"A measure of abnormal long put volume was also examined and seen to be at abnormally high levels in the days leading up to the attacks. Consequently, the paper concludes that there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days leading up to September 11 that is consistent with investors trading on advance knowledge of the attacks".[67] —Allen M. Poteshman, The Journal of Business

  • theSmokingGun27 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I won't die on any single hill. So I oscillate a lot back and forth in believing any of this stuff. But to me at least it is weird how much spread there was to the plane parts. And there are witnesses claiming they saw a passenger jet tailed by several F16s, and even reports of an all white fighter jet in the area.

    But I really dont know what happened. But the official reports are obviously not rooted in truth or a good faith attempt to discover what happened.

    • CorporalMinicrits [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Well, a plane hitting the ground at high speed while having mostly full fuel on board can cause a 2 or some mile wide radius of debris

      • wasbappin [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Malcolm Gladwell voice: If you ask me the government should have admitted shooting the plane down, because if they didn't shoot it down that would he incompetent.

      • theSmokingGun27 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, but doesn't that describe like most plane crashes?

        When i say I believe that something is funky, and attribute it to the plane being shot down, i really only feel like I get there because there isn't a satisfying answer to the official report.

        And I think in this case there was a full engine found miles away. Which to my understanding is unusual. And to my understanding the reports claim it rolled from the impact site.

        When people say its normal for debres to be miles from the crash site I think they usually mean sheet metal from like the wings. Or luggage caught in the wind. Not an engine.

        And in fact, they did issue a shoot down order. So its not even like you can say that would be going too far for them. The whole story is they ordered the plane to be shot down but it had crashed by the time the jet could intercept the airliner.

        But idk. Who knows, ya know?