{"id":1261,"date":"2007-09-16T01:47:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/us-navy-top-gun-pilot-questions-911\/1261\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T01:47:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T01:47:30","slug":"us-navy-top-gun-pilot-questions-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/us-navy-top-gun-pilot-questions-911\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy ‘Top Gun’ Pilot Questions 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/font><\/em>Alan Miller<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

U.S. Navy \u2018Top Gun\u2019 pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad, started questioning the official account of 9\/11 within days of the event. <\/span>\u201cIt just didn\u2019t make any sense to me,\u201d he said. <\/span>And now 6 years after 9\/11 he says, \u201cWhen one starts using his own mind, and not what one was told, there is very little to believe in the official story.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Now retired, Commander Kolstad was a top-rated fighter pilot during his 20-year Navy career. <\/span>Early in his career, he was accorded the honor of being selected to participate in the Navy\u2019s \u2018Top Gun\u2019 air combat school, officially known as the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. <\/span>The Tom Cruise movie, \u201cTop Gun<\/em>\u201d reflects the experience of the young Navy pilots at the school. <\/span>Eleven years later, Commander Kolstad was further honored by being selected to become a \u2018Top Gun\u2019 adversary instructor. <\/span>While in the Navy, he flew F-4 Phantoms, A-4 Skyhawks<\/span>, and F-14 Tomcats and completed 250 aircraft carrier landings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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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. <\/span>He flew Boeing 727, 757 and 767, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, and Fokker F-100 airliners. <\/span>He has flown a total of over 23,000 hours in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Commander Kolstad is especially critical of the account of American Airlines Flight 77 that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon. <\/span>He says, \u201cAt the Pentagon, the pilot of the Boeing 757 did quite a feat of flying. <\/span>I have 6,000 hours of flight time in Boeing 757\u2019s and 767\u2019s and I could not have flown it the way the flight path was described.\u201d
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Commander Kolstad adds, \u201cI was also a Navy fighter pilot and Air Combat Instructor and have experience flying low altitude, high speed aircraft. <\/span>I could not have done what these beginners did. <\/span>Something stinks to high heaven!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

He points to the physical evidence at the Pentagon impact site and asks in exasperation, \u201cWhere is the damage to the wall of the Pentagon from the wings? <\/span>Where are the big pieces that always break away in an accident? <\/span>Where is all the luggage? <\/span>Where are the miles and miles of wire, cable, and lines that are part and parcel of any large aircraft? <\/span>Where are the steel engine parts? <\/span>Where is the steel landing gear? <\/span>Where is the tail section that would have broken into large pieces?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

But no major element of the official account of 9\/11 is spared from Commander Kolstad\u2019s criticism. <\/span>Regarding the alleged impact site of United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, PA, he asks, \u201cWhere is any of the wreckage? <\/span>Of all the pictures I have seen, there is only a hole! <\/span>Where is any piece of a crashed airplane? <\/span>Why was the area cordoned off, and no inspection allowed by the normal accident personnel? <\/span>Where is any evidence at all?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Commander Kolstad also questions many aspects of the attack on the World Trade Center. <\/span>\u201cHow could a steel and concrete building collapse after being hit by a Boeing 767? <\/span>Didn\u2019t the engineers design it to withstand a direct hit from a Boeing 707, approximately the same size and weight of the 767? <\/span>The evidence just doesn\u2019t add up.” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“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? <\/span>If the fire was so hot, then why were people looking out the windows and in the destroyed areas? <\/span>Why have so many members of the New York Fire Department reported seeing or hearing many \u2018explosions\u2019 before the buildings collapsed?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Commander Kolstad summarized his frustration with the investigation and disbelief of the official account of 9\/11, \u201cIf 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. <\/span>In this case, we were told the story and then the evidence was built to support the story. <\/span>What happened to any intelligent investigation? <\/span>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\u2019t believe the official \u2018story\u2019 and why I want the truth to be told.\u201d
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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. <\/span>Statements from more than 30 other pilots are available at http:\/\/PatriotsQuestion911.com<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Alan Miller\u00a0 U.S. Navy \u2018Top Gun\u2019 pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad, started questioning the official account of 9\/11 within days of the event. \u201cIt just didn\u2019t make any sense to me,\u201d he said. And now 6 years after 9\/11 he says, \u201cWhen one starts using his own mind, and not what one was told, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}