That was sarcasm, Gravy, but I forgot the smilie. I know the answers already...
Pentagon Attack question?
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That was sarcasm, Gravy, but I forgot the smilie. I know the answers already...
One additional related issue that gets raised is that 3 F-16 from Andrews were at an NC bombing range on that morning. I'm surprised that there weren't more than three there. There are no bombing ranges in the Washington, DC area, so NC is not that far away.
The F-16 is a multi-role fighter/fighter bomber. It is tasked with several different missions depending upon the base. Some are tasked with all of the various fighter type missions of Counter Air (Air-to-Air), Interdiction (Air-to-Ground), Close Air Support (CAS - Army support), and SEAD (Enemy SAM destruction).
Once folks understand this it's not so difficult to understand why those F-16's were at a bombing range. Well, everyone except the CT types. Gosh, it's gets tedious chasing down these nitnoys that are not understood, therefore fishy!
The F-16 is a multi-role fighter/fighter bomber. It is tasked with several different missions depending upon the base. Some are tasked with all of the various fighter type missions of Counter Air (Air-to-Air), Interdiction (Air-to-Ground), Close Air Support (CAS - Army support), and SEAD (Enemy SAM destruction).
Once folks understand this it's not so difficult to understand why those F-16's were at a bombing range. Well, everyone except the CT types. Gosh, it's gets tedious chasing down these nitnoys that are not understood, therefore fishy!
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Slayhamlet
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There's a reason why certain members here get quite hostile when questions are put forth without any context, just out of the blue, as someone's first post to the forum. You have to understand that we get Truthers here day in and day out asking questions just like the one you asked, many of which have probably been addressed hundreds of times already, and it reaches the point where many of us are simply sick of the repetitiveness. It doesn't help that the Truther will almost invariably either glibly reject the answer without even an attempt at trying to comprehend it, mischaracterize the answer beyond all recognition, or simply ignore the answer and continue with an endless barrage of more questions as if the previous question weren't asked at all. It is a red letter day when we get a Truther who will actually admit an error in their argument. This can, I think quite understandably, get on many people's nerves. In the future, be sure to state your motives clearly when you are legitimately asking a question because you want to learn.
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For what it's worth, the actual warning that the "system" had for AA77 was about 16 minutes. At 0856EDT AA77 vanished from Indianapolis ARTCC's scopes. With simultaneous total loss of radar contact, IFF Transponder, and radio communications, the operators assumed the aircraft had crashed and initiated Search and Rescue procedures.
It was not until about 0921EDT, having learned about events in New York, and having failed to confirm a crash site for AA77, that Indianapolis ARTCC changed the status of AA77 to that of suspected hijack. Sixteen minutes later AA77 hit the Pentagon.
Because AA77 vanished from the scopes completely (unlike the other 3 flights) it couldn't be tracked or located, and it was not picked up again until 0932EDT when Dulles TRACON spotted an unidentified low altitude fast-moving primary radar contact.
-Gumboot
It was not until about 0921EDT, having learned about events in New York, and having failed to confirm a crash site for AA77, that Indianapolis ARTCC changed the status of AA77 to that of suspected hijack. Sixteen minutes later AA77 hit the Pentagon.
Because AA77 vanished from the scopes completely (unlike the other 3 flights) it couldn't be tracked or located, and it was not picked up again until 0932EDT when Dulles TRACON spotted an unidentified low altitude fast-moving primary radar contact.
-Gumboot
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I don't know, even questions that haven't been asked before can illicit such reactions. See my first thread here. I actually first came here because the BAUT had banned non-space CTs from the board and while I'd been watching Seconds From Disaster: Flight 77 I discovered something I hadn't heard about previously and thought was interesting. The documentary claimed that the tip of the left wing was located buried in the ground just beside the heliport, that when Flight 77 hit the generator, it had caused the right wing to bounce up, dragging the left wing down where it hit the ground fractions of a second before the nose hit the building.
I came here to find out if anyone knew more about it and could tell me more information about it, or even just confirm it so that I could use it as further evidence of Flight 77's existance and of it hitting the Pentagon. So far the question still hasn't been answered with much more than a "Who cares."
