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Why Flight 93?

Devil's Advocate said:
I was talking about the planes heading on an overhead of the crash site.

(sloppy I know)

According to the testimony of the credible witness Susan McElwain, the air frame which passed closely over the roof of her van and crashed at the Flight 93 crash site came from the EAST which was the opposite of the official WEST direction. It seems from Susan McElwain's description (ie: no wings, spoiler, seamless construction, no rivets) that she was describing a cruise missile or UAV.
Susan McElwain interview available on Google video

........ENDS ALWAYS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.........ENDLESS WARS FOR ENDLESS PROFITS
 
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According to the testimony of the credible witness Susan McElwain, the air frame which passed closely over the roof of her van and crashed at the Flight 93 crash site came from the EAST which was the opposite of the official WEST direction. It seems from Susan McElwain's description (ie: no wings, spoiler, seamless construction, no rivets) that she was describing a cruise missile or UAV.
Susan McElwain interview available on Google video

........ENDS ALWAYS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.........ENDLESS WARS FOR ENDLESS PROFITS

Oh, joy.
"An now, for something completely the same as before"

or, Here comes another one, just like the other one.
 
not to take light of this, but the plane skidded into a GAS station at the end of the runway (it broke through the fence), so the gas also fueled the fire that killed 200 people today.

brazil was told that the airport runway was too short to handle big planes, and that there is a drainage problem for the runway. today it was raining when the plane crashed.

/derail
Predictably the LCers are in a frenzy, collectively going "...look at all the wreckage...that is what a crash is supposed to look like..... stupid NWO....LOL".

Several months ago over at LC, our very own einsteen linked images of an airplane that overran a runway and caught on fire and proceeded to argue that that's what a crash like flight 93 is supposed to look like. Several pages of similar idiocy ensued with noone pointing out the obvious - the plane didn't crash at all, it simply caught fire. When I pointed out that very simple fact, the only one who seemed to agree that it was a bad comparison was the OP poster.

Funny....and here they are again, comparing a runway overrun(granted a high speed overrun) to 500 mph straight down crash. My 6 year old neice can point out the flaw in their logic....yet there they are, asking very stupid questions along the lines of "Hellllllooooooooooo is there any JREF reading it?

Why the plane is still there ? Can you please explain this anomaly?
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Morons.

/rerail
 
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SpitfireIX,
So you're saying that it's descent of 10k feet in the last minute would not have set off an alarm such as the Sink Rate?
Am I wrong in all I read that stated the plane rolled over just above the tree line? Then I think warnings would have sounded when the plane was below 100 feet. And if those accounts are true that it rolled over above the tree line, at 500+mph, would there have been enough time to do that?
I'll read witness stuff again to see about that. It may have been the lady that saw something else that said that. But the actions of the object she saw seemed to be mirrored by others.


Apathoid is far more qualified than I to comment on this, so I'll defer to him, except to say that United 93 was operating so far outside the anticipated flight parameters of these warning systems that it is possible that they simply weren't triggered because they didn't recognized their inputs as valid data.


All your pictures showed fires that were out already.


Yes--that's why there are guys using fire hoses on the Fokker and the Tupolev--because the fires are out already. :rolleyes:

Only one showed a fire, and you can see that it was very dark even with water being pumped onto it.


I'd characterize it as "light gray," which you claimed never happens.

And the video I already posted a link to.


The video you linked shows white smoke, but no flames. How do you know the fires weren't already out when it was shot?


I'm a closet truther? If it makes you feel better to believe something false, then by all means, do so.
Argue facts, not your false opinion within 'the team' mindset.


Kindly point out where I said I think you're a closet truther. Actually, were I forced to categorize you based on your behavior thus far, I'd have to agree with LashL--you're most likely a troll. But I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt a while longer--at least long enough for you to dig your way out of the deep hole you've already dug for yourself. :dig:
 
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Funny....and here they are again, comparing a runway overrun(granted a high speed overrun) to 500 mph straight down crash. My 6 year old neice can point out the flaw in their logic....yet there they are, asking very stupid questions along the lines of "Hellllllooooooooooo is there any JREF reading it?

