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All of the solid evidence points to a dark collaboration between members of the Bush Administration and a covert group of Saudi government officials.
Not one of the airline pilots here, such as Captain Ivan_Karlsen, has yet told us that such a NoC flight path would be impossible. I don't count remarks by skyeagle409, he has no flight hours in a Boeing 757. And I don't take him serious at all anymore, after his earlier and especially his following remark.
Then view the video of Captain Aimer in the following post, written by me, where I once asked commercial pilots that are readers or members here at ATS, to tell us if they think its feasable to fly that 330 degrees descending turn as was done by AA77, WITHOUT the aid of the usual 3 autopilot functions, as can be seen in the NTSB animation of Flight 77 :
originally posted by: samkent
a reply to: Ngatikiwi
Fantastic piloting skills by someone who didnt have a PPL.
No he lost his PPL when he gained his COMMERCIAL pilots license.
Here is a copy.
Why does this stupid BS still come up?
It's too easy to find the truth just by using GOOGLE.
He was in the perfect position, eyeballing that gas pump, while looking to the NORTHERN area outside the CITGO gas station's northern pump area, to see a NoC flying plane passing just a few tens of meters in front of his amazed eyes.
PS : And don't start to get strange ideas about me advertising for CIT and Balsamo's crooked idea that that plane overflew the Pentagon.
Balsamo is a prick and he adheres to spreading proven disinformation.
For Air Crash Detectives, Seeing Isn't Believing
By MATTHEW L. WALD
HUNDREDS of people watched the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 near Kennedy International Airport in New York on Nov. 12, and in the course of 93 seconds they apparently saw hundreds of different things.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, which announced this month that it had gathered 349 eyewitness accounts through interviews or written statements, 52 percent said they saw a fire while the plane was in the air. The largest number (22 percent) said the fire was in the fuselage, but a majority cited other locations, including the left engine, the right engine, the left wing, the right wing or an unspecified engine or wing.
Nearly one of five witnesses said they saw the plane make a right turn; an equal number said it was a left turn. Nearly 60 percent said they saw something fall off the plane; of these, 13 percent said it was a wing. (In fact, it was the vertical portion of the tail.)
The investigators say there is no evidence in the wreckage or on the flight recorders of an in-flight fire or explosion. A plane breaking up in flight, as this one did, might in its last moments produce flashes of fire from engines ripping loose, but the idea that the plane caught fire is a trick of memory, they say.
None of this is surprising, said Dr. Charles R. Honts, a professor of psychology at Boise State University and the editor of the Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology. "Eyewitness memory is reconstructive," said Dr. Honts, who is not associated with the safety board. "The biggest mistake you can make is to think about a memory like it's a videotape; there's not a permanent record there."
The problem, he said, is that witnesses instinctively try to match events with their past experiences: "How many plane crashes have you witnessed in real life? Probably none. But in the movies? A lot. In the movies, there's always smoke and there's always fire."
As a result, the safety board generally doesn't place much value on eyewitness reports if data and voice recorders are available. For many investigators, the only infallible witness is a twisted piece of metal.
Benjamin A. Berman, a former chief of major aviation investigations at the safety board, said pilots actually make the worst witnesses, because their technical knowledge can lead them too quickly to identify a mechanical problem that may not have occurred. "Children make among the best witnesses," he added, "because they don't tend to place an interpretation on what they've seen."
The safety board's skepticism of eyewitness accounts was deepened by the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island six years ago: hundreds of people saw an upward streak that they assumed was a missile, although investigators said it was the body of the plane itself, streaking upward after the forward portion had fallen off following a fuel tank explosion.
THAT disaster highlighted another pitfall for investigators, Mr. Berman and others say: F.B.I. agents asked witnesses where the missile came from, presupposing the presence of a weapon. "It wasn't good aircraft accident investigation," Mr. Berman said.
There are other well-known cases of witness error, including the crash of a Lauda Air Boeing 767 near Bangkok in May 1991. Witnesses said they heard a bomb and saw the plane fall in flames, but it turned out to be a mechanical problem.
So why do investigators bother asking witnesses at all? Dr. Bernard S. Loeb, who retired as the safety board's director of aviation safety last year, said, "In the case of 587, it's unlikely that the witnesses will provide much to help the investigation, but you never know that when you begin an investigation where you're going to get important leads, from the recorders, from witnesses, from the structure itself."
And in any crash, he said, conflicting witness statements can still be useful. "What was very clear from the Flight 800 witnesses was that many did see something up in the sky," he said.
Even if the accounts are likely to be wrong, they are still routinely gathered and evaluated by both the board and police agencies. "Can you imagine if we didn't interview the witnesses?" said one current board official.
Mr. Berman, who left the board last year, said investigators may have released the summary of what the Flight 587 witnesses saw just to show publicly that the statements showed "scatter" an engineering term for plotted data that does not fit a pattern. A release at this late date is unusual, but a spokesman for the board, Ted Lopatkiewicz, said it was done because it was ready. But, he added, "I don't think I'm making any news by saying that eyewitness testimony at a plane crash and probably at many traumatic events is unreliable."
Witness statements can be more valuable in crashes of small planes that don't have flight data recorders or cockpit voice recorders, Mr. Berman said.
Mr. Loeb said his experience with witnesses had led him to question the reliability of criminal convictions based on eyewitness identifications. In Illinois, he noted, a commission appointed by the governor recommended in April that the death penalty not be applied to murder convictions based on a single eyewitness identification.
