Who really blew up the Twin Towers in New York? Twin towers, how many planes there were.

In the United States, suicide bombers from the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, sending two of them to the symbol of business New York - the World Trade Center towers, and the other two - to the Pentagon and, presumably, to the White House or the Capitol. All aircraft except the last one reached their targets. The fourth hijacked plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

New York District Judge George Daniels issued a default judgment ordering Iran to pay $7.5 billion to relatives and other representatives of those killed at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The judge determined that Iranian authorities must pay another three billion to insurers who covered property damage and other material losses. Earlier, Judge Daniels ruled that Tehran could not prove its non-involvement in providing assistance to the organizers of the terrorist attack, and therefore the Iranian authorities bear a share of responsibility for the damage caused during it.

On the site of the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2011, there was the World Trade Center Memorial. It consists of two square fountain pools located right at the bases of the former twin towers, along the inner walls of which streams of water cascade into square holes located at the bottom of each of the pools.

The names of 2,983 terrorist victims (including six who died in the 1993 World Trade Center attack) are carved into bronze slabs that line the parapets of both fountains.

The new World Trade Center complex was opened. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world - its height is 541 meters. Construction began in April 2006 on the corner of a 65,000-square-meter site where the twin towers of a destroyed shopping center previously stood.

Celebrated in the United States as Patriot Day since 2009, after the approval of Act 111-13 of the US General Law, this date is also referred to as the national Day of Service and Remembrance.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Residents of the United States are prone to theatricality, even to buffoonery in politics. To be convinced, just look at the struggle of candidates in the 2016 elections. Perhaps because over the entire “centuries-long” history, not many significant events happened there: the Civil War took place, the Grand Canyon was accidentally discovered, they seemed to fly to the moon, Obama was mistakenly awarded the Peace Prize. The attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 stands out. This is a terrible tragedy that has changed a lot. After it, the United States turned from the world gendarme into an aggressor of the same scale. Everything happened and continues under the roar of shameless, shameless propaganda according to the behests of Goebbels.

What this terrorist attack actually represents, who is behind it, still represents.

Events and reasons

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) are the common colloquial name for the North and South Towers, the main buildings of the World Trade Center located in New York. The height of the 110-story buildings exceeded 400 m. In total, the Trade Center included 7 buildings. The attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 destroyed or damaged everything to such a state that it was necessary to carry out complete dismantling and demolition of all buildings and utilities.

It is officially recognized that the air attack on the World Trade Center buildings was carried out by terrorists who hijacked airliners of American companies making regular flights. One plane crashed into the North Tower between the 93rd and 99th floors on the morning of September 11, 2001, and 17 minutes later a second one collided with the South Tower.

As a result of damage caused by aircraft to the building structures, fires that broke out and quickly spread, the twin towers collapsed less than 2 hours after the start of the terrorist attack, causing serious destruction of the buildings located around them, heavy smoke, a dense dust cloud in the surrounding area, and the death of some people. who were in the buildings, as well as carrying out emergency rescue operations to evacuate, extinguish fires, restore order, and provide medical assistance.

As a result, the following died:

• 2,606 civilians who were in the WTC buildings and in the surrounding area.
• 147 passengers and aircraft crew members.
• 343 New York City Fire Department employees, 60 police officers, 8 emergency medical personnel.

Along with the destroyed WTC complex, more than 20 buildings were damaged as a result of dust and toxic pollution from fires, some of which had to be demolished later, some were restored and repaired. In total, hundreds of thousands of square meters of office and administrative space, a huge number of financial documents, reports, rare paintings, sculptures located in destroyed, burnt out buildings were destroyed.

The question immediately arose: who blew up the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001? The official version of the US government It sounds like this - the cause of the tragedy was the deliberate hit of passenger planes hijacked by terrorists belonging to Al-Qaeda, and the resulting fires led to the collapse of the tallest buildings in the country.

In parallel, there are several versions, both supported by testimony, eyewitness footage, excerpts from official documents, expert opinions, and conspiracy theories, in the spirit of a global conspiracy theory. The first are caused by serious facts that are difficult to brush aside, the second are based on conclusions and emotions.

