n.
A conspiracy theorist who believes that no planes were involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Also: no-planer. —adj.
Example Citations:
David Shayler had become part of a rare and extreme faction of the 9/11 truth movement—a "no planer"—and journalists who would normally find the movement a little too dry to cover were suddenly entranced.
—Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: http://books.google.com/books?id=U5bs6Kqwux4C&pg=PT114&dq=%22no+planer%22, Riverhead, May 12, 2011
But in 2005, Haupt started preaching a theory, referred to disparagingly by other conspiracists as the "no-planer" hypothesis, that the footage of jetliners hitting the WTC seen live on TV that morning was actually of holograms.
—Jeremy Stahl, " You're Not Paranoid if It's True: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/trutherism/2011/09/youre_not_paranoid_if_its_true.single.html," Slate, September 7, 2011
Earliest Citation:
Contrary to the no-planer's [sic] claims, and despite the blurring, the components of the airplane can be discerned in the high quality movie...The no-planers have claimed the above piece of fuselage is planted evidence because it is not burned.
—Eric Salter, " The WTC Impacts: 767s or 'Whatzits'?: http://www.questionsquestions.net/WTC/767orwhatzit.html," www.questionsquestions.net, May 11, 2004
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Terrorism
New words. 2013.