So what happened to American Airlines flight 77, and its crew and passengers, that took off from Dulles? Were they flown to a witness relocation site, you credulous f'ing loon?
Posts falsely claim no airplane debris found at Pentagon on 9/11
BY MELISSA GOLDIN
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-911-pen...8153051732
Published 4:08 PM CDT, September 13, 2022
CLAIM: No airplane debris was found at the site of the Pentagon attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Security camera footage from the Pentagon shows American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the building, and photos from that day document an array of debris from the plane at the crash site.
THE FACTS: As the 21st anniversary of 9/11 was observed on Sunday, an old, false claim reemerged on social media saying no airplane debris was found at the Pentagon after the building was attacked.
“Never forget no plane debris was found at the Pentagon,” one Instagram post reads. “There is no CCTV footage & trillions went missing from the budget.”
“I know 0 intelligent people who believe a high jacked plane flew into the side of the pentagon leaving no plane debris or video evidence. Only sheep,” stated a Twitter post using three sheep emoji instead of the word sheep.
Footage from two Pentagon security cameras outside the building shows the American Airlines flight crashing into the Pentagon. The footage was released by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2006 after conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request two years earlier, the Associated Press reported.
In describing the footage, the AP stated: “The aeroplane is a thin white blur on the video as it hits the Pentagon at ground level. Almost instantly, a white flash and a huge orange fireball appear on the video, followed by a tower of grey-black smoke.”
There are also multiple photographs of debris from the aircraft found at the Pentagon crash site, including images released by the FBI.
Jamie McIntyre, CNN’s military affairs correspondent on 9/11, featured photos he took of airplane debris at the Pentagon in a 2010 post for his “Line of Departure” blog on news site Military.com. One shows what McIntyre captions as “a piece of wreckage that appears to be a cockpit window.” Another includes a piece of metal from what looks like the outside of the plane, while a third McIntyre describes as showing “thousands of tiny shards of airplane wreckage.”
Deceptively edited footage of a report McIntyre did for CNN on 9/11, which makes it appear he was saying no airplane debris could be seen at the site of the Pentagon attack, also reemerged amid this year’s 9/11 anniversary.
On Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers crashed the American Airlines plane into the southwest side of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. after two other hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center towers and a third crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Pentagon attack killed 125 people in the building and the 59 passengers and crew on board the airplane.
Who was the pilot that crashed into the Pentagon?
Charles 'Chic' Burlingame III
“My college roommate, 'Chic' Burlingame, was the pilot of the plane that flew into the Pentagon, and sadly, Chic was taken from us,” said Flinn, who was housed with Charles 'Chic' Burlingame III, at the U.S. Naval Academy, where the men graduated from in 1971.Sep 12, 2023
His roommate piloted plane before it was hijacked for 9/11 ...
The Kansas City Star
https://www.kansascity.com › local › article279211654
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77
Remains
Army engineers determined by 17:30 on the first day that no survivors remained in the damaged section of the building.[104] In the days after the crash, news reports emerged that up to 800 people had died.[105] Army soldiers from Fort Belvoir were the first teams to survey the interior of the crash site and noted the presence of human remains.[106]
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Urban Search and Rescue teams, including Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue assisted the search for remains, working through the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS).[106][107] Kevin Rimrodt, a Navy photographer surveying the Navy Command Center after the attacks, remarked that "there were so many bodies, I'd almost step on them.
So I'd have to really take care to look backwards as I'm backing up in the dark, looking with a flashlight, making sure I'm not stepping on somebody."[108] Debris from the Pentagon was taken to the Pentagon's north parking lot for more detailed search for remains and evidence.[109]
Remains recovered from the Pentagon were photographed, and turned over to the Armed Forces Medical Examiner office, located at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The medical examiner's office was able to identify remains belonging to 179 of the victims.[110] Investigators eventually identified 184 of the 189 people who died in the attack.[111] The remains of the five hijackers were identified through a process of elimination, and were turned over as evidence to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[112]
On September 21, the ACFD relinquished control of the crime scene to the FBI. The Washington Field Office, National Capital Response Squad (NCRS), and the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) led the crime scene investigation at the Pentagon.[93]
By October 2, 2001, the search for evidence and remains was complete and the site was turned over to Pentagon officials.[109] In 2002, the remains of 25 victims were buried collectively at Arlington National Cemetery, with a five-sided granite marker inscribed with the names of all the victims in the Pentagon.[113] The ceremony also honored the five victims whose remains were never found.[113]
Flight recorders
About 03:40 on September 14, a paramedic and a firefighter who were searching through the debris of the impact site found two dark boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet (46 by 61 cm) long. They called for an FBI agent, who in turn called for someone from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB employee confirmed that these were the flight recorders ("black boxes"
from American Airlines Flight 77.[114] Dick Bridges, deputy manager for Arlington County, Virginia, said the cockpit voice recorder was damaged on the outside and the flight data recorder was charred. Bridges said the recorders were found "right where the plane came into the building".[115]
The cockpit voice recorder was transported to the NTSB lab in Washington, D.C., to see what data was salvageable. In its report, the NTSB identified the unit as an L-3 Communications, Fairchild Aviation Recorders model A-100A cockpit voice recorder – a device which records on magnetic tape. No usable segments of tape were found inside the recorder; according to the NTSB's report, " he majority of the recording tape was fused into a solid block of charred plastic".[116] On the other hand, all the data from the flight data recorder, which used a solid-state drive, was recovered.[117]
Posts falsely claim no airplane debris found at Pentagon on 9/11
BY MELISSA GOLDIN
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-911-pen...8153051732
Published 4:08 PM CDT, September 13, 2022
CLAIM: No airplane debris was found at the site of the Pentagon attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Security camera footage from the Pentagon shows American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the building, and photos from that day document an array of debris from the plane at the crash site.