The following speaks in favor of unofficial versions:

• Externally, the fall of the twin towers looks like the demolition of buildings by a controlled, precisely timed explosion, indistinguishable from the planned destruction of other skyscrapers in the United States, which can be seen in numerous videos.
• Fires that broke out in two separate buildings could hardly have deformed reliable building structures, including metal ones coated with fire retardants, in less than 2 hours. By the way, the North Tower already survived a fire in 1975, a terrorist attack
  1993 in an underground garage with a truck filled with 680 kg of explosives, which claimed lives but only slightly damaged the building.
• By the end of the same day, the 47-story, 200-meter building WTC-7, located far from the twin towers, collapsed. This was shown live, and information about the explosion was announced before the event. Later, the official version of the collapse came into play - the same fires inside. Why they arose, why at least some traces of them are not visible (smoke, fire, partial destruction of solid glazing) - no comment, as the Americans like to say.
• Journalists clarify, asking for examples of the collapse of buildings made of reinforced concrete structures in the United States before or after the events of September 11
  2001, which occurred as a result of fires. There is none of them.
• The story of an entrepreneur who, a few weeks before the tragedy, took out building No. 7 of the World Trade Center for a long-term lease, insured it, including a separate item against a terrorist attack, and ultimately received considerable profit from the destruction of the buildings, smelled bad.
• Adding doubt to the information about the unprofitability of the tallest buildings in America, plans for their demolition, unrealized, including due to the complexity and high cost of such work in the dense, super-expensive buildings of Manhattan.
• Appointed by the administration of the U.S.A. to be the leader of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the al-Qaeda leader initially rejected such dubious fame. He even gave an interview to a Pakistani newspaper about it. Only in November 2001 did he agree to the prepared role. Protégé of S.S.A. to fight the USSR in Afghanistan, by that time he himself declared America enemy No. 1 - for which he paid.

There are many doubters. Among them is Russian communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who said in 2012 that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York were planned by US authorities.

Consequences and conclusions

The tragedy, which claimed many lives, became a turning point in both the domestic and foreign policy of the United States. The answer to the question of who blew up the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, will be the resolution of the situation with international terrorism, which threatens the foundations of the “free world.” Under the banner of fighting it, previously unknown opportunities opened up for America, covered by the fig leaf of democracy:

• Roughly suppress dissent within the country.
• Intervene in the policies of the governments of other countries, the work of banks, companies, dictating their will to them, backed by military and financial power.
• Overthrow unwanted governments, stage coups d'état with the wrong hands, generously sponsoring any opposition, including the Nazis, terrorists of all nationalities, against whom so much is officially talked about. Sad examples are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, ISIS banned in Russia.

The desire of the United States to use the theory of “controlled chaos” in all corners of the globe to achieve only its own interests is now no secret to anyone. The tragedy of September 11, 2001, which so “invigorated” the US economy, especially the Department of Defense with hundreds of bases around the world, the military-industrial complex, numerous and very expensive intelligence agencies, came, no matter how blasphemous it sounds, so opportunely that it causes serious doubts.

The attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 and the events that followed will continue to influence the course of world history for a long time to come. The true reasons that led to it will sooner or later become public.

In memory of the tragedy of September 11, 2001 (part 2)

2. Smoke pours from a hole in the wall and from the upper floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York after the collision of American Airlines Flight 11.

3. United Airlines Flight 175 moments before impact with the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The north tower is already on fire.

4. Explosion in the south tower during the collision of United Airlines Flight 175 in New York, September 11, 2001. The plane crashed into the building at a speed of 945 km/h.

5. Airplane collision with the south tower of the World Trade Center. There were 56 passengers on board (including 5 hijackers).

6. The explosion of 3800 liters of fuel remaining on board the plane during a collision with the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York.

7. Two women, fighting for each other, look at the World Trade Center buildings burning after a terrorist attack.

8. The burning twin towers are visible behind the Empire State Building.

9. A cloud of smoke from the World Trade Center buildings in lower Manhattan. Photo from a USGS satellite flying over the area around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

10. People hanging from the windows of the North Tower of the World Trade Center after the attack.

11. A man jumps to his death from the north tower of the World Trade Center filled with smoke and flames.

12. A man jumps from the upper floors of the burning north tower of the World Trade Center.

13. A man jumps from the north tower of the World Trade Center.

14. A Pentagon surveillance camera captured the explosion that resulted from the collision with a hijacked American Airlines plane with 58 passengers and six crew on board on September 11, 2001.

