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John Judge's friend? Might be worth reminding ourselves about that: She saw parts of the fuselage of an American Airlines plane, a Boeing 757 plane... She recognized the polished aluminum outer shell, an unpainted silver color that is unique to American Airline planes, and the red and blue trim that is used to decorate the fuselage. She saw parts of the inside of the plane, which she easily identified since she flew and worked in them for years. Upholstery, drapes and carpeting she could identify by both color and design. The soft carpeting and padding of the inner walls had a cloud design and color she recognized from American Airline planes, though it has since been replaced. The blue coloring of drapes and carpet were also specific to the 757 or 767 larger planes, and were not used on the smaller planes. Seating upholstery also matched the AA 757 planes, including the blue color, tan squares and hints of white... www.ratical.org...
Originally posted by Zaphod58 ...they brought in flight attendants who identified pieces of the plane...
A difficult turn according to whom? A newscaster? Some guy who makes conspiracy videos and sells them online for $19.95 each? Surely not difficult to a pilot, and certainly not to me (I don't have a pilots license but I do fly flight sims and I do fly 4 to 90lb aircraft remotely). Define difficult, is a wide sweeping 3-minute turn difficult? Heck, I watched on TV just a couple weeks ago the test runs for the Airbus 380, the new double decker 840 passenger plane. They performed far more "difficult" maneuvers than a 3-minute banking turn while descending... I think somebody somewhere sensationalized what was basically a cautious turn from a mediocre pilot who probably wasn't sure he'd be able to put the plane into a sharp banking dive to his left when he realized where he was in relation to the Pentagon once he took his autopilot off.
Originally posted by billybob it's amazing how bogged down in details everyone gets. not that we don't NEED to look at details, we do, but because the events of the day are a very complex system, it is important to keep all facts in context with all other facts. why did the plane do a difficult turn, and then hit the (mostly) unnoccupied side of building
They "thought of using planes as weapons way back in the 70's" !?? Gosh how many servicemen and officers were first hand witnesses to kamikaze attacks in WWII by Japanese pilots? Do you think this was some form of revelation to somebody in the 70's? I'm not here stating anything other than one simple fact. A 757 hit the Pentagon. Once people grasp the reality of that single fact regarding the attack on the Pentagon on September 11th they can then alter their conspiracy theories accordingly to suit their desires.
so it seems, catherder, that they thought of using planes as weapons way back in the seventies. in fact, the pentagon and norad were running a simulation of that exact terror scenario on the morning of 911. you 'debunkers' are also guilty of editing out uncomfortable data from your reality bubbles of comfort. have you forgotten that they were running that drill? i'm sure someone must've mentioned it by now. do you know who grover norquist is, catherder? are you ignoring PNAC's goals and voiced method's, ie. 'we NEED a new pearl harbour'.
Good point... I'm sure I remember seeing a site with an audio tape of her speaking out about what she saw, presumably at some 9/11 talk somewhere, but I've just spent a while looking & can't find it, or any other reference to her name. Hmm, maybe I remembered that incorrectly? I'll email Judge & ask. [edit on 4-7-2005 by ashmok]
Originally posted by Tinkleflower One thing though - I couldn't find any mention of the witness's name.
What happens to blades doing 32,000 rpm (the turbines) when they hit a sold concrete and rock object at 500mph? Do they just bounce off? No, they shatter. What happens to many chunks of metal (lets say a car engine) when it impacts another solid object (lets say another vehicle) at far slower speeds (lets say 120mph -- two cars going 60mph in a head on)? Have you ever seen the results of such a crash? Much of the engine is mangled, torn, etc. Why is it so hard to imagine an engine going 500mph into a reinforced object would also sustain tremendous damage? Please explain.
Originally posted by Hunting Veritas A Boeing 757 has 2 engines. They weigh in at nearly 6 tons each. Made from Titanium alloy and has a melting temp of 1688c and are 9ft in diameter and 12ft long. Jet fuel (Kerosense) burning in a pure Oxygen environment will burn at 1000c. Therefore it is physically impossible for 2 engines of that size to dissintegrate into thin air. In my own personal opinion there is no way by the laws of physics that a Boeing 757-200 crashed into the pentagon. There is no indication of a 757-200 crashed ANYWHERE near or in the pentagon.
