Debunking 911 Myths by David Dunbar

Author:David Dunbar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hearst
Published: 2011-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

The Wreckage

CLAIM: One of Flight 93’s engines was found “at a considerable distance from the crash site,” according to Lyle Szupinka, a state police officer on the scene who was quoted in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In an article sympathetic to a variety of Flight 93 conspiracy theories, the August 13, 2002, edition of the London tabloid The Independent puts the distance at more than a mile from the main crater, suggesting that the plane was coming apart prior to impact. Why is that significant? It backs up the contention that Flight 93 was shot down. As a post on www.rense.com puts it, “The main body of the engine of Flight 93 was found miles away from the main wreckage site, with damage comparable to that which a heat-seeking missile would do to an airliner.”

The Web site www.september11news.com, which explores what it calls “9/11 mysteries,” expresses other concerns about the crash site: “Why are there no known pictures available of the Flight 93 wreckage? The only pictures show rescue workers peering into a crater, but there is no wreckage to be seen.”

FACT: A fan from one of the engines was recovered in the catchment basin of a small pond downhill from the crash site. According to Jeff Reinbold, the National Park Service representative responsible for the Flight 93 National Memorial, the basin is 300 yards from the impact crater. That is less than a fifth of a mile—not more than a mile and certainly not “miles away.”

The fan was one of the largest surviving pieces of the plane. Most of the aircraft was obliterated on impact, shattering into tiny pieces that were driven as much as 30 feet into the earth. Rick King of the Shanksville Fire Department, who was one of the first on the scene, told Charles Gibson of ABC News, “When I got there, I wondered to myself, ‘Where is it?’ The plane was just totally disintegrated.”

Greg Feith, a former senior investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), says this is a typical outcome when a plane hits the ground at high speed. Most crashes occur at takeoff or landing, when the speed of the plane is relatively slow. “You can liken crash debris to an egg. At a slow speed, dropped from your hand, the impact will crack the egg and you’ll have large pieces of shell,” Feith tells Popular Mechanics. “Take an egg and drop it from 20 stories up and it will have smaller fragments of shell.”

So it’s not that there are no pictures of the Flight 93 wreckage—there simply was very little wreckage to show (see photo 26). Feith recalls a 1997 crash he investigated on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. In a suspected pilot suicide, the plane went into a nosedive from 35,000 feet. It actually reached the speed of sound—about 761 miles per hour at sea level—before plunging into the Musi River. At that crash site, Feith says, investigators found little more than a tire carcass and engine parts the size of a pot lid.

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