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Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by pteridine
You, of course, are always quick to respond to anything that you think may cast doubt on your sincere beliefs and often completely miss the point. You have done it again and I am not surprised.
Perhaps if you stuck with the” OP discussion” and not try so hard to derail my thread by posting drivel that has nothing to do with the Shankville crash, how does that work for you.
Originally posted by Rafe_
Here are some real crashes
did not post low angle runway crashes.
Sure if in the the middle of the jungle mid flight is a low angle runway crash to you and if it will help you sleep better at night then by all means be my guest.
Having been "near" a crash site qualifies you to what exactly ?
The debris found in New Baltimore include paper and nylon, Crowley said. He said that the items are lightweight and can easily be carried by wind. At the time of the crash, there was wind speed of 9 knots per hour heading to the southeast, where both Indian Lake and New Baltimore are located.
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by impressme
Not likely. There were many local witnesses to the crash. There was an obvious fuel fire and many parts were buried in soft earth beneath the crater. A flyover doesn't explain this.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by Rafe_
Having been "near" a crash site qualifies you to what exactly ?
Lear 35A - hit ground at 350 mph (as determined by radar at angle of 80 deg) Biggest piece found was 2 x 3 ft
section of tail fin Rest was scattered around as "metallic confetti"
Walked the crash scene (belong to the Fire department) marking pieces of body (most was scraps of tissue
with little recognizable) for the coroner to recover
So I was up close and personal at the scene doing body recovery....
Here is summary of accident report
aviation-safety.net...
Wally Miller, the coroner at Shanksville said he found no blood, but found human remains. When pushed on the question of finding human remains, Miller said...Yes/No/Some....and then said that the only remains found were hands and feet - nothing else. So, did Mr. Miller find 40 pair of each? If so, how is it that no other body parts survived? How is it that there was no blood? There was no fire to eviscerate any of the materials, so what happened to it - all.
I do find it interesting to note that the coroner himself was noted as saying he never found any blood....
I do find it interesting to note that the coroner himself was noted as saying he never found any blood, and that all he found was hands and feet.
The FBI announced Monday that its investigation of the site where a hijacked jet slammed into a field here is complete and that 95 percent of the plane was recovered.
Crowley said the biggest piece of the plane that was recovered was a 6-by-7-foot piece of the fuselage skin, including about four windows. The heaviest piece, Crowley said, was part of an engine fan, weighing about 1,000 pounds.
Miller said consultants with United Airlines suggested another search because bad weather this week might have shaken additional airplane parts out of the trees in a wooded area near the crash site. The coroner said the workers would also be looking for any human remains not already collected.
Some pieces of the aircraft -- most no larger than one square foot -- have already been found because of the bad weather, he said.
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The Somerset County coroner said yesterday that he should know by this weekend if the last big sweep of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash scene yielded remains that he can link to any of the 44 people who were aboard the hijacked airliner.
Over the weekend, about 300 volunteers combed a half-mile square around the crash site and found enough debris from the Boeing 757 to fill about one-third of a trash container.
Most of it was little more than thumbnail size -- "no bigger than a pop rivet holding two pieces of aluminum," Miller said yesterday -- that last week's rains washed from trees bordering the stretch of strip mine where the airliner crashed nose-first Sept. 11.
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And please reference the article that makes the claim that 60 tons of rubble (out of what should have been over 110 tons worth of airplane [empty]) was gained. Thanks!
Specifications 757-200 757-200F 757-300
Flight deck crew Two
Seating, typical 200 (two-class)
234 (one-class) N/A 243 (two-class)
289 (one-class)
Length 155 ft 3 in (47.32 m) 178 ft 8 in (54.47 m)
Wingspan 124 ft 10 in (38.05 m)
Tail height 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m)
Wing area 1,951.0 sq ft (181.25 m2)
Wing sweepback 25°
Wing aspect ratio 7.8
Wheelbase 60.0 ft (18.29 m) 73.3 ft (22.35 m)
Cabin width 11.6 ft (3.54 m)
Cabin length 118.4 ft (36.09 m) 141.8 ft (43.21 m)
Empty Weight 127,520 lb
(57,840 kg) 142,400 lb
(64,590 kg)
Maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) 255,000 lb
(115,680 kg) 272,500 lb
(123,600 kg)
Take-off run at MTOW 9,550 ft (2,910 m) 9,600 ft (2,900 m)
Cruise speed Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 458 knots, 850 km/h at cruise altitude of 35,000 ft or 10.66 km)1
Range, loaded 3,900 nmi (7,222 km)
−200WL: 4,100 mni (7,600 km) 3,150 nmi (5,834 km) 3,395 nmi (6,287 km)
Maximum fuel 11,489 US gal (43,490 L) 11,276 US gal (42,680 L) 11,466 US gal (43,400 L)
Service ceiling 42,000 ft (12,800 m)
Engines (2×) Rolls-Royce RB211, Pratt & Whitney PW2037, PW2040, or PW2043 turbofan engines
rated at 36,600 lbf (163 kN) to 43,500 lbf (193 kN) thrust each
Originally posted by thedman
So are you are pathologist?
