What Hit the Pentagon on September 11?
Via John Dvorak, here’s a provocative video from The Memory Hole (apparently this isn’t from The Memory Hole, despite the suggestive URL). It raises a number of questions about whether a 757 actually did crash into the Pentagon on September 11: Where is the wreakage from the plane? Why has so little videotape been released? What about eyewitnesses who report something much smaller striking the building? It could be a hoax or easily debunked, but it was the most compelling 6 minutes of my afternoon.
UPDATE: Thanks to oncee for the Snopes link, which largely debunks this movie.
September 22nd, 2004 at 6:30 pm
Couldn’t this pretty easy to solve by matching up dead passenger names with their 757 flight which never landed at any airport?
If he could get together a rock video like that about the fake Apollo missions, Fox would pay him a mint. Interesting media method of his protest.
September 22nd, 2004 at 6:45 pm
I don’t think they’re alleging that those people didn’t die. I imagine the suggestion is that they died somewhere else.
September 22nd, 2004 at 7:32 pm
Having known someone who died on that flight, I find the whole thing odious. It was been well debunked by Scopes: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm
September 22nd, 2004 at 10:09 pm
Darren - your snopes link in the entry is wrong, it has an extraneous ‘c’.
*goes back to being a nitpicker and compiles quake 3*
September 23rd, 2004 at 2:10 pm
I find a one of the arguments particularly compelling:
The security camera footage shows missile-type exhaust skimming only meters above the ground and then slamming into the Pentagon. Planes that big cannot do this, and the skill of the pilot/hijacker, to sucessfully maneuver a large passenger jet at high speed and low altitude is questionable at best.
It’s also curious how, in 1999, a tiny learjet, flying over the mid-west was rapidly intercepted by fighter jets for failing to follow course. (This was when golf-pro Payne Stewart died) Yet for some reason, airspace over DC was nowhere near as well patrolled by the airforce.