Mr. Loeb said his personal experience also played into his skepticism. Recently he and his wife saw a two-vehicle collision, and unlike plane crash witnesses, they both saw it from the same angle. Within moments, they disagreed about what they had seen. Among other key details, Mr. Loeb said he could not recall whether one of the vehicles had been a truck or an S.U.V.
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skyeagle409 : I will say it again from my own flight experience, there was no way a B-757 passed north of the gas station because the physical evidence does not support such a flight path and there was no way a B-757 could have conducted that tight radius as drawn on certain photos at its recorded airspeed just prior to its collision with the Pentagon.
Perhaps, he should come to Travis AFB to see how its done with our giant C-5, KC-10, and C-17 transports as they conduct their tactical 360-degree to-a-landing maneuver from altitudes as high as 10,000 feet and on the ground in 4 minutes. I might add that even "Air Force One" has conducted such a maneuver.
I am proposing other scenarios now, while you are posting years old links to "light poles evidence" that has been discussed to death already years ago.
Don't come up with such lies again, that someone you know remembered those 5 light-poles still standing as he went to work. PROOF IT.
I have however shown a peculiar flash of reflected light in the FOIA freed CITGO video, that fits to the tee a north of CITGO low passing, reflective aluminum plane, at the exact correct time and height.
Then view the video of Captain Aimer in the following post, written by me, where I once asked commercial pilots that are readers or members here at ATS, to tell us if they think its feasable to fly that 330 degrees descending turn as was done by AA77, WITHOUT the aid of the usual 3 autopilot functions, as can be seen in the NTSB animation of Flight 77 :
Thread title : The SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ANALYSIS of the events of 9/11, page 28.
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I'll try it again, especially for Captain Ivar_Karlsen : Is it possible at all?
Since pilots in my western country have told me it would perhaps be feasible for a pilot with thousands of flight hours in his books, to fly that descending curve at those speeds without autopilot functions for the first time, and not come out of it in a Dutch Roll.
Wheedwacker nor the lately banned other real pilot ever answered that question....
Do these military pilots do that downward circling WITHOUT any autopilot functions as can be seen for AA77's animation made by the NTSB based on the DFDR.?
DC-8 Breaks the Sound Barrier
Photo: DC-8
On this date in 1961, a jet designed for commercial use became the first civilian craft to go supersonic. It wasn't the famous Concorde, which wouldn't break the sound barrier until an October '69 test flight, or the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, but rather a humble DC-8—no. N9604Z, to be specific.
was all part of an August 21, 1961 test flight from Edwards Air Force Base thought up by Douglas pilot William Magruder. According to flight test engineer Richard Edwards, who spoke with Air & Space Magazine, the idea was to "get it out there, show the airplane can survive this and not fall apart." At the time, DC-8s had been used by commercial carriers for about three years and were competing with the Boeing 707. While DC-8s weren't designed to go supersonic, the bragging rights of being the first to do so were worth making the attempt.
In order to reach Mach 1, the jet had to be in a dive. This meant taking it up to 52,000 feet, which was also a record for altitude. As Edwards tells Air & Space Magazine:
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The B-757 is not capable of conducting a tight banking maneuver as depicted on some photos, especially at well over 400 knots.
--but why would Hani conduct such a banking maneuver in the final seconds when he was already on a straight line course toward the Pentagon?
--so why would he deviate from a course that is already in line with the Pentagon in order to past north of the gas station? Frankly speaking, it doesn't make any logical sense at all..
--there's no damage whatsoever that would suggest a flight path north of the gas station because all of the documented physical evidence supports only a flight path south of the gas station and nowhere else.
--It is very simple. We can take a look at these photos once again and I am very sure these light poles were not lying on the roads when he arrived at the Pentagon that day.
--because it would have been impossible for American 77 to have created path of damage inside the Pentagon from a north-of-the-gas station flight path. There was simply no way possible.
skyeagle409 : That is correct. In regard to the C-5, at no time are the pilots allowed to deploy the thrust reversers on #2 and #3 engines during the descent, otherwise, they could lose control of the aircraft.
Here is a video of a similar maneuver from the cockpit of a C-17.
Here is a very low, high speed pass by a KC-135
Many people didn't think that airliners were capable of such things.
Philip Marshall, a veteran airline captain and former government "special activities" contract pilot, had authored three books on Top Secret America, a group presently conducting business as the United States Intelligence Community. Marshall is the leading aviation expert on the September 11th attack, as well as a masterful storyteller. In his final book "The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror," a 2012 publication Marshall theorized it wasn't al-Qaida but rather U.S. and Saudi government officials who orchestrated 9/11. In February 2013, he was found dead along with his two children in their home in California. Reports indicate all 3 died of gunshot wounds. Police regarded the case as a double murder- suicide case. But many pieces do not add up. Simply, a loving father and devoted husband would kill his children before turning the gun on himself. Besides, prior to his death, he had confided to his closest that he was terrified of his family being targeted by secret agents.
This movie looks into this whistleblower's investigations and tries to find out what he could have possibly found that cost his life and that of his loved ones.
There is a simple explanation. Instead of AA77, think about some shaped charges inside, planted already during the last renovation days or weeks in these specific renovated ONI rooms with their top secret mainframes that the PLANNERS needed to shred to thousand pieces.