{"article":{"id":139478,"heading":"what really hit the South Tower of the WTC?","author":"911 Hoax","created":"2005-11-18 12:19:51","modified":"2005-11-18 12:19:51","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:19:51","article":"

Tragedy can teach us many things. Some of the lessons we draw from September 11, 2001\r\nare surprising.

\r\n\r\nFor starters, jets flying 450+ M.P.H. into steel buildings make\r\nno noise on\r\nimpact. This is verified with two sources. If you rent the Naudet Brothers’s documentary “911”, fast-forward\r\nthe tape to where the firemen investigate the\r\ngas leak.\r\nSeconds later Gedeon Naudet\r\npresumably shoots American Airlines 11 (AA 11) flying into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC). We\r\nhear the sound of the plane. We hear the explosions. We hear people yelling with\r\nastonishment. However, there is no audio of the impact.

\r\n\r\nSimilarly, CNN broadcast footage which shows the same anomaly. (This is\r\nsaid to be from an amateur shooting from the Battery; i.e., the\r\nfamous shot of United Airlines 175 striking the South Tower seen from the south.)\r\nIn the audio sequence we hear the sound of the jet plane arriving,\r\nthe explosions and then people reacting with horror at the spectacular fireball. However,\r\nthere is no impact sound.

\r\n\r\nAll of the other footage that the TV networks aired of planes striking the WTC\r\ndisaster is silent. There appears to be no audio of the impacts of either\r\nFlight 11 or Flight 175 striking the World Trade Center.

\r\n\r\nAnother lesson learned from 9-11 is that jet planes flying 450+ M.P.H. into steel\r\nbuildings do not have\r\nany parts\r\nbreak off and fall to the ground below. Let’s begin with the already-mentioned\r\nCNN video from the south. When reviewing the videotape we can see that UA 175\r\nactually enters the South Tower without any part of a wing, no part of the fuselage,\r\nnot even a beverage tray breaking off on impact.

\r\n\r\nPrevious experiments on land with heavy objects (e.g., cars, rockets) striking walls at high\r\nspeed all show large amounts of metallic confetti produced at the juncture of the\r\nunstoppable force meeting the immovable object. Still,\r\nall of the video footage aired by the news networks capture UA 175 striking\r\nand entering the South Tower like a hot knife cuts through melted butter. The extent\r\nto the trauma caused from the plane's impact with the building is typically a\r\nsingle flash which quickly appears and disappears in the span of a single frame.

\r\n\r\nAnother surprise with the video footage of UA 175\r\nstriking the South Tower is that it is silver<\/i>. This\r\nis the color of American\r\nAirlines’s fleet. Unfortunately, United Airlines has a\r\ngrey and dark-blue\r\n color scheme.

\r\n\r\nStrangely, UA 175 is also not\r\naffected by\r\nthe Sun. For example, sometime during the day of 9\/11\/01 CNN broadcast more “amateur” footage of\r\nUA 175 from a position east of the WTC. In this footage we see the jet arriving in\r\nsilhouette. It remains in shadow until it disappears into the South Tower.

\r\n\r\nYet, UA 175 presumably struck the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. on 9\/11\/01. It was a\r\nbeautiful day. The Sun was coming low and to the east at that hour. When shooting\r\nUA 175 from the same compass point it should not be in\r\nsilhouette as it arrives. Now, perhaps the WTC blocks its light as\r\nUA 175 draws near. Still, with UA presumably hundreds of feet away from the\r\nTwin Towers there is nothing to block the eastern light. The video footage with it\r\narriving from this compass point should not be showing a jet in silhouette.

\r\n\r\nShooting video of jet planes which are not affected by sunlight and\r\nwhich do not leave any sound (or material) behind when colliding with immense steel towers\r\nmight be a challenge for some videographers. However, most of the known amateurs\r\nwho managed to shoot this highly unique catastrophe\r\nemployed the\r\nprofessional technique\r\nof zooming-out just prior to the arrival of the moment of maximum visual interest.

