MYTH UA Flight 93 N591UA was shot down in Pennsylvania on 9/11 |
One argument for Flight 93 is that it crashed at 10:06:05 A.M. and therefore 3 minutes are missing from the voice recorder data to cover up a shootdown, but the plane indeed crashed at 10:03 A.M. There was a white jet close to the area where Flight 93 crashed but it could not possibly have shot Flight 93 down since it was an unarmed assault Falcon 20 business jet belonging to the VF Corp. of Greensboro, North Carolina. Indian Lake isn't 6 to 8 miles from the crash site--people who make such claims are poor geographers--and the 9-12 mph northwesterly wind that day blew tiny paper and sheetmetal scraps towards Indian Lake 1.5 miles away. Alex Jones lied that Major Rick Gibney was in an F-16 and fired two missiles to shoot down Flight 93 when in fact Mr. Gibney was no where near Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the morning of 9/11. The engine 300 yards away was caused by the 500mph+ impact of Flight 93 into the ground; there's nothing anomalous about the engine's distance from the plane. David Ray Griffin fabricated the "whooshing sound" quote, attributing it to CeeCee Lyles and sourcing a newspaper article where no such thing is mentioned. The white smoke story about Edward Felt's phone call is intrinsically implausible (no cabin depressurization, no requisite debris dozens of miles away, plane couldn't have stayed aloft that long anyway) and turned out to be false, as confirmed by John Shaw and Gordon Felt.
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# posted by Will R. Huysman : 7/22/2006 04:15:00 PM

