AIRLINER THAT HIT PENTAGON WAS GROUND INTO BOOK-SIZED PIECES: AUTHOR
By Peter Duveen
PETER'S NEW YORK, July 20, 2008--The absence of sizeable pieces
of aircraft debris after the alleged collision of an airliner with the Pentagon
on September 11, 2001 was due to the strong masonry with which the Pentagon was
constructed and the high speed of the aircraft, an author of a new book on the
subject contends.
Patrick Creed, co-author with Rick Newman of
"Firefight", which details the rescue efforts in the aftermath of
fires in the Pentagon building on 9-11, said the absence of large pieces of
aircraft debris was due to the fact that the airliner alleged to have caused
the damage and fires in the building was traveling "500 miles per hour
hitting a masonry building."
challenged by members of the audience, who asked about the recovery of "black boxes" and the possibility of identifying passengers from body parts.
"The majority of the wreckage was inside the
building," Creed explained, noting that most of the other wreckage was
"the size of a book and smaller," and "didn't look much like
plane debris." Creed also noted that in many airliner disasters, there is
an attempt by the pilot save the plane, a scenario that he said would not have
been followed by suicidal hijackers.
Creed made his remarks at an appearance with co-author
Newman at Borders Books and Music in
Newman explained how evidence was gathered that enabled
government investigators to identify the passengers and hijackers. Newman said the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) developed a "remarkably detailed
diagram" that showed where each passenger was after the alleged crash.
Newman presented the FBI's argument of the whereabouts of
the hijackers' bodies, saying that the "majority of the victims...ended up
further into the building," while those of the hijackers were closer to
the outside of the Pentagon. He said much of the material on the FBI's
investigation was released to the pubic after the trial of alleged
"terrorist" Zacarias Moussaoui.
Newman went into some detail regarding the recovery of the
"black boxes"--reinforced containers containing flight data and cockpit
voice recordings--from the aircraft debris in response to a question from the
audience.
"The hunt for the black boxes was pretty important,"
he said. "Those black boxes could have told them a lot."
Newman said the black boxes, actually orange in color, were both recovered on September 14, three days
after 9-11. Newman said a worker was taking what they thought was a piece of
garbage over to a trash bin, when they were stopped by FBI agents, who wanted
to take a closer look. The debris was identified as the badly damaged
"black box," and led to the search for and recovery of the flight data recorder
nearby, Newman said.
"The voice recorder was destroyed," and as a
result investigators "were not able to reconstruct" what happened
among the alleged hijackers, passengers and crew, Newman said. The data
recorder was, however, preserved well enough to "reconstruct with good
detail" information about the flight.
Some of Creed's and Newman's remarks were in response to a
polite but persistent questioner who asked first about the current whereabouts
of the aircraft wreckage and followed up with other questions. Creed ducked a
question regarding the size of body parts that could survive the impact that
left plane debris no larger than the size of a book, citing the sensibilities
of the families of victims and of eyewitnesses that were in the audience.
Toward the end of their presentation, the duo asked those in
the audience who were present at the Pentagon on 9-11, whether or not they
believed an aircraft collided with the Pentagon on that day. It was in response
to that question that some of the issues were raised about the wreckage of the
alleged aircraft.
The
Critics of the government's version are many and varied, but
the more robust of them contend that the government staged the entire 9-11 episode
to use as the pretext to mount a campaign of military conquest in the oil-rich
Middle East, and on the domestic front, to concentrate power in the military
and executive branch of government at the expense of the average citizen by
pushing through Congress so-called “anti-terrorist” measures that thwart
constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
A freedom of information act filing to release serial
numbers and other information that would positively link wreckage at the
Pentagon with the commercial airliner alleged to have crashed into the building
is currently being challenged by the government.
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