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Originally Posted by willravel
If the plane was a Boeing 757-200, it would actually had to pull up 25' from the first frame to create the hole in all of the pictures. I think we can agree that the plane was on a decreasing altitude. I'm pretty sure it wasn't pulling up.
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Why not? Some of the witnesses said they thought it skipped on the ground before it hit the building. Wouldn't it be consistent to say that at the point of the picture the plane is at or around it's lowest point and the pilot is pulled up to keep from crashing prematurely? I can easily envision the plane approaching the ground several hundred yards out, the pilot noticing it and pulling up slightly (or maybe not so slightly given the amount of rise over the distance) to make sure that he would make impact with the building before the ground. Rather than the slow steady decent that I posited before, what if there's a "hump" in the trajectory where he approached the ground (getting within a few feet to explain the "skipping" statements) and then rose as he got closer? That's entirely consistent with the physical evidence as presented.