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Originally posted by magicrat
Originally posted by Alfie1
reply to post by TheLieWeLive
Just as a matter of interest. If you think the target of UA 93 was WTC 7 why was it on a bee-line for Washington when it came down?
TheLieWeLive makes a good point. None of them were bee-lines. Here's the flight path for UA93 (from Wikipedia):
From points F-H I can buy GoodOlDave's speculation that autopilot was programmed for Washington DC, but from points H-I I can see the possibility of New York as the final target. Regardless, it definitely isn't anything I would call a bee-line.
My gut feeling is that UA 93 was headed towards DC. But I do think it's possible its intended target was WTC 7.
Anyway, this is all off topic. I'm looking forward to watching the video in the OP - thanks for posting it, Hellas, and I'll try to remember to come back and share my thoughts after I've had a chance to see it.
1 : the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs
In November 1988, Salomon Brothers withdrew from plans to build a large new complex at Columbus Circle in Midtown and agreed to a 20-year lease for the top 19 floors of 7 World Trade Center. The building was extensively renovated in 1989 to accommodate the needs of Salomon Brothers. Most of three existing floors were removed as tenants continued to occupy other floors, and more than 350 tons (U.S.) of steel were added to construct three double-height trading floors. Nine diesel generators were installed on the 5th floor as part of a backup power station. "Essentially, Salomon is constructing a building within a building – and it's an occupied building, which complicates the situation," said a district manager of Silverstein Properties. The unusual task was possible, said Larry Silverstein, because it was designed to allow for "entire portions of floors to be removed without affecting the building's structural integrity, on the assumption that someone might need double-height floors."
At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Salomon Smith Barney was by far the largest tenant in 7 World Trade Center, occupying 1,202,900 sq ft (111,750 m2) (64 percent of the building) which included floors 28–45. Other major tenants included ITT Hartford Insurance Group (122,590 sq ft/11,400 m²), American Express Bank International (106,117 sq ft/9,900 m²), Standard Chartered Bank (111,398 sq ft/10,350 m²), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (106,117 sq ft/9,850 m²).[26] Smaller tenants included the Internal Revenue Service Regional Council (90,430 sq ft/8,400 m²) and the United States Secret Service (85,343 sq ft/7,900 m²).[26] The smallest tenants included the New York City Office of Emergency Management,National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Federal Home Loan Bank, First State Management Group Inc., Provident Financial Management, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shared the 25th floor with the IRS.[1] Floors 46–47 were mechanical floors, as were the bottom six floors and part of the seventh floor.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by occrest
"GROUND ZERO" was name given to site because of the level of destruction looked like been hit with nuclear
weapon
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by magicrat
So if hijackers were not on a course toward Washington DC why did they dial up the VOR radio beacon at Regan National airport in Washington......
Originally posted by magicrat
From points F-H I can buy GoodOlDave's speculation that autopilot was programmed for Washington DC, but from points H-I I can see the possibility of New York as the final target. Regardless, it definitely isn't anything I would call a bee-line.
My gut feeling is that UA 93 was headed towards DC. But I do think it's possible its intended target was WTC 7.
Anyway, this is all off topic. I'm looking forward to watching the video in the OP - thanks for posting it, Hellas, and I'll try to remember to come back and share my thoughts after I've had a chance to see it.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by hdutton
You are aware that as the structure collapsed air inside was displaced and forced out - as it escaped it
blew out the windows (which were the weak pint in the structure)
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Do you know what the significance of the itemized points are? I tried looking it up but the graphic is in a format I cannot open. Otherwise, I would say that point H...the point where the course began to deviate away from Washington...would be where the passengers began to storm the cockpit and the hijackers decided to plow the plane into the ground. Travelling at 400 MPH, the time between point H and point I (the point of time when it crashed) is a matter of minutes.
The fellow who came up with this accusation isn't admitting this, and I daresay he never will admit this, but he's almost certainly insinuating the plane was intended to crash into WTC 7 as a coverup for the secret controlled demoliitons, but since the secret controlled demolitions were an independent event, they went off and destroyed the WTC 7 without the impact. This is patently a case of the evidence being forced to conform to a predetermined scenario, rather than a scenario being derived from the evidence.
Same here...although from a cursory examination I can see it's chock full of all the innuendo and artfully chosen facts that artificially supports the scenario the video editor wants to trick people into believing. For one, it points out that fires were burning underground for three months and then offers the unsupported allegation it was due to thermite. Claiming that these controlled demolitions exploded like a bomb to destroy the building, reconstituted itself, and then burned for three months underground beneath the wreckage is an explanation that resembles black magic and the supernatural more than it does the laws of physics.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by hdutton
You are aware that as the structure collapsed air inside was displaced and forced out - as it escaped it
blew out the windows (which were the weak pint in the structure)
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by occrest
"GROUND ZERO" was name given to site because of the level of destruction looked like been hit with nuclear
weapon