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everybody saw a jet hit the pentagon. there were plane parts, body
parts, luggage... the whole 9 yards.

  That's not what Jamie McIntire reported!

I watched people on TV Monday night describe what they saw... and how you people threatend and harrased them.

Your delusional!  The Govt threatened people and confiscated 80
different video tapes and have released only one that showed
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That's not what the people on tv said. They watched it hit the
building.
Gary Bauer, “I was in a massive traffic jam, hadn’t moved more than a
hundred yards in twenty minutes. My office called to tell me about the
first plane in New York, the reaction was ‘horrible accident.’ And
then they called about the second plane, and clearly that meant
something much worse was going on. It was only then that I really
noticed where I was in that traffic jam. I was going past the
Pentagon, really inching a yard or so every couple of minutes. I had
just passed the closest place the Pentagon is to the exit on 395 . . .
when all of a sudden I heard the roar of a jet engine. “I looked at
the woman sitting in the car next to me. She had this startled look on
her face. We were all thinking the same thing. We looked out the front
of our windows to try to see the plane, and it wasn’t until a few
seconds later that we realized the jet was coming up behind us on that
major highway. And it veered to the right into the Pentagon. The blast
literally rocked all of our cars. It was an incredible moment.[1]
Richard Benedetto was in his car on his way to work, stuck in traffic
just outside the Pentagon. He was listening -- in horror -- to an
account of what had just happened at the World Trade Center in New
York. "Then the plane flew right over my head. I said to myself, boy,
that plane is going awfully fast," Benedetto said. "That plane is
going to crash." The jet knocked over several light posts before it
smashed into the Pentagon. Other observers said it seemed to come in
full throttle with no attempt to slow down. "The noise was like an
artillery shell, not an explosion like a bomb," Benedetto said. Then
he saw a giant billow of smoke followed by a huge fireball, presumably
the exploding fuel from the crashed plane. "You couldn't even see the
building because there was so much smoke," said Benedetto. The sight
was shocking and chilling, even for a veteran reporter. "You don't
hand in your humanity when you get a press pass," he said.[2]
Donald R. Bouchoux "I was driving down Washington Boulevard (Route 27)
along the side of the Pentagon when the aircraft crossed about 200
yards in front of me and impacted the side of the building. There was
an enormous fireball, followed about two seconds later by debris
raining down. The car moved about a foot to the right when the shock
wave hit. I had what must have been an emergency oxygen bottle from
the airplane go flying down across the front of my Explorer and then a
second piece of jagged metal come down on the right side of the
car."[3]
Omar Campo, a Salvadorean, was cutting the grass on the other side of
the road when the plane flew over his head. "It was a passenger plane.
I think an American Airways plane," Mr Campo said. "I was cutting the
grass and it came in screaming over my head. I felt the impact. The
whole ground shook and the whole area was full of fire. I could never
imagine I would see anything like that here."[4]
Daryl Donley, saw the crash as he was driving on Washington Boulevard.
Among debris that was scattered as the plane crashed, he found a
"scorched green oxygen tank marked 'Cabin air. Airline use'" on the
road.[5] Mr. Donley also had a camera with him, and took some of the
first photographs after the crash.[6]
Penny Elgas exited I-395 and came on to Washington Boulevard, heading
towards the Memorial Bridge. She was "stuck in late morning rush hour
traffic, almost in front of the Pentagon. Traffic was at a standstill.
I heard a rumble, looked out my driver's side window and realized that
I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us from
over the road (Columbia Pike) that runs perpendicular to the road I
was on. The plane just appeared there- very low in the air, to the
side of (and not much above) the CITGO gas station that I never knew
was there. My first thought was “Oh My God, this must be World War
III!” In that split second, my brain flooded with adrenaline and I
watched everything play out in ultra slow motion, I saw the plane
coming in slow motion toward my car and then it banked in the
slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport. In the nano-second
that the plane was directly over the cars in front of my car, the
plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground and about 4-5
car lengths in front of me. It was far enough in front of me that I
saw the end of the wing closest to me and the underside of the other
wing as that other wing rocked slightly toward the ground. I remember
recognizing it as an American Airlines plane -- I could see the
windows and the color stripes. And I remember thinking that it was
just like planes in which I had flown many times but at that point it
never occurred to me that this might be a plane with passengers. In my
adrenaline-filled state of mind, I was overcome by my visual senses.
The day had started out beautiful and sunny and I had driven to work
with my car's sunroof open. I believe that I may have also had one or
more car windows open because the traffic wasn't moving anyway. At the
second that I saw the plane, my visual senses took over completely and
I did not hear or feel anything -- not the roar of the plane, or wind
force, or impact sounds. The plane seemed to be floating as if it were
a paper glider and I watched in horror as it gently rocked and slowly
glided straight into the Pentagon. At the point where the fuselage hit
the wall, it seemed to simply melt into the building. I saw a smoke
ring surround the fuselage as it made contact with the wall. It
appeared as a smoke ring that encircled the fuselage at the point of
contact and it seemed to be several feet thick. I later realized that
it was probably the rubble of churning bits of the plane and concrete.
