Stop your parsing games. To clarify, the "plane" that I saw was a large jet. No question about it. This was confirmed later by a friend who worked on Broad St. on a high floor looking south a cross the harbor. He and a few colleagues watched the the plane, er, jet's entire approach in disbelief. It passed only a few hundred yards away, almost at at eye level. Close enough to identify the carrier, etc.
This isn't a very happy memory for my friend, as you can imagine. Which, again, speaks to why I have so little tolerance for your delusional nonsense.
And your hyper-politeness scores no points with me, in light of the deranged lies you propagate. I made the mistake of looking up some of your old posts regarding the rubble pile being "flat", and so on. Yikes.
I'm not sure if we're going to get much further in dialogue or not because you appear to be on the verge of considering the chip you have apparently placed on your shoulder to have been knocked off. One sure indicator of the placement of chip on shoulder is that of calling attention to the existence of painful personal experience.
You've done that. I am not seeking to offend you and would suggest you take the chip off your shoulder; or, if it is deemed to be knocked off, please know that you will have knocked it off yourself and that it has nothing whatever to do with me.
I am here engaging in rational, calm discussion. That and nothing more.
I will continue to accept the post of your eyewitness account at face value, in all respects, without exception, apparently, even if you do not do so.
While I accept ALL that you have said at face value in the original post of your eyewitness experience and while there appears to be NO DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN US as to what your experience says about the hole in the North Tower -- which is fully within the scope of this thread -- we do have a disagreement about what your statement can be said to impart concerning the explosion at the South Tower.
OK, we have a disagreement as to the South Tower, but not the North Tower.
I accept at face value the following statement:
"...Not long after getting there and walking out a bit, my eye caught the plane coming in over the harbor. You had to happen to be looking at the right time- it was fairly easy to miss against the horizon.
I didn't see the actual impact or or have a direct view of the affected area of the building. I was almost a mile away, so I heard very little - sirens were screaming steadily at that point, so whatever sound might have reached me from a mile away would have been drowned out.
I did see parts of the resulting fireball and loads of smoke...."
Because I accept at face value the above statement, I cannot properly accredit the following additional inferences that you seem to now draw from your own statement. You now infer as follows:
"...To clarify, the "plane" that I saw was a large jet. No question about it. This was confirmed later by a friend who worked on Broad St. on a high floor looking south a cross the harbor. He and a few colleagues watched the the plane, er, jet's entire approach in disbelief. It passed only a few hundred yards away, almost at at eye level. Close enough to identify the carrier, etc. ..."
The above attempt at drawing inferences has the hallmarks of rationalization as demonstrated as follows, admittedly, via a process that can fairly be called parsing and I am sorry if that offends you:
"To clarify, the "plane" that I saw was a large jet. No question about it."
1--As the type of aircraft is a quintessentially important part of the no plane claim, anyone who was trying to use their first hand experience to refute it, would NOT have to clarify that issue if they were certain about it. Your own, earlier, description would not allow you to be certain about what kind of aircraft was involved, based on the content of what you said, as follows:
"...my eye caught the plane coming in over the harbor. You had to happen to be looking at the right time- it was fairly easy to miss against the horizon..."
You are clearly describing something that was hard to see, or, as you say exactly, "easy to miss against the horizon". Plus, there are other reasons why it would be easy to miss, including, by way of example, the common storyline claim that the 767 was hauling along at 550mph.
Furthermore, here is an approximation of what can be seen from Pier 40 on a sunny day:
Look, you want to be able to say you saw a widebody jetliner. That is apparent because you then say you sought confirmation from other sources. A process, itself, that is consistent with not being sure; hence, the need to double check with others. You now say:
"...This was confirmed later by a friend who worked on Broad St. on a high floor looking south a cross the harbor. He and a few colleagues watched the the plane, er, jet's entire approach in disbelief. It passed only a few hundred yards away, almost at at eye level. Close enough to identify the carrier, etc. .."
So, you are relying, then, not on what you saw, but on what others say they saw. I'll make the following request of you:
Please ask the person(s) that are the sources of the above quote from you to post up their experience directly if you would?
Absent a direct posting of direct personal experience, I do not consider the account to be a proper source of evidence.
Finally, your original account is accepted at face value. It does not permit an inference of a widebody jetliner and you did not appear to have made that claim; instead, and to your credit, you merely described what you saw and what you heard. I here reiterate that I am much obliged for your having done that.