How easy is it to crash a plane into D.C.?

[parky76]

The 9-11 truthers would have us believe, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to crash a plane into any big building in D.C. Our Air Force defenses are just too strong and too well trained, for such an event to ever occur.

When I was in D.C. for Columbus Day, looking at the Penagon 9-11 Memorial, I was fascinated by the number of planes taking off from Ronald Reagan International Airport, every minute or so.

And I thought to myself, how easy it would be, and how short a flight it would be, for a bunch of suicidal pilots to simply decide to veer off their course and just take out the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, the White House, you name it.

All it would take, is a pact amoung the crew, and a sharp right or left turn. We wouldn't know what hit us. It could happen every day. It could happen right now. And there is NOTHING the Air Force could do to stop it.

:(

oh, but I forgot about the top secret missile batteries hidden under the sod..that only truthers seem to know about. that would save the day.

[UNLoVedRebel]

The 9-11 truthers would have us believe, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to crash a plane into any big building in D.C. Our Air Force defenses are just too strong and too well trained, for such an event to ever occur.

When I was in D.C. for Columbus Day, looking at the Penagon 9-11 Memorial, I was fascinated by the number of planes taking off from Ronald Reagan International Airport, every minute or so.

And I thought to myself, how easy it would be, and how short a flight it would be, for a bunch of suicidal pilots to simply decide to veer off their course and just take out the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, the White House, you name it.

All it would take, is a pact amoung the crew, and a sharp right or left turn. We wouldn't know what hit us. It could happen every day. It could happen right now. And there is NOTHING the Air Force could do to stop it.

:(

oh, but I forgot about the top secret missile batteries hidden under the sod..that only truthers seem to know about. that would save the day.

I thought the pentagon popped out a missile silo like a pez dispenser. At least, that's I learned on YouTube.

[parky76]

i must say...the hidden missile batteries were very well hidden. it was almost like, they didnt exist.

:confused:

[JihadJane]

The 9-11 truthers would have us believe, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to crash a plane into any big building in D.C. .

Strawman. None has claimed this.

The 911 planes didn't just crash. They deviated from their course a considerable time before they did so, with their transponders turned off, meandering around US airspace in a very strange manner.

[UNLoVedRebel]

Strawman. None has claimed this.

Yes, someone has claimed this, many people have. "The pentagon is the most pwotected building on the planet (http://jod911.com/There_Are_No_Missile_Defenses_at_the_Pentagon.pdf)" is very popular in wooville.

[A W Smith]

Strawman. None has claimed this.

haven't been to pilots for truth yet "Jane" ??

[parky76]

"how is it possible that America's most protected building could be hit?"

that is one of the truther's arguments.

and i have proven, it is relatively easy, with a bunch of suicidal pilots at RR airport.

[UNLoVedRebel]

We know that these anti-aircraft defense include five batteries of missiles installed on top of the pentagon and fighters at the Presidential Airbase of Saint Andrews
~Meyssan

And apparently, he thinks the U.S. Military is a part of the Vatican.

[parky76]

wow...=)

[AJM8125]

~Meyssan

And apparently, he thinks the U.S. Military is a part of the Vatican.

And the president's airbase is a golf course in Scotland. Wait... maybe it is.

[Tweeter]

The 9-11 truthers would have us believe, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to crash a plane into any big building in D.C. Our Air Force defenses are just too strong and too well trained, for such an event to ever occur.

When I was in D.C. for Columbus Day, looking at the Penagon 9-11 Memorial, I was fascinated by the number of planes taking off from Ronald Reagan International Airport, every minute or so.

And I thought to myself, how easy it would be, and how short a flight it would be, for a bunch of suicidal pilots to simply decide to veer off their course and just take out the Pentagon, the Capitol Building, the White House, you name it.

All it would take, is a pact amoung the crew, and a sharp right or left turn. We wouldn't know what hit us. It could happen every day. It could happen right now. And there is NOTHING the Air Force could do to stop it.

:(

oh, but I forgot about the top secret missile batteries hidden under the sod..that only truthers seem to know about. that would save the day.


Yet the terrorists opted to hijack planes from airports hundreds of miles away, leaving themselves open to be intercepted. Sounds like a good plan :rolleyes:

[PhantomWolf]

Yet the terrorists opted to hijack planes from airports hundreds of miles away, leaving themselves open to be intercepted. Sounds like a good plan :rolleyes:

Only when you don't take into account that Flight 77 and 93 were delayed on take off. If they had been on time they would have hit very shortly after the first two. They got lucky with 77 due to a lack of communications between the ATC centers and a radar set up that drops sectors of Primary radar where they overlap, 93 wouldn't have been able to get to DC though.

[cludgie]

"how is it possible that America's most protected building could be hit?"

Someone has flown a plane into Fort Knox now?

[eromitlab]

parky, your pointing out of National Airport and how possible it is to crash a plane somewhere important in D.C. reminded me of Air Florida Flight 90. Specifically, I thought that if that flight had, instead of taking off from runway 1 at DCA, taken off from runway 33... instead of crashing into the 14th Street Bridge, it very well might have crashed into the Pentagon. It wouldn't have even taken a snap suicide pact. Equipment failure or pilot error right after takeoff or even right before landing, and there's your crash into the Pentagon.

Unless, of course, the missile batteries popped up from the lawn first. :D

[Aitch]

America's most protected building

Not since the laser-cannon batteries that protect the JREF offices went on-line it ain't. :cool:

[parky76]

Yet the terrorists opted to hijack planes from airports hundreds of miles away, leaving themselves open to be intercepted. Sounds like a good plan :rolleyes:

well, they were just a bunch of stupid cave-Arabs...right?

[CptColumbo]

Wasn't there a guy who crashed a Cessna into (or near) the White House a few years ago?

ETA: here it is:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder

Ooooh, he stole the plane on Sept. 11, 1994 and crashed it on Sept 12, 1994.

[A W Smith]

Yet the terrorists opted to hijack planes from airports hundreds of miles away, leaving themselves open to be intercepted. Sounds like a good plan :rolleyes:


In an aircraft traveling hundreds of miles an hour. How far do you think it would travel before it reaches cruising altitude, The passengers settle in for a cross country flight by putting on their headphones or napping. You are able to assess the situation and take over the aircraft? Cmon genius.

[CptColumbo]

You also have to take into account: what would the military do if they did intercept it? Especially with the time they would have had to act upon any decision made.

[realitybites]

About as easy as wrapping your car around a tree. All you need is a car... and a tree.

In this case, all you would need is a plane and a 2nd grade knowledge of basic geometric shapes.

Which begs the question why the government went to all this trouble to rig light poles, plant cab drivers, wire bombs to explode within a matter of milliseconds, haul in debris, plant said debris, fake phone calls, bodies, and DNA evidence, and then hide the obviously flown-over plane in some undisclosed secret location for the rest of eternity.

Our tax dollars at work, I guess.

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[Myron Proudfoot]

"how is it possible that America's most protected building could be hit?"

that is one of the truther's arguments.


This line of argument has an extra level of dishonesty. One of the twoofer's is a Pentagon employee who said she was told this when she started working there. But the "safest building" didn't refer to people attacking the building with aircraft. When you look at the context they were clearly referring to "safe" from unauthorized people getting into the building whether they be terrorists, muggers, pissed off ex-boyfriends, whoever. The Pentagon has a good police force on the ground and I'd feel pretty safe walking around the building. But that doesn't mean some suicidal pilot couldn't crash into the building!