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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by SPreston
911workinggroup.org...(redact)/5%20AWA%20212%20Chronology%20W-4009p%20AEA%20Operations%20Center%20Log.pdf
Page #3
At 1513 EDT bomb suspected in LAX parking lot.
At 1615 EDT SFO terminal evacuated.
Three airplanes originally destined for LAX were already down by no later than 0700 PDT. Very light passenger loads, most passengers either going to LA on business (check names and addresses of passenger, huh??) or going home, with cars in the parking lot, or arranging Super Shuttle, or something.
Any case, ETA for AAL 11 was 1059, AAL 77 was 1038, UAL 175 1116, UAL 93 1114.
Think anyone watched the news, from home, before going to the airport???
Called the airline, from home, before going to the airport???
Straws, all straws.....
Originally posted by esdad71
First dust is the evidence, then it is measuring the density of the explosions with pictures and now it is because the families of those who were flying would not have known and did not show up
It is a 5-6 hour flight. Anyone expecting someone would have seen the news and would not be at the airport. The flight numbers were known. Why would you go to the airport?
1945 plane crash
At 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr., crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors, where the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council were located.
One engine shot through the side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block where it landed on the roof of a nearby building, starting a fire that destroyed a penthouse. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft.
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.... 14 people were killed in the incident. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a plunge of 75 stories inside an elevator, which still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall recorded.
Originally posted by seagull
reply to post by GORGANTHIUM
The obvious question to you now would be: Why does the CIA need to destroy one little office in the pentagon?
As for the damage,
Are you serious? That whole side of the building was gutted, and it's a monstrous structure.
Originally posted by LiveForever8
Also, i think its a statement of intent.
Blowing up bombs is one thing.
But taking something as brilliant as a plane and turning it into a weapon is a very bold statement.
Not only are you not safe on the ground, you are not safe in the air either!
It also caused panic in airports for long after.
And apparently some poeple made alot of money from "put-options" on the stock market beause of the fall in airline prices etc.
There are many reasons.
Originally posted by talisman
Seeing the Towers hit by planes left an image in most people's minds that is very difficult to forget. They were really looking for that "Pearl Harbor Event" and I think this was it.
Originally posted by D.Duck
The only reason no F-15 was in the air is because there were no flight 11,77,93 and 175 in the air, they were just blips on a radar screen.
Originally posted by seagull
reply to post by QweeQwa
Why planes?
Planes are the safest way to travel. They also represent, in a way, the modern world and all, to the terrorists, that is wrong with the world. What better way to strike a blow? Use that very symbol against another symbol of all that is wrong with the world, the WTC.
It makes a twisted sort of sense.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Airplanes were the most convenient, and easiest weapon of choice available.
Originally posted by esdad71
If the government wanted to bring down the towers, they could have rolled in a few limos or Fed Ex trucks, untraceable, and it would have been a hell of alot easier than flying planes into the towers, waiting, and then hoping the TONS of thermite you planted works.
Originally posted by seagull
Simple question for you...
Have you ever had a colleague, who at the same time is in all liklihood a close freind that you've worked with for several years threatened with death or harm? She'd be dead unless you did whatever the perpertrator wanted you to do?
posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by seagull
I found a composite image, to represent visually how the damage to that particular structure could be feasible, when considering the B757:
Probably won't allay any doubters, because if one has their mind made up, well...