In December of 2001 French journalists came out claiming that the
hole in the Pentagon wall was too small for a crashing Boeing 757 to fit
through.
In late F ebuary of 2002 the American Patriot Fax Network (APFN)
hosted discussions of whether the French evidence indicated a 9-11
frame-up. Mere days after this the Pentagon issued five frames from the
Pentagon's west side security camera video to prove a plane really was
involved in the attack.
And shortly after this (in early March) David Bosanko of
Bristol England, having been arguing against the French "conspiray"
claims on APFN, enlarged the security camera video and ran the frames in
"animated" sequence. This afforded a better view that instantly
convinced many people (including me) that the plane shown was much too
short to be Flight 77 Boeing -- because if it were a Boeing 757, its
shiny aluminum fuselage, trimmed with red and blue, would be visible
extending far out to the left of the yellow driveway pillar etc.
In addition, to this there were many unusual events that raised
the suspicion of some-- the breakdown of air defenses, the failure of
intelligence, indications that this crisis and the war on terror were
anticipated by the military and by the state department. etc.
I've looked at the evidence and done my best to get to the bottom
of it all.
Here are my conclusions:
1. Attack plane in the video is too short given the size of the
image of the tail fin visible above the pillar.
2. The missile plume in the video matches that of air-to-ground
missile.
3. The explosion shown in frame #1 is consistent with missile
warhead, not with an airliner crash.
4. Witnesses who saw only one plane fall into two distinct groups,
each seeing a different
plane, on a different path, at different altitude, with
different sound, at different speeds.
5. A third set of witnesses saw two planes approach the Pentagon
and one of these veer away.
6. The famous piece of "evidence" found on the lawn is from the
starboard side, not the port side
-- but it was found on the south side of the lawn 200 feet
from the crash ON THE PORT
SIDE OF THE ATTACK PLANE AS IT APPROACHED, and the
aerodynamics of this light
bent and torn sheet of aluminum would make it impossible for
it to have flown this distance
7. Only one engine broke through the C-ring; only one engine was
photographed. The one engine is on a line from the downed
lamp
posts to the entry hole to the last exit hole --
indicating a single
engine jet.
8. All evidence provided by a persistent band of debunkers is
portable
and appears in photos taken by FEMA days after the event.
9. Mike Rivero's "conclusive" debris evidence, turns out to be
from
the Pentagon offices, not from an aircraft. (as a closeup
reveals
very "uncrashed" and un-airplane debris.
10. Joe Viall's BBC picture of "Flight 77 diving into the
Pentagon"
has too short a fuselage in front of the wings and wings
that
are too swept back to have been a 757.
11. Many heard a jet. Others heard a missile. (All military
men.)
Those near Flight 77 as it came over the cemetery, saw it and
heard it pass silently (no engine); whereas those near the
killer
jet which came by the freeway and knocked down the lamp
posts
heard its loud scream as it put on speed to reach the wall
as the airliner flew over it.
12. Star witness Riskus saw the Boeing, but was tricked when
the killer jet, flying low with background visual noise --
hit the
building. The Boeing was instantly lost behind the
explosion
and smoke.
13. Reagan National Airport is only one mile away in the
direction
Flight 77 was going when it flew over the crashing killer
jet.
After passing over the crashing killer jet -- FLight 77 was
able
to blend into normal Reagan National air traffic almost
immediately
(i.e. before the sound of the explosion could reach the
White House
or Capitol Building).
14. There were foreigners at both Dulles (where Flight 77 took
off)
and Reagan National (where Flight 77 landed after the crash)
who each had an illegally gotten top security badge that
enabled
them to gain access anywhere in those airports -- tower,
security,
baggage, hangers, surveillence, loading docks, boarding,
etc.
They were deported by Ashcroft a few months after the
crash.
(Since they were not held it is reasonable to assume that
they
were British subjects or Isreali citizens. A British
firm was
subcontracting many services at the airport at the time.
