Originally posted by: vhx
I have some skepticism regarding 9/11 and have talked to others around here about their thoughts as well and have come up with the 3 main ones that people discuss and talk about.
WTC 7 - Fell at feel fall speeds, the inner column died before the rest of the building which a lot of people attribute to demolitions or some secondary explosions. News agencies reported on scene "Oh the building is collapses!" only to have a shot of the building not budging. Then a minute later it collapses.
Pentagon attack - Not sure what to make of this but apparently the accounting section with the records was hit. Then the discovery of the Pentagon missing like 20% of it's annual budget, didn't help conspiracy matters much. You also have that and the fact they confiscated all of the videos taken involving the crash from stores and places around. Yet they release 3 frames of something so blurry it could be anything. Why choose footage that a Webcam from the 1990's could outperform? Why not give us all of them? Why confiscate them in the first place? National security is no excuse, the two towers were being hit by airplanes over and over all day in the media.
Flight 93 - Just hunks of metal everywhere, little evidence of actual pieces. Investigators on the scene report things like it's like someone just dumped metal scraps everywhere or something to that effect. Also the fact that the metal pieces were scatted over a huge area? I could see that happening if it was shot down or something.
I think people cling to most of the coincidences that happened on 9/11 to the conspiracy theories.
Examples: 3 Jets at Andrews AFB flew 180 miles away on 9/11, a simulated hijacking of planes taken place ON 9/11 to add to the confusion, another exercise on 9/11 morning to simulate crashing planes into government buildings, etc. Then you compound to the fact you have the war in Iraq being on false information and deliberate lies, I don't blame anyone at this point for not believing the government stories.
The point is, we'll never know. Even if you had proof or documents, the fact the MSM being so tightly controlled means, you wouldn't get anything on the air/
Anyways, someone sent me a list awhile ago of 250 coincidences regarding 9/11.
http://killtown.911review.org/911smokingguns.html The guys site is retarded, however I think they did a good job of sourcing each of their claims in the media with links. Flame me on I suppose.
1. WTC 7 did not fall at "free fall speeds." If you dropped a ball off the roof of the WTC towers without wind resistance, it would take about 9.22 seconds to hit the ground. Therefore, the claims that the WTC fell in less than 9 seconds or less than 10 seconds are physically impossible.
Look at this photo -
http://www.911myths.com/assets/images/Collapse.jpg
Notice how large pieces of debris are clearly falling faster than the rest o fhte building. Therefore, the entire building could not have collapsed at "free fall speeds" because those pieces ARE in free fall.
I think a better established collapse time for the towers is around 14 seconds, much slower than free fall speeds.
2. 20% of the budget WASN'T MISSING. I detailed this in a previous post, but the DOD had been having accounting issues for years (1990s). There was 2.3 trillion dollars which hadn't been properly accounted for in a report released in February 2001. By 2003, all but $700 million dollars had been properly accounted for. If the DoD was having budgetary issues for decades, why did it make sense to attack the Pentagon in Sept 2001?
Your quibble about the camera is ridiculous. The plane was traveling at 400 mph. These aren't high-speed cameras, they're regular 32 - 35 fps security cameras. At 400 mph, the plane would only be visible for three or four frames.
4. Until after 9/11, the USAF only kept 15 jets on standby across the country. Standby means they're ready to roll at a moment's notice. Andrews AFB had no fighters or aircraft on standby on Sept 11, the nearest planes took off from Otis AFB, in MA. Because of rules in place prior to Sept 11, those planes could not fly at supersonic speeds, though the pilots testified that they did exceed supersonic speeds.
Otis AFB is about 192 miles away from the Twin Towers in a straight shot. It isn't unreasonable to think that these planes may have headed out to sea in order to avoid civilian air traffic and to avoid flying over densely populated areas... that would increase the flight distance by about 35 miles.
Testimony from the 9/11 commission:
Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold
Our standard, we have agreements with the FAA. And by the way, we are looking outward, this is an advantage to us. And so we have agreements for clearance. When we scramble an aircraft, there is a line that?s picked up and the FAA and everyone is on that line and the aircraft take off and they have a predetermined departure route. And, of course, it?s out over water because our mission, unlike law enforcement?s mission is to protect things coming towards the United States. And I might even add in all of our terrorist scenarios that we run, the aircraft, if we were to intercept an aircraft, it is usually always from outside the United States coming towards us. So, our peacetime procedures are (garbled) to de-conflict with civil aviation so as to not have, endanger civil aviation in any particular way.
If planes indeed took off at 8:52:00 and traveled a distance of 189 miles and arrived at the WTC at 9:11, then their average speed would have been 596 mph, already higher than normal cruising speed. When we take into account that FAA regulations prohibited them from flying in a straight line (for fear they would crash into another plane), and add more distance, we quickly come to see that the planes were traveling above their normal cruising speed. If we assume the planes didn't fly in a straight line and didn't achieve their cruising speed instantaneously, it becomes clear that they were hauling ass --
- at 225 miles of distance traveled, they would have had to been flying at ~710 mph,
- with only 16 minutes (3 minutes subtracted for getting planes off ground, facing right direction and accelerating) and 189 miles (straight line) they would have had to exceed 707 mph.
- with 16 minutes and 225 miles to cover, they would have to averaged 842 mph.