Zook, Teakai and Fred,
Thank you for your interesting input.
Teakai, I disagree with your premise that the larger picture is a prerequisite to determining what happened. You agreed earlier that whether or not a plane hit or flew over the Pentagon depends on evidence or lack of it at the Pentagon. I would argue that the bigger picture is irrelevant to Robert's account, the most reasonable result of which is that the plane flew into the Pentagon. If you need to consider the bigger picture to evaluate any piece of the puzzle then you aren't objectively looking at the evidence, you're selecting the evidence to fit the picture.
But I agree with you in part that witnesses can get confused about what they see. I would say they very rarely are confused about WHAT they see, just about the DETAILS of it. In September Clues I used the analogy of a bank robbery. 8, 10, 12 witnesses to a bank robbery would be unlikely to all describe the robber the same way. But it would be exceedingly rare for any of them to not agree that the bank was robbed. On the other hand, 8, 10, 12 patrons in a bank that WASN'T robbed would be unlikely to think it was.
I doubt Robert was confused about whether the plane was in sight or not when the explosion occured. But let's put Robert aside.
I've done some additional research and it turns out there are a WHOLE BUNCH of eyewitness accounts of a plane hitting the Pentagon. Including one or two who might come as surprises. Like the witnesses to a bank robbery, specific details of the plane differ - primarily whether the landing gear was up or down and the color of the plane. But substantial numbers of them agree that a plane did hit the Pentagon.
That said, for the sake of argument let's look at the bigger picture required for a plane to NOT crash into the Pentagon - to fly over it instead. I hope we can all agree that in order for a deception like a flyover to occur, much planning, much preparation, split second timing and unquestioned loyalty of many participants are needed. As a short, somewhat obvious list...
- Lightpoles had to be invisibly removed the night before and strategically placed to document the plane's path (even though they have no explanation for the one the cab driver says he saw get hit by a plane that landed in the middle of the highway after skewering his cab).
- Bombs have to be strategically placed in one of the most guarded buildings in the world.
- Jet fuel has to be strategically planted as well to account for the odor witnesses reported, the burns on some witnesses and the presence of it in the lungs of at least one victim (or these people and doctors all have to be "in on it").
- First responders have to be on board to make sure the victims are delivered to the doctors who will confirm jet fuel burns and residue
- The debris field has to be instantly planted with debris, but the planting not witnessed by any of the hundreds of eyes instantly fixed on the area, including the tossing of a tire rim past James Cissell's car, the remains of the engines, melted aluminum and other debris in the North parking lot as reported by Tom McClain, and lots of other debris. Not just the big stuff but all the little bits of debris. And the really clever part of making one end of that large generator look like it got smashed by an engine and moving it TOWARDS the building, instantly without being seen, when almost any other explanation for the explosion would have moved the generator AWAY from the building - a truly brilliant touch.
- Hundreds of eye-witnesses must be planted who will claim to have seen the plane hit the Pentagon such as...
(a) James Mosley, four stories up on a scaffold at the Navy Annex, "`... I looked over and saw this big silver plane run into the side of the Pentagon"...and at least a couple hundred others.
(b) Battle, an office worker at the Pentagon, was standing outside the building and just about to enter when the aircraft struck. "It was coming down head first," he said. "And when the impact hit, the cars and everything were just shaking."
(c) Kim Flyler was trying to sneak into a parking space near to the building when she saw the plane: "At that moment I heard a plane and then a loud cracking noise.... Right before the plane hit the building, you could see the silhouettes of people in the back two rows. You couldn't see if they were male or female, but you could tell there was a human being in there."- Air Traffic Controllers to ignore the plane after it flys over the Pentagon
- A dispatch crew to eliminate the passengers that were on the plane
- A dispatch crew to eliminate the plane
So I hope we can at least agree that this took months of monumental planning, coordination and probably thousands of loyal and dedicated co-conspirators all up for the grand deception.
Now let's fast forward to the day of the event. All the debris is stashed and ready to roll out, the jet fuel is in place, the lightposts were taken down the night before and are now strategically lying in wait to be discovered (except for that pesky one on the highway). All the key eye-witnesses are in place in the building, around the building, in the cars on the highways (that was one of the trickiest parts - making sure only the co-conspirators line the highway), up at the Navy Annex, on the scaffolding at the Navy Annex, even in the hotels in the area that had a clear view of the Pentagon, all these places occupied only by carefully chosen co-conspirators all in place and waiting for the go-word so they can react with convincing shock, astonishment and surpise and start spreading their amazingly similar stories about how a plane hit the Pentagon.
I suppose that's all possible. After all, we're talking high level strategists and operatives here, right? They coordinate all this intricate staging without a hitch, every thing is going according to plan, the plane is arriving right on schedule. But wait a minute? What's it doing over there? No No No. It's supposed to be SOUTH of the Columbia Pike, not NORTH of it. Now how do we explain these downed lightposts? We've got all these light posts strategically placed and no way to explain how they got there. And the explosion. THE EXPLOSION. It was set to coorespond to a Southern strike and now the plane's coming in from the North. WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE PLANE? Wait 'till I get my hands on THAT IDIOT.