15. Flames and smoke erupt from the Pentagon building after the explosion.

16. Firefighters extinguish the Pentagon after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

17. Medics treat victims near the Pentagon after a hijacked airliner crashed into the southwest corner of the building.

18. The Pentagon wall after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.

19. Smoke billows from the World Trade Center towers after two hijacked planes crashed into them during the terrorist attack on New York.

20. At 9:59 a.m. on September 11, 2001, 56 minutes after the impact, the south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse.

21. The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, and the rubble buries the surrounding streets.

22. Police officers and pedestrians run for cover during a terrorist attack in New York.

23. People covered in dust walk through the rubble near the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.

24. Maru Stahl of Somerset, Pennsylvania, shows a photo he took of the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. The plane crashed near Shanksville, and Stahl, hearing the explosion, headed to the crash site and took a photo before rescuers cordoned off the area. The plane crashed in Pennsylvania shortly after the attacks on New York.

25. Aerial photograph of the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, taken by the FBI on September 12, 2001. The Boeing 757 was flying from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco when it made a sharp turn near Cleveland and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 44 people died. The plane was one of four that were part of the 9/11 attack plan and the only one that failed to reach its target.

26. Firefighters and rescue workers investigate the crash site of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

27. At 10:28 a.m. on September 11, 2001, 102 minutes after the plane struck, the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York collapses.

28. Collapse of the World Trade Center tower on September 11, 2001 in New York.

29. A New York Police Department photo shows ash and smoke billowing across Manhattan as the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

30. Dust, smoke and debris fill the air as the World Trade Center tower falls on September 11, 2001 in New York.

31. Dust, smoke and ash envelop neighboring buildings after the fall of both World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 in New York.

32. People are leaving the collapsed towers to escape the smoke and dust. As a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York, both 110-story towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.

33. The North Tower of the World Trade Center turns into a cloud of dust and debris half an hour after the fall of the South Tower on September 11, 2001. The photo was taken from Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River.

34. People make their way through the rubble near the ruins of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York.

35. A priest helps people after the fall of the World Trade Center towers in New York on September 11, 2001.

36. People cover their faces from the dust as they cross the Brooklyn Bridge to get away from the cloud of dust and smoke that covered Manhattan after the terrorist attacks.

37. People on the street near the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

38. A sheriff's deputy treats a woman injured during the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

39. A man sobs as he watches the World Trade Center tower fall in New York on September 11, 2001.

40. A firefighter rests on a bench in lower Manhattan while working at the site of the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

41. Construction debris and ashes from the fall of the World Trade Center towers as a result of the terrorist attack fill the streets of Manhattan, turning the city into a picture of the Apocalypse. Buildings collapsed, burying thousands of people in the rubble.

42. A fireman calls rescuers to help clear the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The photo was taken on September 15, 2001.

43. The chassis of one of the hijacked planes lies on the street next to the destroyed buildings of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001.

44. Firefighters search for survivors under the rubble of the Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

45. Light barely breaks through the clouds of smoke and ash at the site of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

46. ​​New York firefighters extinguish building 7 of the World Trade Center, destroyed along with the Twin Towers during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

47. A group of firefighters near the ruins of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001.

48. Debris covers the tracks in the New York City Subway tunnel on lines 1 and 9 at the Cortlandt Street Station under the World Trade Center. New York City transportation officials said the damage was so severe that more than one mile of tunnel had to be rebuilt.

49. Rescuers carry out a search and rescue operation for victims as they descend into the rubble of the World Trade Center on Friday, September 14, 2001.

50. A man stands in the ruins of the World Trade Center towers and tries to call survivors, asking if anyone needs help.

The terrible tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001, claimed the lives of a huge number of people. 2973 people died, and this, you see, is a significant figure.

