So with the 20th anniversary of 9/11 coming up, I've been doing A LOT of research and reading on the events leading up to, during, and after the attacks. One of the "truther" points I'm stuck on is Fligt 77, the flight that "hit" the Pentagon. I fully admit there's a lot of shady stuff out there that makes no sense. And upon listening to the TrueAnon episodes on it, I can definitely see myself as being a no planer or that another aircraft did it (or a missile).

But the one thing I can't get over is, what do no plane/other plane truthers think happened to Flight 77 then? Because clearly something happened to Flight 77 and all of those people are dead. That's really the one thing I can't logically get past.

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I know a guy who was driving his commute on 9/11 and actually saw Flight 77 head for the Pentagon, and he's not a casual liar. You shoulda seen the very earliest truthers descend on his sorry online ass way back then. I don't think you'll find any coherent explanation among truthers for what happened to the actual plane and its passengers/crew.

    • GoopOnYaGrinch [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah that's just my big sticking point.

      Is it weird that there's seemingly no video footage? Very.

      Is it odd that the only potential video footage we might have is missing the frames that would show impact? Yes.

      Do the photos of impact not look like a commercial airliner hit the building? Very much so.

      Do I have suspicions about the fact that the hijacker with the worst flying reputation was able to execute the most technically proficient and evasive maneuvers to make sure the plane made impact? Oh yeah.

      But I haven't seen a single explanation to my original point. If there was like, evidence of another site in the country where it looked like a plane may have been shot down or something, I might be sold on it, but none of that seems to exist.