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Actually, one of the news stories I saw said the pilot was attempting to initiate a go-around, so I'm not sure this qualifies as an overrun. Of course, it's still absurd to suggest that this crash is in any way comparable to United 93. Has anyone ever told them that the crashes they ought to be comparing are United 585WP and USAir 427WP? Except United 93 had about four times as much impact energy as those two crashes.
 
So now the witnesses DID see the crash? just a while ago they didn't because they thought a boat blew up on the lake. I guess they are like Willy who could see the plane hit the building while in the basement of the building. Thank God there are always magical people at the scenes of these events.

And good thing that the wind from the ground to the top of the atmosphere blows at the same speed. God knows that debris ejected at 500mph could only travel at the windspeed on the ground. yet if a missile was used, then it's plausible for debris to reach 2.5 miles in a 10mph wind.

Abracadabra!
 
So now the witnesses DID see the crash? just a while ago they didn't because they thought a boat blew up on the lake. I guess they are like Willy who could see the plane hit the building while in the basement of the building. Thank God there are always magical people at the scenes of these events.

And good thing that the wind from the ground to the top of the atmosphere blows at the same speed. God knows that debris ejected at 500mph could only travel at the windspeed on the ground. yet if a missile was used, then it's plausible for debris to reach 2.5 miles in a 10mph wind.

Abracadabra!


I know I am quoting Jonny, but I'll address a few other things here as well.

Where are people getting this idea what the debris were traveling 500mph?
The plane was doing 500mph. That 500mph would have halted once it hit the ground.
And you points with regard to a missile is flawed. If a missile had hit the plane while it was near the lake, then debris would have been much closer to the lake, and would have been traveling at near the planes speed, depending on the direction the explosion sent them in. (Against the wind, with it?)
Debris going into the wind or against it will both encounter resistance.

To Spitfire,
If the plane operating out of it's envelope causing alarms to not go off is the case, then how can you trust any of the planes readings at that time? Or do we just pick and choose what worked and what didn't based on convenience? Maybe the guy that called from the plane was right about an explosion and smoke in the plane in it's final minute of flight. I'm sure people on the ground knew better than him..... Maybe the cabin pressure warning did not go off. Maybe that is why that flight recorder data was never released to the public. Maybe we would hear rushing wind at the end and ask what that was. There are many ways to use data once a precedent of cherry picking it is set.

And just another point about the fight for the cabin, I honestly do not see how people were putting pressure on the cabin if the plane was in a 500+mph dive at reported 40° angle. Even less so when the plane rolled over.

So at what speed and altitude did the plane roll over?

The fire in that picture was smoke and steam. Don't play coy. Show me a picture of a plane crash when no water is being put on the fire that has gray smoke.

The video I showed proved the fires were out. Fire crews were there. My point is, how did the fire damage get worse after the video was shot when you can clearly see fire fighters in the video? Did a major fire spring up while they were there and they did not report it? How did the damage get worse?
Also, first fire fighter reports said there were spot fires only....not a large section of the woods in flames.

About other plane crashes. I've never stated I could find a plane crash that was like flight 93's. The only reason I put up one was to counter an obviously edited picture that was put up, and showed another airshow crash. The video that the edited pic came from, a lot of people died in. I can put it up to prove the fire was pitch black if you want, but I was not going to highlight the death of a b-52 flight crew when I do not think it will matter in this thread anyway.

I forgot who posted this....
But a difference of 15° will not make a difference at impact? If the flight was showing that 15° was level, and final was 40°, then that would mean the final angle was 25°. -25° if it was inverted? Follow a line into the ground at that angle and a straight down impact seems to be 'unlikely'.

I'll recall a pic from earlier in the thread. A 737 did a nose dive from 1,000 feet.
photo3.jpg

Note all the burn damage around it?

I am a suspect Troll? Why, because I question things? What I question is out of bounds in your opinion? Only two things have I seriously argued here. The event in Waco, which was proven to be criminal, and flight 93.
If that makes me a troll, then I question your definition of the word.
 
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The event in Waco, which was proven to be criminal

Proved? Mabe you should return to that thread and finish proving it with something more than "I have a video that even the Davidians rejected as evidence."
 
