Originally Posted by jaydeehess
Interesting!
Although this is where he draws the path of the plane it would put the plane more than twice its wingspan north of the VDOT tower which the next day Paik speculates may have been clipped by the plane.
Again?? Jesus...
Quote:
¨Pickering: Did you actually SEE it hit the tower or you THOUGHT it hit the tower...Did you see the repair guys working on it?
Ed Paik: I DIDN´T SEE IT HIT THE TOWER, I SAW THE GUYS WORKING AT IT THE NEXT MORNING¨
Got that?
Yes, I have pointed out many times now that I know that Paik does not say he saw the plane hit the tower. No matter how many times you tell me that I am saying that Paik saw the plane hit the tower it will not make it so.
I have said that Paik wondered if, estimated, speculated, conjectured that the guys on the tower were performing repair work on damage caused by the aircraft.
But Paik's drawing shows the plane in a position that would have a full wingspan of empty space between that path and the tower. How then could Paik wonder if the plane had hit the tower? If the plane was where he put the line on the photo then there would have been a large space between his view of the plane passing over the Annex and where the tower is.
However, if Paik is incorrect in his drawing and the plane did obscure his view of the tower as it was east of him yet south of the Annex then he could easily speculate that the tower had been brushed by the plane.
Same goes if the tower was between him and the plane.
So why then would he place the plane over the Annex?
Seems he has a view of a small corner of the Annex. As the plane passed the tower it was also moving accross his view from right to left and if it was high enough it would appear to pass over the Annex even though by this time it is past the Annex.
Paik's statements also illustrate exactly how accurate eyewitness testimony is. It isn't particularily accurate. Case in point is that Paik also says something about ducking and that he thought it would hit his roof after which he puts it flying over the Annex, which I am told is 70 feet high, certainly much higher than his roof (perhaps 15 feet high at most) and in no way low enough to make one duck down.
So we already know he is wrong about its height. We also know that it would be extremely tight to fit the plane into a path that goes directly over Paik and also manages to not impact the Sheraton.
Now we also take into account Morin's statements which put the plane south of where Paik put it. Morin puts it as above the south edge of the Annex. If the plane was where Paik put it then Morin is facing the wrong way to see it over the south edge of the building.
So we already know that Paik may be off in describing the plane as right over him. There is his speculation of the tower hit that suggests Paik actually saw the plane south of where he put it on the satellite photo, and now we have Morin putting it to the south of where Paik has it with Morin in a better location to judge.
Furthermore Morin says he ran out from between the wings, a distance of about ten feet (the width of a small bedroom) and into the parking lot near the security shack and watched the plane descend below the line of trees. He also states he could still see the vert stabilizer after that. This requires that the plane pass to the south of the Citgo station since if it passed more northerly than the south extent of the Citgp canopy then Morin would have had to be accross Columbia Pike to see what he describes.
Middleton describes a path which would exclude either Paik or Morin having seen the plane. The rest of the ANC witnesses also describe paths for which Morin at least would be simply unable to see the plane.
Thus we can conclude that the plane did NOT in fact pass to the north of, nor even directly over, the Citgo station.