Fonebone, your atrocious misuse of formatting and tags really ruins your posts. Why do you do that?
Anyway:
Dick Oliver, a well known and respected journalist, reporting from city hall park about witnesses to the WTC1 north tower "some people" said that
-quote-they thought they saw a missile -/quote-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmLoSt9qFKg&t=1338s
Go to the very beginning of that same video, zero hours, zero minutes, zero seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmLoSt9qFKg&t=0s
That's Dick Oliver and his crew right next to City Hall, and just a few blocks away from the WTC complex.
What you hear in the the first two seconds is the loud roar of one large aircraft, and a single bang.
After that, the North Tower is on fire.
There was no second destructive event.
The single event that Dick Oliver and team captured audio from resulted in the plane-shaped hole in the North face of the North Tower.
Explain that plane-shaped hole as the result of a single roar and a single bang as recorded by Dick Oliver, the well known and respected journalist!
I note with interest that this footage start under seconds from the first bang sound - and thus cuts off the roar that preceded the bang.
Take this clip - same footage, just starting a few seconds earlier:
- Discernibe Roar starting at 4 seconds
- Bang at 9 seconds
- Dick Oliver asks at 12 seconds: "The hell was that?"
- Assistant answers at 14 seconds: "[indiscernible] like a plane crash"
So, Oliver and hiw crew were witnesses, too. They thought is sounded like a plane crash!
Do you have an explanation for this?
Can you demonstrate that there exist missiles that would, from Dick Oliver's position, sound like the roar between 4 and 9 seconds?
No?
I thought so.
In the minute following the roar, Dick Oliver is trying to reach the people at his broadcasting company ("come to me! come to me!"), apparently trying to be put on the air with his breaking news.
At 1:12 min, there's a cut in that latter video, the footage has now captions on screen, marking that as footage aired live. The time is 8:48. The clock will turn to 8:49 at the 2:03 minutes mark of the clip, so at 1:12 min, the exact time of the footage on the broadcaster's clock was 8:48 and 9 seconds. The commonly accepted exact time of the "bang" into the North Tower is 8:46 and 40 seconds
The cut in the clip is 1:03 minutes after the bang, so at 8:47 and 43 seconds.
Dick Oliver is live on "NY Good Day" at 8:48 and 9 seconds, so we are missing only about 26 seconds of Oliver's complete recording in the clip I linked (perhaps someone can find a more complete clip).
Anyway, 1 minute and 30 seconds after the event, Dick Oliver, the well known and respected journalist, informs us:
"Jim, just a few moments ago, something, believed to be a plane, crashed into the South [sic!] Tower of the World Trade Center"
Hmmm. How would Dick have come to this "belief"? I say: Because that is what he and his crew perceived, and the people around them. Funny, eh?
Ok, at 1:36 minutes he say "
this could have been an aircraft, or it could been something internal" - but the latter can be ruled out, can't it, on account of the loud roar that preceded the bang, don't you agree?
Dick Oliver goes on specifying his own witnessing - 2:19 minutes:
We did hear what sounded like an aircraft, and then a tremendous boom.
And that is indeed what we hear in the first few seconds, don't you agree, Fonebone?
Do missiles sound like aircraft?
Around 3:06, we get a decent glimps of the whole in the tower.
It's plane-shaped already.
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So thanks, Fonebone, for bringing up and reminding us of Dick Oliver, the well known and respected journalist, for he is yet another "plane" witness.