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Originally posted by esdad71
We could also call the guy who operated and maintained the machinery in the picture.
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It crashed 3 miles from his house. I think this disproves the theory.
Originally posted by esdad71Why would the US government wait till 9/11 and then use an excavator to drop an engine into a hole?
Originally posted by esdad71
Chuck Wagner,
Originally posted by zerotimeI will agree with others that this post is boardline hoax. If we are to the point were a poster can make up anything they want...
Originally posted by Killtown
Wow, what a firestorm I cause with this!
The typical insults being hurled at me by members and even a mod insulting me and threatening to ban me over this!
I've must of hit the nail on the head about that engine being planted with the backhoe bucket!
Originally posted by Killtown
Originally posted by zerotimeI will agree with others that this post is boardline hoax. If we are to the point were a poster can make up anything they want...
What makes you think my thread is a "hoax"? What did I "make up"?
Originally posted by nick7261
Second, look at the engine itself and the lack of dirt around it. The photo seems to imply that the scoop of the excavator uncovered the engine. However, there's no way an excavator scoop like the one shown in the photo would have been able to carefully dig out the dirt above and around the engine.
Fourth, look at the angle of the engine. FL 93 is said to have hit at a 45 degree angle, but the engine appears nearly vertical. I don't see how the engine could NOT have been wedged at the same 45 degree angle that the plane hit. In fact, the damage to the engine seems to be from a force along the axis of the engine, not at a 45 degree angle.
It seems to me that the engine in the photo was put there for the photo. Whether or not it was excavated further down and then placed there, I don't know. But I think Killtown raises legitimate questions about the photo.
[edit on 13-6-2007 by nick7261]
Originally posted by thelibra
Killtown, in the future, please refrain from just making things up
Originally posted by Sparky63Is there a timestamp on this pic or any way to determine when it was taken in relation to its discovery in the hole?
Originally posted by Fowl Play
I hope you sell nothing of whatever you are thinking about releasing, or are you just a wannabee Killtown..
Originally posted by Killtown
What things have I "made up"?
Originally posted by esdad71
and look at this picture and you can put a plane in the charred area, can we not?
Originally posted by esdad71
This is the original image.
Originally posted by esdad71
This is the original image.
Originally posted by Unit541
Why would a back hoe be needed to toss some engine scrap in a hole? Seems to me you could just shove it in and get the same effect.
Originally posted by GriffTo me it looks like they excavated the engine out of a deeper hole to the right (where you can't see) and then placed it there (closer to the top) for a photo op. Or is the official story that they excavated around it and didn't move it until after the photo?
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
As far as theories go......I don't see how this is off base at all.