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Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by trebor451
I'm just surprised that CIT and those that religiously take their word as from God, dont stop and think about something called perspective. How can they clearly see the plane fly NoC unless they are directly under it?
As we can see, it did not. But you'd think that good ol Craige Ranke and CIT would stop and think about this possibility?
Originally posted by LaBTop
Aldo, this screen-shot of yours slipped under my event horizon for a while :
It's a bit sad for you that you seem to think these witnesses of the C-130 turning high in the sky on the western side of the billowing smoke column rising AFTER the impact, were evidence of your fly-over theory.
I'll address this text part :
""At no time did a plane circle DC as reported""
He apparently stood on top of a building somewhere in DC. Because he became afraid DC would be a target.
AAL77 however did not circle DC, that is the area of Washington City which lays north of the Potomac River. It made however a huge descending circle in the Virginia skies, south of the Potomac River and far south of the Pentagon and at the last long leg, back up northeastwards on its way back to the Pentagon basin, it was already so low, that they apparently did not notice it coming and ending up slamming in the west wall at the end of that very low run-up to the west wall of the Pentagon.
-Joe Hurst, Joseph Candelario, Gen Clyde Vaughn, Stuart Artman saw the attack plane in DC skies.
-Ari Fleischer admits there was another flight path that took the plane towards the white house and not well SW of it as the NTSB/RADES data attempts to depict:
Sources say the hijacked jet continued east at a high speed toward the city, but flew several miles south of the restricted airspace around the White House.
[...]
At the White House Friday, spokesman Ari Fleischer saw it a different way.
"That is not the radar data that we have seen," Fleischer said, adding, "The plane was headed toward the White House."
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-ATC Danielle O'Brien was sure the plane "over-shot" or over missed the White House which only fits with the DCl flight path:
O'Brien went to the Pentagon to see what happened for herself, making her ever more certain that the Pentagon was a secondary target, and that the hijackers overshot or missed the White House.
"I've been down to the Pentagon and stood on the hillside and imagined where, according to what I saw on the radar, that flight would have come from," she says. "And I think that they came eastbound and because sun was in their eyes that morning, and because the White House was beyond a grove of trees, I think they couldn't see it. It was too fast. They came over that Pentagon or saw it just in front of them. You can't miss the Pentagon. It's so telltale by its shape and its size, and they said, 'Look, there it is. Take that. Get that.' They certainly could have had the White House if they had seen it."
abcnews.go.com... or
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-Col Deskins reports the radar for the attack plane terminating over Washington DC which only fits with DC flight path...
Poster 22205:
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IMPORTANT note at 15:20 minutes video time of the above clip: Colonel Deskins, a lady radar person (with air force uniform), from the New York Command Center (of norad) comes on:
-and she very SPECIFICALLY describes the last maneuver of the plane. whats KEY in her exact quote is this (bolded)
"we caught, on the radar scope, a few blips, maybe 7 or 8 (hands showing the spiral maneuver motion in correspondence with these radar dots), just enough to kinda go around in a half circle and then fade, eh - losing radar contact - RIGHT OVER um, WASHINGTON."[/iedit on 26-11-2011 by WetBlanky because: (no reason given)
-Colin Scoggins (and Kevin Nesapany) place the/an unidentified plane SE & east of the White House/Potomac which only fits with the C-130 DC Mall flight path...
Scoggins: Just to report, be advised the aircraft is 4-6 miles SE (southeast) of the White House.
Huntress: 6 miles SOUTHEAST of the White House?
Scoggins: Yup
Huntress: He's moving away?
Apparently Colin Scoggins recieved this information based on a VISUAL from FAA HQ in Washington DC!!!
“I was on aTELCON and there were people who were actually looking at their window and saw the plane, they were speaking it verbatim on the phone to the TELCON. So it was a visual encounter, I assume they were in FAA HQ on Independence AVE. I know one persons name who was there and according to a USA article on around 9/20/01 I have an idea who said it on the phone, and he is the same person that I received the Phantom 11 call on.”
“I don't know what office window they were looking from, I've always felt it was FAA HQ […] I am 99 % sure that the statement was made by visual...
I was in FOB-8 (FDA) about 3 blocks from the Capitol, watching CNN on my PC because I had been told by a colleague across the hall that a plane had hit the WTC. (Our Center runs CNN off a Netshow encoder 24/7 so we can get news on the network.) I watched the second plane hit the WTC and shortly after that my wife called to tell me there was smoke showing from further down the Mall in the direction of the Whitehouse. (The Whitehouse is in the same direction as the Pentagon from our location at the foot of Capitol Hill.) There were then many rumors spreading in the hallway that car bombs had gone off on the Hill and near the State Dept, supposedly smoke was showing there as well. We now know that the car bomb rumors were false.
