Conspiracy V: American Airlines Flight 77

I thank my skilled and esteemed opponent for this opportunity to further investigate and debate this particular topic. I also welcome the readers and I hope this will be an interesting debate! PRO provides 3 main points of disagreement and then explains why he thinks those points are not valid arguments, but CON will attempt to show why those very arguments are valid arguments and also will present other problems with the official story for consideration as to why the official story doesn't make sense: 1. Hani Hanjour's skill as a pilot A. Pilots knew the common strategy prior to 9/11 for dealing with hijack attempts: Capt. Burlingame would have taken them where they wanted to go, but only if he saw more than a "boxcutter" or knife. Why would Capt. Burlingame, a retired military officer with training in anti-terrorism, give up his airplane to 5 foot nothing Hani Hanjour holding a boxcutter? Pilots don't give up their planes that easily! B. Autopilot was shown to be disengaged. C. Supposedly Hani Hanjour, took a 757, did a 400 knot 330 degree spiraling dive at 2500 fpm, only gaining 30 knots, then 30 knots more descending from 2200 feet at full power, with a very steady hand as to not overshoot or hit the lawn, inside ground effect, at 460 knots impact speed, but was refused to rent a 172 because he couldn't land it at 65 knots? A-C http://pilotsfor911truth.org... D. Why was the hijack code not inputted into the plane? This is a very simple thing to do and which pilots are trained to do if they are hijacked. In the event of a hijacking, the crew has only to punch in a four digit hijacking code - accessible from several different places - to alert ATC to a hijacking. So if 5 men were to try to take over a plane by the crude method of threatening people with box cutters, while it might be possible for them to be able to gain control of the plane, to do so without ATC first receiving a distress code is almost impossible. http://www.911closeup.com... 2. Disintegration of the plane/ Debris: (If my opponent agrees I would like to group these together for numbering as they seem somewhat related.) A. Only a maximum of 26 ft. high (but actually way less) on the Pentagon shows to be hit, but if it had indeed been a 757 that had hit the Pentagon the upper stories would have been damaged because a 757 is 44.7 feet high plus the height of the cockpit. The videos that were taken also show the plane coming in level and not at any angle. At that point on the building it hardly looks even dented or chipped! http://www.asile.org... (frame #2) & http://911research.wtc7.net... B. Supposedly almost all the victims of the attack were positively identified through DNA and dental records, we are also told that there is no significant remaining plane debris within the Pentagon because the intensity of the inferno after the crash wholly incinerated the aircraft and its component parts. These are two completely different and inconsistent statements. The government claims the fire in the Pentagon was so hot that the virtually indestructible titanium engines were melted, enormous metal wings incinerated, detachable vertical tail fins swallowed whole, seats and luggage consumed, every inch of metal framing obliterated, landing gear gone, a whole enormous Boeing 757 essentially vaporized into molten rubble and dust. And yet that same raging, all-consuming inferno spared enough body parts and DNA of 184 individual human beings made of a carbon based material significantly less rugged than titanium, called skin and bone, somehow survived said firestorm intact enough for positive identification (side note: NO Arab bodies or DNA was found). http://www.911hardfacts.com... science proves that the possible temperatures reached could not have melted or destroyed the titanium in the engines. C. The official explanation of the exit hole is incompatible with the evidence, it is too small. Serious laws of physics directly counter the possibility of the 'official story's' explanation of the mysterious exit hole. We have been told to believe matter-of-factly that some mass from the airplane survived the initial impact and explosion, maintained its immense forward thrust, threaded its way through a 300-foot maze of stout reinforced concrete pillars, hit an exterior wall made up of 21 inch square steel reinforced concrete covered with 6 inches of limestone faï¿½ade and 8 inches of brick backed with Kevlar mesh with such massive force that it punched a huge, neat, circular cut-out exit hole. And then, in a miracle as yet unexplained, that same mass with such potent forward thrust decelerated and disintegrated in the span of 30 feet, leaving not a mark on the next wall in its path, nor a physical trace of its existence. http://www.911hardfacts.com... D. Where did the green paint come from that was found in the plane wreckage? Was it really Flt. 77 ? because American Airline planes have red and blue paint. Even the paint in the highly publicized picture of wreckage on the lawn (red n and lt. blue paint) doesn't match up with AA colors completely. http://www.freedomfiles.org... (about 1/2 way down page) Other problems with the official story: 3. The Flight Path A. All altitude data shows the aircraft at least 300 feet too high to have struck the light poles. The rate of descent data is in direct conflict with the aircraft being able to impact the light poles and be captured in the Dept of Defense "5 Frames" video of an object traveling nearly parallel with the Pentagon lawn. B. There was a tall radio tower in the official trajectory that would have been hit, but wasn't. C. The aerodynamics of flight would have made the official trajectory--flying more than 500 mph barely above ground level--physically impossible, because of the accumulation of a massive pocket of compressed gas (air) beneath the fuselage; and if it had come it at an angle instead, it would have created a massive crater; but there is no crater and the official trajectory is impossible. Flying low enough to impact with the ground floor would have meant that the enormous engines were plowing the ground and creating massive furrows; but there are no massive furrows. The smooth, unblemished surface of the Pentagon lawn thus stands as a "smoking gun" proving the official trajectory cannot be sustained. http://www.globalresearch.ca... 4. Coverup! A. There was a literal coverup of the Pentagon lawn with dirt! (that should not be done at a crime scene where forensics evidence is needed) B. Why was there recent renovation on Pentagon which only reinforced the part of the Pentagon that got hit? C. There are 84 videotapes of the crash, the three that have been released by the Pentagon do not show a Boeing 757 hitting the building. Also why have only 3 videos be released? D. The US air force did not scramble a single fighter jet to intercept any of the hijacked planes. A little research into aviation regulations and historical precedent demonstrates that every one of those planes should have been intercepted by jet fighters before it got anywhere near its crash destination.Two planes had already hit the WTC by 9:03 and yet this plane was allowed to fly for another 42 minutes, off course towards Washington, untroubled by the world's most powerful air force. Only 10 miles from the Pentagon is Andrews Airbase, a huge installation which is responsible for air defence around the DC area, and maintains two squadrons of fighter jets on permanent standby for this very purpose, since the security of the White House, State dept, Capitol and the City of DC are also at stake. This was not an unforeseen contingency. It was an inside job! http://www.911closeup.com... I thank the readers and my opponent and wish him good luck in round 2.