Jonnyclueless
Philosopher
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2007
- Messages
- 5,546
I'm confused by the CIT claim. It seems like their new witness saw TWO planes while the rest of their witnesses only saw one.
I'm confused by the CIT claim. It seems like their new witness saw TWO planes while the rest of their witnesses only saw one.
You might like to explain why the report differs from the 16ft hole we see in all the photos, videos and witness testimonies.
I'm confused by the CIT claim.
Please show me a posting by a "debunker" that admits that the hole made by AA77 was 16 feet across? (oh, and a post stating that the portion of the hole on the second floor is 16 feet across doesn't count...it must admit that the entire hole is 16 feet across).
I'll go run around the world a dozen times while I am waiting.
TAM![]()
Here is the hole in the building - it's been reported by at least a dozen different sources (including conspiracy theory sites) to be a 16 to 20 foot hole. That is really interesting when you take into account the fact that the 757 body is 12 ft 4in wide and 13 ft 6in high. (Here is where I was mistaken in the past, like so very many others I was led astray by the HEIGHT of the aircraft, which is actually the measurement from the [COLOR=#d0d060! important][COLOR=#d0d060! important]wheels[/COLOR][/COLOR]-down to the tip of the tail. That measurement is for aircraft hangar clearance, not the SIZE of the aircraft.) The 757 is basically a cylinder that is 13 feet across. It then should not be surprising that it would create something around a thirteen foot hole in the side of the building.
Look at the nose-on view of a 757
- you can see the body is slightly less than 1/3 the size of the height of the aircraft. The tail certainly isn't going to punch a hole through a reinforced concrete wall; that is why there is no 40 foot hole in the front of the Pentagon in any photos. A 40 foot object didn't hit it, a 13 foot object did.
Size of 757 matches the initial size of hole in the building - somewhere between 13 and 16 feet (757 is 13 feet wide/high)
Can you point out the admission, please?
I read the document, and he clearly says "it's been reported... to be". Then he goes into some analysis of this description. He does not 'admit' that the hole made by AA77 was 16 feet across, which was what you were asked.
The next paragraph moves on to discuss the height of the plane, not the width.
In the conclusion he refers again to the hole, and the way I read it in that statement he is again referring to the plane size and what size of hole it would be expected to create when it doesn't hit straight on at 90 degrees to the wall face.
He says it is reported as a 16 - 20 foot hole. Then says that is what you would expect from a 13ft fuselage. He goes on to say that the fuselage punched the hole.
Yeah ... I just pointed that out to you. He doesn't admit it was a 16 foot hole.
The Pentagon, by contrast, has an exterior wall made of three feet of high-compression concrete reinforced with steel. It was designed to withstand missile strikes, yet, it still bore a distinct hole where the fuselage penetrated clear through the first ring of the building. The wings apparently folded up along side the fuselage, or disintegrated, as the plane went through. That's not at all implausible, considering the strength of the Pentagon's walls.
Yes he does. He states that a hole that size was reported. He then says that that would be what you would expect from a 13 ft fuselage. Then he categorically states that the 13 ft fuselage punched that hole. You can play semantics all day but you and I both know I provided exactly what TAM asked for.
This guy doesn't mention the whole size specifically but it is obvious what he means.
Well, I tried!
He states what size the hole was reported. Then he works on that report to examine possibilities.
Where does he undertake any measurement of the hole himself, and admit (which is what TAM asked for) that he measured it at 16 feet?