This excerpt is from the official NTSB accident report for USAIR FLIGHT 427; paragraph 1.12.1 On-Site Examination:

"Several light-weight items (for example, pieces of interior insulation and a passenger
business card) were discovered as far as 2 1/2 miles east-northeast of the main wreckage;
these items exhibited soot and smoke damage. One witness stated that he heard the sound of the crash while he was playing golf about 2 miles east-northeast of the accident site; about 2 minutes later, he observed blackened insulation falling onto the golf course."


The crash of United 93 is therefore not the first time that debris have been ejected into the air and carried with the wind away form the crash site.

Since this is my first post on this forum I cannot yet embed links in my posts, sorry. But if you follow the link Spitfire IX provided in post #185 to the Wikipedia article on USAir 427 you will find a link to the complete NTSB PDF-report under references. I will also recommend reading the same paragraph in the accident report for United 585.
 
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What is this a Bugs Bunny cartoon? The plane hits the ground so the debris blown out should come to a halt? Perhaps the plane ran out of gas and therefore just hovered over the ground until they put gas in the tank.

Yes the plane was traveling at 500mph, you get a gold star for figuring that out. We're talking about an impact and explosion. Any idea how much speed is involved in explosions (yes it varies, but it's all very high velocity).

But wait, i there is a 10mph wind, then any debris thrust about by the explosion will instead just travel at 10mph. DA, have you considered maybe teaching physics?

If a missile hit the plane over the lake, the fact that it would have been blatantly visible to those people on the lake who would have seen an explosion in the sky and an airplane blowing up in the sky above them...The plane would not have landed all in one place as it did. Or perhaps they were shooting out the luggage rack? Perhaps there was a secret document detailing the entire plot in a suitcase so they simply took out a few pieces of luggage to solve that dilemma?

And as to DAs response to spitfire, all you are doing is trying to justify your cherry picking of the evidence. And at the same time trying to accuse others of doing so. They way it works is you look at ALL the evidence and come to a conclusion of the most likely possible scenario. As opposed to what you are doing which is look at the evidence, and only go ith the stuff that doesn't add up to dismiss everything else.

But again, please stop insulting everyone's intelligence by assuming the problem is that you're "questioning things". Just the opposite is true. You aren't questioning enough things. Gosh, how hard are you questioning the reliability of the eyewitnesses? Right, none. How much are you questioning the reports people are interpreting from the eyewitnesses? Right none. How much are you questioning the exact debris they are referring to or that was found at the lake as it is the biggest factor in the issue. Right, none.

Asking questions? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
 
The crash of United 93 is therefore not the first time that debris have been ejected into the air and carried with the wind away form the crash site.

Since this is my first post on this forum I cannot yet embed links in my posts, sorry. But if you follow the link Spitfire IX provided in post #185 to the Wikipedia article on USAir 427 you will find a link to the complete NTSB PDF-report under references. I will also recommend reading the same paragraph in the accident report for United 585.


Welcome to the board, Norseman, and kudos for an excellent first post. It's been a while since I've read either report, except for a brief review of the United 585 crash; I'd forgotten that they mentioned debris landing miles away.

NTSB reports:

USAir 427 (.pdf)

United 585 (.pdf)
 
gumboot,

I was talking about the planes heading on an overhead of the crash site.



(sloppy I know)
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Here's my best estimate of the situation:

UA93.jpg


The yellow designates the rough location and orientation of the UA93 impact crater. The red lines depict the frame limits of your claimed camera location.

The blue lines depict the frame limits of my proposed camera location.

A number of factors are important to draw attention to:

1. Your location denotes a wide angle taken from inside the crash area. There's two major issues with this:
A) The shot is taken on a very long lens, as identified by the foreshortening in the image.
B) There is no way the FBI would be allowing Fox camera crews to wander all over the crash site taking video.

2. My location denotes a long lens shot taken from outside the crash area.
A) The focal length more closely matches what we see in the video.
B) The camera location is by the side of a public road, on public property, rather than in the middle of private property and a crime scene.

3. Your location is at odds with what we see in the frame.
A) In the southerly direction, the narrow band of forest is followed by open space and then a large pond. In the video we see neither, which we should as the location for your camera is considerably higher than the surrounding ground. The forest extends without break for a considerable distance behind the crater.
B) In the video we see neither of the two buildings which are located along the gap in the trees. At least one should be visible.
C) What you identify as a gap in the trees is nothing more than a fall away in tree height (the ground drops away from the crash site).

