Scott Sommers
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You have to admit, he posts the best pics of anybody. Too bad he doesn't realize that his pictures don't demonstrate any of things he thinks they demonstrate.
1--The higher the rank of the individual witness, if the witness was a first responder, the more likely that person is to say he or she neither saw nor heard a plane; and

2--The closer to the actual location of WTC 2 the person was, the more likely that person was to say they neither saw nor heard a jetliner.

While not quoted by either you or by me here, so far, another of Mr. Praimnath's versions of his story has him both seeing the jetliner right on top of him, so to speak, and also allowing him to have enough time to go from one end of his office to another and hide under his desk which then served to do what the perimeter steel columns of the WTC could not do, that is, stop the jetliner in its tracks, all while not harming him in the least.
I here assert that Mr. Stanley Praimnath's survival and his account of it confrim as well as any single witness that what happened on 9/11 involved a shadow thingy and not a Boeing 767.
He remembers only snapshots of the experience (common enough, and happened in other 911 witnesses like Penny Elgas at the pentagon) and his mind fills in the rest the best it can. The Human memory is not a video recorder, recording what he sees, it records what he thinks he saw and fill in the gaps. That why when you have high def video recording and an eye witness you ALWAYS go with the high def video. how how they could have been faked and by whom?Quotes within quotes and all those pics make it very hard to respond with your text in place, so I'll try to do it in order.
Pic 1 - Draw an imaginary line between the towers, using the southern border of WTC1 and northern border of WTC2. Extend that across the Hudson. That's where I was.
Pic 2 - No. You don't know Manhattan, I take it. That pic is from roughly SSW - perhaps from the are of the Staten Island Ferry crossing. You can see the fireboat station and Battery Park. Go straight from the cameraman's vantage point to the towers then take a sharp left to get to where I was.
Pic 3. No. First - that pic is shot from 3 to 5 blocks inland - look at the amount of land on the NJ side it shows. We were right at the water's edge. And we were about1/3 to 1/2 of a mile north of that location.
Pic of plane. That pic looks like it was from the Hoboken footage. Maybe Weehawken? A minimum of 3, maybe 4 miles north of my location looking down on an angle toward the WTC. I was much closer. And remember that it was a clear day, as almost all reports say, perhaps the clearest in recent memory.
Put a big ol' honking 767 in that picture with the Colgate clock and move four blocks closer to the river, and you get an idea of how it appeared in our field of vision that morning.
"It" was the plane. "It" is a pronoun. Its antecedent is in the previous line.
I didn't recognize it as a 767 - I'm not that good at plane spotting. I did recognize it as a big ol' humping jet passenger plane, though.
As to the timing, I'd love to say I could be precise, but that morning consists of a lot of pregnant pauses, much like Eisenstein's Odessa Steps sequence. Could've been a total of ten seconds from first earfall to impact, could've been twenty to twenty-five, I just don't know.
Hope this helps. Bring along any of those other witnesses who have varying interpretations. Were they really in as good a position as I was? Again, imagine yourself twenty stories up, right around the distance of that Colgate Clocki from the WTC, and remember that the plane came from our side of the river.
Hope this helps. Bring along any of those other witnesses who have varying interpretations. Were they really in as good a position as I was? Again, imagine yourself twenty stories up, right around the distance of that Colgate Clocki from the WTC, and remember that the plane came from our side of the river.
SPAM, did you get banned for spamming the other place with the jet engines are wheel-covers delusion?Greetings again, foolmewunz
As before, your quoted reply is much appreciated. It helps a great deal. You are an impressive witness and your account of what happened needs to be preserved for posterity, imho.
It appears to me you are open to dialogue with me. You ask:
I will start this response with the known statement of Asst. Commissioner Stephen Gregory. He may have been the highest ranking fire fighter on duty on 9/11. He established a field headquarters between "Liberty and Albany on the west side of West Street."
