THE PENTAGON
The complex international plot was never discovered by intelligence agencies.
19 Arab hijackers evaded security on 4 different flights from 3 different international airports with knives, box cutters, mace and bombs in their possession.
Hani Hanjour who had been refused the rental of a Cessna 172 3 1/2 weeks prior to 9/11 navigated an aircraft he had never flown before from the Ohio/Kentucky border and located the Pentagon in Washington D.C.. He was reading a 757 manual on the way to the airport which he left in the car.
He violated the most secure airspace in the United States without intercept even though they had the transponder off for 42 minutes and intercept aircraft sat 10 minutes away at Andrews Air Force base. The attacks in New York were being broadcast in the media.
He passed the unsecured White House and flew over the totally unobstructed front of the Pentagon where the "brass" has their offices.
He entered Reagan International airspace while performing a 270 degree turn with a 7000 foot drop in altitude in 2.5 minutes with military precision.
He chose the most obstructed approach path possible out of all 5 sides of the building. And the only path that required an altitude change right at the end in order to level out over the Pentagon grounds.
He hit five 25 foot, 293 pound steel lamp poles, a fence, a 39,500 pound generator trailer, two cable spools, two single-wide mobile home construction trailers and a tree to hit the building without leaving a significant trail of aircraft debris behind.
He selected the only wedge out of 5 that was under renovation for blast reinforcement in case of a terrorist attack. The project was due to be completed that week. The exterior wall was built with 21 inch steel reinforced columns infilled with 8 inches of brick, tubular steel, 1600 pound blast-resistant windows, and Kevlar mesh covered in a facade of 6 inches of Indiana limestone. It was also the least occupied section of the building.
He made an entire 164,010* pound 757-200 more than 50 yards long with wings equal in area to the floor space of a three-bedroom suburban house vanish in between the first and second floor of the Pentagon which is 14 feet between slabs. 12 feet is the diameter of the fuselage. Except for a couple of pieces of the aircraft that had lettering from the AA livery (which is a very small percentage of the exterior surface area of the aircraft) there was very little left behind outside. No tail, no wings, no engines, no horizontal stabilizer, no passenger seats, no luggage and no aircraft cargo. He did not touch the lawn in the process.
The aircraft remained between the first and second floor slabs and traveled 310 feet through the interior walls, 21 inch rebar-cored columns every 10 feet, and office contents to break through the "C" wing wall composed of 8 inches of reinforced brick creating a near perfectly round 9 foot in diameter exit hole. It decelerated in the 40 foot space of the A-E drive and did not chip the opposing wall or leave any visible wreckage in the A-E drive. The Arlington County After-Action Report, the Shoring Report, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Building Performance Report all attributed the exit hole to the aircraft but none of them explained it.
The FBI confiscated videos from local businesses at about the same time water was initially being put on the building fire.
The Pentagon denied having security video. Five frames of a security video taken from the Pentagon guard shack were leaked. The Pentagon admitted to having video. The 5 frames all have the wrong date, the aircraft is hidden behind a foreground object and the second frame had been artificially brightened from the source.
The FBI admits to having videos, aircraft wreckage, two "black boxes" and the hijackers unidentified remains. They refuse to positively identify the hijacker's remains, release the videos or let the media see the wreckage. The NTSB claims to have downloaded the information from the cockpit voice recorder but before it could be analyzed the FBI confiscated it. The FBI director Robert Mueller said "the agency had not gotten any information from the voice data recorder from Flight 77".
The Pentagon ASCE Building Performance Report was written after the building was demolished with no physical inspection of the impact zone evidence or aircraft debris. There is photographic proof that somebody falsified the condition of at least one significant column near the exit hole. The BPS team was not allowed to see the exit hole.
The FBI did not allow the NTSB to perform a crash investigation. There is no official federally required accident report for any of the four aircraft that crashed on 9/11. Those reports are completed when private aircraft skid off a runway.
The FBI produced a report that says "American Airlines #77, Boeing 757, 8:10 a.m. departed Dulles for Los Angeles, 9:39 a.m. crashed into the Pentagon" and shows 5 photos of Arab men on the FBI Flight 77 Page. One of those men has been reported by the BBC to still be alive. Robert Mueller of the FBI acknowledged, "that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt".
Dr. Marcella Fierro, the Virginia Chief Medical Examiner was refused any participation in processing the human remains. She was so upset she requested and received a letter from then Attorney General Ashcroft transferring responsibility for the medical examinations to the FBI. The remains were removed under armed guard and taken to Dover AFB, Delaware. Despite temperatures that melted an entire 757-200 they claim to have positively identified all but 5 remains from the Pentagon and Flight 77.
There are no Arab names on the original passenger list or the official autopsy report. On the autopsy report all names on the passenger list were identified except for an infant (if they didn't fly under their own names and there are not 5 alias names unconnected with remains, then how did they board the aircraft?).