The churning smoke ring started at the top of the fuselage and
simultaneously wrapped down both the right and left sides of the
fuselage to the underside, where the coiling rings crossed over each
other and then coiled back up to the top. Then it started over again
-- only this next time, I also saw fire, glowing fire in the smoke
ring. At that point, the wings disappeared into the Pentagon. And then
I saw an explosion and watched the tail of the plane slip into the
building. It was here that I closed my eyes for a moment and when I
looked back, the entire area was awash in thick black smoke."[7] (read
more... See photos)
Fred Gaskins recounted "(The jet) was flying fast and low and the
Pentagon was the obvious target," he said , who was driving to his job
as a national editor at USA TODAY near the Pentagon when the jet
passed about 150 feet overhead. "It was flying very smoothly and
calmly, without any hint that anything was wrong."[8]
Afework Hagos, a computer programmer, was on his way to work but stuck
in a traffic jam on Columbia Pike near the Pentagon when the plane
flew over. "There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car
as the plane came over. Everybody was running away in different
directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to
balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in."[4]
Asework Hagos, 26, of Arlington, was driving on Columbia Pike on his
way to work as a consultant for Nextel. He saw a plane flying very low
and close to nearby buildings. "I thought something was coming down on
me. I know this plane is going to crash. I've never seen a plane like
this so low." He said he looked at it and saw American Airline
insignia and when it made impact with the Pentagon initially he saw
smoke, then flames.[9]
Eugenio Hernandez, APTN - Latin American Desk, "I was in my Jeep
Cherokee, driving on Route 395 toward DC and listening to NPR. I saw
the plane coming down. I didn't have a camera with me. On the left
shoulder, I saw this tourist with a video camera. The man was with his
wife and son. They were from southern Virginia. He was freaked out
completely. He was not recording anything. The camera was facing the
ground. I jumped out of my car, pulled out one of my business cards,
and handed it to him. 'I work for a news agency. Please could I borrow
your camera?' I explained, 'I'm sure you will be rewarded.' He handed
me the camera, and I went across the road. No one stopped me. I was
holding my press badge on top of the camera while I was recording; I
walked as close as possible. I was maybe 300 feet from the
impact."[10]
Aydan Kizildrgli, an English language student who is a native of
Turkey, saw the jetliner bank slightly then strike a western wall of
the huge five-sided building that is the headquarters of the nation's
military. "There was a big boom," he said. "Everybody was in shock. I
turned around to the car behind me and yelled 'Did you see that?'
Nobody could believe it."[8]
Mary Lyman, who was on I-395, saw the airplane pass over at a "steep
angle toward the ground and going fast" and then saw the cloud of
smoke from the Pentagon.[11]
David Marra had turned his BMW off an I-395 exit to the highway just
west of the Pentagon when he saw an American Airlines jet swooping in,
its wings wobbly, looking like it was going to slam right into the
Pentagon: "It was 50 ft. off the deck when he came in. It sounded like
the pilot had the throttle completely floored. The plane rolled left
and then rolled right. Then he caught an edge of his wing on the
ground." There is a helicopter pad right in front of the side of the
Pentagon. The wing touched there, then the plane cartwheeled into the
building.[12]
Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a graveside service at Arlington
National Cemetery the morning of Sept. 11, when he mistakenly took the
Pentagon exit onto Washington Boulevard, putting him in a position to
witness American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. "The
traffic was very slow moving, and at one point just about at a
standstill," said McGraw, a Catholic priest at St. Anthony Parish in
Falls Church. "I was in the left hand lane with my windows closed. I
did not hear anything at all until the plane was just right above our
cars." McGraw estimates that the plane passed about 20 feet over his
car, as he waited in the left hand lane of the road, on the side
closest to the Pentagon. "The plane clipped the top of a light pole
just before it got to us, injuring a taxi driver, whose taxi was just
a few feet away from my car. "I saw it crash into the building," he
said. "My only memories really were that it looked like a plane coming
in for a landing. I mean in the sense that it was controlled and sort
of straight. That was my impression," he said. "I hadn't heard about
the World Trade Center at that point, and so I was thinking this was
an accident. I figured it was just an accident. "There was an
explosion and a loud noise and I felt the impact. I remember seeing a
fireball come out of two windows (of the Pentagon). I saw an explosion
of fire billowing through those two windows.[13]
Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co., who was on
the Arlington National Cemetery exit of Interstate 395 when he said he
saw the plane heading for the Pentagon. "I was right underneath the
plane, I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was
hitting light poles," said Milburn. "It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh,
then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." [9]
Christopher Munsey, who was en route to work on I-395, "Already
dumbfounded by the first, sketchy radio reports of the catastrophic
attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York, I couldn’t
believe what I was now seeing to my right: A silver, twin-engine
American Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy
Annex, fast, low and straight toward the Pentagon, just hundreds of
yards away. It was a nightmare coming to life. The plane, with red and
blue markings, hurtled by and within moments exploded in a ground-
shaking “whoomp,” as it appeared to hit the side of the Pentagon. A
huge flash of orange flame and black smoke poured into the sky. Smoke
seemed to change from black to white, forming a billowing column in
