9.38 Arlington Virginia: Hani Hanjour allegedly executes a 330 degree turn at 530 miles per hour, descending 7,000 feet in 2.5 seconds to crash United Airlines Flight 77 into the ground floor of the Pentagon. Loose Change 2nd edition
Hanjoor had come to Freeway Airport ... seeking to rent a small plane. However, when Hanjoor went on three test runs in the second week of August he had trouble landing and controlling a single-engine Cessna 172. ibid.
Why is the damage to the Pentagon completely inconsistent with a Boeing 757? ibid.
Back on October 24th 2000 the Pentagon conducted Moscow, a mass-casualty exercise which simulated the impact of a Boeing 757 into the building ... Had a single alarm gone off inside the Pentagon, 123 would be alive today and hundreds more would not be suffering. Loose Change – Final Cut
Three F-16s from Andrews Air Force Base located just fifteen miles from the Pentagon were flown 180 nautical miles away for a training mission in North Carolina leaving them unable to defend the nation’s capital. Loose Change – 9/11 An American Coup
Had Hani Hanjour wanted to inflict maximum damage all he had to do was nose down into the roof of the Pentagon. Instead, he begins a complicated 330-degree turn, dropping 7,000 feet and exposing himself for an extra three minutes while executing a manoeuvre described by experienced pilots as nearly impossible. ibid.
Flight controllers at Dulles International Airport were convinced that the plane was a military aircraft. ibid.
Flight 77 manages to hit the only section which was reinforced to withstand a terrorist attack. ibid.
Additionally, there was no impact damage to the lawn. Meaning Flight 77 managed to strike the Pentagon while remaining a few feet above the ground. And out of the videos that have been released none of them clearly depict a Boeing 757. Also, an exit hole inside the Pentagon is not explained by any official report. ibid.
The entry hole of the flying object in the side of the Pentagon is so tiny that there’s no way it could be a Boeing airliner of any type. Webster Tarpley, author 9/11 Synthetic Terror, cited 9/11 Myths
The official story is that it was flying at five hundred and thirty miles an hour at a height of four foot six. This is your captain speaking ... There’s a thing called Ground Effect. Ian R Crane, presentation History Cannot Be Permanently Falsified
The official story is that the wings folded back on themselves. ibid.
Boeing pilots have said this manoeuvre is impossible. ibid.
We know there were large numbers, many dozens in the aircraft that flew at full power steering directly into I think between the second and third floor opposite the helipad. Donald Rumsfeld, ABC7, cited The Explosive Reality
Here we’re talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage the building and similar [inaudible] that damaged the World Trade Center. Donald Rumsfeld, 2003 interview Parade Magazine
Rumsfeld remains out of contact for twenty-five minutes. 9/11: Day that Changed the World
Oddly, right beneath these windows in the centre of the hole column 14AA on the second floor remained intact. National Security Alert: Sensitive Information
Roosevelt Roberts did not see the plane approach because he was inside the Pentagon at the time of the explosion. He saw it banking and flying away at less than 100 feet, only after running outside immediately after the explosion. This is why he thought it was another plane. Roosevelt could only have seen the same relatively slow banking plane that all the other witnesses reported approaching on the north side flight path. There is additional evidence that more people saw the plane continue past the Pentagon: Arlington National Cemetery employee Erik Dihle ... said the first thing people reported was that a bomb went off and that a jet kept on going. ibid.
Now that we’ve established how the witnesses support a banking north side approach, with nothing on the south side, this means the damaged light poles and taxicab had to have been staged. ibid.
