Reply #24: Vaporisation, etc. [View All]

[Kevin Fenton]

I think the vaporisation claim was made up by the French press to counteract Meyssan's original claim. I don't agree with Meyssan, but I seriously doubt the plane could have vaporised.

The cable spools were definitely not up against the Pentagon wall after the plane hit. The nearest spool was 25 feet away.
This guy:
http://www.911review.com/errors/pentagon/obstacles.html
says
"No-757-crash theorists have argued that the large spool closest to the building, if not and other spools, could not have remained standing after being overflown by just a few feet because the jetliner's wake turbulence would have knocked them over. However, this argument makes assumptions without supporting them. How heavy were the spools? How strong is a 757's wake turbulence near ground level? Furthermore the possibilities that spools may have rolled in the plane's wake, or that the one spool may have been secured to the ground, invalidate this argument."

I believe JJ when he says he saw SAM batteries in the 1950s. However, they are certainly not visible and I haven't come across any later reports. They may have been removed when traffic to the nearby airport increased, after the cold war ended or just generally as a part of cost-cutting measures. In addition, if they were put there in the cold war they may well be directed against high-flying bombers and intercontinental missiles and may not necessarily be usable against a plane coming in a ground level. Further, if the pilot knew the missiles were switched off, how come he stayed in airspace usually used by planes coming in to RRWNA until he was at tree-top height and then brought the plane in under the radar? It strikes me that he was performing the strange approach to avoid the missiles.