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LaBTop : BTW, Roosevelt Roberts never saw the "impact", he was inside on the phone, when he heard and felt an explosion sound, and then ran outside to see a commercial jet plane fly low over the South parking, "back" in a South-easterly direction.
Jthomas :
That myth has been dealt with long ago. Roberts interview with the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project completely blows CIT's claim out of the water. This has been know for years.
memory.loc.gov.../afc911bib:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28afc911000155%29%29
Roberts was inside watching TV of the events in NYC. His boss telephoned him and as Roberts was talking saw UA175, the second plane, hit WTC 2 on the TV. He got off the phone and ran outside to the South loading dock and then saw AA77 approaching. He was looking over the south parking lot to AA77 from his vantage point. He then saw "dust" flying and heard people screaming and he ran back inside the Pentagon.
CIT blew it on Robert's too.
etc.
"As I hang up the phone, the plane hit the building. It all came at the same time, watching the TV, it was as if.... So as I hung up the phone and I ran to the center of the dock and looked up, and I saw another plane flying around the South parking lot, spot like 9:11, 9:12 in the morning. And then there was dust coming from the ceiling, so, what I did, I turn around and I drew up my weapon, I didn't know what was going on, I thought we was being invaded, I didn't know what was happening. So I ran back in the South loading and I saw forcing people out of the building.
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Originally posted by LaBTop
Roberts CLEARLY says already in the first part of the tape, that he heard the plane hit the building, and THEN he ran outside.
"As I hang up the phone, the plane hit the building. It all came at the same time, watching the TV, it was as if.... So as I hung up the phone and I ran to the center of the dock and looked up, and I saw another plane flying around the South parking lot, spot like 9:11, 9:12 in the morning. And then there was dust coming from the ceiling, so, what I did, I turn around and I drew up my weapon, I didn't know what was going on, I thought we was being invaded, I didn't know what was happening. So I ran back in the South loading and I saw forcing people out of the building.
That remarkably precise recollection about that too early time which does not fit the Official Story (hit at 09:38) is the most amazing in my books..
Originally posted by LaBTop
Of course no sane person believes that the damage is consistent with CIT's fantasy NOC flight path
It seems as if you should carefully reconsider your words.
It's not CIT's fantasy, it's the only conclusion you can come to as a neutral OR even biased bystander, that the words of the witnesses, combined with their gestures and eventual drawings, can only lead to one conclusion :
They all conclusively describe a part of a distinct North of CITGO flightpath for that plane they saw and heard on 911 on its descend to the Pentagon.
OK, we gonna get back to September 11 (crackling audio). My own ...?... , Unit one five six, we was scheduled at the Heliport at 10:45 for a departing flight.
So eh, I was doing my release and making my way to that, eh, coming towards that side of the building, and I stopped at the South Loading Dock and I relieved one of (loud Click...?....soft Click: here was a loud click, and a strange loss of audio, then a soft click, and then he talks about something totally different suddenly, when the audio comes back: )
As I was sitting at the TV that's right there, and eh, all of a sudden a newsflash came across the TV and said the World Trade Center has been bombed, and eh first thing came to my mind is New York City, because I am from New York and I start thinking about my parents.
So after I thought about it, I looked again and they said there was another plane coming, on the television, and then my Sarge, sergeant Wooldridge, Woody, he called and he said, Heh, Rob, listen, we gonna break up ...?... (inaudible for me, that last fast word).
As I hang up the phone, ...( here again such a strange loss of audio, then he says: ) .The plane hit the building.
It all came at the same time, watching the TV and, it was eh almost, timed, for preciseness.
So, as I hung up the phone and I ran to the center of the dock and I looked up, and I saw ANOTHER plane flying around the South parking lot, at a spot like 9:12, 9:11 in the morning.
And then there was dust, and stuff coming from the ceiling, and you could hear people scream.
So, what I did was, I turned around and I drew up my weapon, I didn't knew what was going on, I thought we was being invaded, I didn't know what was happening.
So I ran back in the South loading, and I start forcing people out of the building.
(continued, but no plane mentioned anymore than the F-16 fighter jets he heard much, much later when he returned from a few times in and out of the Pentagon, and he looked over the South parking Lot again, just before he heard a message on the radio that they had another plane coming in and the whole area had to be cleared to under the overpass.)
Here is his originally asserted "possible" path that was analyzed.
