2022 by Flyingclaydisk because: (no reason given)