What you are referring to here is where they had ran new water pipes into the building during rennovations - it isn't on the flight path it's more than 20 degrees off the flight path. It's also visible in sattelite photos for more than 2 months prior to the attack. It's a coincidence and nothing more. Just another silly thing for conspiracy theorists to point out as "evidence". I'd equate it to something as silly as "why were the freeway paint lines painted only 2 days before, was it to give the plane a perfect path to follow?" (which didn't happen btw, just an example). THis has been covered many times in previous posts.
And why is there a nice clean mark of the trajectory of where the "aircraft" hit the pentagon. Before 9/11 happened.
Yet another person who felt compelled to post but hasn't bothered to read a single word before doing so. This information is freely available and was included in the original post even. Go reread it and then ask an intelligent question. Here I'll give you some help: - Pentagon Renovation History - Architecture Week - Pentagon Building Performace Report -- many of your questions are answered here. Read it. All the above are NOT classifed...
Originally posted by SiberianTiger What was the reenforcement of the Pentagon made of? I'm sure your going to tell me "thats classified?
Please tell me how you qualify the above statement. The last 80 feet of the plane should have been visible after hitting a building at over 500mph (over 800km/h). Surely you jest. Have you ever seen any other aircraft crash? Go to these sites and LOOK at some crashes (PlaneCrashInfo.com, AirDisaster.com, NTSB Crash Database, Yahoo Aviation Accidents). All of the crashes you will view are from aircraft that were trying NOT to crash (unlike the 4 planes on Sept 11). No pilot flies their plane into a wall at 500mph (unless they're doing it intentionally), when a plane is going down the pilots will try to perform the best possible crash landing with every ounce of skill and determination - it's not just their life in their hands but the hundred plus people sitting behind them. But in many cases it still results in total fatality for all on board, that's why they're called accidents and crashes. Why isn't the last 80 feet of the plane (flight 93) that crashed into the ground on Sept 11th visible? Why is only a small tail section all that remains of this craft? I mean come on, there is no huge building to block your view of the airplane, where are all the parts? Where are the wings? Where is the last 80 feet of this plane? It didn't hit the ground at 500mph! It hit the ground going slower, so WHERE is the last 80 feet of the plane!? Did you even bother to think before you posted that? Did you even bother to view other plane crashes to see if there was anything comparable to the last 80 feet of a large airliner being "visible" after a violent crash? No, of course you didn't. This is all that remains of one 747 after another 747 ran into it at 200-220mph while taking off (the PanAm 747 above was stationary on the ground. (Source: planecrashinfo.com) This is the KLM 747 that flew into the above 747. Not a whole lot left of it is there. Where is all the wreckage? Seriously, shouldn't there be 80 feet or more of this substantially larger aircraft (comapred to a medium sized 757) left over? The right wing is totally gone, the left wing remains as it was not part of the impact. (Source: planecrashinfo.com) I realize there are, in fact, large portions of these planes left, but do you see just how much of these massive B747-200's has been utterly destroyed? Image if these planes had hit each other at 500mph and not during a much slower take off speed! Where are all the seats, where are the identifiable plane markings? How come there isn't 80 feet or more of the tail section of the KLM 747 left over? Come on man, it didn't hit a building at 500mph it "merely" hit a hollow 747 that was stationary on the ground while taking off at 200-220mph! Here's a link to a DC10 that crashed in france, "not many pieces larger than 3 feet could be found"...
by the way if a 757 went into the Pentagon the last 80 feet of it should have been visable ,
Please show us any evidence of a global hawk. Anyone can come on here and spout off "it was this" or "it was that" but where is your evidence? Where is your proof? NOT ONE SINGLE conspiracy site proves their theories. All they do is regurgitate the same false comments and make up stories and nonsense to try to fool you into thinking what they want you to think. How can a global hawk fly 500 mph? (Top speed at altitude is 404mph, top speed under 5,000ft would be more along the lines of 300-320mph) How could such a small plane made of composite materials smash through 3 inches of rock, 3 inches of brick, 10 inches of concrete, floor to ceiling Kevlar sheeting, floor to ceiling steel strapping, steel framed 2 inch thick bulletproof / blast resistant glass, etc. ? How could a cruise missile or drone airplane hit and move the large diesel generator towards the building as it flew in? The list goes on and on, there is no way it was a small drone plane or a missile that did this. It was a Boeing 757.
the resaon we cant see it or pieces of it is because it was a small remote controlled plane (possiably a Global Hawk) that the U.S. Gov put threw the Pentagon.
