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Originally posted by HowardRoark
You've got to be kidding me.
I'm rather disappointed in you, Loam, I thought that you were smarter than that.
Originally posted by HowardRoark
You've got to be kidding me.
I'm rather disappointed in you, Loam, I thought that you were smarter than that.
Originally posted by loam
(Oh, and thanks for the enviro alert jab... Unfortunately, I have plenty more where those come from.... *sigh* )
Originally posted by jprophet420
you would think we would remember another plane in the air.
Originally posted by snafu7700
personally, i wouldnt think anything of it. the picture is obviously taken as the second plane is hitting the tower. at that point, they hadnt started grounding everything yet.
Originally posted by snafu7700
from the looks of it, it's another aircraft at a much higher altitude. but thats just MHO.
Originally posted by loam
Does the aircraft appear to be descending? Where is LaGuardia or Kennedy in relationship the the orientation of the WTC buildings in the photo? Was it normal for commercial aircraft to be in the area this picture suggests?
[edit on 9-8-2006 by loam]
No mention of a large, commercial-class aircraft loitering in the restricted airspace of lower Manhattan during the strikes on the WTC towers will be found in the 9/11 Commission Report. It does not appear in any version of the Official Story. It is largely unknown even in critical studies of 9/11. Yet substantial evidence exists to support its presence coincident with the attacks, actually orbiting in close proximity to the towers for several minutes while the North Tower burned and the South Tower was struck. Photography, video footage and eyewitness accounts, including FDNY transcripts and mainstream media audio, confirm this fact.
Why is this significant? Let us consider the commercial air traffic on a typical Tuesday morning over New York City. There are three major airports servicing the city: La Guardia and JFK International to the east, and Newark International across the Hudson to the west. Normal holding patterns for these airports do not intersect the borough of Manhattan at any point. Lower Manhattan is, and was on the morning of 9/11/01, a low-altitude flight-restricted (no fly) zone for commercial jets, as designated by the FAA, for the obvious reason that heavy, fast-moving aircraft and tall buildings pose mutual hazards. Air traffic near the WTC towers was doubly restricted, with a minimum ceiling extending two thousand feet above the towers (3,300 feet) within a radius of one nautical mile, excepting only police aviation without special permit. These were the VFR (visual flight rules) parameters in effect on the morning of 9/11. Once WTC1 was hit, the black smoke plume expanding southeast from the tower would pose an additional threat to navigation.
No avoidance warning from Air Traffic Control would be necessary, as no rational commercial pilot (no matter how curious) would risk his aircraft, crew or passengers in a "fly-by" of the burning North Tower. But in this anonymous Camera Planet segment we see a large, twin-jet aircraft (757/767-class) doing just that at approximately 8:58am (assuming the time signature is uncorrected by one hour), five minutes before WTC2 will be struck. Even disregarding the indicated time, as WTC1 is burning and WTC2 is not, the segment is clearly recorded between 8:46am and 9:03am. Note this white aircraft with dark engines and vertical stabilizer is not the aircraft that will impact WTC2.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
And from that picture we can certainly tell that it was over lower Manhattan, and not farther back away from the city.