the sky." [14]
John O’Keefe, managing editor of Influence, an American Lawyer Media
publication, "I was going up Interstate 395, up Washington Boulevard,
listening to the radio, to the news, to WTOP, and from my left side, I
don’t know whether I saw or heard it first -- this silver plane; I
immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet, it came
swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight across
where my car was heading. I’d just heard them saying on the radio that
National Airport was closing, and I thought, ‘That’s not going to make
it to National Airport.’ And then I realized where I was, and that it
was going to hit the Pentagon. There was a burst of orange flame that
shot out that I could see through the highway overpass. Then it was
just black. Just black thick smoke. The eeriest thing about it, was
that it was like you were watching a movie. There was no huge
explosion, no huge rumbling on ground, it just went ‘pfff.’ It wasn’t
what I would have expected for a plane that was not much more than a
football field away from me. The first thing I did was pull over onto
the shoulder, and when I got out of the car I saw another plane flying
over my head, and it scared ...me, because I knew there had been two
planes that hit the World Trade Center. And I started jogging up the
ramp to get as far away as possible. Then the plane -- it looked like
a C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did
a complete turnaround. There was nothing to see but black. The whole
side of Washington Boulevard was black and on fire. I lost all sense
of time. I think I was standing outside a good 20 minutes or so, and
then, it was just 10 minutes until I got to the Memorial Bridge, which
was closed, so I went up the GW Parkway and to a friend’s house."[15]
Mary Ann Owens, of Gannett News Service, was stuck in traffic near the
Pentagon, when she saw the airplane pass 50 to 75 feet overhead and
crash into the Pentagon.[5]
Christine Peterson, "I was at a complete stop on the road in front of
the helipad at the Pentagon; what I had thought would be a shortcut
was as slow as the other routes I had taken that morning. I looked
idly out my window to the left -- and saw a plane flying so low I
said, 'holy cow, that plane is going to hit my car' (not my actual
words). The car shook as the plane flew over. It was so close that I
could read the numbers under the wing. And then the plane crashed. My
mind could not comprehend what had happened. Where did the plane go?
For some reason I expected it to bounce off the Pentagon wall in
pieces. But there was no plane visible, only huge billows of smoke and
torrents of fire. Now I wanted to get as far away as I could, but that
was impossible. The people around me had gotten out of their cars. At
least half had cameras and the others were on their cell phones. I
experienced a moment of irrelevant amazement that so many people had
cameras in their cars. A few minutes later a second, much smaller
explosion got the attention of the police arriving on the scene. They
began ordering people back into their cars and away."[16]
Alfred S. Regnery, travelling on I-395, "As I approached the Pentagon,
which was still not quite in view, listening on the radio to the first
reports about the World Trade Center disaster in New York, a jetliner,
apparently at full throttle and not more than a couple of hundred
yards above the ground, screamed overhead. Although airplanes
regularly fly over the Pentagon on their way to Reagan National
Airport, just a mile or two south, this plane was too low and going
too fast. As I watched it disappear behind bridges and concrete
barriers I knew it was about to crash... Seconds before the Pentagon
came into view a huge black cloud of smoke rose above the road ahead.
I came around the bend and there was the Pentagon billowing smoke,
flames and debris, blackened on one side and with a gaping hole where
the airplane had hit it."[17]
Steve Riskus witnessed the plane crash into the Pentagon, as he was
driving along Washington Boulevard and stopped to take photographs
moments after the impact.[18]
Joel Sucherman, USAToday.com Editor, "saw it all: an American Airlines
jetliner fly left to right across his field of vision as he commuted
to work Tuesday morning. It was highly unusual. The large plane was 20
feet off the ground and a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield. Two
seconds later and before he could see if the landing gear was down or
any of the horror-struck faces inside, the plane slammed into the west
wall of the Pentagon 100 yards away. My first thought was he's not
going to make it across the river to [Reagan] National Airport. But
whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction,"
Sucherman said. "It was coming in at a high rate of speed, but not at
a steep angle--almost like a heat-seeking missile was locked onto its
target and staying dead on course." [19]
Jim Sutherland, on I-395, witnessed the plane pass 50 feet overhead,
heading in a straight line into the Pentagon.[20]
Jim Sutherland, a mortgage broker, was driving near the Pentagon at
9:40 a.m. when he saw a 737 airplane 50 feet over Interstate 395
heading in a straight line into the side of the Pentagon. The fireball
explosion that followed rocked his car. Drivers began pulling over to
the side - some taking pictures - not quite believing what they were
seeing.[21]
Henry Ticknor, intern minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Arlington, Virginia, was driving to church that Tuesday morning when
American Airlines Flight 77 came in fast and low over his car and
struck the Pentagon. "There was a puff of white smoke and then a huge
billowing black cloud," he said.[22]
Clyde Vaughn, Brig. Gen. of the U.S. Army and director of military
support, told reporters he was in his car on nearby Interstate 395
when the plane hit the Pentagon on Tuesday morning. Vaughn said "I was
scanning the air" as he was sitting in his car. "There wasn't anything
in the air, except for one airplane, and it looked like it was
loitering over Georgetown, in a high, left-hand bank," he said. "That
may have been the plane. I have never seen one on that (flight)
pattern. A few minutes later, Vaughn witnessed the craft's impact.