\r\n\r\nConsider the\r\nspectacular footage of\r\nUA 175 striking the South Tower that is currently\r\nbeing sold by \r\nCamera Planet. We see (silver) UA 175\r\narriving. It quickly disappears behind a building. The camera operator suddenly\r\nexecutes a manual zoom-out. The zoom is accomplished in only one second. A small\r\nfraction of a second after the camera is zoomed-out UA 175 briefly reappears (in shadow). Then it\r\nstrikes the South Tower and a spectacular fireball results.

\r\n\r\nWhat’s unusual about this? Let's remember how they are made.\r\nZooms are either made manually or automatically. Manual zooms are made by reaching for\r\nthe lens and turning it. Automatic\r\nones are accomplished by reaching for and then holding down a button on the\r\ncamera. The Camera Planet zoom-out was made in one second suggesting\r\nthat it was a manual zoom.

\r\n\r\nThe camera operator starts out presumably holding the camera\r\nwith two hands, using the stronger of the two as the primary one. While holding it\r\nthis way he follows the once-in-a-millenium-low-flying jet coming in to\r\nstrike the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The moment the plane\r\ndisappears from view he grabs his lens and radically alters the picture. Fortunately,\r\nthis alteration concludes milliseconds before the plane reappears. There is no\r\nproblem with grabbing the lens and turning it without hesitation in the correct\r\ndirection. The zoom-out also doesn't go too far. Finally, the subject\r\ndoes not need reframing mid-way through it. (I'm assuming the author\r\nis male because a man takes credit in Camera Plant's voiceover.)

\r\n\r\nPerhaps this footage was simply a miraculous fluke. Curiously, almost all of\r\nthe other footage that the TV networks broadcast of UA 175 striking the South Tower\r\nfeatures an interesting zoom-out just as the action gets most interesting. New York City\r\nwas chock full of amateur videographers that day who are highly skilled at\r\nmaking zooms midway through sensational subject matter.

\r\n\r\nCNN’s infamous view from the south shows the camera is\r\nexamining\r\nthe WTC in relative close-up as the North Tower\r\nburns. Suddenly, the amateur shooting it expertly zooms out. A second later\r\nUA 175 arrives.

\r\n\r\nOther footage\r\naired by the TV networks from a vantage point east of the WTC show\r\nthe North Tower close. Then the camera zooms-out, briefly waits and UA 175 arrives.

\r\n\r\nPavel Hlava,\r\nthe lucky Czech immigrant construction worker who managed to shoot both\r\nthe North and South towers getting hit (between taking the Brooklyn Battery tunnel)\r\nhas allowed his video to be screened exactly once on network television (09\/13\/03, Good\r\nMorning America<\/i>. Also Fox News<\/i>\r\nhas reported\r\nthat his agent, Walter Karling,\r\nwill not give out his phone number and will not speak to the Associated Press<\/i>.). Still,\r\nHlava’s footage of the South Tower hit, which was very similar to CNN’s footage from the\r\nsouth,\r\nfollows the pattern.\r\nHlava features a close-up of the North tower burning. Then\r\nhe expertly zooms out just as UA 175 arrives.

\r\n\r\nWhy did all of these amateur videographers risk losing their subject zoom-out\r\njust as UA 175 arrives? Didn’t they feel that the subject matter was already of intense\r\ninterest to them? Surely this scene didn't need dramatic embellishment added.

\r\n\r\nThe lessons learned from 9\/11\/01 are unbelievable. The video\r\ndocumentation reveals that jets can fly into steel\r\nbuildings silently and as efficiently as a hand enters a glove. The Sun also\r\ndoesn't shine on UA 175; UA 175 remains largely shrouded in shadow even when it is\r\nvideotaped from the direction of the morning light on a cloudless day. In addition, there are\r\nmany amateur videographers in New York city with proven credentials with live\r\nfootage that\r\nrival the professionals who cover the Super Bowl. Space precludes\r\nmentioning other serious logical problems with the footage.

\r\n\r\nEither all of these things are true or the TV networks\r\nscreened video sequences that were fabrications. Thus, tragic events\r\nof international consequence are no longer being covered<\/i> by the\r\nnews media today. They are being manufactured<\/i> with needed deceptions\r\ntaken care of with the assistance of the national news media.

\r\n\r\nCinema has come along way since Billy Bitzer was shooting innovative\r\nfootage for D.W. Griffith at the Biograph studio.

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