4. My location matches what we see in the frame.
A) The ground west of the impact is dense forest for a considerable distance, dropping away at first before then climbing again.
B) The foreshortening distorts the image, hiding the gravel end of the road and much of the crater (which appears to actually extend a considerable distance into the frame).

-Gumboot
 
I quite liked these part about USAir 427:

Because some portions of the wreckage were not visible above the ground, investigative personnel used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to locate and recover additional pieces of the wreckage. (See section 1.19 for details about the use of GPR.) Some pieces of wreckage were excavated from the hillside at depths of up to 8 feet.
 
Way to assume I 'didn't try hard' to begin with. I've looked at all that information. I have not posted on this issue because I wanted to read all the information I could about it before bringing it up.

I've already read all of Gravy's posted links, and they did not address my concerns, such as....

Why does the color of the 'fireball' not match any aircraft fire I have ever seen?
I've looked at hundreds of video's and pictures and not one airplane crash had gray smoke. Not one. All of them were pitch black.

So you try hard. Try finding one that looks anything like flight 93. I've tried for days to find one. Then go look pictures and video's of war where bombs are being dropped and then you'll see gray smoke. (depending upon what is hit)

It does not explain how early video showed the patch of burnt trees was very small, and showed fire crews at the scene. How did the area of burnt trees grow like they did while fire fighters were already there and there were no more spot fires?

Is the below correct? If so, why did none of these warnings signal according to the FDR information?
According to the FDR, the ‘Sink Rate’ warning did not activate.
Terrain - Did not activate
Too Low Terain - Did not activate
Terrain Ahead Pull Up - Did not activate
Ground Prox Warning - Did not activate
GPWC Failure - Did not activate. Again, this seems to indicate that the GPWC on board UA93 was functioning throughout the flight.

The reason I want to flight path is to see the planes direction of inertia to explain how an engine ended up half a mile from the impact point, and also how debris ended up 8 miles away.
Shoot debris up into the air a quarter mile if you want, and the debris will not go eight miles in a reported wind of 9mph. That does not add up.
Clothing and a books five and six miles away? How?
A 9mph wind would not blow a feather more than a few hundred feet.

It does not make sense.

No you don't make sense and I am glad that you admit it.
 
The shot in the video shows the site very well. The impact point is the focus for reference and what is behind it in the video. About three darkened trees, one of which is smoking. Everything else is green. But in later photo's, the whole area south - south west of the impact is blackened. (Burnt from fire apparently)
How did the area of damage grow when there is a fire truck clearly seen in the video when the damage was barely noticeable earlier in the day?

I don't know.

How did it happen?
 
If the plane operating out of it's envelope causing alarms to not go off is the case, then how can you trust any of the planes readings at that time?
Because those audible warning systems are for the benefit of the flight deck crew. They let them know if the aircraft is entering into a potentially dangerous situation. The reasons for such automated warnings being installed is mostly due to prior accidents which pointed out the usefulness of such warnings to help keep the pilots out of a bad situation.

The FDR is for the recording of the aircraft's performance data and is something else altogether different from the automated audio warnings in the cockpit.

If the flight was showing that 15° was level, and final was 40°, then that would mean the final angle was 25°. -25° if it was inverted?
An error of 15° in the ADI (attitude direction indicator, or artificial horizon as it's also known) is a huge discrepancy in one of the primary flight instruments of an aircraft. It is not something the pilots could have overlooked or missed.
 
Because those audible warning systems are for the benefit of the flight deck crew. They let them know if the aircraft is entering into a potentially dangerous situation. The reasons for such automated warnings being installed is mostly due to prior accidents which pointed out the usefulness of such warnings to help keep the pilots out of a bad situation.

The FDR is for the recording of the aircraft's performance data and is something else altogether different from the automated audio warnings in the cockpit.
Does the FDR record if the warnings activate, yes or no?

An error of 15° in the ADI (attitude direction indicator, or artificial horizon as it's also known) is a huge discrepancy in one of the primary flight instruments of an aircraft. It is not something the pilots could have overlooked or missed.[/QUOTE]

What you're saying is that the FDR was wrong in this case? I do not want to assume that is what you're saying, I just want to make sure.
 

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