Now that is some stellar edvidence you've prodivded as a "rebuttal"... So WHAT? What does my name (which I've had for many years, back from when, in 2000, EDS originally released their Superbowl commercial) have to do with the validity of the information contained in my posts?
Originally posted by ThePunisher This whole thread (79 pages) created by catHERDER. [edit on 3-7-2005 by ThePunisher]
So let me get this straight. You're basing your entire "evidence" on a blurry, blocky, crappy frame of a 5 frame video? The rest of the debris, the bodies from the aircraft inside the building, the people who saw the plane, the downed light poles, the landing gear, the airliner rims, the bulkhead parts, the engine parts etc have no basis at all in you arriving at "it was a global hawk"? Here's what you are saying: The RQ-4A Global Hawk, is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial reconnaissance system designed to provide military battlefield commanders with high resolution, near-real-time imagery of large geographic areas (maximum speed 404mph at altitude) according to you it can: 1) fly through a steel-reinforced-concrete, blast-resistant, wall 2) can fly faster than 404mph (or faster than 330mph under 2,000ft) 3) a global hawk, an aircraft made of composite materials, can chop through lightpoles on the way to a target 4) can then move an object that weighs more than the globalhawk itself (the diesel generator) and then STILL go through the building wall 5) with the aid of a missile a global hawk can change the laws of physics to cause an explosion to instead implode so objects are pulled towards the explosion instead of pushed away 6) missiles, combined with a composite body, composite winged, drone aircraft, can cause all pillars in a building to be damaged in only one direction (all pillars are pushed into the building in the direction of the angle of impact) so there are now missiles that are in essence "shaped charges" 7) global hawks are now larger than private planes and have jet wings instead of square high-lift soaring wings (would have been thousands of people saying it was a 4-6 passenger private plane, that's the size of a global hawk by the way) 8) global hawks can carry 60+ bodies 9) global hawks can carry bulkheads, pilot seats, passenger seats, extra airliner rims, extra 757 landing gear, the 757's black boxes, etc. 10) global hawks no longer have a 2000lb payload capacity and instead can carry tens of thousands of pounds of cargo 11) missiles are now invisible (not one single person reported two objects hitting the building; it was one single plane that "flew in like a missile" (which MEANT without any effort to try to avoid the building...) 12) a globalhawk can impact over 120 feet of exterior wall, to the point where over a dozen 30 inch square, steel braided pillars can be either chopped in half or damaged to the point of compromise when hit by a global hawk -- a drone the size of a cessna (it weighs 26,700 lb) 13) a global hawk can displace the entire section of the Pentagon that was hit by over 18 inches to 2 feet (concrete pillars and hundreds of thousands of pounds of solid concrete) Which part of the globalhawk displaced pillar 16 and eradicated pillar 17? This is where the starboard engine when in... but what part of the hollow, composite, wing of the globalhawk did this? [click image for large view] I see. Well you've sold me.
Originally posted by slank . CatHerder the evidence for a global hawk is the white object that is there in one frame and then gone the next in the manner of a rapidly moving object and not as a slowly disipating puff of smoke or steam as has been suggested, And WTF did this magic puff of smoke come from? The Global Hawk approaches on the vector perpindicular to the face of the pentagon and the missile that did the deep damage to the pentagon approached on the oblique vector that is proposed for the invisible 757 aircraft on a brilliantly sunny day. Do people trust their own eyes or BS spouted by people zealously attached to the 'officially' bogus story? .
