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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by ProRipp
the OTHER two airplanes in New Your City ALSO disintegrated on impact, as is natural to assume would happen given the fact that they hit BUILDINGS, just like in Arlington Virgina. The airplane that hit the Pentagon was destroyed on impact, just as surely as the two in NYC were.
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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by ProRipp
You agree that there were two jets in NYC, one each hit a Tower???
Well, there was one jet at the Pentagon, it hit the Pentagon building.
They were regular passenger jets.
That's it. Nothing much new to add.
There is at LEAST one instance of a fire resulting in FDR and CVR damage that was sufficient enough to render the data virtually unusable.
WTC --- check. Very hot fire, for long time.
Jet A is the standard jet fuel type in the U.S. since the 1950s and is only available here. Jet A is similar to Jet-A1, except for its higher freezing point of −40 °C (vs −47 °C for Jet A-1). Like Jet A-1, Jet A has a fairly high flash point of 38 °C (100 °F)
The first jet fuels were based on kerosene or a gasoline-kerosene mix, and most jet fuels are still kerosene-based.
The fire point of a fuel is the temperature at which it will continue to burn after ignition for at least 5 seconds. At the flash point, which is a lower temperature, a substance will ignite, but vapor might not be produced at a rate to sustain the fire. Industrially, fire point is the lowest temperature at which industrial greases produce sufficient vapors to form a mixture in air that continuously supports combustion after ignition.
Most airplane crashes on land don't encounter A) Such intense heat, for so long, nor: B) Do not involve a massive structure collapsing on top of them.
Now, here's something to stick into our thinking cap I mean, according to the conspiracy website woo-woos, the ENTIRE 9/11 event was an "inside job" and "staged"...so, why just 'hide' the WTC recorders??
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Swing Dangler
Oh, jeeze.....how hard is this to understand???
The crash in 1989 did NOT have a skyscraper and mass of steel, concrete and other debris fall on it!!!
So, let's recap (and this is part of YOUR continuing re-education):
There is at LEAST one instance of a fire resulting in FDR and CVR damage that was sufficient enough to render the data virtually unusable.
WTC --- check. Very hot fire, for long time.
Most airplane crashes on land don't encounter A) Such intense heat, for so long, nor: B) Do not involve a massive structure collapsing on top of them.
Now, here's something to stick into our thinking cap:
Let's say, just for once, that this character named Mike Bellone is correct and he DID see at least one of the recorders in the WTC wreckage, and that he DID see an official (FBI??) take those alleged boxes away...
To what purpose??? Meaning, the OTHER four recorders, AAL 77 and UAL 93 were found, and three of four were readable. Would not THEY be equally as 'damning'???
I mean, according to the conspiracy website woo-woos, the ENTIRE 9/11 event was an "inside job" and "staged"...so, why just 'hide' the WTC recorders??
No, the veracity of Bellone's latest claims (the hijacking before take-off) serious throw into doubt (as if there wasn't enough doubt already) his earlier claims of seeing the recorders at the WTC clean up site.
Why is it so difficult to comprehend what was happening there in New York??
The PRIMARY concern was to find any possible survivors, and co-incidentally, to find the human remains. They had cadaver dogs to assist...and as far as I know, dogs aren't trained to sniff out flight recorder boxes.
Certainly, finding anything that even remotely resembled a recorder would have been important, but in that sort of carnage I am not surprised that nothing recognizable was found.
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
"The absurd 9/11 commission treated this as a joke"
And here it is, straight from the horse's mouth as to why the 9/11 Commission treated the attacks as a joke. How people can still take that report seriously after watching this explains quite a lot.
Originally posted by Doglord
Not to mention the fact that I posted evidence of a "black box" that was never recovered despite crashing over land (and in very similar circumstances to the WTC crashes, only less extreme) several pages ago.
Based on this thread I can only conclude that "truthers" have little to no interest in the truth.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Anyone who thinks otherwise is itchin' for a fight!
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
"The absurd 9/11 commission treated this as a joke"
And here it is, straight from the horse's mouth as to why the 9/11 Commission treated the attacks as a joke. How people can still take that report seriously after watching this explains quite a lot.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
Originally posted by Doglord
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
"The absurd 9/11 commission treated this as a joke"
And here it is, straight from the horse's mouth as to why the 9/11 Commission treated the attacks as a joke. How people can still take that report seriously after watching this explains quite a lot.
Yes, because that's the inference you get from watching the uncut footage of the exact same speech.
That it was treated as a joke.
video.google.com...#
While I may not agree with the conclusions of the 9/11comission, I see no evidence that it was treated as a joke.
It also shouldn't have to be said (but due to the nature of the internet does have to be said) that the 9/11 commission is not the same as the 9/11 investigation. From is own mission statement
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
In other words it was designed to (as the commissioners state again and again in the linked footage) "tell the story" of 9/11, in a way that an average American could understand, and make recommendations that could prevent it from happening again. It wasn't designed to find the truth, but to distill the truth in a way that was easily communicated and understood. The facts of the 9/11 commission do not lie in the report, but in the footnotes.
That doesn't mean that the narrative told by the 9/11 commission was incorrect, but that it was an intentionally simplified version of the events.
The actual events were chaotic, jumbled, and non-narrative in nature. Or as anyone with any scientific ( or military ) understanding would term it, the model (or map) describes the reality ( or the terrain) but the model (or map) is not the reality (or the terrain)
The nearly complete and almost total lack of either critical thinking, or independent research evidenced in this thread is truly depressing. As a basic example, it took me less than 5 minutes on google to find a PDF version of an accident investigation report which detailed a "overland plane crash" in which a "black box" was never recovered. This incident happened in 1992, in Amsterdam. Despite this, it has been parroted as gospel for nearly a decade, including in the recent TV show that inspired this thread that " Never before in history has a "black box" NOT been recovered. (sometimes amended to "when the plane crashed on land")
If I, a person of merely average intelligence, can find this to be grossly false in less time than it takes me to smoke a cigarette, then what the hell excuse do the rest of you have?
Once again. ElAl flight 1862, crashed into a 11 story apartment building in Amsterdam on October 4th 1992. The CVR, one of two "black boxes" was never found.
www.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl...
It crashed into a 11 story apartment building. Not a 110 story skyscraper. It was travelling less than 26o knots. Not around 404 knots, as flight 11 was. In short the amount of energy, mass, and temperature involved in the WTC impacts was orders of magnitude higher than ElAL flight 1862.
These are all fact, or as some might term it, "Truths"
It just a shame so few of you are interested in understanding them.