That is what you may think you are doing. What I am doing is dispelling analysis and conclusions that I know are based on incomplete or inaccurate assumptions.
The problem is, your reply is chock-full of assumptions, with many of them being uninformed and inaccurate assumptions that you may not even believe you are making. Let me show you:
This interpretation has explicit assumptions that you are attributing that the witness did not state, namely that the airplane remained overhead for its entire flight path. It also assumes that an airplane cannot fly low and still be over a person’s head. Both are incorrect assumptions.
That is an extremely uninformed assumption, and you even tell us why: You are not a pilot. In fact, it actually is quite easy to fly that low to the ground due to something called “aerodynamic ground effect”. This effect actually increases the lift on the airplane due to the “cushion of air” it is riding upon between itself and the ground. In addition, this ground effect artificially enhances the pitch stability of the airplane, making it easier to maintain a constant altitude than when you are “up and away”. Finally, the other thing that makes your assumption incorrect is that myself, and many other engineers and pilots, have actually flown much larger airplanes than a 757 (like an MD-11) at altitudes of 20, 10, and even 5 feet above the ground during flight tests. So to recap, this assumption you make is not based on facts and/or data about the stability and control characteristics of large transport aircraft.
Those are blatant assumptions that you have no means to backup. Moreover, if a hijacker’s express mission was to maximize damage by hitting the Pentagon, don’t you think he would HAVE to be trained to fly that profile? It only stands to reason if you want someone to do something, with a high degree of assurance, that you would wish to train them. So the logic in the second part of your assumption is terribly flawed.
You assume it lost its wings but have no evidence that this is so.
This is an assumption based on what you believe to be the fracture mechanics of airplanes hitting concrete buildings at high speed. The assumption is incorrect, and the F-4 video proves it is incorrect.
I already did. See above.
And the same assumption is made in NYC by conspiracy theorists who claim witnesses told the truth about hearing “explosions” or even worse “bombs”. You can’t have it both ways. Either you accept all their testimony and qualify the parts you use, or you accept none of it.
That is either an incorrect assumption or based on false facts. The following page clearly shows where the identified parts came from on a 757 engine:
http://www.911myths.com/html/757_wreckage.html
Incorrect assumption that does not take into account the clear photographic evidence in the link above. Have you researched the American Airlines livery (external airplane color scheme)? It is polished aluminum with red, white, and blue trim around the fuselage. Precisely the colorings we see in this photo:

Not to mention this photo:

In this photo above, if you look in the background you can even see the red letter “c” from the airline’s name “American” which appears on the side of the airplane, as seen in this photo:
So you cannot deny that this evidence pretty much trashes your assumptions. Clearly that red “c” is a match. How do you explain that away?
One assumption of what it suggest, and not the most likely one when you understand fracture mechanics of an airplane flying into concrete at 500 mph.
You said you were not a pilot. So for you to make this assumption is disingenuous. You cannot and do not know, and as I explained about ground effect above, this assumption is wrong.
True enough, but what my profession and training does make me is more qualified than folks like yourself to arrive at conclusions about aircraft accidents. As I have shown above, your assumptions about these technical issues are often incorrect, and by thinking you know something that you are not trained in, such assumptions can (and often do) lead to incorrect conclusions.
Yes, and the operative word here is “peer”. You are not qualified to review the analysis I have presented to counter your assumptions, therefore any attempt by you to show my analysis is incorrect would be futile. However, another aerospace engineer trained in aircraft and aircraft accidents (i.e. my peer) could, indeed, review my analysis for accuracy.
RMT