The 9/11 terrorist attack... What really happened?

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wfz said:

What matters is looking at what physically happened that day and trying to understand if the government's given explanation is even possible. I honestly don't think it is. Building 7 had much less going on than 5 and 6 as far as fires go, yet that building collapsed into almost free-fall speed right into the ground. Towers 1 + 2 both fell at almost free-fall speed after suffering minor fires for only approximately an hour. There have been large steel buildings that have burned for 18+ hours with fires much larger and on every single floor, and they DID NOT FALL DOWN.

Different sized/shaped buildings, different designs, different situations.  Would that building that burned 18 hours have collapsed if any of those things changed?  Also, what are you trying to get at with this?  That WTC 1, 2, and 7 were controlled demolitions, but they decided to leave 3, 4, 5, and 6 up to chance?  Again with WTC 7, you can't directly compare the two situations.  Would WTC 5 have stood if there was an extra 40 stories on top of the heavily damaged/collapsed floors 4-9?  Would it have stood if the design had been different?  WTC 3 mostly collapsed outside of the bottom few floors.  I'm not going to get into the free fall claim again.

How did the terrorist, who was apparently a bad flyer himself, fly the 757 into the Pentagon flying about 15 feet off the ground, straight at it? Even expert pilots say that would be near impossible. He didn't hit anything besides the building...and he hit it perfectly.

He hit about five lamp poles and a generator before striking the Pentagon.  Also you seem to like these vague claims. "almost free-fall", "near impossible", "hit it perfectly", etc.

Previously in 2001, there were 67 (or so) other flight jackings and other air reports that were all caught by the USA, yet on this day we failed 4 out of 4 times? How does a 757 disappear off of OUR radar in the middle of the USA and we only find it when it's mere minutes away from crashing into the Pentagon? You can't just hide a plane that big and fly it over our central defense Pentagon that easily. It doesn't make any sense.

Previously people hijacked planes to use as bargaining power, not to use as weapons.  There was relatively little time between the FAA contacting NORAD and the planes impacting their targets.  Traditional radar has many failings.  It only really tells bearing and location, it can be obstructed by weather, terrain, etc, and it is difficult to identify small and non-metallic aircraft.  As a result, commercial aviation uses transponders that give a lot of additional information to air traffic controllers.  When Flight 77 turned off their transponder it made it very difficult to find the plane, this was compounded by all that was going on that morning.

Here is a video of air traffic on 9/11  (it is also really interesting on its own), there are over 4,000 planes in the air when NORAD is contacted about Flight 77, and that was a little over 10 minutes before it hit the Pentagon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttUkvGnKM2s

You guys can yell at me and throw whatever you want at me, but the real disgrace to those families who were affected by 9/11 is by not searching for the truth and not asking questions.

The problem with most 'truthers' is that they aren't interested in seaking the truth at all.  They usually have an idea in their head of how it happened and will ignore any evidence contrary to that.  They usually make the claim of just asking questions to further obfuscate the situation.  Closer to creationists than anything else.