It was preceded by the hijacking of four planes heading to California and the eastern part of the United States. The planes' tanks were full, so you could say they turned into guided missiles.

At 8:45, one of the planes, a Boeing 767, crashed into the North Tower. 92 on board (11 crew, 5 terrorists and 76 passengers). The plane crashed into the gap between the 93rd and 99th floors. The fuel, which flared up in the tank, rushed down like a column of fire, killing even those people who were in the foyer. At 10:29 the burning building collapsed, burying a huge number of people with it. The number of the plane that crashed into the Twin Towers is AA11.

At 9:03, a plane also crashed into the South Tower; it was the second Boeing 767. The impact occurred between the 77th and 81st floors. There were 65 people on board the plane (5 terrorists, 9 crew members and 54 passengers). At 9:59 local time, the burning building collapsed. Aircraft number - UA175.

There were two more planes. One of them struck the Pentagon, this happened at 9:40. 184 people died. And the last one fell in the forest of Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. We were able to look at the recordings from the so-called “black box”. It became clear that the terrorists dived down when the resisting passengers tried to break into the cockpit. There were 44 people on board.

According to journalists, some passengers were able to call their relatives from the hijacked planes. People reported terrorists: there were 4 people on one board, 5 on the other. There is an opinion that this data was specially fabricated by the FBI, because there was one call that caused great mistrust. The son called his mother and when she answered the phone, he said: “Mom, it’s me, John Smith.” Agree, it is unlikely that he would actually start a conversation by introducing his last name.

Not a single person on board could survive. 274 people died on board planes (terrorists are not counted), 2602 people in New York (both on the ground and in the towers), 125 people in the Pentagon.

It wasn't just the Twin Towers that were damaged. Five more buildings were either destroyed or heavily damaged. A total of 25 buildings were damaged, and 7 had to be demolished.

What are the consequences of this terrible tragedy? Two skyscrapers and an adjacent wing of the Pentagon were destroyed. About three thousand people died. The New York Stock Exchange suspended its operations for two days. The area adjacent to the site of the tragedy was completely covered with ashes. The President announced the terrorist attack served the United States with Afghanistan, and then with Iraq.

The tragedy received national status, and the news of it flew across the world in a matter of seconds. It was not for nothing that these buildings were chosen by the terrorists, because the Twin Towers were the pride of the United States.

The towers were built in the 60s, at which time America's prestige was shaken. It was decided to build something gigantic, grandiose, stunning, in order to restore people's optimism and faith in themselves and the future. No one imagined that the “project of the century” would turn into the main “tragedy of the century.”

The chronology of the events of September 11, 2001 states that the events at the Pentagon occurred between the attacks on the Twin Towers and their collapse, namely:

8:46 - strike on the north tower of WTC,

9:03 - strike on the south tower of WTC,

9:37 - strike on the Pentagon,

9:42 - ABC report about a fire in the White House (in the EOP building),

9:59 - WTC south tower collapses,

10:10 - collapse of part of the Pentagon buildings,

10:28 - collapse of the northern WTC tower,

10:37 - Flight 93 crashes over Pennsylvania,

17:20 - collapse of the WTC7 building,

18:00 - CNN and BBC report on explosions and shootings in Kabul,

19:30 - The US government denies any involvement in the explosions in Kabul and

20:30 - blames Osama bin Laden.

For those who have just joined us, I remind you that it is night in Kabul; who, why and in what way destroys government buildings there remains unclear. But the world's attention is focused on the events in New York and Washington.

The official version of events states that the attack on the Pentagon was carried out by a Boeing 757-200 passenger plane belonging to American Airlines; approximately here such.

At 8:20 he took off from Dulles Airport on the route Washington - Los Angeles (flight 77), and at 8:50 he was allegedly captured in the air by terrorists who threatened either with paper knives or with the presence on board bombs.

Immediately after this, the plane allegedly turned around over Ohio to return to Washington to attack the Pentagon. But since by that time the plane's transponder (the answering machine for communicating with radars) was turned off, air traffic controllers lost it, so 36 minutes, undetected by anyone, Flight 77 allegedly flew towards Washington.

