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Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
So a plane appears out of the blue, fires a missile, then dissapears into the blue...
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
Originally posted by SMR
Really? First I have heard of this. So this C-130 tracked it, followed it, and I assume watched it crash into the Pentagon? ............ Why do I have trouble seeing this happening?
Reagan Airport flight control instructs a military C-130 (Golfer 06) that has just departed Andrews Air Force Base to intercept Flight 77 and identify it. [Guardian, 11/17/2001; New York Times, 11/16/2001] Remarkably, this C-130 is the same C-130 that is 17 miles from Flight 93 when it later crashes into the Pennsylvania countryside (see 10:08 a.m.). [Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), 10/11/2002; Pittsburgh Channel, 10/15/2001] The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Steve O’Brien, claims he took off around 9:30 a.m., planning to return to Minnesota after dropping supplies off in the Caribbean. He later describes his close encounter: “When air traffic control asked me if we had him [Flight 77] in sight, I told him that was an understatement—by then, he had pretty much filled our windscreen. Then he made a pretty aggressive turn so he was moving right in front of us, a mile and a half, two miles away. I said we had him in sight, then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was. That caught us up, because normally they have all that information. The controller didn’t seem to know anything.” O’Brien reports that the plane is either a 757 or 767 and its silver fuselage means it is probably an American Airlines plane. “They told us to turn and follow that aircraft—in 20 plus years of flying, I’ve never been asked to do something like that.” [Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), 10/11/2002] The 9/11 Commission Reports that it is a C-130H and the pilot specifically identifies the hijacked plane as a 757. Seconds after impact, he reports, “Looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, sir.” [9/11 Commission, 7/17/2004]
Fireman Alan Wallace is busy with a safety crew at the Pentagon’s heliport pad. As Wallace is walking in front of the Pentagon, he looks up and sees Flight 77 coming straight at him. It is about 25 feet off the ground, with no landing wheels visible, a few hundred yards away, and closing fast. He runs about 30 feet and dives under a nearby van. [Washington Post, 10/21/2001] The plane is traveling at about 460 mph, and flying so low that it clips the tops of streetlights. [CBS News, 10/21/2001] Using the radio in the van, he calls his fire chief at nearby Fort Myer and says, “We have had a commercial carrier crash into the west side of the Pentagon at the heliport, Washington Boulevard side. The crew is OK. The airplane was a 757 Boeing or a 320 Airbus.” [Scripps Howard News Service, 9/1/2002]
Originally posted by SMR
'“When air traffic control asked me if we had him [Flight 77] in sight,'
'I said we had him in sight, then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was.'
Ok, that doesnt seem odd to anyone?
They ask him to find this plane, then ask what kind it is? How the hell can they tell someone to go find a plane they dont even know what it is!?
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Radar, eyewitnesses on the ground, eyewitnesses in the air, confirmation from passengers on the plane, etc.
Please tell me how that plane magically disappeared while everyone was watching it and was replaced by a missile or whatever the theory is.
(8:56 a.m.): Flight 77 Transponder Signal Disappears; NORAD Not Informed
Originally posted by Tommio
maybe you should read the rest of your source
(8:56 a.m.): Flight 77 Transponder Signal Disappears; NORAD Not Informed
see here for the link
And who was this that was telling him this...........? Air traffic control?....... and they had to be told what this was? ........sure thing.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Originally posted by Tommio
maybe you should read the rest of your source
(8:56 a.m.): Flight 77 Transponder Signal Disappears; NORAD Not Informed
see here for the link
Transponder does not = radar
"Washington flight controllers are watching Flight 77’s radar blip. Just before radar contact is lost, FAA headquarters is told, “The aircraft is circling. It’s turning away from the White House.” [USA Today, 9/13/2002] Then the blip disappears. Its last known position is six miles from the Pentagon and four miles from the White House. The plane is said to be traveling 500 mph, or a mile every seven seconds."
Destroying an unmanned drone masquerading as a commercial aircraft supposedly full of "college students off on a holiday". This proposal was the one supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
An F-86 (Global Hawk) properly painted would convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MIG (AA Boeing 757), especialy if the pilot of the transport were to anounce such fact. The primary drawback to this suggestion appears to be the security risk inherent in obtaining or modifying an aircraft.
b. Take off times of these drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxilary field at Eglin AFB where arrangments will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to it's original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Yeah
And what are you talking about? Did you not read it or read what I just said. I said they told the C 130 to follow it! They only asked if they had the plane in sight (I don't know if you understand how things work but what reason would they have NOT to tell the C 130 to confirm the identity of a plane that's threatening Washington?)
asked me what kind of plane it was. That caught us up, because normally they have all that information. The controller didn’t seem to know anything.