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911: In Plane Site
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Wikipedia article
'911: In Plane Site: Director's Cut' is a 2004 documentary which promotes 9/11 conspiracy theories. Photographs and video footage from the September 11 attacks are presented and the documentary claims that the public was not given all of the facts surrounding the terrorist attack. It was directed by William Lewis.
Claims
The films ask a series of leading questions about 9/11 conspiracy theories. Despite the film's assertions that "a jetliner is too large to fit into the hole made in The Pentagon," others have refuted this claim[http://911review.com/errors/pentagon/smallhole.html ERROR:'The Pentagon Attack Left Only a Small Impact Hole'] by showing that a hole of over in width was made on the first floor. Films such as 'In Plane Site' and 'Loose Change' only refer to the smaller hole on the second floor.
Reviews
A short review in 'The Portland Mercury' says of 'In Plane Site', "it features both an exceedingly annoying crackpot theorist and outlandish, unsubstantiated allegations about blurrily pixelized photos that don't really show anything".[http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=32312&category=22191 portlandmercury.com review]
Another review at Heraldextra.com states, "Nor does the presentation explain, if the attack planes were military, what happened to the commercial planes. It hints that they might have been shot down over the ocean. The trouble is that they weren't necessarily over the ocean. And who remembers an Atlantic crash of an airliner where debris such as luggage did not wash up all up and down the Eastern seaboard? If airliners went down in the sea, the secret could not have been kept for long. It's fine to be entertained by this stuff, even if it is a bit morbid. But let's not lose our senses."[http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/in-our-view-another-addiction-conspiracy-theory/article_cc6da6b3-954a-51d1-aba3-2f29e4f87708.html heraldextra.com review] In the documentary von Kleist says the purpose of the documentary was not to provide explanations, but to raise questions:
You know, there are those that see these pictures and hear this information for the first time. They inevitably ask the question, "Well if the plane didn't hit the Pentagon, where did it go?" The answer is, I don't know where it went. For all I know, it could be sitting in 200 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean. But then again, I didn't say that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. That was [the mainstream media]. The question should be, if Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, then where is it?"
Television coverage
* November 11, 2004 Fox News played portions of the video while interviewing Jimmy Walter on the topic of alternate 9-11 theories.
* January 4, 2006 Australian broadcast television station Channel Ten.
* September 9, 2006 Broadcast on Australian television station Channel Ten. Broadcast resulted in complaints from MP Michael Danby. Ninemsn.com news article.
* May 17, 2006 CNN Headline News "Glenn Beck on Headline News" played portions while interviewing Dave von Kleist, the producer of the video.
* December 16, 2006 TV3 in New Zealand airs the documentary.
See also
* American Airlines Flight 11
* United Airlines Flight 175
* American Airlines Flight 77
* United Airlines Flight 93
References
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