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In reply to the discussion: American 77 flight path dilemma (Pentagon attack) [View all]William Seger
(11,736 posts)> we wont know that until the NTSB provides the rest of the flight recorder data.
> for some unexplained reason, the NTSB decided not to release the part of the FDR where the plane supposedly impacts with the Pentagon. which is why the animation is abruptly cut off. do they have something to hide?
Where did you get that bullshit? I can't believe that even Cap'n Bob is dumb enough to make a claim like that.
The entire FDR file was released, but it was in a proprietary format. For a couple of years, Cap'n Bob and one of his cohorts who had access to software that could decode the raw data deliberately hide the fact that there were incomplete data blocks at the end of the raw data that the NTSB had not included in the published spreadsheet version. Those incomplete blocks show that the spreadsheet data, which was used to make the animation, ended at least 6 seconds before impact, not less than 2 seconds as Cap'n Bob insisted. During those same years, rational people contended that incomplete data was the most probable explanation for why the spreadsheet data ended with the plane still too high to hit the bridge, and Cap'n absolutely insisted that that just wasn't possible. Finally, a bright programmer was able to reverse-engineer the data encoding and discovered those incomplete blocks, and Cap'n Bob's fortunes as a conspiracy huckster have been in sharp decline every since.
Anyone who still takes Cap'n Bob seriously hasn't been paying attention.
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