Clearly, a missile did NOT hit the pentagon:
1) Dozens, if not hundreds, of people stuck on I-395 saw the low-flying plane & their testimony is well-documented in the press. Quoted from Wikipedia, “American Airlines Flight 77”:
... Steve Riskus witnessed the plane crash into the Pentagon, as he was driving along Washington Boulevard and stopped to take photographs moments after the impact.[21] Mary Lyman, who was on I-395, saw the airplane pass over at a "steep angle toward the ground and going fast" and then saw the cloud of smoke from the Pentagon.[22] Jim Sutherland, also on I-395, witnessed the plane pass 50 feet overhead, heading in a straight line into the Pentagon.[23] Mary Ann Owens, of Gannett News Service, was stuck in traffic near the Pentagon when she saw the airplane pass 50 to 75 feet overhead and crash into the Pentagon.[24] Another witness, Daryl Donley, saw the crash as he was driving on Washington Boulevard. Among debris that was scattered as the plane crashed, he found a "scorched green oxygen tank marked 'Cabin air. Airline use'" on the road.[24] Mr. Donley also had a camera with him, and took some of the first photographs after the crash.[25] USA Today reporter Mike Walter, while driving on Washington Boulevard, also witnessed the crash.[26] He recounted to CNN, "...looked out my window. I saw this plane, the jet, American Airlines jet coming. And I thought, this doesn't add up. It's really low. And I saw it. It just went — I mean, it was like a cruise missile with wings, it went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon. Huge explosion."[13]
(This is about half the witnesses, to save space)
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2) Clear wreckage of a plane was found & photographs were printed in all the papers. Here's a nice photo from 9/11 that clearly shows plane wreckage:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=6#bigplane
(scroll down after clicking)
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3)Yes, the hole in the Pentagon was somewhat smaller than the diameter of the plane. But the hole was still 90 feet in diameter. That's almost a third of a football field!! (not a "perfect little hole").
Anyway, why was the hole somewhat smaller that the diameter of the plane?
This is explained by Professor Mere Sozen, a “Kettelhut Distinguished Professor Civil Engineering” at Perdue University.
Prof. Sozen says that it’s the energy of the plane, not its size that determines the size of the hole. The plane is not a cartoon character that punches out its outline.
Moving at 531 MPH it more fluid than solid and this explains why you get the hole you got. See:
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/020910.Sozen.Pentagon.html
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4) The “American Society of Civil Engineers” & the “Structural Engineering Institute” (both are non-governmental) investigated the Pentagon crash. Their report is called "The Pentagon Performance Report" & it’s at:
http://www.fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/build03/PDF/b03017.pdf
The report contains color photos from the relevant Pentagon security camera which was going at 1 frame/sec. It shows a blurry shot of the plane.
The report contains abundant references to plane debris & body parts found in the Pentagon. For example, on page 26 it says:
“The remains of most of the passengers on the aircraft were found near the end of the travel of the aircraft debris. The front landing gear (a relatively solid and heavy object) and the flight data recorder (which had been located near the rear of the aircraft) were also found nearly 300 ft into the structure. By contrast, the remains of a few individuals (the hijacking suspects), who most likely were near the front of the aircraft, were found relatively close to the aircraft’s point of impact with the building."
The remains of the passengers were DNA matched to relatives.
5) Controllers in Boston spotted & actually tracked Flight 77 as it flew from the Midwest to and into the Pentagon. They ordered the F16s over New York to fly to Washington to intercept it but they were too late. Are all these controllers insane?
6) Hundreds of rescue workers found plane debris & body parts. Many accounts of this were published in the papers.
7) If it was a missile, then where did Flight 77 & all its passengers go ?....
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Some other points:
1. Yes some windows were intact. The pentagon had just undergone "blast protection" with special treatments of the windows. As you'r expect, some of the windows off to the side didn't break. So what?
2. Yes, the plane was broken into mostly small fragments. This is what happens when there's a high speed plane crash into a hard surface.
Greg Feith, former senior investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), says this (utter destruction) is typical. Feith says that in 1997, a high speed plane crash In Sumatra left nothing more than a tire carcass and engine-parts the size of a pot lid. (Pop. Mech., “Debunking 9/11,” p. 87-88)
Forensics text books say the same thing. In “Medico-legal Investigation of Death" by Spitz & Fisher, 2nd ed., page 411, it says:
"With the crash of modern jet planes, even in the absence of extensive fire, the high speeds of impact lead to disintegration of the aircraft and the passengers within."
3. Hand placed debris? Impossible. Moments after the crash, the area was flooded with rescue workers, camera crew, bystanders, etc. How could all the debris be "placed" there? How did all the body parts get there? 95% of the passengers & all the hijackers were DNA-matched.
4. The most amazing thing about the conspiracy theorists is that they are utterly astonished & amazed that a security camera (going at 1 frame a second) only got on a blurry shot of the plane (going at 780 feet/second), but they are completely comfortable with the idea that the entire plane and all it passnegers, just vanished into thin air.
2007-12-01 12:58:18
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