Ah!
1. Was Our Lady of the Path Train in a position to see a plane? Was she in a position to hear the plane? (My answers: No and no - she was 80 feet underground in a noisy place)
Your answers over interpret and exhibit a bias against this particular witness. As she did not claim she saw a plane, it is nothing but a gratuitous attack upon her to attach a query about whether or not she saw a plane. Our Lady PT did not claim she saw a plane, so your query in that respect, and your need to find a negative answer is simplya bogus attack by someone who shows an utter inability to treat witnesses with respect and to accept what they say.
You then go even further into the land of gratuitous attack on a witness by discounting what she heard. In this instance you do so by attacking her directly as she did use words indicating she heard an explosion sound. So you are attacking her.
You continue the attack by assuming she was 80 feet below ground, or as far away as she could possibly be. You do that despite the fact that at about 8:51 she was able to reach Park Row and appear in front of Dick Oliver's camera. So, on the basis of the objective information, while she may have said she was "on the Path Train" it is quite possible she was already out of the train and either at or near the ground level when she heard the "explosion sound" and when "everybody came out."
Your attack on Our Lady PT is weak.
That weakness on your part transfers over to the common storyline, itself. You simply cannot accept that there are people who made statements that contradict the common storyline, which simply means you have no confidence in the common storyline. You simply still do not grasp that when you go way over the top to attack a NO PLANE witness and then turn around, as we shall presently see, and bend over backwards to accredit a PLANE SPOTTER witness, you are showing a weakness, not a strength. You are cracking.
2. Was Sean Murtagh in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: See yes, hear possibly not)
The above shows your bias. With Sean Murtagh, it is only "possible" that he couldn't hear, according to you; even though there was no sound of any such thing in the Dick Oliver video and no one who came up to the mic in the Dick Oliver video mention a jet sound as even a possibility.
There is more that is wrong with Sean Murtagh as a witness. First of all, he was a phone witness, so we do not know where he was with the same degree of accuracy that we have for Our Lady PT and everyone else seen and heard in the Dick Oliver video. Those witnesses were on the scene, with "scene" being on Park Row.
We see them on camera or hear them through the local microphone.
Sean Murtagh called in, got through, while goodness knows who else was trying to get through, only to get edited out, as opposed to edited in.
With Dick Oliver, it was first come first to be served. He asked all who passed by him. The network did no such thing. The network filtered who got on air. And, as to Sean Murtagh, he used a word not used in ordinary speech to describe what people have seen. He said, according to you "I witnessed..." That is not the way most people speak. Indeed, he and Jim Friedl both used that expression, something that smacks of contrivance.
Your ability to be objective simply does not exist and your ability to be analytical is decidedly biased.
3. Was Dick Oliver in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: See no, hear yes)
4. Was the camera man in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: See no, hear yes)
Your answers are incomplete. Neither of them said they thought they heard a plane, with any degree of certainty and neither even mention the possibility of a jet, but you do not say that.
5. Was the man with the girl in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: See we don't know because we don't know where he was, hear yes)
Since we have Our Lady PT pictured, I suppose the thread needs also to have a picture of Our Man with Baby Girl:
Interesting person is seen walking through in the background. I don't knwo why, but for some reason, I think that guy had some sort of role in the matter. Again, don't ask me why, I am here just going with a gut instinct, posters.
Back to Our Man with Baby Girl, Oystein, you do not accredit what he actually said about what he saw. He said he saw a bomb. He did not say he saw a plane.
6. Was Rosa Cardona Rivera in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: Yes to both)
Rosa was yet another "call in" witness for whom we do not have verifiable information as to her location. She, too, is a witness who was a part of the editing process, someone who was allowed to get through and whose statement plainly contradicts that of the on the scene, unfiltered, unedited witnesses. Rosa is a weak witness.
7. Was "hun" in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: We don't know, since we don't know who she is and where she was)
Since I don't play gotcha, I will here simply ask you whether you think you ought to edit your statement so as to remove the above? If you do not do that, then you will be seen to have applied one standard of objectivity to "Hun" and a different, more lenient one to Sean Murtagh and to Rosa Cardona Rivera because we do not know who they are or where they were either. As to all three, the only thing we have is the audio of their statements.
Furthermore, as to Sean and Rosa, we know that editorial decisions were involved in letting them on the air to the exclusion of others.
Since most people who were unfiltered and who called the police said "explosion" and not "plane" we can see right here that the NO PLANE claim is supported by the stronger evidence.
So, please edit your statement so as to bring your thought process into a state of consistency.
8. Was Jim Ryan in a position to see a plane? Was he in a position to hear a plane? (My answers: no to both, he was inside a TV studio at an unknown location away from the WTC)
That is a dumb statement as it has nothing whatever to do with what Jim Ryan said. Jim Ryan based his assessment on a live shot from Dick Oliver's camera to say there was no evidence of a plane crash into the North Tower. That was his statement using the information available to him.
Did I forget anybody? Please add.
I'd say you forgot those in the Dick Oliver video who didn't flinch until the crash sound and Our Lady in Blue. They, too, are witnesses who we can assess based on their reactions to the environment they were in. They clearly do not react as if a jetliner is 1000ft up @ 500mph.