[23]
Mike Walter, USA Today reporter, while driving on Washington
Boulevard, also witnessed the crash. He recounted to CNN, "...looked
out my window. I saw this plane, the jet, American Airlines jet
coming. And I thought, this doesn't add up. It's really low. And I saw
it. It just went — I mean, it was like a cruise missile with wings, it
went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon. Huge
explosion."[24] (See video - Mike Walter debunks the conspiracy
theorists)
Barbara (spoke to CNN at 10:20 a.m.):
Barbara - As we were driving into town on 395, there was an exit, we
were trying to get off the exit for Memorial Bridge. Off to the
lefthand side, there was a commercial plane that came in and was
coming too fast too low and the next thing we saw was it go down low
beside the road and we just saw the fire that came up after that
CNN - How large was the explosion?
Barbara - It was large.
CNN - Was there a sound, as well?
Barbara - Umm, that can't verify because the windows were up in the
vehicle.
CNN - Was it clear to you what had happened?
Barbara - Yes, definitely.
CNN - So you believe it was a commercial airliner that was hitting the
Pentagon?
Barbara - Yes, and I'm not sure exactly where it, the Pentagon was in
relation to where the plane went down, but they are relatively close
to one another, whether it hit any part of the Pentagon, I'm not
sure.
CNN - How low was the plane?
Barbara - When it was coming down?
CNN - Yep.
Barbara - It was coming down on less than a 45 degree angle and coming
down to where the side of the 395 and when it came down it just missed
the 395 and went down below it and we saw the fire come up from it.
CNN - Were you able to see what kind of plane or what airline it
belonged to?
Barbara - No, I did not see what kind of airliner. I just assumed that
we were so close to the airport that it was coming in to land.
CNN - But it seemed awfully low to you?
Barbara - Yes. And fast.
CNN - How big was the fireball?
Barbara - Umm, I was spatially challenged at times, but it was pretty
big.
CNN - What did you think was happening?
Barbara - Umm, I know that it hit the ground and exploded.
CNN - Were you frightened yourself?
Barbara - Yes, everybody stopped the cars and we all got out and so
forth.
CNN - Thank you very much.
The Pentagon
David Battle, who worked at the Pentagon, was standing outside the
building and just about to enter when the aircraft struck. "It was
coming down head first," he said. "And when the impact hit, the cars
and everything were just shaking."[25]
Maurice L. Bease, a Marine Sergeant, had worked around Marine aviation
long enough to know what a fly-by was, and it sounded like one as he
stood outside his office near the Pentagon on Sept. 11. Turning around
expecting to see a fighter jet fly over, he saw only a split-second
glimpse of a white commercial airliner streaking low toward the
building, and him! He did not even have time to duck before it plowed
into the side of the Pentagon around the corner and about 200 yards
from where he stood. Immediately, a ball of flame shot up the side of
the building, followed by smoke, lots of it.[26]
Mickey Bell, on-site foreman, had "just left the Singleton Electric
trailer when he heard a loud noise. The next thing he recalled was
picking himself off the floor, where he had been thrown by the blast.
Bell, who had been less than 100 feet from the initial impact of the
plane, was nearly struck by one of the plane´s wings as it sped by
him. In shock, he got into his truck, which had been parked in the
trailer compound, and sped away. The full impact of the closeness of
the crash wasn´t realized until coworkers noticed damage to Bell´s
work vehicle. He had plastic and rivets from an airplane imbedded in
its *** metal, but Bell had no idea what had happened. During Bell´s
close call, other Singleton workers, including sub-foreman Greg
Cobaugh, were doing other work on the first and third floors."[27] "We
went out to look at his truck and the truckbed was filled with all
kinds of debris that must have come from the blast. He's one really
lucky guy," marvels Singleton.[28]
Sean Boger, worked at the Pentagon helipad air traffic control tower,
which was between the building and the heliport. He was looking out
the window and saw "the nose and the wing of the aircraft just like
coming right at us, and he didn't veer... I am watching the plane go
all the way into the building, " he stared as the Boeing 757 smacked
into the building" less than 100 feet away.[29]
"I just looked up and I saw the big nose and the wings of the aircraft
coming right at us and I just watched it hit the building," Air
Traffic Controller and Pentagon tower chief Sean Boger said. "It
exploded. I fell to the ground and covered my head. I could actually
hear the metal going through the building."[30]
Mark Bright, a police officer at the Pentagon, saw the plane hit the
building. He had been manning the guard booth at the Mall Entrance to
the building. "I saw the plane at the Navy Annex area," he said. "I
knew it was going to strike the building because it was very, very low
-- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down." The
plane would have been seconds from impact -- the annex is only a few
hundred yards from the Pentagon. He said he heard the plane "power-up"
just before it struck the Pentagon. "As soon as it struck the building
I just called in an attack, because I knew it couldn't be accidental,"
Bright said. He jumped into his police cruiser and headed to the area.
