'Single Plane' Theory

[Dave Monroe]

New Oliver Stone 9/11 Film Introduces 'Single Plane'
Theory

August 8, 2006 | Issue 42•32

NEW YORK—Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone
said Monday that his new film World Trade Center
unveils "compelling and controversial" new evidence
that a single plane was responsible for all four
collisions in New York, Washington, D.C., and
Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Get ready to go through the looking glass here,
people," Stone told reporters at a Manhattan press
conference before an advance screening of the movie,
which premieres Wednesday. "The film you are about to
see is going to blow the lid off the 9/11 Commission's
official report and expose a conspiracy that reaches
the highest levels of government."

World Trade Center, which stars Nicolas Cage as a
dedicated Port Authority officer who stumbles on
secret evidence amid the rubble and carnage of the
terrorist attack, tells a story quite different from
what Stone called "the official government line" about
the event. According to the film, at 8:46 a.m., a lone
commercial airliner flew diagonally through the North
Tower of the World Trade Center, maintained in a
circular holding pattern for approximately 17 minutes,
then struck the South Tower before heading to the
Pentagon.

After its collision with the center of American
military operations, the so-called "magic plane"—which
variously and ingeniously identified itself to
air-traffic controllers as "American Airlines Flight
11," "United Airlines Flight 175," "American Airlines
Flight 77" and "United Airlines Flight 93"—took to the
skies once again, landing at a top-secret "black-ops"
Air Force base in West Virginia, where it was reloaded
with a group of clones from another shadowy government
program that Stone described as "shocking."

Stone, who said he did not have time to explore the
clone angle in the three-and-a-half-hour film, plans
to do so in the sequel, September 12.

In a gripping sequence, undercover agents transmit
pre-recorded cell-phone messages intended to fool
loved ones and relatives with a false cover story as
the aircraft heads to its final, prearranged crash
site in the fields of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Viewers of the advance screening agreed that the most
striking and pivotal scene was Cage's character's
discovery of security-camera footage that affirmed the
single-plane theory. Showing his skeptical but
supportive wife the footage frame by frame, Cage
notices that the so-called "first" plane, which,
according to official, whitewashed reports, detonated
upon impact with the North Tower in the initial
collision, actually banks "back and to the left,
circling for about 17 minutes, and then diving into
the other tower." He repeats the phrase over and over
in increasing intensity, toggling back and forth
between individual frames while the music swells and
the emotional drama rises to a fever pitch.

"After seeing that sequence, there's no way anyone can
ever deny again that there was only one plane in the
airspace over the eastern seaboard that morning,"
Stone said.

"I am the most important filmmaker working today," he
added.

Early public reaction to the film has been skeptical.
Many 9/11 conspiracy theorists claim Stone is
presenting an exploitative, far-fetched, and
manipulative Hollywood version of the pain and
suffering—including eye strain and carpal tunnel
syndrome—they have undergone during their countless
hours on the Internet in the tragedy's aftermath.

Despite the controversy, Stone stands by his film.
"This is a story that needs to be told, in a reality
that only I can bring to the big screen," Stone said.
"I realize it will be hard to accept for those unable
to confront the truth, but I can't hide my head in the
sand like some goddamn ostrich. To sin by silence when
we should protest makes cowards out of men."

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