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EDIT 2: I went and looked at the facts on that conspiracy theory page, and I have some questions for anyone who can answer. Note that I'm not trying to prove these statements wrong, I'd just like more info. My questions may come off as sarcastic, but I mean them in the most serious way.
1. The Twin Towers fell straight down, at close to free-fall speed. This is a similar characteristic of a controlled demolition. The dust cloud and its make up are considered un-characteristic of a gravity-driven collapse.
-Then again, the plane may have exploded in the building and caused it to collapse this way. I don't know, I'm not a professional. The planes didn't crash into the top floor. But they might have done enough damage for the floors above it to simply fall down and crush the building below it.
2. Some consider photographic evidence of the plane lying on the grounds of the Pentagon to be ambiguous and unconvincing, citing a visual lack of burnt metal, human remains, passenger's luggage or seats.
-Don't know about that one.
3. Flight 77 was able to fly in the direction of the DC and Pentagon area for approximately 40 minutes without interception. This is thought to be unusual given the Pentagon's close proximity to Andrews Air Force Base.
-It is unusual. But I'm sure that the planes didn't hang around for 40 minutes around DC and the Pentagon. They probably had to redirect the planes, and it took 40 minutes to realize where they were headed. At least, it could have been like that.
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1. The explosion from the airplane would have only knocked out 3 to 4 support colloms at best, spread over multiple floors. And even though this is enough to make the top part of the building unstable with the possibility that the top part breaks off. Especialy with the south tower, there is way it could have collapsed like this because of the impact angle. The plane directly took out a support collom in the corner, and if you look at the start of the sout tower collapse you see the top of the building keel over to that corner before the entire thing goes down. The constructions underneath that would have to give away at the same to for the building to collapse like that, otherwise the top would have simply fallen off.
Also, the collapse can be very easily clarified as a controlled demolition by doing some simple math.
If you drop something from the roof of the Twin Towers, it would hit the ground in 9.1 seconds, a little more with air resistance. The Twin Towers collapsed in a record time of 10 seconds.
I have seen a documentary on this, which stated that the support collums at the damaged floors gave away, and crushed the underlaying floors one by one. First off all, all 6 support colloms gave away at the exact same time? That's highly unlikely, concidering at least 2 of them were completely unharmed.
Secondly, the Twin Towers still had at least 80-90 floors intact underneath the point of impact. Following the theory that the building crushed itself, the above weight would have to crush trough 6 massive steel support colloms, tons of re-enforced concrete and crush the elevator shafts. Even if this is remotely possible, which it isn't, it would still take a lot longer then 10 seconds for the collapse to reach ground level.
If the building was to crush 1 floor per second, the collapse had to last at least 1 minute. If it crushed 3 floors per second, the collapse would have to take around 26 seconds. To get even remotely close to the 10 second mark, the building would have had to crush 9 floors per second to end up on that mark. And that is downright impossible.
2. There simply was no plane to found anywhere near the crash site at the pentagon. It was never of photo's, never on camera footage and the plane on the radar made turns that a commercial airliner could never manage to do without shreding itself to bits.
3. Most jets from that nearby airbase had been send out on a training excercise that day, leaving only 4 or so jets at the base to protect the rest of the country. Why these jets were not scrambled at all is unknown.
Hope that answered some of your questions Dave. You pretty much answered the rest of them yourself.