[31]
Mike Dobbs, Marine Commander, who worked at the Pentagon, was on an
upper level of the outer ring, looking out the window. He saw an
American Airlines aircraft as it passed over the Navy Annex and hit
the Pentagon.[20]
Lincoln Liebner, Army Captain, who was parking his car in the South
Parking lot... "I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet
coming in fast and low, My first thought was I've never seen one that
high. Before it hit I realised what was happening."[32] He saw Flight
77 come in "full throttled, wheels up, a controlled flight."[33]
Frank Probst, an information management specialist for the Pentagon
Renovation Program, "left his office trailer near the Pentagon's south
parking lot at 9:36 a.m. Sept. 11. Walking north beside Route 27, he
suddenly saw a commercial airliner crest the hilltop Navy Annex.
American Airlines Flight 77 reached him so fast and flew so low that
Probst dropped to the ground, fearing he'd lose his head to its right
engine."[34]
Probst - At approximately 9:30 a.m. on September 11, he left the Wedge
1 construction site trailer, where he had been watching live
television coverage of the second plane strike into the World Trade
Center towers. He begna walking to the Modular Office Compound, which
is located beyond the extreme north end of the Pentagon North Parking
Lot, for a meeting at 10 a.m. As he approached the heliport, he
noticed a plane flying low over the Annex and heading right for him.
The aircraft pulled up, seemingly aiming for the first floor of the
building, and leveled off. Probst hit the gorund and observed t right
wing tip pass through the portable 750 kW generator tha provides
backup power to Wedge 1. The right engine took out the chain-link
fence and posts surrounding the generator. The left engine struck an
external steam vault before the fuselage entred the building. As the
fireball from the crash moved toward him, Probst ran toward the South
Parking Lot and recalls falling down tice. Fine pieces of wing debris
floated down about him. The diesel fuel for the portable generator
ignited while he was running. He noted only fire and smoke within the
building at the point of impact.[35]
Alan Wallace was one of three firefighters assigned to the Pentagon’s
heliport. Along with crew members Mark Skipper and Dennis Young,
Wallace arrived around 7:30 in the morning. After a quick breakfast,
the 55-year-old firefighter moved the station’s firetruck out of the
firehouse...He parked it perpendicular to the west wall of the
Pentagon. Wallace and Skipper were walking along the right side of the
truck (Young was in the station) when the two looked up and saw an
airplane. It was about 25 feet off the ground and just 200 yards away—
the length of two football fields. They had heard about the WTC
disaster and had little doubt what was coming next. “Let’s go,”
Wallace yelled. Both men ran. Wallace ran back toward the west side of
the station, toward a nine-passenger Ford van. “My plans were to run
until I caught on fire,” he says. He didn’t know how long he’d have or
whether he could outrun the oncoming plane. Skipper ran north into an
open field. Wallace hadn’t gotten far when the plane hit. “I hadn’t
even reached the back of the van when I felt the fireball. I felt the
blast,” he says. He hit the blacktop near the left rear tire of the
van and quickly shimmied underneath. “I remember feeling pressure, a
lot of heat,” he says. He crawled toward the front of the van, then
emerged to see Skipper out in the field, still standing. “Everything
is on fire. The grass is on fire. The building is on fire. The
firehouse is on fire,” Wallace recalls. “There was fire everywhere.
Areas of the blacktop were on fire.”[36]
"I just happened to look up and see the plane," said Wallace. "It was
about 200 yards away, and was coming in low and fast. I told Mark that
we needed to get the hell out of there."[37]
Dennis Young, was inside the Pentagon's fire house facility. He'd been
watching the reports of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
on television when he heard a loud noise. Ceiling tiles lifted from
the pressure as a ball of fire rolled through the station. The fire
house was demolished but, other than twisting his ankle when he was
trying to get out of the building, Young was unhurt. "I knew from past
experience that it was a plane crash." said Young, who was one of the
first to respond when a Canadian C-130 crashed near Fairbanks, Alaska
in 1989.[37]
John J. Kirlin Inc. employee - For one employee with Wedge One's
mechanical subcontractor John J. Kirlin Inc., Rockville MD, "lucky" is
an understatement. "We had one guy who was standing, looking out the
window and saw the plane when it was coming in. He was in front of one
of the blast-resistant windows," says Kirlin President Wayne T. Day,
who believes the window structure saved the man's life.[28]
Pentagon City
Terrance Kean, who lived in a nearby apartment building, heard the
noise of loud jet engines, glanced out his window, and saw "very, very
large passenger jet." He watched "it just plow right into the side of
the Pentagon. The nose penetrated into the portico. And then it sort
of disappeared, and there was fire and smoke everywhere."[38]
D. S. Khavkin "We live in Arlington, VA just outside of Washington, DC
in a high-rise building on the eight floor. Our balcony faces the
city, with a panoramic view of the Pentagon, National Airport, and the
entire downtown area of Washington, DC. We were watching the events
unfolding on TV in New York. Then, at about 9:40 am Eastern Daylight
Time, my husband and I heard an aircraft directly overhead. At first,
we thought it was the jets that sometimes fly overhead. However, it
appeared to be a small commercial aircraft. The engine was at full
throttle. First, the plane knocked down a number of street lamp poles,
then headed directly for the Pentagon and crashed on the lawn near the
west side the Pentagon. A huge fireball exploded with thick black
smoke."[39]
Dave Winslow, AP reporter, who also witnessed the crash, recounted "I
saw the tail of a large airliner. ... It plowed right into the
Pentagon."[40]
"I live in Pentagon City on the tenth floor of a 17-floor building
that looks out at Washington. I've got a wall of windows stretching
from one side to the other. I heard this enormous sound of turbulence.
