Thankful Jim Jesus 🦃🍽️🥧

It’s sad, but entirely predictable. Every single time a plane crashes without scattering thousands of huge, flaming, unmistakable pieces of debris across acres of land in crystal-clear 4K video, out come the same 9/11 conspiracy theorists claiming no plane hit the Pentagon. And sure enough, the recent South Florida Learjet crash has brought them out again. 🙄 Among the most pathetic 9/11 claims, the missile fantasy is so easily refuted I won’t bother rehashing it. Instead, here’s a reminder of some of the evidence we have. This video covers the last few seconds. The final approach of American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757, into the west wall of the Pentagon at 9:37:46 a.m. at roughly 530 mph. 184 people were murdered. 59 passengers and crew aboard Flight 77, and 125 people inside the building. What makes this video different is the structure. It runs the animation, and every time something happens along that flight path, it stops and cuts to a photograph of the actual thing. Animation says it clipped a light pole. Cut to the light pole, down in the road. Says it hit a taxi. Cut to the taxi. Says it took out a generator on the way in. Cut to the generator. Over and over, all the way down the approach to the facade. Five light poles sheared off in a line, each one photographed where it fell. Then it closes with a compilation of the aircraft debris recovered from the scene. That’s the whole ballgame. Every step is a falsifiable claim with a picture attached. It isn’t a model asking for your trust. It’s a model you can check. And the photographs aren’t the whole case. The flight data recorder was recovered and read completely. Speed, altitude, heading, control inputs, all the way to impact. That’s what the NTSB used to reconstruct the approach, so the line you’re watching in the animation isn’t an artist’s guess. The cockpit voice recorder was also recovered, but fire destroyed the recording. I’ll say that plainly, because it’s true and because someone will throw it at me. One box gave us everything. The other gave us nothing. Remains were recovered and identified by DNA. All but five of the people who died at the Pentagon were identified. Separately, five sets of remains matched no victim and no family reference sample. Those were the hijackers. Landing gear. Engine components. Fuselage with airline markings. Passengers’ personal effects. All of it came out of that building. So here is my challenge to anyone who wants to tell me it was a missile. One. Explain the eyewitnesses. Over a hundred recorded accounts of a large commercial jetliner coming in low and fast, many of them naming American Airlines. Two. Explain the C-130. Reagan controllers asked an Air National Guard C-130H that had just departed to identify the unknown aircraft. The pilot spotted it, identified it as a Boeing 757, tried to follow it, and then radioed Washington Tower that it had crashed into the Pentagon. A military pilot in the air, looking directly at it. Three. Explain the five light poles. A missile does not shear off a line of poles across hundreds of feet on its way in. Four. Explain the two flight recorders pulled from the impact site, and explain the data on one of them. Missiles do not carry black boxes. And that recorder’s speed, altitude, heading and control inputs match the primary radar track Dulles controllers were watching at 9:32. Two independent systems, one airborne and one on the ground, no shared hardware, same flight path. Five. Identify the missile. Type. Launch platform. Where it came from. Who put it there. Six. Tell me where Flight 77 went. Tell me where the 59 passengers and crew went. Real aircraft, real tail number, real people who boarded at Dulles that morning and had funerals. Where did they go? Twenty-five years later, I’m still waiting for answers to all six. Video credit: Mike J. Wilson, “911 Case Study: Pentagon Flight 77”