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Craig has also responded, but I don't think I will dignify his post with a significant response. Craig you are simply equivocating and complaining that I require more than eyewitness verification to accuse many hundreds of people of complicity in mass murder.
you claim that eyewitness accounts are corroborated, but make no effort to find if these accounts do conflict. For example your argument for Mr Middleton is that he could not see the plane if it were on the southerly flight path, but you do not apply this same logic to Mr Paik. Mr Paik was surrounded by buildings limiting his field of view to the north in much the same way as Mr Middleton was limited to the south. Despite the fact these two people describe flight paths which are at odds you simply claim they corroborate each other.
I am not trying to claim you are afraid of my calculations, I simply find it amusing that despite your theory being "proven" it does not seem to hold up to even amateur physics based analysis.
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
Strawman.
So now we have to find conflicts? Ah, because you are the authority and the goal posts weren't moved enough huh? We have to capitulate to your demands huh?
We've always said Paik could not see the plane after it passed over him, but he puts it heading right to the north side flight path in his directional deduction, which would corroborate Middleton. In fact, he drew on an overhead satellite shot.
Ex, you're flounderin'.
What theory? There is no theory. Witnesses all place the plane on the north side of the Citgo.
"Amateur physics based analysis"? Really? An amateur physicist looked at this? Why not a professional aeronautical engineer? Or a professional pilot?
What speed did this amateur physicist use? Did he obtain the black box data to the NoC attack jet and we just don't know about it or did he use "unreliable witness memory" to determine those types of values?
Ex, people read what you are writing, then they watch the interviews, then they realize how wrong and desperate you are. Seriously, you can't be serious can you?
The plane was on the north side.
Originally posted by exponent
This was not an argument, this was a response to your question. Please don't straw man my position.
Ok, please answer my question while ignoring anywhere I say 'AA77' and replacing it with 'the plane'.
No it's the path I generated to comply with only 2 of your witnesses, both of whom I do not disagree with, and which agrees with the North of Citgo theory.
Not at all, a red herring is an item intended to distract from the original debate. My requirement for exact speeds is the original debate.
Forensic accuracy is not required,
as for the rest of this quote, your attempt to slight me based on "belief" is ludicrous. The type of aircraft is irrelevant.
Is this even a real question? I'm here because this is where many false claims are made and it is my intention to confront these false claims, including yours when you see fit to post here.
Again you refer to "belief". This is a CIT tactic of simply claiming one theory is proven and the other is unverified. I could make the same claims but I feel it is a rather shallow tactic that adds nothing to the debate.
...I am also familiar with the history of debates on 911 and I am not an idiot.
I apologise if you do not endorse CITs theory, I was referring to the theory being put forward by CIT as addressed in this thread.
Their claims are based on their analyses, these analyses are not strawmen. Your nomenclature is entirely incorrect.
"Beyond reasonable doubt" is required in any criminal case. Do you feel this is a civil case?
No indeed, it would be a criminal case.
The plane which impacted The Pentagon was AA77.
This has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
You may notice that the word reasonable is not objective. This is why there is a jury in these cases.
Very good!
This is very factual and deserves much attention. You did a good job on presenting your case. While watching, I put myself in a court room and listened as if this were a court case and your argument was very compelling.
Jeff
For example your argument for Mr Middleton is that he could not see the plane if it were on the southerly flight path, but you do not apply this same logic to Mr Paik.
Mr Paik was surrounded by buildings limiting his field of view to the north in much the same way as Mr Middleton was limited to the south. Despite the fact these two people describe flight paths which are at odds you simply claim they corroborate each other.
Originally posted by exponent
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
Strawman.
I apologise if it was, but I don't think it is.
So now we have to find conflicts? Ah, because you are the authority and the goal posts weren't moved enough huh? We have to capitulate to your demands huh?
You are not required to capitulate to my demands, and I am not any authority on this matter. You have so far failed to bring this to any actual authorities so I am simply pointing out problems I have with your theory. If you don't want to convince me then that's fine, convince someone who actually matters.
We've always said Paik could not see the plane after it passed over him, but he puts it heading right to the north side flight path in his directional deduction, which would corroborate Middleton. In fact, he drew on an overhead satellite shot.
Could you post that please?
What theory? There is no theory. Witnesses all place the plane on the north side of the Citgo.
I'm not going to go into the fact that all of these witnesses also claim that the plane impacted The Pentagon, my previous posts speak on this matter.