The Pentagon is surely the best defended structure on the face of the planet, for three reasons: first, it is only a few miles from Andrews Air Force Base, which has at least three squadrons of fighter-jets on alert at all times ... second ... the US Military has the best radar system in the world. One of its systems, it has bragged, does not miss anything occurring in north-American airspace ... The Pentagon is ringed by anti-missile batteries which are programmed to destroy any aircraft entering the Pentagon’s airspace ... We must conclude that the attacks succeeded only because the Pentagon wanted it to succeed. David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Fraud
But there are many reasons to reject the official story. First, the alleged pilot Hani Hanjour was widely known as a terrible pilot who could not possibly have flown the trajectory of the aircraft that hit the Pentagon. Second, this aircraft hit the Pentagon’s West Wing which would have been the least likely spot for terrorists with any intelligence whatsoever (and these guys were supposed to be so bright they out-tricked our whole Air Force Defense System). They would not have chosen the West Wing? Why? ... To hit the West Wing the aircraft had to ... execute a very complex manoeuvre ... The West Wing was being renovated so instead of having thousands of people in it who would have been killed, it only had a few hundred, and most of them were not military people, they were civilians working on the renovation ... You would think the terrorists ... would have wanted to have killed as many of the top brass, and Donald Rumsfeld himself. They are over in the East Wing, as far as you can be away from the West Wing. Finally, the West Wing renovation involved a great reinforcement, so the damage was much less to the East Wing than any other part of the building. Another problem with the official story is that initial damage to the West Wing’s facade was far too minimal to have been caused by the impact of a Boeing 757. Fourth, photographs and eye-witnesses in the immediate aftermath failed to provide unambiguous evidence of the remains of a Boeing 757. Fifth, there are videos what would show whether the aircraft that struck the Pentagon was in fact a Boeing 757. But the FBI confiscated these videos within minutes after the attacks, and now the authorities have refused to release them. Sixth, that the aircraft was not shot down by the Pentagon’s Aircraft Defense System suggests that it belonged to the US military. So, whether or not the Pentagon was hit by Flight 77, the evidence suggests it must have been an inside job. ibid.
We are also told that the bodies could be identified, either by their fingerprints or by their DNA. So what kind of a fire can vaporise aluminium or tempered steel and yet leave human bodies intact? David Ray Griffin, Confronting the Evidence
If these terrorists were brilliant enough to outfox the world’s greatest security system, they would not have gone out of their way to hit Wedge 1, when they could simply have crashed into the roof above the offices of Donald Rumsfeld and the senior officers. David Ray Griffin, author Debunking 9/11 Debunking, lecture Washington, ‘Let’s Get Empirical’
Hanjour was a terrible pilot who could not even safely fly a single-engine aeroplane. As one flight instructor quoted by The New York Times put it, He could not fly at all! And yet the plane that hit the Pentagon, according to the official story, was flown with military precision after completing a three-hundred and thirty-degree downward spiral. It came in at ground level to hit the Pentagon between the first and second floors, and did this without even scratching the Pentagon lawn. David Ray Griffin, interview Guns and Butter 27th January 2009
The most well-known report about hijackers on planes came from Ted Olson, who was the Department of Justice Solicitor General. He told CNN on the afternoon of 9/11 that his wife, a well-known CNN commentator Barbara Olson, had called him twice from American Airlines Flight 77. The flight that reportedly hit the Pentagon. And told him that hijackers armed with knives and box-cutters had taken over the plane. This claim played some vital roles. Besides telling the world that Flight 77 had been hijacked, it provided the only evidence that this plane was still aloft. It had disappeared from radar in the mid-West. And there were reports that an airliner in that area had crashed. So the reported calls from Barbara Olson provided evidence that the Pentagon really was, as the government claimed, struck by American Flight 77. However, Ted Olson’s story is highly problematic. One problem was that he went back and forth on whether she had used a cell-phone or an on-board phone. He finally settled on the latter. Thereby avoiding the problem of whether a cell-phone call would have been possible. In 2006, however, an American Airline’s representative in response to a query from a member of the 9/11 Truth Movement said, ‘We do not have phones on our Boeing 757s ...’
Ted Olson’s claim was further undermined by the report presented by the FBI at the Musawi trial. According to this report, the only call attempted by Barbara Olsen was unconnected and it lasted therefore zero seconds. This is an amazing development. ibid.
Ted Olson – he was the Attorney who successfully defended before the Supreme Court in 2000 the claim that the recount in Florida should be stopped - which meant that Bush and Cheney would move into the White House ... On 9/11 Ted Olsen told CNN and the FBI that his wife Barbara was on Flight 77, and that she had called him twice from that flight. She had reported that hijackers had taken over the plane ... This was the only one that mentioned box-cutters. David Ray Griffin, lecture Time for a Second Look, Hamburg
We all know about Barbara Olson’s famous phone call from Flight 77, in which she called Ted, the Solicitor General, and said she had been hijacked, and the hijackers had put all the passengers and the pilots in the back of the plane – of course this was a pretty strange scenario – there you have about sixty people, including the two pilots, one of whom was a champion boxer – being held off by three small guys with knives and box-cutters; so it’s an implausible story ... We all know the hijackers had box-cutters, right? It was only Barbara Olson’s call the box-cutters were mentioned ... Very strong evidence these calls were fabricated. David Ray Griffin, New 9/11 Evidence
They [FBI] ... claim she was on the plane and she attempted a call but that it was unconnected, so lasted zero seconds ... The FBI would not support the idea that any high-level cell-phone calls from airliners were made. David Ray Griffin, interview Charles Goyette