Mark F
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Just for fun I thought I would create a thread where people can post the most interesting, bizarre, humorous or ridiculous CT claims they have encountered related to the events of 9/11/2001. I'm not talking about the usual suspects like "free-fall", "hole in the Pentagon too small", "molten steel" or any of that see it every day stuff that has been beaten to death countless times over. I'm talking about stuff outside of the mainstream of CT interweb discussion. The more obscure the better.
I'll start.
Claim: Flights 11 & 175 flew right over an Air Force Base at nearly the same time, where they should both have been shot down.
http://911anomalies.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/flightanimation.gif
The Air Force Base in question here is Stewart Air National Guard Base which is the home of the 105th Air Lift Wing, NYANG. They fly giant cargo planes - at the time the C-5A Galaxy - not fighters.
Ever been in one? Way cool - but I digress,...
There are a number of obvious problems with the claim that aircraft from this base should have shot down Flights 11 and 175.
1. First and foremost there is timeline. At the time these two flights had a semi near-miss and flyover of Stewart, Flight 175 in fact had not yet been hijacked. Flight 175 was still under the control if its flight crew and would be for another 7-10 minutes. Flight 11 was only just being reported as a hijack to NEADS at about this time so nobody at Stewart would have even known anything.
2. There is the fact the C-5 Galaxy has no air-to-air capability. There is in fact nothing at Stewart capable of shooting down a duck, let alone an airliner.
3. At 8:37am on the morning of 9/11/2001 there was no protocol in place for shooting down a commercial airliner full of civilians just because it had been hijacked.
This is as good an example as any of CT's not thinking the problem all the way through.
I'll start.
Claim: Flights 11 & 175 flew right over an Air Force Base at nearly the same time, where they should both have been shot down.
http://911anomalies.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/flightanimation.gif
The Air Force Base in question here is Stewart Air National Guard Base which is the home of the 105th Air Lift Wing, NYANG. They fly giant cargo planes - at the time the C-5A Galaxy - not fighters.
Ever been in one? Way cool - but I digress,...
There are a number of obvious problems with the claim that aircraft from this base should have shot down Flights 11 and 175.
1. First and foremost there is timeline. At the time these two flights had a semi near-miss and flyover of Stewart, Flight 175 in fact had not yet been hijacked. Flight 175 was still under the control if its flight crew and would be for another 7-10 minutes. Flight 11 was only just being reported as a hijack to NEADS at about this time so nobody at Stewart would have even known anything.
2. There is the fact the C-5 Galaxy has no air-to-air capability. There is in fact nothing at Stewart capable of shooting down a duck, let alone an airliner.
3. At 8:37am on the morning of 9/11/2001 there was no protocol in place for shooting down a commercial airliner full of civilians just because it had been hijacked.
This is as good an example as any of CT's not thinking the problem all the way through.