I said, "Oh, my God. I know what's happening." You'd have to stand
next to a plane on the runway to hear it that loud. I knew it was
another attack. As I turned to my right, I saw a jumbo tail go by me
along Route 395. It was like the rear end of the fuselage was riding
on 395. I just saw the tail go whoosh right past me. In a split
second, you heard this boom. A combination of a crack and a thud. It
rattled my windows. I thought they were going to blow out. Then came
an enormous fireball. Only in the movies have I ever seen anything
like that. It lasted one to three seconds max."[10]
Navy Annex and VDOT
Terry Morin, who worked at the nearby Navy Annex, witnessed the
airliner pass 100 feet overhead, moments before it crashed into the
Pentagon.[41]
Anonymous, from the Navy Annex. As I stood there, I instinctively
ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling
up. Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft appeared in
my window, coming over my right shoulder as I faced the Westside of
the Pentagon directly towards the heliport. The aircraft, looking to
be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come directly over the annex, as
if it had been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road leading to
Pentagon. The aircraft was moving fast, at what I could only be
estimate as between 250 to 300 knots. All in all, I probably only had
the aircraft in my field of view for approximately 3 seconds. The
aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a direct course
for the Pentagon. It was "clean", in as much as, there were no flaps
applied and no apparent landing gear deployed. He was slightly left
wing down as he appeared in my line of sight, as if he'd just "jinked"
to avoid something. As he crossed Route 110 he appeared to level his
wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low
on the Westside of the building to the right of the helo, tower and
fire vehicle around corridor 5. [42]
R.E. Rabogliatti was in his office at the Navy Annex. He "peered out
of his office window and saw the airliner looming over the building.
Later, recalling its screaming engines he judged that the pilot must
have pushed the jet's throttle to the limit; he estimated its altitude
at less than 150 feet."[43]
Madelyn Zakhem, executive secretary at the STC, had just stepped
outside for a break and was seated on a bench when she heard what she
thought was a jet fighter directly overhead. It wasn't. It was an
airliner coming straight up Columbia Pike at tree-top level. "It was
huge! It was silver. It was low -- unbelievable! I could see the
cockpit. I fell to the ground.... I was crying and scared."[44]
Sheraton
Deb Anlauf was in her 14th floor hotel room, "Suddenly I saw this
plane right outside my window. You felt like you could touch it; it
was that close. It was just incredible. Then it shot straight across
from where we are and flew right into the Pentagon. It was just this
huge fireball that crashed into the wall. When it hit, the whole hotel
shook."[45]
Arlington Cemetery
Ron Turner, the Navy's deputy chief information officer, was standing
solemnly at a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery when American
Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. "There was a huge
fireball," he said, "followed by the [usual] black cloud of a fuel
burn."[46]
Crystal City
Some workers at offices in nearby Crystal City also witnessed the
crash.[11]
National Airport
Allen Cleveland, who was aboard Washington Metro heading to Ronald
Reagan National Airport, "looked out the window to see a jet heading
down toward the Pentagon."[47]
"I was just pulling in on the subway station at national airport, I
just happened to look over, actually my back was facing in the
direction of the Pentagon, I looked to the right from the train, as we
were coming into the station and I notice a jet flying in real low,
about a mid-size passenger jet flying in, I know it was silver, that's
the only thing I know, as it was coming in, I just realized that there
was no landing strip on that side of the subway system, so I just
happened to look and thought maybe it was just my mistake because the
subway system kind of curves around a little bit, and the next thing I
know there was a huge explosion there and everybody on the subway, one
mouthed profanity, everybody on the subway turned around and looked
and everyone went into total hysterics, women were crying, and people
were just absolutely in disbelief."[48]
Meseidy Rodriguez, also on Metro, saw the plane. "I saw it as it was
about to hit, I didn't see it coming in because he [Allen Cleveland]
just caught my attention, he yelled and I looked up and I started
seeing, basically it was , I just saw very little of it, all I could
tell was it was like a mid-size plane and then it was gone and there
was all this smoke, and it just caught me off guard I couldn't really
tell, it just went straight for the building, straight for the
Pentagon."[48]
Kate Agnew, a passenger on Washington Metro, also witnessed the
explosion.[11]
George Washington Parkway
Mike Cahill, a Alexandria paramedic, was driving along the George
Washington Parkway near the Pentagon, listening to radio reports about
the World Trade Center attack, when he saw "a huge column of smoke"
rising above the trees in front of him. Cahill stepped on the gas of
his 1995 Subaru Impressa and arrived at the scene minutes later. He
pulled his first-aid bag out of his trunk, hopped over a barrier and
rushed toward the flames. Injured streamed from the building.
