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NYT Suggests Planes, Not Terrorists, Were Responsible For 9/11 Attacks
dailycaller.com ^ | September 11, 2019 9:16 AM ET | Shelby Talcott

Posted on 09/11/2019 8:18:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

The New York Times tweeted and then deleted a comment Wednesday about the 9/11 attacks that suggested airplanes, not terrorists, were responsible for killing almost 3,000 people.

The article is about “remembering those lost 18 years ago on 9/11,” when terrorists overtook multiple planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Another plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field after citizens on board tried to take down the terrorists.

“18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center,” the NYT original tweet read. Terrorists were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, not airplanes.

The tweet was deleted shortly after, and the NYT wrote that the tweet and story had been “edited for clarity.” The article was changed shortly after to reflect that terrorists were responsible for killing almost 3,000 people.

The new tweet reads that “18 years after nearly 3,000 people were lost, families of those killed in the terror attacks will gather at the 9/11 memorial. There will be a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., then the names of the dead — one by one — will be recited.”

Before being edited, the NYT article also read that “airplanes took aim at the World Trade Center and brought them down.” It now reflects that terrorists overtook the airplanes.

After announcing the story and tweet had been changed “for clarity,” the NYT began to receive pushback on social media.

The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 911; idiots; nyt
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To: reg45

We’ll have an airplane buy back!!


41 posted on 09/11/2019 8:49:49 AM PDT by MEG33 (Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
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To: rktman

“Well, they did have auto pilot.”

Anybody that has any experience with aircraft autopilots knows that what you see in the movies about “setting” an autopilot and walking away from it thinking it will hold an auto compass course is not knowledgeable. Especially in an aircraft the size of these.

An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant ‘hands-on’ control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft. So there is a constant monitoring and “tweaking” of the controls when the autopilot is engaged. It is just there to make some of the minor adjustment of the pilot overseeing easier. It is not designed or is capable of flying an aircraft from point A to B by itself.

The pilots turn it on after a minimum of 1000 feet above the surface on take off and unless they are using autoland, which has it’s rules and category determinations established by the FAA, it can’t assist in landing as the aircraft are always on instrument landing system (ILS) which is not related to autoland. So the only thing the autopilot is good for is straight flight at altitude. It just makes it easier to fly for the pilots, not do it.

So, as usual the NY times is lying. The airplanes didn’t take aim at the World trade Center, the high jacking pilots did and are responsible. And the Times lack of knowledge of how to fly an aircraft is total.

rwood


42 posted on 09/11/2019 8:52:39 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Redwood71

“constant monitoring and “tweaking”” Sort of like a spotter for a sniper constantly tweaking for windage and elevation, temperature etc.? Guess the nyt also thinks self driving vehicles are an awesome idea.


43 posted on 09/11/2019 8:59:14 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

Why not? They think guns shoot people all by themselves, why wouldn’t airplanes crash in to buildings?


44 posted on 09/11/2019 8:59:51 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: fruser1

“They also believe planes change the climate.”

Well duh, haven’t you ever seen contrails? Pure climate change gas, that stuff.


45 posted on 09/11/2019 9:03:15 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Red Badger

What part of “Osama bin Laden can kiss my white Irish a**” do they not understand?


46 posted on 09/11/2019 9:04:01 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: odawg

re: “We basically date the War on Terror by the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11.”

NYTimes ALSO forgets about the 1993 WTC bombing ...

“The paper of record” my white Irish a** ...


47 posted on 09/11/2019 9:06:29 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Red Badger
Yup,Remington...and the NRA...are to blame for gun violence and Boeing is to blame for 9/11.
48 posted on 09/11/2019 9:09:09 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Red Badger

Hi...

I gotta go. My AK 47 just ran out the door...

5.56mm


49 posted on 09/11/2019 9:12:37 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: M Kehoe
🤓.........................
50 posted on 09/11/2019 9:13:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

Of course, it was the gun, not the person who pulled the trigger of that gun.....


51 posted on 09/11/2019 9:45:08 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Red Badger

I’d say this was the BabylonBee, but it is no longer possible to satirize the Left.


52 posted on 09/11/2019 9:50:21 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Red Badger

53 posted on 09/11/2019 9:55:28 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: Red Badger
since airplanes took aim

No airplane has ever taken aim at anything. With out direction, an airplane is an inanimate object.

54 posted on 09/11/2019 10:11:53 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Red Badger

Ban assault aircraft


55 posted on 09/11/2019 10:12:43 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
That's not entirely true.

Around the end of WWII, a B-25, in heavy fog, crashed into the side of the Empire State Building.

Real accidents will happen.

56 posted on 09/11/2019 10:44:07 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

I knew somebody was going to bring up that one......


57 posted on 09/11/2019 10:47:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Red Badger

Guns....airplanes....
The NYSlimes....
Not a people problem....
Therefore, there is no one to blame.


58 posted on 09/11/2019 10:47:43 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: Red Badger

Makes you wonder what Flt. 93 had against that field in PA.


59 posted on 09/11/2019 10:49:02 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: jjotto

The last high school history book I looked at (around 2000) had only half a page about World War II. Maybe a paragraph about the Vietnam War.

It is worse now, they pick an event out of history with no background and discuss “feelings” about that event. One startling example of that was a teacher taught for days about the US bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Didn’t even mention Pearl Harbor and little about the rest of the war. How does it make you feel that we bombed two major cities in Japan?

We wonder why so many young people are clueless about our history and hate our country so much?


60 posted on 09/11/2019 10:59:13 AM PDT by Tammy8
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