Section K

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[edit] The Pentagon

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• K.1. Building Defense
  • • K.1.100. An emergency drill covering the crash of a hijacked plane into the Pentagon took place in October 2000
      • K.1.100a. And the exercise was authored by Flight 77 pilot Charles Burlingame
    • K.1.101. How was it possible the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began?
    • K.1.102. Flight 77 should have been shot down by the Pentagon's missile batteries
    • K.1.103. Why was there no response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away and home to Air National Guard units charged with defending the skies above the nation's capital?

• K.2. Building Damage
  • • K.2.100. Why did Flight 77 make a complicated 330-degree turn around the Pentagon, before hitting it in an area that had recently been reinforced?
    • K.2.101. Why did the attack strike the just-renovated side, which was largely empty and opposite from the high command?
    • K.2.102. Flight 77 could not have smashed through all three Pentagon rings

• K.3. Plane Identification and Disintegration
  • • K.3.100. Washington Air Traffic Controllers thought the plane was a military jet
    • K.3.101. CNN reporter Jamie McIntyre said: "there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon"
    • K.3.102. There was no wreckage identifiable as coming from a 757
    • K.3.103. How could the passengers bodies be identified, when the plane was destroyed by fire?
    • K.3.104. Where were the passengers luggage and personal effects?

• K.4. Cover-Up Allegations
  • • K.4.100. The Pentagon lawn was quickly covered in sand and gravel. What were they trying to hide?
    • K.4.101. Tell-tale remains of the real plane that hit the Pentagon were placed in a box, covered in a blue tarpaulin, and quickly moved away

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