My Team Leader came in to say as he was coming in to the building, he saw a 757 flying in a peculiar location roughly over the Mall. (We now know that was the 757 that hit the Pentagon as it did circle downtown DC, supposedly looking for a target, possibly the Whitehouse which is not as easy to pick out from the air as the Capitol or the Pentagon, before heading west again, then turning east for its final run at the Pentagon.)
About that time, I suspected that there might be other hijacked aircraft targeting other buildings in the area (remember, we thought there might have been car bombs going off too at this point) so I walked across the hall to the lab of the colleague who initially told me the WTC had been hit by an aircraft. Looking out of the north facing 4th floor window, I saw the outline of a 747-400 flying slowly south to north nearly directly over head at a low altitude. Planes never flew there as it is restricted airspace, almost over the Capitol. As it turned over NE DC, roughly Union Station I guess, and banked east, the sun hit the pale colored paint and I could see that it was an Air Force E-4 and not a commercial 747. It was going so slow, it appeared to hang in the air over the Hubert Humphrey (HHS) building (across the street from FOB-8). For a moment it crossed my mind that such an aircraft carries much more fuel and could do considerably more damage than the aircraft that had hit the WTC (at this time it was being reported that those aircraft were commuter planes, we didn't know for sure they were 767's, though the outline sure looked like it to me when I saw the second one disappear into the building on CNN). Us chemists were already thinking of fuel loads and explosive equivalents, combustion temperature, melting point of steel, etc. when we watched the first tower collapse. (I'm hazy in my recall of the exact time we watched this relative to the Pentagon crash.)
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That was the C-130 piloted by Lt.Col. Steve O'Brien, which you, Aldo, have interviewed by phone, years later, and showed us also emails from him, explaining he was trailing far behind AAL77.
Which he saw first crossing his eyesight southwards, in front of his C-130, in its first leg of the huge U-turn it made back to the Pentagon, just after the C-130 departed from Andrews Air Force Base, after which he got asked by Air Control to turn and follow AAL77, which turn took him so much time that he ended up far behind AA77, which was already in the last long leg back towards the Pentagon. O'Brien could not even see the impact he said, only the smoke caused by it. About 60 seconds later he reported by radio to his AC guy, that the plane (AAL77) apparently had hit the west wall of the Pentagon.
We have several photo's of that rising smoke column with the C-130 high in the sky making it's U-turn back towards the northwest in the direction of Dulles Airport, shot by the guy standing on the city side bank of the Potomac River. O'Brien returned to his earlier flight plan, back to the Minnesota airfield where his National Air Guard C-130 was headed to when he took off from Andrews.
If you would at last understand a few things which you get totally wrong, you could say goodbye to any fly-over theory, and are left again with the most shocking real and good part of your work, the eyewitnesses who definitely saw a NoC flight path, and also definitely a MUCH slower flying plane.
Balsamo has used the end-speed from the FDR, while you yourself have unearthed that it can not be true,
since Sean Boger saw it come towards him from over the Annex in 10 to 12 seconds, Middleton says it flew about 10 seconds in his sight, Morin estimated 10 seconds to impact, and so on. Many witnesses describe a much slower flying plane, right banking 20 to 30°.
Pay attention to onesliceshort's YouTube video "Speed" I linked to.
Do you really believe that plane could have covered THAT short arc distance with THAT tremendous speed of 540 MPH?
That's what you have to understand and what Balsamo does not understand.
But you think because he's a pilot, he must be right.
You two have been conned. And thus seems your finest hour nullified, by a ridiculous fly-over theory. Luckily for us, your videotaped witnesses stay upright, and that's what makes the official story followers so nervous. They know deep inside something is rotten there in Washington.
Originally posted by LaBTop
Stop that ridiculous "perspective" argument. Just note where William Lagasse stood.
Under the Northern canopy of the CITGO. And the plane flew very low, right in front of him.
He was looking at the pump counter. We have him on video, in the CITGO video.
So he looked north. The plane flew no more than maximum 100 meters in front of him, NORTH.
NO one in his right mind can introduce "perspective" regarding his account, which is btw the main reason why I do not believe any arguments brought to the plate to defend a SoC flight path.
I have a lot more arguments, but this is the main one.