So we have no more than 2 witnesses on record who were in a position to see a plane, and here is what they saw, pertaining to the plane or no-plane event:
2. Sean Murtagh: "I just witnessed a plane that appeared to be cruising at slightly lower-than-normal altitude over New York City, and it appears to have crashed into -- I don't know which tower it is -- but it hit directly in the middle of one of the World Trade Center towers. ... It was a jet. It looked like a two-engine jet, maybe a 737. A large passenger commercial jet. Yes, it did [appear that the plane was having any difficulty flying]. It was teetering back and forth, wingtip to wingtip, and it looks like it crashed into, probably, 20 stories from the top of the World Trade Center, maybe the 80th to 85th floor. ... It looks like it has embedded in the building. ... The plane just was coming in low, and the wingtips tilted back and forth, and it flattened out. It looks like it hit at a slight angle into the World Trade Center."
6. Rosa Cardona Rivera: "I don't usually see planes in this area, then all of a sudden I saw go right into the uhh to the WTC, to the building." [CNN: "So you saw a plane crash into the side of the WTC?"] RCR: "Yes sir. … It was a big plane"
Nope, the above is false. You know, at least in theory, that neither Sean nor Rosa are valid witnesses because you knew, when it came to a NO PLANE witness, namely, "Hun," that since she was not seen and only heard, you had no real idea as to who she was or where she was, even though she was heard on Dick Oliver's mic.
While I think it is reasonable to infer she was at Park Row, I have to admit that is only an inference because she is not seen.
And so it is with Sean and Rosa.
No let's see what the people who were in a position to hear a plane report about what they actually heard pertaining to the moments just before the explosion:
3. Dick Oliver: "...we did hear of what sounded like, uh, sounded like an aircraft, and then a tremendous boom ... And I did hear some kind of a screech or some kind of a wail before a tremendous boom so uhhh I first thought it was a plane"
Do you want to edit your statement to include what Dick Oliver actually said, or do you want to be seen as engaging in improper posting?
4. camera man: "Sounded like a plane crash"
Do you want to edit your statement to include what David Stollick actually said, or do you want to be seen as engaging in improper posting?
6. Rosa Cardona Rivera: "I was standing outside actually on the side of the building [on the 14th floor] smoking a cigarette and I hear a plane"
Rosa is in the same category as Sean and Hun, so please edit her out accordingly.
Granted, there were a couple of other persons who were potentially in a postion to hear something, but they weren't asked properly:
5. man with the girl: He was only asked what he saw, but not, if he was in a position to see. He hints on sounds, but that's inconclusive
7. "hun": Asked to report what she heard she says "Sounded like a bomb", and that is all she gets to say. Again, this is inconclusive.
You are being hyper critical of NO PLANE witnesses and not at all critical of PLANE SPOTTERS. Once again, who are you trying to convince, yourself?
Most witnesses report the crash sound we all know from our first video. It is variously described as "Incredible explosion, very very loud", "just an explosion" (camera man), "Sounded like a bomb" (hun), "a tremendous boom" (Dick Oliver), "like bamm ... that was the bomb [or boom?]" (man with girl), "a huge explosion sound" (OLPT), and I believe Mrs. Rivera also mentioned some boom.
What took you so long to admit most witnesses report an "explosion"? And, even after admitting that, why do you waffle so much about it?
You have to appreciate the fact that a large passenger plane, at travelling speed, smashing into a building, would indeed create an enormous crash sound very much reminiscent of any huge explosion, bomb, crash or whatever. it would be very much louder than a plane just flying at that speed, and would reasonably be the thing that impresses most listeners the most. It is therefore expected that any ear-witness to a plane crash would report a "huge explosion sound" or something similar.
You are engaging in rationalization and denial in the above. You haven't even accounted for the sound a jet makes, for the wake vortex or the overwhelming assault on the environment a widebody jet, at 1000ft above the street at close to 500mph would create. That is something that people would respond to and mention, had it occurred.
In the two Dick Oliver videos, we see very clearly that no such event took place. There was no widebody jetliner involved in causing the explosion at the North Tower.
We are fortunate to have the two Dick Oliver videos that escaped censorship and survived into the public domain.
Hence, everybody doing so is in line with the plane theory.
We do not know what a DEW or pyrotechnical display would sound like, since jammonius has failed to spell out any such theory in sufficient detail, but maybe such a scenario would yield similar observations of explosion sounds.
That is a false statement, pure and simple, for all the reasons mentioned in this reply.
To sum up:
- everybody who we know was in a postion to see a plane DID see a plane
- several of those who were in a position to hear a plane, DID report hearing something they thought was a plane, or, in one instance, a plane crash
- Those who were in a position to hear a plane, but do not mention hearing a plane, were not given the opportunity to elaborate - they just had time to report the much more impressive explosion. Their not mentioning specifically hearing a plane is therefore not conclusive of "no plane".
All the videos we discussed, and the witness testimonies therein, can be explained with the plane-theory without adding any assumptions
The no-plane-theory, on the other hand, need additional unproven assumptions in order to be reconciled with the testimonies given.
That summary is utterly inconsistent with what is seen and heard in the two Dick Oliver videos.