Nothing unusual about this ....
At my crash scene we found a hand - minus the fingers along with several amputated fingers. This was out
of 4 victims
Hands and feet often can survivve because they are composed of numerous bones with tough fiberous tissues
in form of muscle, tendons, ligaments and connective tissue which hold them together
Also hands and feet being at the extremities are esaily disarticulated by violent impact
Originally posted by hooper
I've heard this line of "reasoning" before - why is it interesting? There were only 47 persons on board, that's about 52 gallons of blood. Its not like the trees were going to be dripping with blood after a firey high speed impact. There was probably about 30 gallons of beverages on board - would you expect there to be coffee and tea all over?
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by DragonriderGal
There have been many ATS threads on this topic and witness statements are available with an easy search. I don't have those sites saved and don't feel compelled to do your searches for you. Maybe what you have read in the past was designed to sell CD's and books. Some people actually pay for them while those that sell them have a financial interest in perpetuating their theories regardless of how far fetched they are.
Originally posted by pteridine:
As I remember, there were fuel fires and a burning airplane tire, parts were in trees, and human remains were scattered about, acccording to eyewitness first responders. Light weight materials were carried downwind after impact and parts were buried well beneath the surface in a crater, so the idea that these pieces were somehow dropped by another aircraft along with thousands of gallons of fuel is a stretch that only very few could accept. Responders were on site quickly and the CIA wouldn't have time to hide the crater digging equipment.
“.If you were to go down there, you wouldn’t know that was a plane crash,” State police Maj. Lyle Szupinka continued. “You would look around and say, ‘I wonder what happened here?’ The first impression looking around you wouldn’t say, ‘Oh, looks like a plane crash. The debris is very, very small.
“The best I can describe it is if you’ve ever been to a commercial landfill. When it’s covered and you have papers flying around. You have papers blowing around and bits and pieces of shredded metal. That’s probably about the best way to describe that scene itself.” - Pittsburgh Live (09/14/01)
FOX News reporter: I want to get quickly to Chris Konicki; he's a photographer with the Pittsburgh affiliate of FOX affiliate. He was back there just a couple of minutes go and Chris, I've seen the pictures, it looks like there's nothing there except for a hole in the ground.
Chris Konicki: Ah, basically that's right. The only thing you can see from where we where, ah, was a big gouge in the earth and some broken trees. We could see some people working, walking around in the area, but from where we could see it, there wasn't much left.
Reporter: Any large pieces of debris at all?
Konicki: Na, there was nothing, nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there.
Reporter: Smoke? Fire?
Konicki: Nothing. It was absolutely quite. It was, uh, actually very quiet. Um, nothing going on down there. No smoke. No fire. Just a couple of people walking around. They looked like part of the NTSB crew walking around, looking at the pieces.
Reporter: How big would you say that hole was?
Konicki: From my estimates, I would guess it was probably about 20ft to 15ft long and probably 10ft wide.
Reporter: What could you see on the ground if anything other than dirt and ash and...
Konicki: You couldn't see anything. You could just see dirt, ash and people walking around, broken trees..." - FOX (09/11/01)
"Nena Lensbouer, who had prepared lunch for the workers at the scrap yard overlooking the crash site, was the first person to go up to the smoking crater....Lensbouer told AFP that she did not see any evidence of a plane then or at any time during the excavation at the site, an effort that reportedly recovered 95 percent of the plane and 10 percent of the human remains." - americanfreepress.net (09/17/04)
Originally posted by pteridine
Of course, there are doubting Thomases everywhere and even if they were given total access to all of the wreckage, they would say that it was planted by reptilians or the NWO or other personal demons.
That the plane was buried was a result of it not striking native rock and soil, like Flt 427 [see my previous posts in this thread for a link with photos], but a strip-mine reclamation site with loose fill.