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In the first version (1) of the Flight 77 story (there are two stories) the pilot flying Visual Flight Rules (VFR) makes the turn and then straightens out at approximately 7000 feet or 2133 meters distance from the Pentagon. If he wants to take out the NOC/DIA offices, the 5 meter wide fuselage of the plane has to be stuffed through the 6 meter wide windows of rooms 1E462 and 1E466. From 2133 meters the perceived size of the window 0.16 degrees. If he is traveling at Mach 1 the pilot only has 6 seconds to lock on to the windows. Windows that he cannot see. If the pilot was travelling at Mach 2 he only has 3 seconds to put the fuselage through the windows and he has to be accurate to 0.16 of a degree. The strike on the Pentagon was a precision hit and humanly impossible. The planes were electronically hijacked. In the same way Navy ships were hijacked during the ELIGIBLE RECEIVER EXERCISES OF 1997.
For those who say that an airliner cannot travel over Mach 1. This is not case. The DC-8 broke the speed of sound on 21 August 1961 [4]. It did so by putting the plane into dive. Eyewitness Rick Renzi near the Pentagon saw Flight 77 in a steep dive, "creaming in at a dive bomb angle." This is normally an angle between 45 and 60 degrees; but can be as steep as 80 degrees [6]. Because of the speed and maneuvers of Flight 77 the Air Traffic Controllers thought that the plane was a military jet. The supposed hijacker "Hani Hanjour" who was "known for his incompetence [5]." Hanjour was not qualified to pilot an airliner. He did not have the skills to pilot the airliner like military jet. So, the eyewitness testimony, precision, and destructive power of the attack show that Flight 77 was travelling well over Mach 1. The G Force on the pilot would have knocked him out. There is no way Flight 77 was piloted by a human being.
BIBLIOGRAPHY & NOTES
1. Fisher, M., & Phillips, D. (2001, December 9). On Flight 77: 'Our Plane Is Being Hijacked'. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/12/on-flight-77-our-plane-is-being-hijacked/85b3c4b3-876b-4bb5-b1f7-00cc8c37b75e/
2. "The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe."
O'Brien, Danielle
At the Dulles tower, O'Brien saw the TV pictures from New York and headed back to her post to help other planes quickly land.
"We started moving the planes as quickly as we could," she says. "Then I noticed the aircraft. It was an unidentified plane to the southwest of Dulles, moving at a very high rate of speed . . . I had literally a blip and nothing more."
O'Brien asked the controller sitting next to her, Tom Howell, if he saw it too.
"I said, `Oh my God, it looks like he's headed to the White House,'" recalls Howell. "I was yelling . . . `We've got a target headed right for the White House!'"
At a speed of about 500 miles an hour, the plane was headed straight for what is known as P-56, protected air space 56, which covers the White House and the Capitol.
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe."
The plane was between 12 and 14 miles away, says O'Brien, "and it was just a countdown. Ten miles west. Nine miles west . . . Our supervisor picked up our line to the White House and started relaying to them the information, [that] we have an unidentified very fast-moving aircraft inbound toward your vicinity, 8 miles west."
Vice President Cheney was rushed to a special basement bunker. White House staff members were told to run away from the building.
"And it went six, five, four. And I had it in my mouth to say, three, and all of a sudden the plane turned away. In the room, it was almost a sense of relief. This must be a fighter. This must be one of our guys sent in, scrambled to patrol our capital, and to protect our president, and we sat back in our chairs and breathed for just a second," says O'Brien.
But the plane continued to turn right until it had made a 360-degree maneuver.
"We lost radar contact with that aircraft. And we waited. And we waited. And your heart is just beating out of your chest waiting to hear what's happened," says O'Brien. "And then the Washington National [Airport] controllers came over our speakers in our room and said, `Dulles, hold all of our inbound traffic. The Pentagon's been hit.'"
"`Get These Planes on the Ground' - Air Traffic Controllers Recall Sept. 11," ABC News, October 24
3. Renzi, Rick
[Was driving by the Pentagon on the overpass] ". . . less than 300 yards from the impact site at the Pentagon "
Dead link: http://www.rickrenziforcongress.com/rick_on_issues.php
"The plane came in at an incredibly steep angle with incredibly high speed . . ." was driving by the Pentagon at the time of the crash about 9:40 a.m. The impact created a huge yellow and orange fireball, he added. Renzi, who was interviewed at the scene by FBI agents, said he stopped his car to watch and saw another plane following and turn off after the first craft's impact.
Dead link: http://www.coxnews.com/washingtonbureau/staff/hopgood/091201TERROR-PENTAGON.html
"creaming in at a dive bombing angle"
Dead link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1590000/video/_1593685_pentagon17_biles_vi.ram
4. Wasserzieher, B. (2011, July). I Was There: When the DC-8 Went Supersonic. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved February 12, 2023, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/i-was-there-when-the-dc-8-went-supersonic-27846699/
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html
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"A dive bomber dives at a steep angle, normally between 45 and 60 degrees or even up to a near vertical dive of 80 degrees with the Junkers Ju 87, and thus requires an abrupt pull-up after dropping its bombs."