"Everyone that was coming towards me had burns," he said . "Some of
these guys still literally had smoke or steam coming off of their body
or skin."[49]
Rossyln
Steve Anderson worked on the 19th floor of the USA Today building. "I
witnessed the jet hit the Pentagon on September 11...as I was looking
down at my desk, the plane caught my eye. It didn't register at first.
I thought to myself that I couldn't believe the pilot was flying so
low. Then it dawned on me what was about to happen. I watched in
horror as the plane flew at treetop level, banked slightly to the
left, drug it's wing along the ground and slammed into the west wall
of the Pentagon exploding into a giant orange fireball. Then black
smoke. Then white smoke."[50]
Elsewhere in Arlington
Daniel McAdams and his wife, Cynthia, said they were sitting in their
kitchen drinking coffee in their third-floor condominium in Arlington
just two miles from the Pentagon when they heard a plane fly directly
overhead around 9:45 a.m. It was unusually loud and unusually low.
Seconds later, they heard a big boom and felt the doors and windows of
their three-storey building shake. From their window, they could see a
plume of black smoke coming from the Pentagon.[51]
Across the Potomac
Captain Joseph Candelario, USA a first year student in the Family
Nurse Practitioner Program began Tuesday, 11 September like most
people. It was a clinical day, which meant getting up early and making
the trip in to Ft. McNair to start seeing patients at 0630. He was
first alerted that the day was drastically changing when one of the
medics told him that a plane hit the World Trade Center. While
watching the tower burn, another plane hit the second tower. Thinking
that this was a very serious terrorist attack, I went outside to the
river to take a break. As I was looking across the river towards the
direction of the Pentagon, I noticed a large aircraft flying low
towards the White House. This aircraft then made a sharp turn and flew
towards the Pentagon and seconds later crashed into it.[52]
Ken Ford, a State Department employee, recounted looking from the 15th
floor of the State Department Annex, over 1 1/2 miles away, "We were
watching Reagan National Airport through binoculars a short distance
away. The plane was a two-engine turbo prop that flew up the river
from National. Then it turned back toward the Pentagon. We thought it
had been waved off and then it hit the building."[53]
Steve Snaman, manager of the datacom division for Walker Seals,
watched in horror from Fort McNair (across the river) as the jetliner
came in low at full throttle, banked left and smashed into the wall of
the Pentagon. "We saw the plane hit the Pentagon," Snaman said.[54]
Elsewhere in Arlington
Ralph Banton was on "a house porch a little more than a mile away." He
heard a jet flying directly overhead, very low. "It sounded like it
was jetting instead of slowing down," he said. Seconds later, Flight
77 crashed into the Pentagon.[55]
Other witnesses
Tim Timmerman, who is a pilot himself, noticed American Airlines
markings on the aircraft as he saw it hit the Pentagon.[56]
it had been an American Airways 757. "It added power on its way in,"
he said. "The nose hit, and the wings came forward and it went up in a
fireball."[4]
"I was looking out the window; I live on the 16th floor, overlooking
the Pentagon, in a corner apartment, so I have quite a panorama. And
being next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet
engine was way too loud. I looked out to the southwest, and it came
right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as it went by the
Sheraton Hotel, the pilot added power to the engines. I heard it pull
up a little bit more, and then I lost it behind a building. And then
it came out, and I saw it hit right in front of -- it didn't appear to
crash into the building; most of the energy was dissipated in hitting
the ground, but I saw the nose break up, I saw the wings fly forward,
and then the conflagration engulfed everything in flames. It was
horrible.[57]
CNN: What can you tell us about the plane itself?
Timmerman: It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question.
CNN: You say that it was a Boeing, and you say it was a 757 or 767?
Timmerman: 7-5-7.
CNN: 757, which, of course.
Timmerman: American Airlines.
CNN: American Airlines, one of the new generation of jets.
Timmerman: Right. It was so close to me it was like looking out my
window and looking at a helicopter. It was just right there.
Oscar Martinez, "I saw a big jet flying close to the building coming
at full speed. There was a big noise when it hit the building."[58]
Paul Begala, Democratic Party consultant, was among others who
witnessed the explosion at the Pentagon.[40]
Pam Bradley, "was on my way to work, in my car, sitting on a bridge,
and saw the plane hit the Pentagon. I am in a complete state of
shock."[59]
Aircraft debris
Carlton Burkhammer, a member of the Fairfax County Urban Search and
Rescue Team... Early Friday morning, shortly before 4 a.m., Burkhammer
and another firefighter, Brian Moravitz, were combing through debris
near the impact site. Peering at the wreckage with their helmet
lights, the two spotted an intact seat from the plane’s cockpit with a
chunk of the floor still attached. Then they saw two odd-shaped dark
boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet long. They’d been told the plane’s “black
boxes” would in fact be bright orange, but these were charred black..