DIAGRAMATIC STATEMENT
OF THIS CONCLUSION:
EAST ABOVE
NORTH ON
LEFT SOUTH ON RIGHT
NW
WEST BELOW SW
CENTER OF PENTAGON
-------------X---C-ring
engine exit-------------------------------- (Pentagon West
Walls inside rings)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
wall
---------------------------------------------------------------------------wall
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
wall
------------------------------------X--crash
entry----------------- Pentagon West Wall (exteriror)
heliport
[
]
tree
x
x
x downed lamp posts
X
Riskus x point 100 feet
from Riskus x x
southwest of
crash northwest of crash
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
x
Arlington Cemetary Gardener
t \
FLIGHT 77 PAST OVER HERE
KILLER JET CAME FROM HERE
VERIFICATION OF THE SPATIAL
FEATURES OF THIS EXPLANATION:
1. Locating Riskus, lamp
posts, and the Pentagon on the Big Map
RISKUS LOCATES THE PATH OF THE
APPROACHING BOEING; THE LAMP POSTS AND THE C-RING EXIT
HOLE DETERMINE THE FINAL PATH OF A SECOND PLANE, THE "KILLER
JET."
Thesis:
Witness Steve Riskus was headed north
on the turnpike, south of the crash site, when he saw Flight 77
pass by within 100 feet of him on its way to the Pentagon. Riskus
describes the plane was shiny aluminium, with red and blue
stripes and and engine under each wing. Clearly Riskus saw
Flight 77 as it approached the Pentagon's west wall.
Riskus had a camera in his care and
immediately after the crash stopped his car and began using
it. The first picture taken by Riskus, then, indicates the
location were he saw the plane and stopped his car. Says Riskus,
"I took these pictures less then 1 minutes after I watched the
american airlines 757 airplane crash into the pentagon
on September 11."
The shots are taken from the
northbound lane south of the crash site across from the
heliport. Riskus took a series of pictures after leaving his
car and then one parting shot from his car on the highway
north of the accident as he headed home to put his digital
photos on the web. In this last picture, taken north of the
crash, the is camera aiming behind his car as it travels
north-bound, as indicated by the headlight of the car directly
behind him that is visible with the profusely smoking Pentagon
to the left of the trailing cars.
While south of the crash site Riskus was
watching Flight 77 pass within 100 feet of him, more than a
quarter of a mile ahead to the north, lamp posts were being
knocked down by another plane travelling from the northwest
toward the Pentagon. British investigator, Ron Harvey, has
painstakingly identified the location of each of five highway
lamp posts that were downed by the advancing killer jet. Here
is Mr. Harvey's diagram, indicating in yellow the locations of
the five toppled posts at the cloverleaf highway interchange
north of the crash.
Lamp posts 1, 2,3,4 and 5 were downed by the hurricane
approach of the killer jet from the Northwest. (Note
the west wall of the Pentagon, on the right.)
The killer jet drove southeast
to its target, various photos reveal that the light poles fell
perpendicular to the path of attack, blown down by cyclonic
turbulence of hurricane force made by a jet pushing through the
thick lower atmosphere at 500+ mph, hit by wind force
concentrated in a vortex coming off the wings, rather than
being hit by the aircrafts fuselage or wings, denting and fallen
forward.
We can be certain, following the analysis of Ron
Harvey, that the plane that hit the lamp posts was the killer
jet, since a line plotted from the downed lamp posts to
the crash entry point on the outer wall can be continued on
that same straight northwest to southeast line to that final
hole where the bare engine of the plane exited the inner
"C-ring" of the Pentagon, the last of six walls the engine
penetrated. It was this killer jet that Steve Riskus did not
see as he watched the big Boeing 757 fly across his path only
100 feet from him.
As you can see from the pictures taken by Riskus
(below), the approaching plane would have had to have
been seen against the buildings,
not against the sky. From where Riskus was, the low
and levelapproach of the killer jet was camouflaged by the
"busy" background, by the confusion from visual "noise" of
rows of buildings against which the small fast moving object
had to be viewed -- even if the awsome sight of Flight 77
flying so close was not drawing his attention.
Here is the first picture
taken by Riskus from his car sourthwest of the crash. He is
actually south of the Helicopter pad's mini-tower, visible
through the smoke above the reflected sunlight in the white
car's windshield.
Not even a plane hitting the
crash point at a 90-degree angle (i.e., from the west rather
than from the northwest) would have passed within 100 feet of
Riskus. (Note: 100 feet is only two thirds the length of a
Boeing 757!)