At 9:32 a.m., Dulles Airport air traffic controllers spot a large, unidentified aircraft, and at 9:34 a.m. the order is given to evacuate the White House. At 9:35, Vice President Dick Cheney, according to him, is picked up by burly guys from the Secret Service and literally forcibly taken into an underground tunnel.

But this strange, large, incredibly fast and maneuverable plane, later identified as Flight 77, changes direction and crashes into the Pentagon building, precisely into the wing where repairs are being carried out and there are practically no personnel.

64 passengers on Flight 77 and 125 people in the Pentagon building are believed to have died as a result of this event.

To further the story, we need to briefly outline some technical data.

The Boeing 757 aircraft has the following characteristics:

Width (diameter) of the fuselage - 3.7 m;

Height (including rear vertical tail) - 13.56 m;

Fuselage length - 47 m;

Wing span - 38 m;

Full take-off weight - up to 123 tons;

Empty weight of the aircraft - 58 tons;

The power plant is two turbofan engines under the wings, weighing 5 tons each.

In general, this is a large passenger aircraft. If it flies past you at a distance of up to several kilometers, it is impossible to confuse it with anything else, except perhaps a different make or model of aircraft.

The Pentagon is the main headquarters of the US military department, the largest administrative building in the world. Located in the suburbs of Washington, on the banks of the Potomac River. Pentagon building is a huge equilateral pentagon, the length of the side side is 281 m, and the height (of five above-ground floors) is 23.5 m.

A simple geometric calculation shows that the ratio of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of this structure is 1:18.4.

Pentagon building represents five separate concentric pentagonal structures with transitions at the corners, which merge into larger structures on some internal faces. But since the attack hit the “classical” location of this complex, we are wondering what the internal structure of these rings is.

The construction dates of the Pentagon, falling during the Second World War, mark only the first stage in the creation of this superstructure. During the Cold War, this complex of buildings underwent serious modernization and strengthening at least twice, which were also designed to counter the damaging effects of nuclear explosions in the event of a war with the USSR.

In this photos the side cut of the first outer ring is clearly visible. This five-story building consists of small rooms, separated by very thick brick walls and reinforced concrete floors.

If the Los Angeles Times is correct, the Pentagon, as part of its modernization, was reinforced with "a grid of steel columns and beams to withstand bomb blasts." Apparently, they mean something like this columns.

And so, the official version claims that the Boeing-757 passenger plane,

hitting into the lower part of the outer ring, pierced three Pentagon rings through and through ring C

like this outlet, wherein

practically without damaging the facade and without leaving a single fragment of an airplane or human bodies either inside or outside the building.

I don’t know about you, dear reader, but this version only reminds me of the stories of Baron Munchausen.

Naturally, such an absurd story about the events in the Pentagon immediately caused a flurry of objections from skeptics and an entire army of independent researchers. All their arguments against the official version can be boiled down to three main considerations.

Firstly, what will poor America do if it suddenly begins to be attacked by some potential enemy, whose missiles and aircraft are not equipped with transponders with answering machines tuned to the FAA radar system? And after all, no one will give 36 minutes of time to build up and search for each such threat... In other words, the “loss” of a huge aircraft in the airspace of the east coast of the United States during the crisis situation in 2001 seems incredible.

Secondly, The method of hitting the Pentagon building with a hypothetical passenger plane is impossible from an aerobatic point of view. There is no way an aircraft like the Boeing 757 could reach the target at almost zero altitude in a big city with such accuracy and speed (about 900 km/h). In short, passenger planes don’t fly like that in principle, and even less so those piloted by some incompetent terrorists.

And finally Thirdly, an aircraft made of duralumin alloys and a carbon fiber front fuselage fairing does not penetrate through three huge buildings made of reinforced concrete and brick. Moreover, weapons that could do this do not exist in nature. Destroy any building to hell - that's welcome but cut right through three powerful buildings, simultaneously causing a huge fire- this is not about our modern weapons...

These three main considerations have given rise to many books, articles, and films from hundreds and thousands of independent researchers and organizations. Their argument seems logical, complete and comprehensive.