A complete professional analysis of his original hypothetical path, as well as a hypothetical transition from north to south based off the witness illustrations, has been authored by certified pilot Rob Balsamo while being reviewed and approved by USAF Accident investigation Board President Captain Jeff Latas and Commander Ralph Kolstad who has flown commercial B757/767's for 13 years mostly as an international Captain with American Airlines. The technical analysis complete with animations and all relevant calculations is linked below.
NORTH APPROACH IMPACT ANALYSIS
Conclusion - It is impossible for any fixed-wing aircraft to cause the directional physical damage to the light poles, generator trailer, and the Pentagon leading to the C-ring hole approaching from directly over the Navy Annex and north of the former Citgo gas station. The flight paths illustrated by the witnesses would require G forces beyond the physical limitations of any aircraft for it to transition to an approach that lines up with the physical damage. Additionally, a hypothetical least challenging scenario at low speed would require bank angles that are irreconcilable with the physical damage, as well as the witness statements, and require an instantaneously performed roll that is impossible for any fixed-wing aircraft.
*note how even the above impossible flight path asserted by "broken sticks" has the plane entirely north of Edward Paik and Terry Morin unlike what either witness describes.
These experts who unlike "broken sticks" are willing to put their names to their claims demonstrate unequivocally how it is impossible for a plane as observed by the witnesses to cause the physical damage to the light poles, generator trailer, as well as the Pentagon itself from either the witness illustrations OR from the irrelevant hypothetical path illustrated by "broken sticks".
Since "broken sticks" accepts the notion that this is where the plane was located he has no choice but to accept the notion that the plane did not hit and continued on as reported by witness Roosevelt Roberts.
The account of Roosevelt Roberts :
Google Video Link
has been twisted by "broken sticks" beyond recognition with careful selective editing and fraudulent assumptions. He ignores that Roosevelt specifically describes seeing the plane immediately AFTER the explosion, not before. He also ignores the fact that he described it banking around "as if it missed it's target, missed the landing zone." He also ignores the fact that in the Library of Congress interview Roosevelt specifically called it "another plane" meaning not the one that he was deceived into believing caused the explosion "ten seconds tops" before he saw the plane "flying around south parking". When listening to both of Roosevelt's entire interviews in context it is 100% clear that he was describing a plane "just above the light poles" that did not hit the building and that he was inside his booth at the Pentagon only "7 steps" away from the edge of the loading dock during the explosion and so did not see the approach of the plane at all.
The other attacks in this piece merely amount to more spin and irrelevant baseless arguments that will be ignored for now since he completely failed in demonstrating his primary claim that it is possible for a north side plane to cause the damage. However a more thorough point-by-point breakdown of some of the deceptive claims made by "broken sticks" will be forthcoming.
The insinuation that we are doing this for money is also false as we have always provided all presentations for free while encouraging people to download and burn their own DVD's for their Operation Accountability efforts. We have not even come close to recouping the many thousands of dollars of our own money that we have spent to obtain this data throughout the course of our investigation and merely offer DVD's for those who prefer not to do the manufacturing themselves and wish to support our efforts by helping us offset our significant costs.
As it stands his claim that the witnesses are correct about the north side approach, and pull-up over the highway, but that the plane still hit the light poles, generator trailer, and caused the low and level damage to the building is a patently ridiculous argument that has been proven false by the laws of physics as already understood and agreed by all other skeptics, researchers, scholars, and experts who have looked closely at this information.
Originally posted by LaBTop
Alfie1,
I was editing nearly 30% of my above last post, in the time you posted your explanation.
As you can see, I do agree for most of it with you, except that he several times kept saying that he saw the plane leave in a southwesterly direction in a straight line he could clearly follow.
If he had spotted the incoming plane on the official flightpath, he would have seen that plane flying at its official end speed, thus only very brief, and would have surely described its tragic end hitting the wall with a huge explosion-cloud and -sound. Even if he could only hear and see that from over the wall in his back, since he could not see the official impact spot at all.
He did not describe that at all, he keeps saying that he saw the plane flying in a straight line to the southwest.
And he clearly said FIRST that THE plane hit the building (he was in?), describes even the strange tightness of events he saw and heard on TV and then that HIT. And then he said he ran outside.
Edited, to change the last above line for preciseness.
[edit on 24/3/10 by LaBTop]
Originally posted by Alfie1
reply to post by LaBTop
I have only just seen your latest post which apparently went on when I was composing mine.
Is it the extraordinary case then that you agree that CIT's theory that AA 77 overflew the west facade of the Pentagon but was able to doubleback and be over lane 1 of the south parking lot within seconds was impossible ?