# Find the Boeing: another conspiracy theory **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 3, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129 "2002-05-03T19:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/1 "2002-05-03T19:04:40Z")
I don’t know whether to believe [this](http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm) or not… - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/2 "2002-05-03T19:18:54Z")
That’s…interesting… ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/3 "2002-05-03T19:33:30Z")
This was thoroughly debunked within the last month in GQ. There is also a page devoted to it on Snopes. It is, in a word, bunk. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/4 "2002-05-03T19:34:36Z")
You don’t know whether to believe that or not? Sigh… No accounting for gullibility. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/5 "2002-05-03T19:51:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*You don’t know whether to believe that or not? > > Sigh… > > No accounting for gullibility. \*\* Sorry, too many years watching X-Files… 😉 Of course I don’t believe it. - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/6 "2002-05-03T20:17:18Z")
[Let’s stop this conspiracy theory before it starts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105370) in **General Questions** , 03-22-2002 through 04-15-2002. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/7 "2002-05-04T02:01:54Z")
Snopes… [http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/pentagon.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/pentagon.htm) ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/8 "2002-05-04T20:19:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\* Of course I don’t believe it. > \*\* So you started a thread about it… why? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/9 "2002-05-04T20:46:42Z")
If nothing else, manny, it provides us with another in a seemingly endless series of opportunities to mock the French. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/10 "2002-05-06T04:17:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\*So you started a thread about it… why? \*\* Like **Manny** , I’m curious as to why you started this thread. You said you don’t believe the story you linked to, so why bother? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/11 "2002-05-06T12:00:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Can you explain how a Boeing 757-200, weighing nearly 100 tons and travelling at a minimum speed of 250 miles an hour\* only damaged the outside of the Pentagon? The Pentagon is a hardened reinforced concrete structure. An aircraft is mostly thin sheets of aluminum or titanium around a metal skeleton and jet fuel. When one hits the other, one of these things is going to disintigrate into a lot of little peices. Try to guess which one. I think you’ll be plesently surprised. There was an experiment where scientists shot an F-4 Phantom along a rocket sled at 700 mph into a 6’ concrete wall to test the effects of a jet crashing into a nuclear power plants reactor building. IIRC, the jet penetrated less than 12" and was completely destroyed. As in the bigest peice they could find was about the size of a lunchbox. Just in case there was still a question in anyones mind. ---
**Author:** ![LokiTheDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@LokiTheDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LokiTheDog)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-boeing-another-conspiracy-theory/107129/12 "2002-05-06T12:05:40Z")
I could’ve sworn we shot this to shreds just last week.