# What really hit the Pentagon on 9/11/01?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [September 1, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729 "2013-09-01T14:56:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@georgewk10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/georgewk10)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/1 "2013-09-01T14:56:03Z")
An aluminum plane could not have done that damage.
[http://www.truthweather.com/images/pentagon/](http://www.truthweather.com/images/pentagon/)
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### Author:  [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/2 "2013-09-01T14:58:20Z")
Reported.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/3 "2013-09-01T15:01:06Z")
Yes it could and it did. It was going several hundred miles an hour, what did you think it would do, bounce off?
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/4 "2013-09-01T15:11:28Z")
**georgewk10** , you are already on notice that your post-and-run style is not appropriate to this forum.
I considered just closing this thread, although I will cut you some slack on the grounds that you actually made an assertion.
However, a bold assertion with nothing to support is is not actually a debate. Linking to some nutcase’s website is not the same thing as actually providing you own argument. If you do not provide more substance to your argument, I will close this thread and if you continue to post these drive-by threads, you will begin collecting warnings for that behavior.
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_HINT: do a (Google) search on the SDMB looking for “Pentagon” or “9/11” and you will find lots of refutations of the website to which you linked._
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/5 "2013-09-01T15:15:19Z")
Q: What really hit the Pentagon on 9/11/01?
A: _An industrial airliner._
/thread
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/6 "2013-09-01T15:25:19Z")
> [@georgewk10](#):
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> What really hit the Pentagon on 9/11/01?
Flight 77. That was easy to figure.
That truther site is nuts.
First, the light poles that fell in front of the Pentagon demonstrate damage that could only had been made by a wide passenger plane, not a fighter jet and even less a missile.
Second, the damage on the building do match the passenger jet that crashed.
And finally, witnesses, physical and DNA evidence showed that indeed a passenger plane crashed in the Pentagon.
Here is a video with image evidence and computer models that should be obligatory for all truthers to see why all the mountain of evidence shows that passenger flight 77 did crash into the Pentagon:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVDdjLQkUV8)
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/7 "2013-09-01T15:25:47Z")
The OP needs to acquire a passing knowledge of physics. Not the really hard stuff where you gotta buy books and actually go to school, but the basics of things like mass, force, velocity, and kinetic energy; you know, the things that make other things go boom.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/8 "2013-09-01T15:26:02Z")
Here: I’ve done some of your work for you.
[The plane that hit the pentagon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273359)
[Missile hitting the Pentagon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279774)
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/9 "2013-09-01T15:27:29Z")
Would the OP care to enlighten us on what actually happened to the plane that everyone else believes hit the Pentagon? Did it disappear into the Bermuda Triangle?
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### Author:  [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/10 "2013-09-01T15:29:36Z")
What really hit was an asteroid cleverly disguised as a commercial airliner.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/11 "2013-09-01T15:37:05Z")
It was a giant, rocket-powered knish.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/12 "2013-09-01T15:37:20Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> Would the OP care to enlighten us on what actually happened to the plane that everyone else believes hit the Pentagon? Did it disappear into the Bermuda Triangle?
Of course, not. The Bermuda Triangle is much too far East and South. It was actually a more recent test from the Philadelphia Experiment. The plane and its passengers will show up in Virginian, (or, possibly, West Virginian), airspace any time now.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/13 "2013-09-01T15:38:11Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> It was a giant, rocket-powered knish.
I think trolly posts like this need to sleep with the knishes.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/14 "2013-09-01T15:48:11Z")
Well, to be fair, when the NIST released their shill report, they did deny that the towers had potato pancacked.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/15 "2013-09-01T15:50:57Z")
It’s true. Truthiness was not invented by truthers. 🙂
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### Author:  [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/16 "2013-09-01T16:04:08Z")
I never understood this part of the conspiracy. The truthers admit planes crashed into the towers, so why should the government fake a plane crash here?
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/17 "2013-09-01T16:05:51Z")
> [@marshmallow](#):
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> I never understood this part of the conspiracy. The truthers admit planes crashed into the towers, so why should the government fake a plane crash here?
_ **Because** _, god dammit.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/18 "2013-09-01T16:06:27Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> It was a giant, rocket-powered knish.
Supposedly there was potato residue detected in the area, but since all the evidence mysteriously disappeared it’s very difficult to prove.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/19 "2013-09-01T16:06:45Z")
> [@marshmallow](#):
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> I never understood this part of the conspiracy. The truthers admit planes crashed into the towers, so why should the government fake a plane crash here?
I thought the planes were a distraction to hide the controlled detonations.
Good Lord, those people are idiots.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-really-hit-the-pentagon-on-9-11-01/667729/20 "2013-09-01T16:09:15Z")
> [@marshmallow](#):
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> I never understood this part of the conspiracy. The truthers admit planes crashed into the towers, so why should the government fake a plane crash here?
I remember seeing groups of truthers that claimed that both towers and the Pentagon were hit by missiles. More reasonable ones (I can not believe I said that) affirm that the planes hitting the towers were military planes disguised as civilian ones.
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