Hunt the Boeing! (9/11 Pentagon bombing urban legend/conspiracy theory debunked)

about.com ^ | 3/22/02 | David Emery

[ppaul]

This is an especially insideous urban legend.
Glad to see David Emery debunk it.
Sorry, tin-foil hat fans.

[mlo]

Hey, it was good enough for WorldNetDaily!

[tallhappy]

It is absurd and a tremendous waste of time to even respond to such ideas.

Too bad there are so many crazy people around these days.

[jlogajan]

Too bad there are so many crazy people around these days.

Too bad so many of them post on FR. Kinda gives the place a low-rent feeling.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Registered]

I've got a question. We have seen the planes hitting the towers plenty of times so why doesn't the Pentagon simply release all frames of the video. It just doesn't make sense.

[mlo]

BTW, a lot of people who recognize the technique used by the conspiracy monger here, and who know that it is nonsense, nevertheless believe in JFK conspiracy stories. The technique and the misrepresentation of evidence for political goals is exactly the same in that case.

[mlo]

I've got a question. We have seen the planes hitting the towers plenty of times so why doesn't the Pentagon simply release all frames of the video. It just doesn't make sense.

They probably did. It wasn't a TV camera, it was a security camera. It probably didn't take 30 frames a second.

[ppaul]

...the culprit is Thierry Meyssan, well-known leftist radical and president of the Voltaire Network, a controversial site devoted to "the fight for freedom and secularity." His son, Raphaël Meyssan, is credited as the Webmaster of both the Voltaire Network and Utopian Asylum, which, uncoincidentally, hosts "Hunt the Boeing!"

Consider the source, eh?

[tallhappy]

Too bad so many of them post on FR. Kinda gives the place a low-rent feeling.

I agree. I think it is a serious problem for this site and the powers that be should take it seriously.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Let's conduct an experiment.

Take an aluminum can.

Fill it with jet fuel.

Seal it up.

Shoot out of end of potato gun at brick wall, 25 yards away.

Do you notice the nice, orange and blue flames as the can melts into a puddle of molt?

Secondly, just because the max airspeed of a 757 is around 250, that is not considering velocity gained by a plunge in altitude of 4 to 5 thousand feet, in a short amount of time.

[tallhappy]

...the culprit is Thierry Meyssan, well-known leftist radical and president of the Voltaire Network

Almost all the conspiracy theories out there come from the left. It is so amazing and frustrationg to see these leftist drug addled 60's conspiracy theories posted here all over the place by people who think they are conservative.

It's also very bad that this sort of thought has crept so strongly in to standard mainstream worldview for many Americans.

[Southack]

"Too bad so many of them post on FR. Kinda gives the place a low-rent feeling."

Especially recently. We need a five-day waiting period on posting rights for newbies...

[Moleman]

A few days ago I came home from work and my little girl (2years) was running around wearing a little beanie made of tinfoil.
I couldn't refrain from laughing out loud.
Does she know something I don't know or is she going to grow up thinking that the poop in her diaper is not really poop at all but a government conspiracy to sell more diapers.
Should I be concerned or is she just a kid? I didn't express my concern to my wife (who probably assisted in the construction of the hat) as she is concerned enough with me and my time spent on FreeRepublic

[RoughDobermann]

Was it just me, or did anyone else have deja vu while reading the above... About halfway through, I felt as if I had just read what I was reading.

[mlo]

Was it just me, or did anyone else have deja vu while reading the above... About halfway through, I felt as if I had just read what I was reading.

That was part of the brain-washing technique used by the government shill that posted this. It helps people buy into the cover story when they read it twice.

[RoughDobermann]

Made me want to do that old cartoon double take!

[mlo]

Did you SEE a 757 airplane approach and actually hit the pentagon? Yes or No. Was the 757 just too fast to be captured on film? A 757 is huge, it isn’t a humming bird for it not to be captured on film. Do you think the 757 was traveling so fast that the camera wasn’t physically able to capture the APPROACH of this 757 airplane on film, or any other point of the actual impact, only the explosion?

As already pointed out, it was a security camera. Security cameras often only take a few frames a second. Since the plane was tavelling fast it is not suprising at all that there is no clear shot of it.

At the time the reports indicated the plane hit the ground next to the building. In the first frame you can see something on the ground before the explosion.

It flew over DC, and over a highway, in the morning on a workday. Numerous people saw the plane.

It makes no sense to give any credence to this ridiculous conspiracy story. There is no evidence there, and it's just dumb. Anybody that does needs to really work on not believing all the crap you can find on the internet.