After Riskus walked to this
vantage point from his car toward the crash entry point he is
still southwest of the crash. (Notice that for this shot he
remains on the northbound- traffic side of the freeway, the
southbound cars in the foreground.) Subsequent photos taken
from the concret lane divider in the picture show the small
hole made by crash and the soot and flame around windows south
of the crash.
What has been claimed so far
is summarized in the following diagram.
To locate both the lamp posts
and the approximate location where Riskus snapped his first Pentagon
photo, see the following very detailed aerial map of the entire crime
sceen. This enlarged aerial map is an essential tool in verifying all of
the features of this unifying account of the Pentagon attack.
Riskus, southwest of the
accident -- about where that lone
white truck is on the rightmost
lane -- he was three or four plane lengths
from the crash -- and maybe seven
plane lengths from the clover-leaf
where the killer jet knocked down
the polls. Whatever reasonable margin of error one gives to these
estimates of mine -- there is no feisable path by which the killer jet
could have hit those lamp posts, flown to within 100 feet of Riskus
and then returned to the northwest to be able to enter at the crash
point at an angle that would enable it to rendevous with the exit hole
in the C-ring. No jet could do it, and especially no Boeing 757
airliner could do it. (One investigator, Sarah Roberts, made a heroic
attempt to both have Flight 77 over Alrington Cemetary and then fly to
those lamp posts and then to the crash point -- but this feat
required the low flying aircraft to have turned 10 degrees just while
it was over the cloverleaf interchange -- an impossibility that
Roberts later acknowledged and retracted.)
2.
WITNESS ACCOUNTS REPORTING ONLY ONE PLANE DIVIDE INTO TWO MUTUALLY
CONTRADICTING GROUPS -- No conspiracy would hire (or trust) that many
liars, so both groups must be telling the truth -- there must have
been two planes.
Judge for yourself:
Witnesses who claim to have
seen only one plane break into two groups. Those who describe
1) an airliner, shiny, red
and blue markings, with two engines, in a dive, and flying "low" in
terms of one or two hundred feet, and silent (engines idle); and
2) a plane that came
in at tree-top level, at "20 feet" all the way, hitting lamp
posts in perfect low level flight that must have been established and
stabilized well before the lamp posts were reached; engines roaring;
pouring on speed; smaller than a mid-sized airliner.
Here are some who saw only
Flight 77:
Anon: ...
the large silver cylinder of an aircraft
appeared in my window, coming over my right shoulder as I faced the
Westside of the Pentagon directly towards the heliport. The aircraft,
looking to be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come directly over the
annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road
leading to Pentagon. The aircraft was moving fast, at what I could
only be estimate as between 250 to 300 knots. All in all, I probably
only had the aircraft in my field of view for approximately 3
seconds. The aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a
direct course for the Pentagon. It was "clean", in as much as, there
were no flaps applied and no apparent landing gear deployed. He was
slightly left wing down as he appeared in my line of sight, as if he'd
just "jinked" to avoid something. As he crossed Route 110 he appeared
to level his wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment...
Comment: The Annex is on
the side of the hill shared with Arlington Cemetery. The sharp
downward angle and the positive identification of a 757 establish that
this witness was looking at Flight 77.
Timmerman: ...being
next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet
engine was way too loud. I looked out to the southwest, and it came
right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as it went by the
Sheraton Hotel, the pilot added power to the engines. I heard it pull
up a little bit more, and then I lost it behind a building. And
then it came out, and I saw it hit right in front of -- it didn't
appear to crash into the building ...
Comment: This witness was
north of the crash. He heard a jet louder than the normal air traffic
at nearby Reagan National (which includes routine Boeing 757
landings.) When he looked out his window, however, he saw Flight 77
to the southwest, and most significantly, he actually states that the
plane he was watching "didn't appear to crash into the building"!!!!
Here is a CNN reporter
questioning another witness:
CNN: You got
a close-up look at the damage, didn't you?
Wit: Yes, I was right next to
the building.
CNN: And what did you see?
Wit: I saw a big, gaping hole and I could see pieces of the plane inside.
CNN: Earlier, an eye-witness told us the plane didn't crash into the building.
Wit: Well, I don't know what it looked like from where he was, but I looked right inside the hole and I know it crashed into the building.
Comment: The man
being interviewed by CNN above was also a CNN reporter. No one else
reports having seen in the hole pieces of aircraft, and of course the
absence of debris commensurate with a mid-sized airliner crash is a
topic that continues to be much discussed. Yet here again we have
mention of a man who says the plane he observed did not hit the
Pentagon.
