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Related: About this forum"United 93" - 2006
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It's playing on the Cinemax channels. It's actually on something being called OMAX right this minute.
I'm going to check that it's on their On Demand after the movie is over.
ETA: OMAX turns out to mean Outer Max, and no, the movie wasn't on their On Demand list. But it will be running a couple of more times in the next few days.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)But, ultimately, so sad.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)I don't think Jarrah was reluctant and I don't think the passengers got that far into the cockpit at the end.
But these are small things. You're right that it's really well done.
KDLarsen
(1,903 posts)I never got the point of that, showing the 'Old europe' guy as someone wanting to appease to the terrorists, especially as there was no evidence it ever happened.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)I didn't even remember that from my first viewing. He was fine for expressing the evident misunderstanding of this as a normal hijacking, but trying to give the revolt away was a trope this movie could have done without.
applegrove
(123,146 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)survived totally unscathed.
"Red bandana recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site"
http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/PA00111.html
KDLarsen
(1,903 posts)In any case, airplane crashes are chaotic events, and it's fairly common for light debris such as paper etc. to be thrown clear with the initial explosion and then drift on the winds.
... oh why the hell do I bother presenting a logic explanation to a noplaner.
antitsa
(116 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)nowhere does the poster say the bandana didn't come from the plane.
why are you misrepresenting his words?
antitsa
(116 posts)Yet it still was from the plane? Not understanding his planer logic.
And sorry to get your knickers in a twist.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)"In any case, airplane crashes are chaotic events, and it's fairly common for light debris such as paper etc. to be thrown clear with the initial explosion and then drift on the winds."
Seems pretty clear to me.
Now, are you saying the bandana was planted?
And sorry, but my knickers are firmly un-twisted.
antitsa
(116 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)I agree.
BeFree
(23,843 posts)Some people don't. Yea, it probably was planted.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Thank you for the laugh.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui
Criminal No. 01-455-A
Prosecution Trial Exhibits
Exhibit Number Description
FO08301 One box cutter
http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/FO08301.html
It's to help PROPAGATE the official story that "hijackers" were on board the planes "wearing bandanas" and "waving boxcutters."
Kind of a no-brainer as to why they would stage the bandana.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)You don't need ridiculous evidence planting expeditions at crash sites. The cell phone calls from the passengers of the hijacked flights would be enough.
antitsa
(116 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)The conspiracy planted a kerchief in order to frame 20, 19 of them dead, presumably innocent people.
But now we're being told that the presence of a kerchief is cause for doubting the story presumably based on the presence of a kerchief. In other words, the proof is a refutation of itself. That seems sort of tail-chasing.
antitsa
(116 posts)it's the most obvious staged evidence of all the planted and staged pieces.
It's common sense to highlight the smoking gun that is giving off the most smoke.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)NONE.
It's common sense to believe something you have no evidence for?
antitsa
(116 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)Planting involves placing an object at the scene, then pretending to "find" it and then bagging it.
The red bandana is photographed in a sealed bag against a white background indoors somewhere. Looks like they just brought it in to stage it for the photo shoot.
Would PERFECTLY explain its pristine condition. No knicks, cuts, tears, rips, fraying, burns, soiling, or blood stains. All the things you would expect if it came from a plane that had nose-dive crashed going almost 600 mph into the ground, exploding and disintegration into "mostly small pieces."
OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)(1) Why bother to plant or stage a red bandana at all?
(2) If the evidence is only credible if it has "nicks, cuts, tears, rips, fraying, burns, soiling, or blood stains," then why not supply some? It isn't as if all the other exhibits are in "pristine condition."
antitsa
(116 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
antitsa
(116 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)Please link to the report that 4 skulls in red bandanas were recovered at Flight 93's crash site.
Take your time...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2002/09/08/2397001_p2/on-hallowed-ground.html
"But this is where they are. And this is where they will stay.
No bodies were recovered here, at least not as we normally think of bodies. In the cataclysmic violence of the crash, the people on Flight 93 literally disintegrated. Searchers found fragments of bones, small pieces of flesh, a hand. But no bodies.
In the grisly accounting of a jetliner crash, it comes down to pounds: The people on Flight 93 weighed a total of about 7,500 pounds. Miller supervised an intensive effort to gather their remains, some flung hundreds of yards. In the end, just 600 pounds of remains were collected; of these, 250 pounds could be identified by DNA testing and returned to the families of the passengers and crew."
antitsa
(116 posts)and supposedly one red bandana of assuming 4 red bandanas on the plane, wrapped around four heads, survived the violent fiery explosive crash perfectly intact. How many of the supposed 44 hardened skulls on board were found at the scene?