He stated as follows:
"A. I never actually saw the plane, but l heard it. You could hear it coming in and then we heard the explosion and you could hear the roar of the plane coming in. At first I didn't realize it was a plane.
I thought it was like the roar of fire, like something had just incinerated, like a gas tank or an oil tank.
It sounded like a tremendous roar and then you heard boom and then there was a big fire, a lot of fire, a big fireball. I never actually saw a plane hit the building. I never saw that. I saw it on television, but I never saw it while I was standing there."
pg 21
His statement is found in alphabetical order at:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packag...12_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html
I have posted his statement before and some posters here have placed emphasis on certain parts of it that they claim supports that a jetliner hit the WTC. I place emphasis on the following parts of his quoted statement:
I never actually saw the plane,
I emphasize the above part.
...but l heard it.
Other posters emphasize the part quoted above. However, as to that part, I think he makes clear in his subsequent statement that he did not believe what he heard was consistent with a plane.
That is how I interpret the following part:
You could hear it coming in and then we heard the explosion and you could hear the roar of the plane coming in. At first I didn't realize it was a plane.
I thought it was like the roar of fire, like something had just incinerated, like a gas tank or an oil tank.
I have underlined the part that I think negates his claim he heard a plane. I am not saying you or anyone else has to agree with me; rather, I am merely giving you my reasons.
One other interesting thing about Asst. Commissioner Gregory is that there was something else he had to say about 9/11, but, unfortunately, we are not allowed to know what that is:
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Another interesting witness situation involves two firefighters standing right next to one another where one claims he sees a plane and the other disputes the claim. So, unlike your building, not everyone who was right in front agreed with one another:
"Engine 3 drove south to the south pedestrian bridge to make a U turn to come back and as I'm walking towards the Engine to find out what Lieutenant Walsh wanted us to do, I heard the sound of a jet plane. I looked up and saw it pretty close and I was like holy ****. What's going on with the with the flight patterns. All of a sudden, the wings turned and it dove right into the building and it was screwed up. At that time Chief Ganciwas behind me and he thought there was another explosion in the north tower and that's when I turned around and said Chief, listen, there is a second plane that hit the other tower. He was like no no no no, we have another explosion. I said no, Chief, I witnessed it. I watched the plane hit the other tower. He is like are you sure. I said Chief, I'm 100 hundred percent positive I watched the second plane hit the other tower."
The above is the account of Scott Holowach, pg. 3-4
So, two people standing next to one another and one sees a plane and the other says no no no no.
Among the oral histories, there are quite a few more who see no plane who were right in front of the scene. And, to be sure, there are others like Scott Holowach who claim to have seen something. Some say small plane, some say cargo plane, some say military plane, some say missile, etc.
RADAR tracked Flight 175 from takeoff to impact at the WTC. So this photo is a 767, and it is Flight 175. You have no evidence, only deluions of wheel-covers when you see jet engine parts. Why do you insist on spreading lies?![]()
Well, since you appear to have taken exception to my calling what you call the "767" a "shadow thingy" permit me to give you my reasons for calling it as I do. Mind you, as you were an eyewitness and as I was not, your experience trumps mine in that yours is more direct.
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Among the oral histories, there are quite a few more who see no plane who were right in front of the scene. And, to be sure, there are others like Scott Holowach who claim to have seen something. Some say small plane, some say cargo plane, some say military plane, some say missile, etc.
What kind of idiotic investigator does that?
Is that a rhetorical question? Does CIT ring a bell?![]()
So is Jammonius saying that all he has to do is find a few people who didn't see a plane, and that means that all the other eye witnesses and physical evidence isn't valid? What kind of idiotic investigator does that?
So is Jammonius saying that all he has to do is find a few people who didn't see a plane, and that means that all the other eye witnesses and physical evidence isn't valid? What kind of idiotic investigator does that?
Actually, there is an abrasive involved in water jet cutting. Still....
Hans
I think this thread should be closed. For Jammonius' health, if nothing else.