As in the case assassination of President Kennedy, in the story of the attack on the Pentagon there is a number of contradictory testimonies that, even if one wants to, cannot be fit into a single logical hypothesis, remaining within the framework of the concepts of traditional physics.

For example, the first media reports about the explosions in the Pentagon were accompanied by such different assumptions that it was time to suspect that different witnesses saw different events.

Unlike the version that a plane hit the Pentagon (which was not announced immediately, but later became the main, official one), in the first minutes after the attack there was information that the attack was carried out either by a helicopter, or a cruise missile, or either a truck filled with explosives, or some explosions simply occurred in the Pentagon (in the form of a “brazen attack” according to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld).

In any case, none of the witnesses in the first minutes after the explosion spoke about the plane. To top it all off, there was serious panic on S. Washington Blvd when just before the explosion something several lamp posts were knocked down, flying over the heads of stunned drivers so low that, according to some witnesses, it even cut off the antenna on the jeep.

I do not accept the irony of some researchers regarding the fact that the lamp posts were later pulled out and thrown onto the roadway to create the actual base for the airplane version for the simple reason that in this case there would have to be a large army of witnesses to how and when this was done. But there are no such facts. After all, while the Pentagon was burning, heads turned in that direction automatically.

In addition, the highway was not closed to traffic, but only a ban was announced on filming the burning Pentagon, allegedly in order to preserve military secrets. The most resourceful witnesses captured precisely these fallen pillars, including in the background almost intact burning facade of the Pentagon building, on mobile phones and cameras immediately after the disaster.

After these pillars, on the way to the facade of the Pentagon, our object managed to destroy and at the same time set fire to transformer booth, located behind a small mesh fence.

Honest researchers rightly note that after such two additional collisions - with poles and a transformer - any an aircraft, even a special anti-bunker cruise missile, must completely or partially destroy its aerodynamic planes, losing at least part of its speed or altitude, which was already almost zero.

And further, at this zero altitude the object was able to penetrate through the three rings of the Pentagon at an angle of approximately 60 degrees relative to the plane of the facade, making rings C in the wall like this outlet.

On the way inside the rings E, D and C this object was able to make

Here such destruction,

and then - disappear in the courtyard between rings C and B.

I consider the surviving glass on the windows of the inner wall of ring C to be a very indicative fact for my hypothesis, a couple of meters from which something broke through a thick brick wall reinforced with reinforced concrete, the reinforcement from which sticks out in the hole. hole.

There is also such a moment in the official chronology of events.

At 10:10, i.e. at the same time with collapse of part of the outer ring The Pentagon, the eastern sector of US air defense prohibits its fighters from opening fire.

An interesting fact is the impressions of Dallas airport controllers, who, after a large unidentified mark appeared on their radar screens, first decided that “ this is one of those guys sent to protect our president", referring to a military fighter or interceptor.

But then, based on the size of the mark, they identified the object as a large passenger plane, which, however, cannot fly at such a high speed at such a low altitude, nor can it make such sharp turns. They were confused...

These are the basic facts. Let's now give the floor to David McGowan to pose the right questions:

« So what crashed into the Pentagon that morning? Did American Airlines Flight 77, missing from radar screens for half an hour and undetected by America's state-of-the-art air defense system, suddenly and inexplicably appear in the skies over Washington?

Did it then perform a high-speed maneuver typically beyond the capabilities of a Boeing 757 (according to some eyewitnesses) and begin approaching the Pentagon at high speed and at such a ridiculously low altitude that it cut off a car antenna?

Did he really carefully twist five sturdy steel lampposts and slam one of his wings into a large generator and still maintain an arrow-straight and perfectly stable approach to the Pentagon?

And did it really then crash into the Pentagon with such enormous force that it was able to penetrate more than 300 feet (91 meters - stand.NET ) reinforced concrete obstacles standing at an angle? And he did all this without anyone capturing a single frame on film or videotape?

Or did something else crash into the Pentagon? Can we say with certainty that something actually crashed into the Pentagon? Was it all done with explosives planted inside and possibly outside the building? If so, what knocked out those lampposts?

Can we hope to find answers to all the lingering questions surrounding the Pentagon attack? Or was this barrier built in such a way that it could not be taken? »