Not at all. A Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon on Sept 11th. I have no way of knowing for certain who did it, why they did it, or how they managed to do it other than what I see hear and decide. Is it possible that a terrorist group did this? Absolutely. Why do I think so? Because I am not an American and I am not insulated from the rest of the world like most Americans are. (Not an insult, it's just the way you guys live and the way your media works.) The least traveled "1st world" citizens of this world are Americans (fact). If you folks did travel more, you'd come to the startling revelation that an enormous number of people and governments hate your country and hate you personally because it is your country and in their view you control it. (It's true, when I travel, and because I'm a Canadian, I am often mistaken for an American. Once people learn that I am from Canada and am a Canadian their attitude towards me visually, outwardly, emotionally, changes.) Do I think this is right? No I don't, I have a lot of friends in the USA, I worked in LA for 2 years and worked between Seattle WA and Vancouver BC for 8 years. I think most Americans are pretty much the same as most Canadians. But my view of the USA does not matter to over 2 billion people who strongly dislike you or to over 900 million people who want to destroy you (lots of those 900 want to destroy me too...). So, yes it most definitely could be terrorists who did this. Do I believe it was a grand American government scheme to do this? Highly doubtful. Although I've had fist hand experience with your NSA in the past and know how those unscrupulous bastards work so nothing is beyond possible. (oh great, there goes my travel rights for another 5 years...)
Originally posted by billybob i'm curious, catherder... for the sake of argument, i will take it for granted that a 757 struck the pentagon. does this require a muslim behind the wheel?
What "cover-up" exactly are you referring to? Who is "they" ? Do you mean CNN/BBC/FOX/CBS/NBC/ABC ? Yes "they" showed the twin towers being hit over and over and it makes me want to ask you something -- in our lifetime, what other image on television has had as much an impact on the American (and free world) psyche besides the moon landing? Are you saying that the first actual attack on US soil since a lone (and mostly unheard of) Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery near Santa Barbara in WWII is not "news worthy" or are you saying that the murder of over 2000 people in an office building complex is not compelling news? Are you saying the WTC, and the symbolism it held, was not the single most identifiable civilian target in the USA to hit? Would you have been as shocked and outraged if it were the Sears tower in Chicago that had been hit? I'm sure you would have been shocked and outraged but would it have been as big an impact? Probably not. Why won't they release the videos... well some people on here keep referring to something that I can gather no evidence at all of. People keep alluding to some form of roof top air defense system on the Pentagon. Now, this is 100% conjecture and something I do not like to do (I stay away from theories and bullshit to suit my story, something the conspiracy sites have no problem running freely with) -- perhaps the video footage from the gas station shows nothing at all -- or perhaps the video footage from the gas station shows this air defense system in action. Maybe it is some form of particle cannon or laser beam system (I know the US military has been developing these systems for over 20 years now) and it actually got caught shooting the craft, or failing miserably to do so... who knows? Not me. Something you don't take into account when comparing the Twin Towers to the Pentagon, is the WTC had dozens of news stations filming it after the first strike. And the first one was caught totally by chance by some French film students who were filming some firemen on the street. Once something is in the possession of a news center it is very hard to stop it from being shown - I highly doubt the US government had anything to do with the footage of the WTC being shown on TV by anyone at any time. It was news. It was the biggest news to happen since 1969 when men walked on the moon. 9/11 didn't just affect Americans it affected Canadians and Europeans and Asians and everyone with a TV profoundly. It changed the way the world worked. And, how do you account for flight 93? It doesn't fit into this grand conspiracy scheme where the other 3 planes were landed, the passengers unloaded (killed, etc etc) and then "drones" flown into the WTC and Pentagon. Why would this 4th aircraft not follow the same plan? Why would the passengers onboard make phone calls telling family members what was going on? And why would the Air force shoot it down (which I think they probably did, based on the wreckage pattern spread over 30 miles). If the Air Force didn't shoot it down, well then why would it crash in the middle of a field? How could this one plane out of the 4 manage to evade this grand scheme, this master plan of deception, this dark government plot that worked so incredibly well... That's when I come back to, oh hey, wait a second, this wasn't any grand government plan, this was a balsy plan hatched by some terrorist bastards who think I and you are infidels and we are meant to be killed by the word of their god. Furthermore, to carry out such a huge government conspiracy would require tens of thousands of complicit partners. Not fifty or a hundred, but tens of thousands. How would you keep that a secret? How would not one of those tens of thousands of conspirators not slip up and let something out of the bag? The odds are stacked against it. Sorry for the long reply... but you asked my opinion and not for some facts.
why is there a cover-up? (this is OBVIOUS that there is a cover-up, because they confiscated everything. they showed the towers demise over and over, so sympathy for the families is a super lame excuse. there is a great deal of controversey which could probably be quelled with one undoctored, uncensored video from a gas station or a hotel camera. why won't 'they' release these videos!!?)