Whatever analogy you care to make, if you think the plane did not hit, you are left with no other logical alternative than a flyover.

The only other option, I guess, is to suggest exotic weaponry, or that there was no plane - both ideas requiring a wild and completely unnecessary disinfo conspiracy theory, involving countless witnesses including previously unknown ones that they randomly found on the street. And this conspiracy would have to involve CIT as well of course.

The Pentagon attack had been successfully marginalized and mired in confusion when CIT showed up on the scene in 2006. They did not not need to introduce such an elaborate north of the Citgo hoax.

Kevin Barrett put this rather succinctly regarding the "honeypot" theory in general:

The idea that the government will someday release a high quality video clearly showing a large plane crashing into the Pentagon, thus neutralizing the movement, no longer holds water. The reason for this is because the Controlled Demolition aspect of the movement is indeed at full juggernaut strength now, and no one can stop it. Even if the government did release such a video, it doesn't invalidate the idea that 9/11 was an inside job, as even Jim Hoffman argues that it was likely the original Flight 77 but taken over by remote control. And a lay person who is convinced about the WTC demolition is not going to see the Pentagon plane crash video and think, "Oh gee, the whole movement must be wrong about the WTC also."

The powers-that-be missed their golden opportunity to release such a video in 2006, with the explosion of the movement around the 5th anniversary and the viral success of Loose Change. The fact that they didn't do it then indicates to me it's not going to happen. And even before that, they had the perfect opportunity to release such a video in 2002 -- especially when Meyssan's book was setting bestseller records in France and raising hell on al-Jazeera. The fact that to this day they have not released such a video settles the case: No passenger plane hit the Pentagon.

The same logic applies to the notion that the north side witnesses were all "paid".

Anybody can watch the witness interviews and judge for themselves. I seriously can't imagine how you are able to watch regular working class people like Darius Prather, Donald Carter, Ed Paik, Robert Turcios, etc. etc., all recounting their accounts in such a relaxed and lucid manner, yet independently corroborating each other at such a high level, and then seriously go on to suggest that these guys who prove the official story FALSE are actually "paid" to be "in on it", based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever, and that you would consider that somehow productive.

The fact that you think it's a "waste of time and energy" to discuss evidence this strong and important is even more perplexing, as that seems to be the same reaction to this info that I have seen from the folks over at truthaction.

The way I see it, the now voluminous evidence that the plane flew on the north side of the CITGO gas station - and the inevitable implication of that evidence - has a life of its own, and will not be going away as long as there are questions about 9/11.