Reply #15: Commercial or not- he is an engineer and a pilot and [View All]

[undeterred]

he's obviously very well qualified to comment on the subject.

His technical comments on the aerodynamics of a 757 being steered into the Pentagon in a controlled manner at 500mph 10 ft above the ground were the most persuasive part of this interview.

It is not that it is impossible for a 757 to crash at this speed and height, but that the effects of these aerodynamic forces would have been massive and violent- everything on the freeway would have been overturned and the entire wing of the Pentagon would have been destroyed.

The suggestion of a smaller lighter plane with different aerodynamics fits with the evidence of more limited damage on the ground and to the building.