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Can you tell me, from a scientific and/or engineering perspective, what happens when a plane is driven into the ground from a high altitude?
Do you know for sure that the cockpit or cabin does not get ripped apart prior to impact, from the shearing forces of the air going down, throwing the bandana outward, prior to impact with the ground? After all, we have no proof is was on someone's head-it could be on the cabin floor, right?
If such a thing happened, would it not be quite logical the the bandana would float downward and land on the ground?
No skulls were found and that really has nothing to do with the bandana.
antitsa
(116 posts)A skeptic site seems to be sure:
The FDR data show that the plane was intact and its systems were operating normally before impact. The planes roll angle corresponds to eyewitness reports:
Cabin pressure - NORMAL.
Hydraulics - NORMAL.
Cargo fire - NORMAL.
Smoke - NORMAL.
Engines - RUNNING.
Fuel pressure - NORMAL.
Engine vibration - LO.
http://sites.google.com/site/wtc7lies/flight93page2
"After all, we have no proof (it) was on someone's head-it could be on the cabin floor, right?"
Why would that matter?! lol
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)before it crashed. The only thing wrong was human-directed, the direction it was flying and the speed it was flying there.
But the evidence also shows that one hijacker was overcome in the back of the plane, a second outside the cockpit, and the last two hijackers were in the cockpit. The bandana could have come from the two outside the cockpit, lost in the struggle, or even left in carry-on luggage if either of the cockpit hijackers never put theirs on.
Small items survive airplane crashes all the time.
antitsa
(116 posts)and saying "Small items survive airplane crashes all the time." is a very simplistic answer. It's not so much that this red bandana that supposedly was on the plane that supposedly crashed and it survived, the bandana made it out PERFECTLY INTACT from an alleged plane crash that supposedly decimated the entire large plane and all of its reported 44 passengers.
That's were the implausibility starts skyrocketing.
Only those who live in a simplistic world see nothing wrong with it.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Why would it have to be torn or burnt?
Not everything in the world happens the way YOU think it's supposed to happen. That is living in a simplistic world.
You do realize this, right?
Are you saying the crash was faked? Where are the passengers?
antitsa
(116 posts)At least they tried to make the "recovered" passports and IDs from the alleged crash look realistic:
PA00101 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ID card recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
PA00102 Saudi Arabian Youth Hostel Association ID for Ahmed A. A. Al-Nami recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
PA00103.2 Passport sized photo recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
PA00105.08 Page 37 and part of U.S. Visa page from Ziad Jarrah's Passport recovered at the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
PA00108 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia passport for Saeed A A A Al Ghamdi recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
PA00109 Business card of Assem Jarrah recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
PA00110 Part of Ahmed A A Al Nami's Florida Driver's License recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
Now the impeccable Red Bandana!
PA00111 Red bandana recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site
zappaman
(20,617 posts)because some aren't as damaged as others.
antitsa
(116 posts)IDs reportedly found @ Shanksville-- 3 of the 4 (75%) hijackers, only 5 of the 40 (12.5%) passengers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=319456&mesg_id=319456
As spooked911 says, "funny how that works."
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Did you know that a bunch of items survived the crash of space shuttle COLUMBIA in 2003?
It exploded and broke up at an altitude of 200,000 feet.
But somehow, a dish of worms used in an experiment survived intact.
Guess they must have planted it.
Your logic is what I would expect from a child.
antitsa
(116 posts)Maybe I should say your comprehension is what one would expect from a child?!
I'm not saying it's impossible cloth and papers survive a devastating plane crash, I'm saying it's extremely suspicious when a piece of cloth survives PERFECTLY INTACT when just about everything else didn't.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)Small, light items like this bandanna survive plane crashes intact all the time. If you feel it implausible, then you haven't looked at what survives plane crashes. It's very light, especially when you compare it to its surface area, even folded like this. If chance has it blown out the explosion free of the fire, then it's going to survive if it lands in a place where no fire lands.
It certainly is not implausible enough to give a lie to any of the other evidence of who hijacked and who crashed Flight 93.
antitsa
(116 posts)KDLarsen
(1,903 posts)Namely: How do you know that the bandana that was recovered was worn at the moment of impact?
We know very little of the circumstances in which the bandana was found, so it's rather silly to begin making any blanket statements about it, let alone starting to guess how it entered the crash situation (as in, was it worn, was it lying in a carry-on bag, was it in a bag or suitcase in the hold?).
antitsa
(116 posts)crashed at almost 600 mph into a fiery explosive mess that supposedly disintegrated the entire plane, left no bodies or skulls and reduced the 44 passengers to only 8% of their total mass?!
OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)I never asserted that it is impossible that the bandana was planted. But if putting words in my mouth is your best answer, then you don't have much of a case.
antitsa
(116 posts)canetoad
(18,128 posts)This sad clinging to the so-called heroics of the Flt.93 passengers. Films are not real life.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)With all the evidence for the attack on the cockpit by the passengers, whether you think it was shot down by the military or not, you think you can call their last act "so-called heroics"?
antitsa
(116 posts)mrarundale
(282 posts)I prefer it to have a little more artistic merit.
antitsa
(116 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)Any other passenger jets ever fly straight into this type of ground at 500mph?
antitsa
(116 posts)NONE of those craters look ANYTHING like the cartoon crater at Shanksville!
Unless you think Wile E Coyote crashed in Shanksville. lol
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)You do agree the "real" crater is pretty cartoon-looking, yeah?
I don't.
antitsa
(116 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)What other Flight 93 movie are you talking about?
antitsa
(116 posts)The other movie I think was called "Flight 93." Here's the ending showcasing the cartoon-like crater:
At least in this fictional film they got the color of a real plane crash mushroom cloud right!
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)How did you expect the crater to look, and why?
antitsa
(116 posts)You've seen a plane crash crater like that before? One that also re-filled itself?!
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)The ValueJet crash into the Everglades. That water isn't six inches deep.
Now my question: What did you expect the crater to look like, and why did you expect it to look that way?
antitsa
(116 posts)Let's try some Apples to Apples comparisons with other plane crashes into a dirt field, shall we?
OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)If you want to look at other plane crashes into dirt fields, go for it, and we can see how "Apples to Apples" they are. Meanwhile, Bolo answered your question, so we're about to learn something important about you.
antitsa
(116 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)I've heard differing stories and need to know which goal post to aim at.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Why don't you go ahead and list them?
We can go from there.
antitsa
(116 posts)Not going to waste time with one's that aren't relevant.
Your words..."I've heard differing stories and need to know which goal post to aim at."
So, list them.
You're not doing the truth movement any favors by ducking and dodging every question.
YOU claim there are differing stories and can't list even ONE?
antitsa
(116 posts)There can be only ONE "official story." What is it?
zappaman
(20,617 posts)"I'm not going to waste time telling you the stories I heard because that would back up the assertion I've heard MANY stories".
Wow, you really know how to back up your assertions.
Man, you are too funny!
BTW, you are really convincing loads of people to your position of what happened to flight 93.
Oh, wait...we don't know your position cuz you are not going to waste our time telling it.
Please stop now cuz my sides are hurting!!!
ETA:more laughter!
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)First what you needed was my answer about an airplane crater that filled itself in. I gave that after you promised to answer my question about the crater.
And now you're stalling again. Weak sauce.
antitsa
(116 posts)Really? Seriously?
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)I'm simply asking for the correct "official" way the plane supposedly crashed and what happened to it afterward.
You know, common sense.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)Us specifying the story has no bearing on this. You are simply stalling.
antitsa
(116 posts)you OS believers will later say that's not how it happened?
I'm simply asking you how it supposedly happened, since I've heard varying explanations, so I know the correct goal post to aim for.
A very prudent question for me to ask.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)We shall keep that in mind when speaking to you in the future.
antitsa
(116 posts)Not sure why it's so difficult for you guys to understand this.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)at the start.
You reneged.
antitsa
(116 posts)you guys going to tell me the correct crash scenario so I know which goal post to aim at? Or are you going to keep whining?
zappaman
(20,617 posts)you words:.."I've heard differing stories and need to know which goal post to aim at."
So, list them those differing stories.
Obviously, we haven't heard them.
Why can't you do that?
The time it took you to write the 6-7 responses crying like a little baby could have been spent telling us a few of these "differing stories".
You're not doing the so-called "truth movement" any favors by ducking and dodging every question.
YOU claim there are differing stories and can't list even ONE?
Oh my, if you are representative of the so-called "truth movement", one can see why it's dying.
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)I'm happy to discuss these matters with anyone willing to discuss them, but that's the key: willing to discuss.
All I see you willing to do is drag things out and play silly games. Do as you like, antitsa.
antitsa
(116 posts)the CORRECT crash version so I know which goal post to aim at?
Pretty simple and prudent request.
Soon as you give me the correct version, I can proceed to answering your question.
Ball's in your court.
William Seger
(11,047 posts)In this thread (and the one you deleted), you seem to be asking other people to tell you what it is you don't believe.
OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)It's a concise example of how the notion of an "official story" can impede inquiry into what happened, or even what could have happened. Creative speculation? FTN.
antitsa won't be able to provide further explanations (or whatever) in this thread.
