Flight 175's Precision Strike on WTC 2

Look at the trajectory of Flight 175 in the CBS screenshots below - use the [Page Up] [Page Down] buttons. An accurate timeframe of the screenshots cannot be judged, but one thing is apparent: the plane was deliberately levelled out before hitting WTC 2.

Why would terrorist hijackers who have seconds to live find the need to level the plane out?

Video of United Airlines Flight 175's
Long Range Approach to World Trade Center

The above video footage shows Flight 175 followed a shallow descent path - the plane could easily have been flown into the lower floors of WTC 2, instead it hit the building at floor 78. From an engineering standpoint the towers were more likely to collapse the lower they were struck, so why aim high?

It appears that whoever piloted Flight 175 not only intended to hit the tower but also aimed for a specific level, probably where the collapse was due to initiate.

It turns out that 18 floors [of the twin towers] have heavy steel beams instead of trusses. Consider the following quote from Engineering News-Record, January 1, 1970.

On the 41st and 42nd floors, both towers will house mechanical equipment. To accommodate the heavy loads, the floors are designed as structural steel frame slabs. All other floors from the ninth to the top (except for 75 and 76, which will also carry mechanical equipment) have typical truss floor joists and steel decking.

Typical office floors have 4-in. thick slabs of composite construction using top chord knuckles of the joists (trusses), which extend into the slab, as shear connectors. On mechanical floors, composite action is provided by welded stud shear connectors.

So the first 8 + 6 = 14 stories, and the 41st, 42nd, 75th and 76th floors, used solid steel beams in place of trusses. Also, the top stories had special steel reinforcing diagonals called outrigger trusses. [Guardian.150m]

The above could explain the aircraft impact points.

Flight 11 scored a bullseye hit on WTC 1 and plowed into the inner core of the building, the outrigger trusses on the upper floors (see BBC image on right) prevented a collapse.

Flight 175 hit above one of the strongest sections of
WTC 2 (floors 75 & 76) but avoided the building's core - a direct hit on the core could have immediately collapsed the building through truss failures - here's why.

It appears that casualties in the WTC were minimized by the aircraft impact points. Was this bad luck on the part of crazed terrorists, or was it done by design?

WTC Rescue Workers Silenced After Discovery Of Black Boxes

A 9-11 rescue worker recently came forward to say he was told by FBI agents to "keep my mouth shut" about one of the "black boxes" a fellow firefighter helped locate at ground zero, contradicting the official story that none of the flight and cockpit data recorders were ever recovered in the wreckage of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers.

Honorary firefighter Mike Bellone claims he was approached by unknown bureau agents a short time after he and his partner, Nicholas DeMasi, a retired New York firefighter, found three of the four "black boxes" among the WTC rubble before January 2002.

The cockpit voice recorder uses a pair of microphones to capture all cockpit sounds for the last 30 minutes of a doomed flight. The flight data recorder is also significant since it records altitude, heading and airspeed. [American Free Press]

The black boxes would have revealed what happened inside the airliners prior to their impacts.

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was founded in 1997. The group's Statement of Principles [PDF] published September 2000 stated that "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would advance their policies.

Dov Zakheim is a co-author of the Statement of Principles and an ex-CEO of System Planning Corporation which manufactures equipment to remotely pilot aircraft. Zakheim was appointed as Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller of the Pentagon by President Bush on May 4, 2001.

The Mastermind Behind 9/11?

Operation 911: No Suicide Pilots
Were the 9/11 planes remotely piloted?

Pentagon Strike

William Middleton Sr., was running his street sweeper through the cemetery when he heard a harsh whistling sound overhead. Middleton looked up and spotted a commercial jet whose pilot seemed to be fighting with his own craft. [SouthCoast Today]

If the pilot was wrestling with the plane's controls then it would not fly straight, but if the plane was 'electronically hijacked' his actions would be irrelevant.