It's also very interesting that the article states that the 757-200 flies at 250mph when landing. Very interesting, considering that the Flaps 1 limit speed is 240 knots and most touchdown speeds are in the 120-140 knot range depending on weight.
Perhaps everyone lands them "no flap"? Which, of course, would make everyone's FAA approved Before Landing Checklist incorrect. I sense a conspiracy here.........
....... and the conspirators cleverly smuggled both the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder into the Pentagon wreckage, arranging to have them found by workmen on the 14th!
... and then there's that engine, one of the pieces of an airplane that tends to stay together in a crash....
From Aviation Week:
"One of the aircraft's engines somehow ricocheted out of the building and arched into the Pentagon's mall parking area between the main building and the new loading dock facility"
... hmmm maybe they just trucked in a crashed engine to the loading dock and dumped it?
But how can we explain the clipped trees and light poles?
From Aviation Week:
"American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 loaded with enough fuel for a transcontinental journey, cleared the crest of a small ridge in Arlington, Va., by a few hundred feet with its engines wailing. It slightly lowered its nose, clipped trees and parking lot light poles,
And then there's this from a Washinton Post article:
FBI agents had not located the jet's black box, the data collection device that will help them piece together the plane's final moments, but they did begin to recover bits and pieces of the fuselage and engines, including what appeared to be the nose cone and throttle. Agents were putting evidence in boxes and paper bags, as well as marking with small flags what appeared to be human remains.
... so they must have smuggled pieces of a fuselage, engines and radome into the actual Pentagon ring itself.
Those conspirators are SOOOOOOOOOO sneaky!