O’Keefe:
saw or heard it first -- this silver plane; I immediately
recognized it as an American Airlines jet It came swooping in over the
highway, over my left shoulder, straight across where my car was
heading.
Comment: In a car it is hard
to tell the direction of the sound of a jet. The jet must have been
loud to be heard in his car. He heard the loud killer jet, but saw the
Boeing "swooping," i.e., leveling out from a dive. He does not say
whether he was in view of the actual crash event.
Sucherman:
It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20 feet off the
ground and a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two seconds later
and before he could see if the landing gear was down or any of the
horror- struck faces inside, the plane slammed into the west wall of the
Pentagon 100 yards away.
"My first thought was he's not going to make it across the river to National Airport. But whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction. It was coming in at a high rate of speed, but not at a steep angle--almost like a heat-seeking missile was locked onto its target and staying dead on course."
"My first thought was he's not going to make it across the river to National Airport. But whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction. It was coming in at a high rate of speed, but not at a steep angle--almost like a heat-seeking missile was locked onto its target and staying dead on course."
Comment: Here is the classic killer
jet observation. No mention of a dive, in fact he goes out of his way
to say it was not coming in a steep angle. The killer jet was coming
fast, unlike the coasting 757.
Anon2: "I did not see the engines, I
saw the body and the tail; it was a silver jet with the markings along
the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet, it was not a
commercial, excuse me, a business jet, it was not a lear jet, it was a
bigger plane than that.".
Comment: Obviously this witness falls
between the two categories. Not seeing engines would put the plane in
the killer jet category. But a larger than Lear jet size is indicated
as well as American Airlines markings. Taking it literally, he saw
Flight 77 but just did not pay attention to the engines.
(Alternatively, the killer jet was bigger than an F-16 and outfitted in
American Airlines "drag.")
Campo: It was a passenger plane. I
think an American Airways plane. I was cutting the grass and it came in
screaming over my head.
Comment: This is the Arlington National
Cemetary gardener. Like Riskus, his testimony puts the real Flight 77
over the cemetary, from where it would have been impossible for any
plane to have rendezvoused with the five lamp posts northeast of the
cemetery and then bent its path around sufficiently to reach the crash
point at the proper angle to also exit the c-ring hole.
Vaughn: There wasn't anything in the
air, except for one airplane, and it looked like it was loitering over
Georgetown, in a high, left-hand bank. That may have been the plane. I
have never seen one on that pattern.
Comment: General Vaugh was not alone in
what he saw. Many other witnesses saw Flight 77 putting on an
attention- getting exhibition over D.C. as if to draw all eyes to itself
and away from the true appraoching killer.
Liebner: I saw this large American
Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and low.
My first thought was I've never seen one that high. Before it hit I realised what was happening.
My first thought was I've never seen one that high. Before it hit I realised what was happening.
Comment: Captain Liebner does not tell
us what he means by "low." Was it 100 feet or 20 feet? But the term
"coming in" indicates a descent.
Here are more witness accounts:
Kelly Knowles from an Arlington
apartment two miles away saw a two planes moving toward the Pentagon,
one veering away as the other crashed.
Tom Seibert, in the Pentagon,
listened to " what sounded like a missile" followed by a "loud
boom."
Keith Wheelhouse and his sister,
Pam Young were preparing to leave a funeral at Arlington Naitonal
Cemetary when they watched "the jet" approach and hit the
Pentagon. Both saw another plane flying near the jet that
crashed. When asked if the other plane could have been an
airliner performing a normal landing at Reagan National Airport,
Wheelhouse stated that he was not confused by normal airport
traffic.
Alfred S. Regnery, on the
freeway with the Pentagon not yet in view, heard a jetliner "not
more than 200 yards above the ground" passed overhead,
disappearing "behind black cloud of smoke" was pouring from a
"gaping hole."
Comment: Another witness
hearing the loud sound and seeing the jet liner and assuming
that sound source and object sited are one and the same. But
note that he saw an airliner and that it was 200 yards above the
ground, not 20 feet.
Terry Scanlon interviewed a
Hampton Roads woman who saw a plane following the jet that hit
the Pentagon.
