Analysis of 9/11 Footage and Special Effects

It's like being in the fourth dimension.

Evan Fairbanks shot some very famous footage

and appeared on ABC News the night of 9-11.

Watch how the aircraft penetrates the building.

Completely in one side and out the other.

It just disappeared.

It disappeared like a bad special effect.

The airplane did disappear like a bad special effect.

Exactly like a bad special effect.

The plane doesn't break,

twist, bend,

crumple, explode or even slow down.

The building explodes from within long after the plane appears

to go in.

A good special effect would have parts exploding and

bouncing off and tumbling to the streets below.

I'm not sure it's even possible.

I certainly can't animate a realistic airplane crash,

but I can do one that's as good as Hezirkhani.

The result is footage that's every bit as convincing as the original

ghost plane footage, which is to say not completely convincing.

In both shots we don't see any parts

of the airplane breaking or bending or twisting.

Another thing that was bad about the special effect in Fairbanks

is a blatant contradiction with the special effect in Hezirkhani.

Here's Hezirkhani.

And here's Fairbanks.

In Hezirkhani, as the plane enters the tower,

the engines turn into puffballs.

We are to believe that these are the engines themselves

or building materials or something.

But whatever the puffballs are meant to represent,

notice that they are clearly underneath the wings as the engines were.

Now, look at the Fairbanks video.

The location of the wing entrance can easily be marked,

and obviously the puffball is well above the left wing.

The over-under puffball is irreconcilable with reality,

but has an easy explanation in video compositing.

The mask was in the wrong place.