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Debunking 9/11 Myths:

About the Pentagon

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Intact Windows

Claim: Many Pentagon windows remained in
one piece—even those just above the point of
impact from the Boeing 757 passenger plane.
Pentagonstrike.co.uk, an online animation
widely circulated in the United States and
Europe, claims that photographs showing "intact
windows" directly above the crash site prove "a
missile" or "a craft much smaller than a 757"
struck the Pentagon.

FACT: Some windows near the impact area did
indeed survive the crash. But that's what the
windows were supposed to do—they're blast-
resistant.
"A blast-resistant window must be
designed to resist a force significantly higher
than a hurricane that's hitting instantaneously,"
says Ken Hays, executive vice president of Debunking 9/11 Myths: brands. The VF plane was flying into
Masonry Arts, the Bessemer, Ala., company that Johnstown-Cambria airport, 20 miles north of
designed, manufactured and installed the About United Flight 93 Shanksville. According to David Newell, VF's
Pentagon windows. Some were knocked out of director of aviation and travel, the FAA's
the walls by the crash and the outer ring's later United 93 crashed on September 11, Cleveland Center contacted copilot Yates
collapse. "They were not designed to receive 2001. Here, we debunk the conspiracy Gladwell when the Falcon was at an altitude "in
wracking seismic force," Hays notes. "They the neighborhood of 3000 to 4000 ft."—not
theories about the incident.
were designed to take in inward pressure from a 34,000 ft. "They were in a descent already going
blast event, which apparently they did: [Before into Johnstown," Newell adds. "The FAA asked
Cockpit recordings indicate the passengers on
the collapse] the blinds were still stacked neatly them to investigate and they did. They got down
behind the window glass." United Airlines Flight 93 teamed up to attack within 1500 ft. of the ground when they circled.
their hijackers, forcing down the plane near They saw a hole in the ground with smoke
Shanksville, in southwestern Pennsylvania. But coming out of it. They pinpointed the location
Flight 77 Debris
conspiracy theorists assert Flight 93 was and then continued on." Reached by PM,
destroyed by a heat-seeking missile from an F- Gladwell confirmed this account but, concerned
Claim: Conspiracy theorists insist there was no
16 or a mysterious white plane. Some theorists about ongoing harassment by conspiracy
plane wreckage at the Pentagon. "In reality, a
add far-fetched elaborations: No terrorists were theorists, asked not to be quoted directly.
Boeing 757 was never found," claims aboard, or the passengers were drugged. The
pentagonstrike.co.uk, which asks the question,
wildest is the "bumble planes" theory, which Roving Engine
"What hit the Pentagon on 9/11?"
holds that passengers from Flights 11, 175 and
77 were loaded onto Flight 93 so the U.S.
FACT: Blast expert Allyn E. Kilsheimer was the Claim: One of Flight 93's engines was found "at
government could kill them.
first structural engineer to arrive at the Pentagon a considerable distance from the crash site,"
after the crash and helped coordinate the according to Lyle Szupinka, a state police officer
The White Jet
emergency response. "It was absolutely a plane, on the scene who was quoted in the Pittsburgh
and I'll tell you why," says Kilsheimer, CEO of Tribune-Review. Offering no evidence, a
KCE Structural Engineers PC, Washington, Claim: At least six eyewitnesses say they saw a posting on Rense.com claimed: "The main body
D.C. "I saw the marks of the plane wing on the small white jet flying low over the crash area of the engine ... was found miles away from the
almost immediately after Flight 93 went down. main wreckage site with damage comparable to
face of the building. I picked up parts of the
BlogD.com theorizes that the aircraft was that which a heat-seeking missile would do to an
plane with the airline markings on them. I held
downed by "either a missile fired from an Air airliner."
in my hand the tail section of the plane, and I
Force jet, or via an electronic assault made by a
found the black box." Kilsheimer's eyewitness
U.S. Customs airplane reported to have been
account is backed up by photos of plane (Continued on Page 23)
seen near the site minutes after Flight 93
wreckage inside and outside the building.
crashed." WorldNetDaily.com weighs in:
Kilsheimer adds: "I held parts of uniforms from
crew members in my hands, including body "Witnesses to this low-flying jet ... told their
parts. Okay?" story to journalists. Shortly thereafter, the FBI
began to attack the witnesses with perhaps the
most inane disinformation ever—alleging the
It is outrageous that there are those who witnesses actually observed a private jet at
believe that 9/11 was some sort of false flag 34,000 ft. The FBI says the jet was asked to
operation or that the event never happened. It come down to 5000 ft. and try to find the crash
is a disgrace to even listen to that nonsense and
site. This would require about 20 minutes to
shows massive disrespect to those who died on
descend."
that horrific morning. You simply can't debate
historical fact with groundless speculation. We
FACT: There was such a jet in the vicinity—a
should be honoring the memory of those lost
Dassault Falcon 20 business jet owned by the
rather than creating nonsensical conspiracy
VF Corp. of Greensboro, N.C., an apparel
theory. company that markets Wrangler jeans and other
Kevin D. Randle, LTC, USAR (Ret).