So we're to believe that the same masterminds that pulled off all the logistics needed for this deception blow it by FLYING THE PLANE IN THE WRONG PLACE?
But that's OK because all the planted co-conspirators will still confirm the intended path. And sure enough, all the hundreds of witnesses fall into line and support the lie - well except the dozen or so on the Citizen Investigation Team's video. Guess they just couldn't be bought off. Kind of makes you wonder why they needed a plane at all if they could just produce all these witnesses to say they saw one fly into the Pentagon.
So in a nutshell, this, or something very much like it, is what's required to believe the fly-over scenario.
Now, back to reality...
Remember Terry Morin, the Navy Annex witness with aviation experience? Here's an excerpt from his personal account of that day:
But this guy with aviation experience who has been watching this plane doesn't notice it fly over and keep going? Seems unlikely to me.The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled. As the aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole down on Hwy 110). As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the FOB blocked my view. I could now only see the tail of the aircraft. I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor turn in that direction. The tail was barely visible when I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon. There was a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this type of sound.
Also, it seems like Sean Boger's recollection has changed a bit over the years. In the video he says he covered his head and dropped to the ground and didn't see it hit. But here's what he said in a Nov 16, 2001 article:
Looking still at the bigger picture, like I said above, there are hundreds of such accounts. Many are gathered in specific archives. I noticed Terry Morin's name in one archive and followed the link. The site was no longer active so I had to go to the archives. I'm sure there are hundreds of others available there as well for anyone willing to look. I just don't feel obligated at this point to further make my case. Until someone can explain away all the eywitness accounts, of a plane hitting the Pentagon, I'm afraid the only reasonable conclusion is that a plane hit the Pentagon."I just looked up and I saw the big nose and the wings of the aircraft coming right at us and I just watched it hit the building," Air Traffic Controller and Pentagon tower chief Sean Boger said. "It exploded. I fell to the ground and covered my head. I could actually hear the metal going through the building."
In closing, here's one more critical bit of info. I don't live too far from DC so took a trip down that way and was walking along the Potomac and saw a sheath of papers sticking out from under a rock. My curiousity got the best of me of course and in looking through them I couldn't believe my good fortune. Turns out they are top secret classified minutes of a meeting between Rumsfeld and two of his top strategists. Here's the incriminating part...
Well, you've all been good sports to engage me and I do appreciate it. If it's the truth you're fighting for, and you still believe and defend the no-planes theory, then we will just have to agree to disagree. I guess one man's truth is another man's fantasy.Rumsfeld: OK guys. We need a trigger event, something dramatic and undeniable that will get the public behind military action in Afganistan and Iraq.
Strategist 1: I know. Why don't we fake a plane crashing into the Pentagon?
Rumsfeld: Fake a plane crash?
Strategist 1: Yeah - we can make it look like a plane crashes into the Pentagon and blame it on Al-Queda.
Rumsfeld: What will really happen?
Strategist 1: I guess we can actually have the plane fly over the Pentagon and time an explosion to occur at that exact time then scatter a bunch of plane parts to make it look like it crashed. We can even throw in some engine parts from an engine not used by that plane just to cause some confusion. And plant witnesses, hundreds of them, all over the place to say they saw it crash.
Rumsfeld: I'm liking the sound of this. But why do we want to cause confusion? I want dramatic and undeniable, not confusing.
Strategist 1: OK. Well scratch that then. Oh, here's an idea - we'll take down some light posts to provide a clear attack path.
Rumsfeld: Good idea - what about the crash itself?
Strategist 1: We can use bombs. Maybe plant some jet fuel in the building so people report smelling it burn. Buy off a few doctors who treat patients with jet fuel burns on their skin and in jet fuel in their lungs. And just to add some confusion we'll plant the bombs so they create a hole that many will think too small for the plane to cause.
Rumsfeld: You know I think this just might work. But stop with adding confusion. Make it a big hole. A giant hole. Just like a plane would make. We want this to be convincing. No one should have any doubts that we crashed that plane into the Pentagon. Hey - you've been awfully quite. What do you think?
Strategist 2: Why don't we just fly a plane into the Pentagon?
Rumsfeld: Naw - who'd ever believe that? Besides - that'd be way too complicated and risky.
As for the documentarians. I give them credit for asking Robert the obvious question. But fault them for not including it in the released video. There are also examples of distortion and misrepresentation that I noticed but not worth adding to the fray here. At any rate, I choose to withhold my apology to them and hope you understand and forgive.
As I said elsewhere, if you put enough magnifying glasses on an event like this you will find discrepancies. There are problems with the official story. There are problems with the fly-over theory. There are problems with the missile theory. What really happened may never be known. What most likely happened is probably whichever story has the fewer or smaller discrepancies. The fly-over theory, in my opinion, has enough holes in it to, well, fly a 757 through.
Again all, thanks for taking the time. Hope I at least gave you something to think about.
Others can decide for themselves, which is the more reasonable scenario - a plane crashing into the Pentagon, or the whole thing is faked so one can fly over instead (because after all, that would have the same effect and be so much easier to pull off as a black op...)




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