# WTC "Approaching Jet" Photo: Real or Fake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205 "2001-09-27T22:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/21 "2001-09-28T07:06:00Z")
Turns out he has been present at many major disasters! [http://bearprincess.unimatrix01.org/extinction.jpg](http://bearprincess.unimatrix01.org/extinction.jpg) (courtesy of The Bear Princess from the [somethingawful.com](http://somethingawful.com) forums) ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/22 "2001-09-28T07:27:22Z")
One last picture of the WTC guy… [http://fasdar.homestead.com/files/saigon.jpg](http://fasdar.homestead.com/files/saigon.jpg) (courtesy of fasdar from the [somethingawful.com](http://somethingawful.com) forums) ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/23 "2001-09-28T12:27:27Z")
It’s Zelig! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/24 "2001-09-28T12:37:52Z")
**Vinnie** : 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/25 "2001-09-28T15:45:56Z")
The kicker for me was that the observation deck of an 110 story building has a railing you can hop over. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/26 "2001-09-28T18:38:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KeithB \* > \*\*Wow! A quadruple simul-post! Is that a record? \*\* Nope. The original WTC thread was the recipient of both a [decapost](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=86458&pagenumber=3) and an octapost (concerning the pentagon) in the previous page. ---
**Author:** ![davesink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@davesink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davesink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/27 "2001-09-28T18:45:48Z")
OMG, this is getting spooky! [http://davesink.com/ishtar.html](http://davesink.com/ishtar.html) ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/28 "2001-09-30T01:15:06Z")
This reminds me of the late 70s when Roslyn Carter ACTUALLY had a picture taken with John Wayne Gacy and Jim Jones [or maybe they weren’t the ones but they were two actual mass murders way before they did their crimes] and SNL put poor Roslyn with Charles Manson, Richard Speck, Hitler and a bunch of other. It was too funny. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/29 "2001-09-30T01:35:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jmonster \* > \*\*The kicker for me was that the observation deck of an 110 story building has a railing you can hop over. \*\* For the record, the outdoor deck of the trade center was in the **middle** of the building, about half a story above the roof. So yes, you **could** hop over the railing, but you’d then have a ways to sprint to get to the actual edge. Even then, I think there was a sort of parapet formed by the roof being lower than the sides. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/30 "2001-09-30T06:12:52Z")
… send them this one: [http://members.home.com/mpaulin/Or\_not.jpg](http://members.home.com/mpaulin/Or_not.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bluecrayola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@bluecrayola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecrayola)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/31 "2001-09-30T10:05:35Z")
Also, I didn’t think the observation deck of the WTC even opened before 10am ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/32 "2001-09-30T10:31:54Z")
Lemme see, the first aircraft was banked over and came downwards to hit the first tower, and it struck very near the top so the one portrayed could not be that one. So it must be pretending to be the second one, but I doubt that all that many people, if any at all, escaped from the building from above the impact point. If you had seen the first impact(and likely run like hell), and then been just above the second I don’t think that saving your camera would be a priority. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205/33 "2001-09-30T21:59:40Z")
davesink, that was brilliant! I’m peein’ meself laughing… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-approaching-jet-photo-real-or-fake/84205.md?page=1)