ETA: in case it wasn't obvious, I really liked this: "asking other people to tell you what it is you don't believe."
greyl
(22,997 posts)Did you really expect to get something like "Oh, I now see where I was incorrect" in reply?
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Your words..."I've heard differing stories and need to know which goal post to aim at."
So, list them.
You're not doing the truth movement any favors by ducking and dodging every question.
YOU claim there are differing stories and can't list even ONE?
You can take your time...there's no rush.
C'mon, you can do it. What differing stories?
T S Justly
(884 posts)Aren't known for their subtlety. Apparently, there's no theory too wacky for the "crazy Arabs
did it im series11! coz Bush henchmen and DINOs say they did it brigade". Fucking unreal.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)what happened to flight 93?
Please, if you could be so kind, to enlighten us all?
antitsa
(116 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)A couple of ways to take that statement, antitsa.
1. It didn't crash: the government shot it down.
2. It didn't crash: the site was faked and Flight 93 was flown someplace else where the passengers were disposed of.
Which one are you talking about? If you don't see your option there, please let us in on the details.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Tell us what happened please.
zappaman
(20,617 posts)Keep digging, TS, you're almost there! LOL!
T S Justly
(884 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)Maybe you could spend less time creating threads smearing DUers and a little more time answering questions or backing up claims.
Nah, easier to smear, eh TS?
OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)which is not that it looks too much like a cutout of a plane, but that it doesn't look enough like a cutout of a plane.
I can't say that either assertion seems very well thought out.
antitsa
(116 posts)OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)Here is one of spooked911's versions.
http://flight93hoax.blogspot.com/2008/02/whered-fuselage-go.html
Even if we assume the whole plane both blew up into tiny pieces or burrowed into the ground (as the official story holds), the fuselage would have had to have make some sort of crater in the ground where it hit. But there is nothing there where the fuselage should have hit.
This crater is bogus.
I guess They just forgot to dig a hole for the fuselage?
Part of another version by a different writer:
http://larrysownblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/flight-93-hoax/
...However, if the plane was in fact right-side up as it impacted, why a) is the government lying about it, and b) what made the tail scar on the northern edge of the crater???
I dont know exactly what happened at this crash scene.
I strongly suspect the crater was made artificially, to make it LOOK as though an airplane crashed there, and then plane debris was strewn around the site. Perhaps a bomb or projectile of some sort was used to create the damage.
In any case, the important point is that: THE OFFICIAL FLIGHT 93 CRASH STORY IS A LIE, BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT.
Why did They go to such lengths to make an obviously fake crater? I guess this guy Larry isn't in the explaining business.
antitsa
(116 posts)OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)So you went from thinking I was inventing the argument, to accepting it wholesale, just like that?
You can imagine how that looks to me, yes?
antitsa
(116 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Not well. Not well, at all.
antitsa
(116 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)It's about discussing the issues. Let's remember that, shall we?
Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)I don't agree at all with the heinous plots of The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will, but that doesn't mean those two pictures don't have artistic merit.
Taken as a movie, United 93 is a very potent examination of how people compartmentalize information, how systems and people can be rendered useless without enough information, and how on gaining enough correct information, most people will act. This need of people to smear every single part of something they don't agree with is just pathetic.
T S Justly
(884 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)And what happened to it afterward?
antitsa
(116 posts)OnTheOtherHand
(7,621 posts)Were you looking for the NTSB report? (I guess I should say, were you requesting that someone find that for you?) Or, what?
antitsa
(116 posts)or what happened to the plane afterward. This is what I want to know.
If you are going to say the FDR does say how the plane came in, 1) at best it only answers half my question, 2) I don't know how to decipher the data, so you'd have to for me. Thanks.
antitsa
(116 posts)antitsa
(116 posts)inputs that caused the airplane to pitch nose-up (climb) and nose-down (dive)
aggressively. During this time the airplane climbed to about 10,000 feet while
turning to the right. The airplane then pitched nose-down and rolled to the right
in response to flight control inputs, and impacted the ground at about 490 knots
(563 mph) in a 40 degree nose-down, inverted attitude. The time of impact was
10:03:11.
https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=478665
Which part of the plane contacted the ground first?
What happened after it touched the ground?
zappaman
(20,617 posts)or as I like to say "smashed into the ground at 500 mph", people came and dug pieces out of the earth.
Also, please don't troll Bolo's thead.
Thanks.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)zappaman
(20,617 posts)Hmmmm....what was a "troll" again?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)I think we will let MIRT decide that, shall we?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)Response to antitsa (Reply #118)
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