DUE Friday 1/26 Debunking Assignment - The Pentagon

Big Plane, Small Holes

Claim: Short summary in one or two sentences.

In the side of the Pentagon there where two holes right after the attack. There was a 90 foot whole in the building wall. In ring three there was a big round whole in the wall. Both of those holes were to small to have been made by a Boeing 757. How is it that a plane that is 125 feet wide and 155 feet long fit through a hole that was only 16 feet across.

Fact: Short summary in one or two sentences.

So when Flight 77 hit the wall it created a 90 foot in the building. They say that the reason why the hole made by the jet was 90 feet wide was because there were pieces of the wall falling off. One reason why they say that there is only a hole on the wall is because both of the wings were damaged because it hit light posts on it way into the building, and that the reason why there is no debris from the wings is because the fuel that was stored in the them got ignited and disintegrated them.

What do I think:

I think that the disintegration of both wings is possible, but I would think that light the surrounding vegetation on fire.
I don't believe that a plane that is 125 feet wide only made a whole that was only 16 feet wide. Even that’s not a big enough hole to have been made be a Boeing 757.