"Amateur physics based analysis"? Really? An amateur physicist looked at this? Why not a professional aeronautical engineer? Or a professional pilot?
I am only an amateur physicist, Beachnut is a professional pilot, and I believe that R Mackey is a professional engineer. Your requirements have been met.
I doubt it.
Originally posted by beachnut
All the paths drawn, 6 years after based on 6 year old memories are not physically possible.
Originally posted by beachnut
All the paths drawn, 6 years after based on 6 year old memories are not physically possible.
The 1.5 DME stored in the INS,
does not trump the INS.
The INS is 1500 feet off near the Pentagon, down from 2000 feet off at takeoff.
The DME must be stored by FARs at 1 mile resolution.
77 FDR stored DME at 0.25 NM resolution. This means 1.5 DME is not 1.5 NM from DCA.
Do a study on the DME on 77, you will find on 9/11 it was averaging about 0.35 NM accuracy.
Do your own analysis or pay an engineer to do it for you.
As you know the DME accuracy can be as high, close in, just under 1/2 mile and 3 percent of the distance far from the station. The best accuracy close in, 0.0 DME to 8 DME is 0.23 NM. An actual distance of Flight 77 of 1.85 NM from DCA can be stored as 1.5 DME.
My flying license is good for life. I was flying aerobatics in supersonic jets at the age of 23, a left seat Aircraft Commander/Aircrew Commander/(Equal to a Captain on an airliner) at the age of 26, flying missions and passengers in a 300,000 pound class jet aircraft all over the world. How old are you? 38?
The interviews were great, but the paths they drew are not possible to fly. That means 77 was not where they said it was.
So CIT says all the paths are wrong too? Which one is it? Which path is the right one?
Originally posted by exponent
The identity of the craft is irrelevant
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
So you are wrong.
Originally posted by beachnut
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
So you are wrong.
Boger saw 77 impact the Pentagon. And all your witnesses agree, 77 impacted the Pentagon.
Originally posted by almighty bob
Originally posted by beachnut
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
So you are wrong.
Boger saw 77 impact the Pentagon. And all your witnesses agree, 77 impacted the Pentagon.
How can you trust that? It's based on a six year old memory?
But, yes, if you are going to accept that he saw a northside flight path, then realistically you should accept that he saw something impact with the Pentagon.
As I understand it though, the crux is that the damage pattern, external to the pentagon, and internal, does fit the pattern of the official flight path.
However, there is independently collected and verified tesimony from impartial eyewitnesses to a flight path markedly different from that stated by the official story. Until a greater degree of equivalent proof is presented, I have to accept this as a very real possibility, and that a massive deception occured on that day.
Not that I agree with all of the CIT conclusions, but the unrefuted testimony presented for the NoC flightpath does make for a very damning scenario as far as the official story goes.
Originally posted by johndoex
INS cannot realign itself in flight.
Originally posted by talisman
I think they have begun to unravel something and everyone needs to step back and take a deep breath and just think it all through, for myself I am mystified at this point.
Originally posted by Craig Ranke CIT
Beachnut is a professional pilot? Is he registered in the FAA database under Beachnut? Have you even read the incoherent, rabidly and purposefully deceptive posts of Beachnuts? He is no "professional pilot". There is no proof of such. RMackey is a "NASA Scientist" who was proven wrong on the official flight path. He never even commented on whether commented on the NoC flight path being impossible.
[edit on 25-9-2008 by Craig Ranke CIT]
Originally posted by beachnut
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Great evidence. You know I have an ATP, instrument rated pilot at 23, flying heavy jets at 23, the left seat (equal to captain in the airlines) heavy jets at 26.
Did you tell Middleton he points to the south path and what that means to you?
Did you tell all those guys who drew the paths that physics makes it impossible for those to be flown?
On of the interviews has one guy point each time asked to the south flight path, but someone keeps saying north side, he points to the south path, then a north side comes out. Is this good practice when taking witness statements? Is that common to lead a witness like that when investigating things like this?
Originally posted by beachnut
It has been proven 77 impacted the Pentagon. You can't refute with facts any of the evidence. Where is your evidence. All the parts are from 77 and you have not even one piece of evidence to refute it
refutes your conclusion, as do all your witnesses who will say 77 hit the Pentagon
Sean Boger, Air Traffic Controller and Pentagon tower chief - "… I just watched it hit the building."