posted 09-11-2001 10:39            

It was reported down right after the Pentagon got hit, but not a single update or picture has come out after a SEVEN-FORTY-SEVEN hit the dirt! Not ONE local reporter has a telephone or a digital camera and a modem?

Methinks it was shot down by our air force.

Anybody in the area wanna try to get some pics? I'm in Columbus, but considering blowing work for a road-trip.

[compassion edit]

posted 09-11-2001 10:46            

That is all

posted 09-11-2001 17:53            

And my initial reaction to the plane crashing in PA was --- the military shot that bitch down. But I don't know.

posted 09-11-2001 19:43            

1) The Pittsburg area crash made it as far west as Cleveland, made a U-turn, headed back towards DC and then crashed in a rural area. It went down with landing gear UP and hit at about a 45 degree angle. I saw video. It's a patch of bare dirt covered it little pieces of metal and not much more.

2) The planes that hit the trade center changed route pretty early in their courses. One headed pretty much south and hit the first tower. The second plane went further west, then banked southeast, went south of Manhattan, then banked sharply north and went straight for the second tower.

They're thinking these planes were flown by the terrorists themselves since a pilot probably wouldn't fly into a building even if forced. (except the Pittsburg crash which may have been a result of a struggle)

posted 09-11-2001 20:40            

Two, although the United Airlines goober on the radio kept saying "the terrorists must have had people qualified on the Boeing 767", it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to hit a fucking building with a plane... if you can operate a joystick, you're in there like swimwear. It's not like you have to successfully take off or land or anything - just know the city fairly well and/or be able to read a compass.

Three, the one that went into the Pentagon actually came in WAY low, clipped a couple light/power poles, and hit the ground OUTSIDE the Pentagon and slid in. On the one hand, this may well have done more damage than a direct strike, but... I still have a feeling that it just doesn't sound like the work of somebody who knew wtf he was doing.

posted 09-11-2001 23:24            

with fucking knives.

bah. Unless the terrorists had the cockpit locked from the inside (I hear they can do that)... I dont see how a group of guys with knives can keep control anyhow.

I'd also hate to be the guy who had to decide wether or not to shoot down a civilian aircraft before it crashes into a building.

perhaps I can build myself a little bunker underground and fill it full of MRE's and skin-mags. Then I'll sit there until I either die or I go crazy.

posted 09-11-2001 23:50            

Maybe its a good thing? I didnt' think of waste disposal

Of course... there's nothing like Korean-War era MRE's with dried-out-white chocolate to get the appetite going.

posted 09-12-2001 06:01            

People think I'm the biggest redneck ever for believing that every adult should have experience on a firing range and at least the basics in hand-to-hand combat instruction. Maybe they're right. I personally don't think so - I personally believe that people are less likely to pull a bully routine when they know damned well that everyone around them at least understands the basics of combat.

posted 09-12-2001 07:55            

I will have to say that if I didn't already know that the plane was going down, there's no way in hell that I as a passenger would initiate hostilities against a guy that was holding a flight attendant hostage and carving little chunks out of her with a boxcutter to prove he meant business about it. If I knew that the alternative was having the plane go down, yes - but not if I thought it was a standard hostage situation.

And I don't see how any of those people could have understood what was truly at stake.