Christine Peterson, in her
car in front of the heliport ( near Riskus) saw the airliner.
As it flew over she could read numbers on its wing. "My mind
could not comprehend what happened. Where did the plane go?
... But there was no plane visible, only huge billows of smoke
and torrents of fire."
Comment: It would certainly
be jumping to conclusions to say that this witness saw that
plane crash. Watching the Boeing she missed entirely the
killer jet that came from another direction.
James S. Robbins, from his
west-facing office window, one and a half miles east of the
Pentagon, saw "the 757" as
it was "diving
in at an unrecoverable angle."
"I did not immediately comprehend what
I was witnessing. There was a silvery flash, an explosion,
and a dark, mushroom shaped cloud rose over the building."
Comment: The plane was
diving. But it must have recovered from the dive at the
last second, because the pentagon was not hit by a plane at
a downward angle. The killer jet travelled from the
entrance hole to the C-ring exit hole without breaking above
the floor of the third floor!!! Robbins saw the Boeing that
did not crash and the explosion and smoke made by the killer
plane that did.
Christopher Munsey headed
South on the Interstate saw "a silver, twin-engine American
Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy
Annex, fast, low and straight toward the Pentagon, just
hundreds of yards away." Munsey saw the red and blue
markings "as it appeared to hit the side of the Pentagon."
Comment: A silver twin-engined
plane had to have been Flight 77, seen "over the Annex",
i.e., over Arlington Cemetary hill, it had American Airlines
markings and it was "noiseless," but notice the
indefinitness: "it appeared to hit the side of the Pentagon"
-- there are usually psychologically definite reason why
people qualify their speech, in this case, perhaps,
pshycological reservations about what he really did see.
Fred Gaskins was driving
near the Pentagon as he saw the plane pass about 150 feet
overhead. "It was flying very smoothly and calmly, without
any hint that anything was wrong."
Comment: Near the
Pentagon, but still 150 feet in the air. How could it hit
those poles? How could it come in for its
below-the-third-floor crash through three rings of the
Pentagon?
Certainly this sample of
witness testimony is more supportive of the two-plane thesis
than the single Boeing thesis of the "official explanation."
But if the witnesses
testimony is inconclusive the actual video recording of the
attack is not. The killer jet was not a Boeing and it did not
dive. But that is not all.
II. The Security Camera
Proofs:
For an enlargement of this photo
go to:
Observe:
1) the size of tail fin image in frame #1 requires that for the plane to be a Boeing 757, the front end of its shiny silver fuselage would have to be visible in the broad sunlight extending out to the left of the stone driveway pillar in the picture.
Check:
a) The 757 is
over seven times the length of its own tail fin, i.e., it would
take seven and a quarter tail fins to cover the back of a Boeing
757, Stegasaurus style,
adding fins from
the tail fin in the rear forward to the nose, however the width
of the image of the driveway pillar that conceals the entire
fuselage of the attacking plane is only five times as wide as the
tail fin that appears sticking up above and behind it, so that
regardless of angle of approach to the Pentagon wall or of
distance of the aircraft from the camera, the plane simply cannot
be aircraft of the length and form of a Boeing 757;
b) A 757 is 155
feet long and the Pentagon is only 71 feet high, but by direct
inspection, if you stood the aircraft behind the pillar on end
against the wall, say
half way to the
far end of the wall from the impact point, it would reach no
more than 70 percent of the wall's height, the method is rough,
but the margin of error in
your estimate can be
nowhere near the 218 percent difference that would be needed to
turn that attack jet into Flight 77.
2) The presence
of the unmistakable white horizonal missile plume being launched
by the plane to weaken the thick outer wall at the targeted point
of impact
so that the killer
jet can easily invade the Pentagon interior without
give-away fighter jet parts bouncing back on the grass and giving
away the frameup;
3) In frame # 2 Frame
2 - Impact
the tell-tale white-hot intitial
explosion of the
missile warhead is definitely neither a jet fuel kerosene fire,
nor the result of aluminum, plastic and flesh crashing into brick,
concrete and glass;
4) The blossom of
white-hot explosion of the missile warhead spreads laterally, more
so than the subsequent jet fuel flames that in frame #3 come from
inside the
Pentagon, suggesting
that the warhead was designed to trigger at the split second of
impact rather than after entry through the wall.
END OF PART ONE
