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U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' Pilot
Questions 9/11
Alan Miller
http://www.opednews.com
Thursday September 6, 2007
U.S. Navy ‘Top Gun’ pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad,
started questioning the official account of 9/11 within days of
the event. “It just didn’t make any sense to me,”
he said. And now 6 years after 9/11 he says, “When one starts
using his own mind, and not what one was told, there is very little
to believe in the official story.”
Now retired, Commander Kolstad was a top-rated fighter pilot
during his 20-year Navy career. Early in his career, he was accorded
the honor of being selected to participate in the Navy’s
‘Top Gun’ air combat school, officially known as the
U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. The Tom Cruise movie, “Top
Gun” reflects the experience of the young Navy pilots at
the school. Eleven years later, Commander Kolstad was further
honored by being selected to become a ‘Top Gun’ adversary
instructor. While in the Navy, he flew F-4 Phantoms, A-4 Skyhawks,
and F-14 Tomcats and completed 250 aircraft carrier landings.
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Commander Kolstad had a second career after his 20 years of
Navy active and reserve service and served as a commercial airline
pilot for 27 years, flying for American Airlines and other domestic
and international careers. He flew Boeing 727, 757 and 767, McDonnell
Douglas MD-80, and Fokker F-100 airliners. He has flown a total
of over 23,000 hours in his career.
Commander Kolstad is especially critical of the account of American
Airlines Flight 77 that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon. He
says, “At the Pentagon, the pilot of the Boeing 757 did
quite a feat of flying. I have 6,000 hours of flight time in Boeing
757’s and 767’s and I could not have flown it the
way the flight path was described.”
Commander Kolstad adds, “I was also a Navy fighter pilot
and Air Combat Instructor and have experience flying low altitude,
high speed aircraft. I could not have done what these beginners
did. Something stinks to high heaven!”
He points to the physical evidence at the Pentagon impact site
and asks in exasperation, “Where is the damage to the wall
of the Pentagon from the wings? Where are the big pieces that
always break away in an accident? Where is all the luggage? Where
are the miles and miles of wire, cable, and lines that are part
and parcel of any large aircraft? Where are the steel engine parts?
Where is the steel landing gear? Where is the tail section that
would have broken into large pieces?”
But no major element of the official account of 9/11 is spared
from Commander Kolstad’s criticism. Regarding the alleged
impact site of United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, PA,
he asks, “Where is any of the wreckage? Of all the pictures
I have seen, there is only a hole! Where is any piece of a crashed
airplane? Why was the area cordoned off, and no inspection allowed
by the normal accident personnel? Where is any evidence at all?”
Commander Kolstad also questions many aspects of the attack on
the World Trade Center. “How could a steel and concrete
building collapse after being hit by a Boeing 767? Didn’t
the engineers design it to withstand a direct hit from a Boeing
707, approximately the same size and weight of the 767? The evidence
just doesn’t add up."
"Why did the second building collapse before the first one,
which had been burning for 20 minutes longer after a direct hit,
especially when the second one hit was just a glancing blow? If
the fire was so hot, then why were people looking out the windows
and in the destroyed areas? Why have so many members of the New
York Fire Department reported seeing or hearing many ‘explosions’
before the buildings collapsed?”
Commander Kolstad summarized his frustration with the investigation
and disbelief of the official account of 9/11, “If one were
to act as an accident investigator, one would look at the evidence,
and then construct a plausible scenario as to what led to the
accident. In this case, we were told the story and then the evidence
was built to support the story. What happened to any intelligent
investigation? Every question leads to another question that has
not been answered by anyone in authority. This is just the beginning
as to why I don’t believe the official ‘story’
and why I want the truth to be told.”
Commander Kolstad is just one of the many military and commercial
pilots who have publicly expressed serious concerns about the
official account of 9/11. Statements from more than 30 other pilots
are available at http://PatriotsQuestion911.com .
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