Analysis of 9/11 Footage and Effects

Check this out.

It's, uh, 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. Go ahead.

Completely in one side and out the other.

It just disappeared.

Or at least it's known.

It disappeared like a, like a bad special effect.

It-

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 Hezarkhani. Voices.

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 Hezarkhani.

Here's Hezarkhani, and

here's Fairbanks.

In Hezarkhani, as the plane enters the tower, the

engines turn into puff balls. We are to believe

that these are the engines themselves or building materials

or something.

But whatever the puff balls 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 puff ball is well above the left

wing.

The over-under puff ball is irreconcilable with

reality but has an easy explanation in video

compositing.

The mask was in the wrong place.