It is beyond a reasonable doubt that flight 77 hit the Pentagon

That a twin-engine jetliner, likely a Boeing 757 and likely in American Airlines livery, flew in from the west at very low altitude toward the Pentagon at about 9:37 AM on the morning of September 11, 2001 is beyond rational dispute and, being a rational person, I do not dispute this. That a considerable number of people saw this plane as it approached the Pentagon is also beyond rational dispute. I base my argument that this plane did not strike the west facade of the Pentagon, but in fact flew over the building then banked sharply over the Pentagon's south parking area and flew away toward the southeast on the following evidence: A) While there are a number of eyewitnesses confirming that a plane of various descriptions crashed into the Pentagon, there are also several who have reported that a twin-engine jetliner approached the Pentagon on a flight path well north of the one presented by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the 9/11 Commission Report, a flight path that could not have impacted the Pentagon causing the directional damage that was done to the building nor the damage done outside the building. These eyewitnesses, 13 in number, independently and unanimously reported seeing a white or silver colored twin-engine jetliner fly low over the Navy Annex building and north of the Citgo gas station on the west side of Rt.27. These witnesses included a former military pilot and two Pentagon Police officers. Most of these witnesses gave their recorded descriptions to the Center for Military History or Library of Congress within weeks of the event. One factor regarding these witnesses, none of whom claim to have seen the plane hit the Pentagon, as opposed to those who did claim to have seen it hit is that they were likely under less stress since they were seeing only a low-flying plane, not one they perceived was about to crash into a building. The eyewitness who was likely closest to the explosion and fireball was Pentagon Air Traffic Controller Sean Boger who was in the heliport tower. He describes a plane flying in over the Navy Annex and straight toward the tower located just outside the Pentagon and north of the damage zone. This flight path absolutely precludes one that would have done the directional damage to the Pentagon or the damage to structures outside the building. http://vimeo.com... B) The security camera video released by the Pentagon in 2006 (with an incorrect date-stamp of Sep.12, 2001) does not show anything that is clearly recognizable as a Boeing 757. The trail of white "smoke" in the 1st and 2nd frames of the video has an artificial appearance as if it had been photoshopped in. The animated simulation of the presumed last seconds of the flight and crash of AA77, "911 Case Study: Pentagon Flight 77", assumes that the light fixture on lamp pole #3 broke off and was ingested into the intake of the starboard engine causing white smoke to billow from the engine exhaust. Jet fuel (kerosene) gives off thick black smoke when an engine is damaged such that the air/fuel mixture is severely altered. I personally watched more than 60 videos of aircraft disasters and saw numerous instances of damaged jet engines emit flame, black smoke, or both from the exhaust. I did not see a single damaged jet engine that emitted white smoke. http://tinyurl.com... http://youtube.com... C) Photographs of the damaged area of the Pentagon taken prior to the collapse of the roof at about 10:22AM show there was a lack of substantial damage to the wall of the Pentagon beyond the opening on the first and second floors where the plane's fuselage supposedly entered. There was unbroken glass in windows immediately adjacent to and above the opening where the wings and vertical stabilizer would have hit, and just inside the opening column 14AA on the second floor was still intact. Columns on the first floor where the wings would have hit were displaced outward instead of inward as would be expected. Photographs taken of the damaged area on September 21, 2001 after rubble had been cleared away show no damage to the first floor foundation where the two massive engines would have hit. In addition there was a lack of substantial aircraft wreckage on the lawn in front of the wall. Relatively few small pieces of wreckage were photographed, but none of the pieces have been positively identified as belonging to AA Flight 77. http://vimeo.com... D) It would have been possible for a knowledgable technician to substitute the data spool from Flight 77's data recorder with the one from the Pentagon "fly-over" plane's flight data recorder and have the data feed appear to terminate or it could have been terminated by a signal on the plane itself. And there are several other ways the flight data could have been faked. In 1998 Air France 296 crashed on its maiden flight. Pilot error was cited, but it was discovered by IPSC Laboratories in Switzerland that the flight data recorder had been switched for a fake. Extensive analysis done by Pilots for 9/11 Truth of the data files purported to be from Flight 77's data recorder indicate a number of anomalies. Both the direction and altitude as the plane approached the Pentagon are at variance with the the official version of the plane's flight path to the extent that it could not have caused the damage to the building and outside it that was observed. If Flight 77's data recorder was recovered, this brings up the question of why the cockpit voice recorder was not recovered as well. They are similar devices within hardened protective cases mounted in the tail section to maximize the probability of survival in a crash and both should have been recovered. http://www.youtube.com... E) I will address certain problems and anomalies in the procedures for the recovery and identification of the bodies of victims at the Pentagon in a later post. The time I can allocate to this will not allow me to do it at this time. I have attempted to present here, as my time will allow, just some of the many problems and factual anomalies with the official version of events at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. In subsequent posts I will present an alternative scenario that will fit the best evidence now available.