Flight 77 Myth Put to Rest

Okay, I was always more-or-less undecided about whether flight 77 actually hit the Pentagon, but I think I have finally concluded it did.

I was leaning in this direction for a couple of weeks, but this piece has basically put my doubts to rest.

Key quote:

She saw parts of the fuselage of an American Airlines plane, a Boeing 757 plane. She identified the charred wreckage in several ways. She recognized the polished aluminum outer shell, an unpainted silver color that is unique to American Airline planes, and the red and blue trim that is used to decorate the fuselage. She saw parts of the inside of the plane, which she easily identified since she flew and worked in them for years. Upholstery, drapes and carpeting she could identify by both color and design. The soft carpeting and padding of the inner walls had a cloud design and color she recognized from American Airline planes, though it has since been replaced. The blue coloring of drapes and carpet were also specific to the 757 or 767 larger planes, and were not used on the smaller planes. Seating upholstery also matched the AA 757 planes, including the blue color, tan squares and hints of white.

She saw other parts of the plane and engine parts at a distance but they were familiar to her. She did not see any galley supplies, which she would have recognized as well, nor any jump seats. All the parts were charred but colors were still visible. She also saw charred human bones but not any flesh or full body parts.

One area of fuselage had remaining window sections and the shape of the windows, curved squares not ovals, was also distinct to the 757's she had flown. She also saw parts with the A/A logo, including parts of the tail of the plane. Smaller A/A logos and "American" logos are also on the planes and she saw parts of those. One website shows pictures of wreckage inside the building, including sections of the fuselage with bright lime and yellow coloring, which is distinctive to Boeing parts. My friend confirmed this, having visited a Boeing plant where she saw the bright colors on the production line marking the inside of fuselage parts. She did not notice this coloring at the site, but the photos show it in some pieces of the plane.

She spent approximately 15 minutes in the crash area looking at parts of the wreckage, all of which she recognized as coming from a Boeing 757 American Airline plane, the same planes she flew regularly. She did not see any rubber, only metal pieces of fuselage, engine parts and sections of the inside of the plane.
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My friend is therefore a credible and very knowledgeable eyewitness to the fact that American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. She has been vilified by those who refuse to believe the obvious, as have the many witnesses to the event. We lack clear footage of the event, some of which was confiscated by the FBI, or pictures showing all the wreckage and plane parts. Working from a few un-timed photographs, others have speculated that not only did AA77 not hit the Pentagon, but that a cruise missile or smaller plane did.

My friend is herself a researcher for many years into government misdeeds and cover-ups. If she did not see the parts, she would say so. She has no reason to lie about it. Nor is she confused about what she saw. She is a professional and is used to looking at evidence.

I think the piece is legitimate and therefore is fairly conclusive.

I guess the only doubt one might have is that the person didn't identify specifcally flight 77, but rather an American 757. But I guess I can say with confidence it was flight 77 that hit the Pentagon.

I imagine lots of people are going to say, big deal-- you finally saw the truth. And maybe some 9/11 skeptics will still not believe this. But I think it is important for people to think these things out for themselves. The Pentagon hit was defintiely strange, and as the piece points out, there are many unanswered questions about the hijacking.

Note-- this piece also makes the claim I haven't seen before that cell phones work fairly well on flying planes. So maybe this is something we can disregard as an anomaly.

Certainly the more issues we clear up, the more we can concentrate on other important issues.

p.s. I need to add something important here. If the US government would be more forthcoming in showing picutres and other evidence relating to 9/11 (such as the flight 77 crash site), then there would not be so many conspiracy theories.

You almost get the impression that the government WANTS to propagate conspiracies.