The boxes had handles on one end and one was torn open. They cordoned
off the area and called for an FBI agent, who in turn called for
someone from the National Transportation Safety Board who confirmed
the find: the black boxes from American Airlines Flight 77. “We wanted
to find live victims,” says Burkhammer. But this was a consolation
prize. “Finding the black box gave us a little boost,” he says.[36]
John Damoose, a Travis City, Mich. native who was in a meeting said
"everybody got nervous. .‚.‚. We didn't know whether to stay inside or
go outside. The thing with terrorist attacks is that you don't know
what is the next thing that will happen." Damoose said the worst part
was leaving the Pentagon and walking along Fort Meyer Drive, a bike
trail, "you could see pieces of the plane."[9]
Michael Defina, Captain of the National Airport's aircraft rescue
firefighters (ARFF), "That afternoon, Captain Defina and airport
Battalion Chief Walter Hood, as well as other jurisdictions' battalion
chiefs, led crews inside with attack lines to fight fires on every
floor of the "D" and "E" rings. The aircraft had penetrated all the
way to the "C" ring. 'The only way you could tell that an aircraft was
inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear.'"[60]
Rich Fitzharris (electrical engineer and former residential
contractor) was in the Modular Office Compound at the time of the
crash and rushed to the site on foot, arriving before the partial
collapse. He recalls that the building - near the are of impact - was
in flames, and he remembers seeing small pieces of debris, the largest
of which might have been part of an engine shroud.[35]
Jamie McIntyre, CNN reporter, "A short -- a while ago I walked right
up next to the building, firefighters were still trying to put the
blaze. The fire, by the way, is still burning in some parts of the
Pentagon. And I took a look at the huge gaping hole that's in the side
of the Pentagon in an area of the Pentagon that has been recently
renovated, part of a multibillion dollar renovation program here at
the Pentagon. I could see parts of the airplane that crashed into the
building, very small pieces of the plane on the heliport outside the
building. The biggest piece I saw was about three feet long, it was
silver and had been painted green and red, but I could not see any
identifying markings on the plane. I also saw a large piece of
shattered glass. It appeared to be a cockpit windshield or other
window from the plane."[61]
Anonymous - "There were pieces of aircraft spread all the way up the
road, at least a third of a mile from the impact site." - a witness
speaking to a local CBS reporter. [1]
Bodies
Captain Joseph Candelario and his medics joined a Search and Rescue
team. Upon entering the impact site, the team conducted a search of
the area, surrounding corridor 5 and 6. They were able to free a few
people still trapped by debris. Unfortunately, as they continued the
search, they found many body parts and around six burned corpses.
Unable to proceed, the fire was too hot, they set up a rally point
near the front of the aircraft and waited for the D.C.F.D. to put the
fire out. What they did not know was that fire would burn for over a
day. After waiting a few hours, they pulled back to the center
courtyard and began to set up the morgue, remaining on site until 1930
hours.[62]
Others
William Lagasse
Mark Faram
Dennis Ryan
Carmen Burgess
Don Wright - Rosslyn (ABC News)
This list is incomplete

There are more accounts that can be added to this list, based on news
reports and other sources. But, even then the list will not be
complete. The reason being that not everyone who saw the plane crash
into the Pentagon spoke to the media. But, Washington Boulevard which
goes right past the Pentagon, right past the spot where the plane
crashed, is a busy highway during morning rush hour, still busy up
until 10 a.m. It allows commuters to cut over from I-395, over to the
Arlington Memorial Bridge, which takes one by the Lincoln Memorial and
into downtown Washington. Washington Boulevard is also takes commuters
over to Rosslyn, Virginia. I-395, itself, is also busy at this time of
day, with drivers here having a clear view of the Pentagon. Certainly,
hundreds of people saw Flight 77. Nobody saw a missile. Nobody saw the
plane do a "fly over" and pass over the building. They saw the plane
crash into the building.

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They saw the Aircraft



Did you know Ayman al-Zawahiri descibes you people as "agents of Hamas
and Iran" for trying to rob them (Sinis) of their big acomplishment?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7361414.stm

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has blamed Iran for
spreading the theory that Israel was behind the 11 September 2001
attacks.

In an audio tape posted on the internet, Zawahiri insisted al-Qaeda
had carried out the attacks on the US.

He accused Iran, and its Hezbollah allies, of trying to discredit
Osama Bin Laden's network.

Correspondents say the comments underline al-Qaeda's increasing public
hostility towards Iran.

In a two-hour audiotape posted on an Islamist website, Osama Bin
Laden's chief deputy responded to questions posted by al-Qaeda
sympathisers.

In response to a question about persistent rumours in the Middle East
that Israel was involved in the 9/11 attacks, Zawahiri said the rumour
had begun on the Hezbollah television station, Al-Manar.

"The purpose of this lie is clear - [to suggest] that there are no
heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt America as no-one else did in
history, he said.


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