THE FACTS: As the 21st anniversary of 9/11 was observed on Sunday, an old, false claim reemerged on social media saying no airplane debris was found at the Pentagon after the building was attacked.
“Never forget no plane debris was found at the Pentagon,” one Instagram post reads. “There is no CCTV footage & trillions went missing from the budget.”
“I know 0 intelligent people who believe a high jacked plane flew into the side of the pentagon leaving no plane debris or video evidence. Only sheep,” stated a Twitter post using three sheep emoji instead of the word sheep.
Footage from two Pentagon security cameras outside the building shows the American Airlines flight crashing into the Pentagon. The footage was released by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2006 after conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request two years earlier, the Associated Press reported.
In describing the footage, the AP stated: “The aeroplane is a thin white blur on the video as it hits the Pentagon at ground level. Almost instantly, a white flash and a huge orange fireball appear on the video, followed by a tower of grey-black smoke.”
There are also multiple photographs of debris from the aircraft found at the Pentagon crash site, including images released by the FBI.
Jamie McIntyre, CNN’s military affairs correspondent on 9/11, featured photos he took of airplane debris at the Pentagon in a 2010 post for his “Line of Departure” blog on news site Military.com. One shows what McIntyre captions as “a piece of wreckage that appears to be a cockpit window.” Another includes a piece of metal from what looks like the outside of the plane, while a third McIntyre describes as showing “thousands of tiny shards of airplane wreckage.”
Deceptively edited footage of a report McIntyre did for CNN on 9/11, which makes it appear he was saying no airplane debris could be seen at the site of the Pentagon attack, also reemerged amid this year’s 9/11 anniversary.
On Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers crashed the American Airlines plane into the southwest side of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. after two other hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center towers and a third crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Pentagon attack killed 125 people in the building and the 59 passengers and crew on board the airplane.
Who was the pilot that crashed into the Pentagon?
Charles 'Chic' Burlingame III
“My college roommate, 'Chic' Burlingame, was the pilot of the plane that flew into the Pentagon, and sadly, Chic was taken from us,” said Flinn, who was housed with Charles 'Chic' Burlingame III, at the U.S. Naval Academy, where the men graduated from in 1971.Sep 12, 2023
His roommate piloted plane before it was hijacked for 9/11 ...
The Kansas City Star
https://www.kansascity.com › local › article279211654
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77
Remains
Army engineers determined by 17:30 on the first day that no survivors remained in the damaged section of the building.[104] In the days after the crash, news reports emerged that up to 800 people had died.[105] Army soldiers from Fort Belvoir were the first teams to survey the interior of the crash site and noted the presence of human remains.[106]
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Urban Search and Rescue teams, including Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue assisted the search for remains, working through the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS).[106][107] Kevin Rimrodt, a Navy photographer surveying the Navy Command Center after the attacks, remarked that "there were so many bodies, I'd almost step on them.
So I'd have to really take care to look backwards as I'm backing up in the dark, looking with a flashlight, making sure I'm not stepping on somebody."[108] Debris from the Pentagon was taken to the Pentagon's north parking lot for more detailed search for remains and evidence.[109]
Remains recovered from the Pentagon were photographed, and turned over to the Armed Forces Medical Examiner office, located at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The medical examiner's office was able to identify remains belonging to 179 of the victims.[110] Investigators eventually identified 184 of the 189 people who died in the attack.[111] The remains of the five hijackers were identified through a process of elimination, and were turned over as evidence to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[112]
On September 21, the ACFD relinquished control of the crime scene to the FBI. The Washington Field Office, National Capital Response Squad (NCRS), and the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) led the crime scene investigation at the Pentagon.[93]
By October 2, 2001, the search for evidence and remains was complete and the site was turned over to Pentagon officials.[109] In 2002, the remains of 25 victims were buried collectively at Arlington National Cemetery, with a five-sided granite marker inscribed with the names of all the victims in the Pentagon.[113] The ceremony also honored the five victims whose remains were never found.[113]
Flight recorders
About 03:40 on September 14, a paramedic and a firefighter who were searching through the debris of the impact site found two dark boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet (46 by 61 cm) long. They called for an FBI agent, who in turn called for someone from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB employee confirmed that these were the flight recorders ("black boxes"
from American Airlines Flight 77.[114] Dick Bridges, deputy manager for Arlington County, Virginia, said the cockpit voice recorder was damaged on the outside and the flight data recorder was charred. Bridges said the recorders were found "right where the plane came into the building".[115] The cockpit voice recorder was transported to the NTSB lab in Washington, D.C., to see what data was salvageable. In its report, the NTSB identified the unit as an L-3 Communications, Fairchild Aviation Recorders model A-100A cockpit voice recorder – a device which records on magnetic tape. No usable segments of tape were found inside the recorder; according to the NTSB's report, " he majority of the recording tape was fused into a solid block of charred plastic".[116] On the other hand, all the data from the flight data recorder, which used a solid-state drive, was recovered.[117]
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