Experienced Pilots say Official account of 9/11 contradicted by U.S. Government's Own Data

by Rob Balsamo et al.

	American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Pilots for 9/11 Truth, an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals, petitioned the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) via the Freedom of Information Act to obtain their 2002 report, "Flight Path Study - American Airlines Flight 77," consisting of a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file and the flight path Animation, allegedly derived from Flight 77's Flight Data Recorder (FDR).

In August, 2006, Pilots for 9/11 Truth received the cited documents from the NTSB and began a close analysis of the data they contain. After expert review and cross check, Pilots for 9/11 Truth has now concluded that the information in these NTSB documents does not support, and in some instances factually contradicts, the official government position that American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001.

According to the 9/11 Commission Report, which relied heavily upon the NTSB Flight Path Study, American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon at 9:37:46 AM on the morning of September 11, 2001. However, the reported impact time according to the NTSB Flight Path Study is 09:37:45. According to reports, American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon and by doing so, struck down 5 light poles on Highway 27 in its path to the west wall. The data provided by the NTSB Report, however, contradicts the Commission Report in several significant ways:

-- The record of data shows no impact and is truncated one second prior to impact time.

-- Both barometric and radar altitude shows the aircraft a minimum of 300 feet too high to have struck the light poles.

-- The flight path plotted by the animation is several degrees north of where the light poles stood and is corroborated by eyewitness testimony including Pentagon Police Officers filmed on location.

-- All system indicators at the end of data show normal operation. In other words, there is no indication of impact with any objects.

-- The vertical rate of descent is far too great for the plane to have levelled off prior to impact as seen in the Dept of Defense "5 Frames" video of an object level across the Pentagon west lawn.

-- In fact, if data trends are continued through the last second beyond where recording stops, the altitude of the plane would have been at least 100 feet too high to have hit the Pentagon. - The information provided by the NTSB does not support the 9/11 Commission Report of American Airlines Flight 77 impact with the Pentagon.

Pilots for 9/11 Truth is an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals committed to discovering the truth surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. We have contacted both the NTSB and the FBI regarding these and other inconsistencies. To date, they have refused to comment on, correct, refute, retract or offer side-letters that might explain the discrepancies between what they claim is the data extracted from the FDR of AA Flight 77 and the official story alleging its crash into the Pentagon.

As concerned citizens and professionals in the aviation industry, Pilots for 9/11 Truth asks, why have these discrepancies not been addressed by agencies within the United States Government? Why have they falsely represented their own data to the American people? Pilots for 9/11 Truth takes the position that an official government inquiry into these discrepancies is warranted and long overdue. We call upon our fellow citizens to write to their Congressional representatives to informing them of these discrepancies and call for an immediate investigation into this matter.

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