Reply #122: You actually

[k-robjoe]

have a very difficult flightpath either way:

If you go to this site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/pages-en/trj-appr.html
and have a look at the top picture ( and click the box for flightpath, and the one for lamp-posts ), it seems clear that it must have past over the Annex.

But if you go to the pic below it, it seems like it might have been able to go to the right of the Annex.

I think it´s just a "trick" of the perspective that makes it seem like it this. But even if we say that it could have passed on the side, we must count in a couple of meters (5(?)) clearance between the Annex and the left wing, so what we get instead of the abrupt descent, would be an abrupt turn to the left and then straightening out. Abrupt enough to avoid hitting this :



( Not this one, but the other one just like it, that would be furter to the right in this pic, and that the plane just barely missed. )#

If the plane had hit this, it would have sheared the wing off, and the plane would have been "thrust"(?) to the ground.

Now when you have a look a this :



you´ll notice that the plane passed right between two of these huge traffic signs.

So with this kind of turn, you would still have a breathtaking path.


( # There´s a pic of it here : http://pentagoncab.multiservers.com/index.html (7th pic))