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On this Page, there will be Three Parts of several Actual Analysis of Eyewitness Statements
from People at the Pentagon on the Day of the Terrorist Attack on September 11, 2001.
1. INTRODUCTION
I was one of the People who was, at first, receptive to hearing about the Theory that a Missile could
have crashed the Pentagon. I listened and I read. And then I phoned John Judge. John lives in DC. He is a thorough Observer
and Researcher, as many of you know. John advised me that indeed a Plane had hit the Pentagon and gave me his reasons, which
has led me to tonight's talk.
I have analyzed the Eyewitness List in the same format as a deposition summary, with all the references
intact. There is a great deal more Evidence available if you are on the East Coast, by talking to Witnesses and Victims Families,
and visiting the Sites of the Crashes.
John Judge works with Kyle Hence, in a group called 9/11 Citizen Watch (www.911citizenswatch.org), that is assisting the Families of Victims of all the Crashes, in bringing pertinent questions to the Kean Commission, investigating
9/11. Citizens Watch is also demanding that the Government release all Videos, Photos, and other Evidence concerning all the
Crashes, particularly Videos from the Pentagon parking lot cameras and gas station in DC that would have been recording during
the approach of the Aircraft. The Black Boxes from all 4 Airliners were seized by the FBI, who got to the Crash Sites early.
The contents of these Black Boxes need to be made Public.
The biggest Evidence of Government Complicity in the Events of 9/11/01 is the stand down of Air and
Missile Defense Systems. Only NORAD could have ordered that stand down. Researchers who are serious about interesting the
Public in an Analysis of who was behind 9/11, should concentrate on putting before the Public the obvious Evidence, not unsubstantiated
work. Our Research has to be responsible and citations must be thoroughly checked and listed with observations and pictures.
Otherwise the Public will quickly tire of talking to us.
This is a Working Paper and Comments are welcome.
Penny Schoner
2. POINTS ADDRESSING AMERICAN AIRLINES, FLIGHT 77 (AA 77) HITTING THE PENTAGON, SEPTEMBER 11,
2001 OR WHETHER ANOTHER OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN GUIDED AT THE PENTAGON.
1. Consider which Nations, or Resistance Groups such as Al Qaeda, are capable of Attacking the Pentagon,
or any other U.S. Target with a Missile:
A. The Middle East has been inspected for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). There is no chance
that Missile Sites capable of launching Missiles would not have been found.
B. Launching from a Ship at Sea is not a capability of Al Qaeda, let alone would it go undetected
if a Missile made its way toward U.S. Defenses.
Reportedly, all U.S. Radar Units were facing away from U.S. Shores, not inward, and this was an excuse
for not detecting an Attack within.
C. A U.S. Land Base Launching Site has not been discovered.
2. AA 77 flew into the Pentagon over rolling hills and residental areas, clipping lamp posts and
cars, as it maneuvered to avoid hilltops in a tight patern, dipping its wings to line up with the Pentagon Walls. It was seen
by many Witnesses on the whole flight into the DC area, because the TV News Channels were reporting it and People looked to
the skies and saw it come in.
3. Eyewitness Reports, taken shortly after AA 77 crashed into the Pentagon, firmly hold that AA 77,
with its silver body and red and blue letters and logo, hit the Building.
4. Jet fuel was all the Pentagon Walls and inside the Building, covering Victims with Fuel Burns.
Doctors told Victims that they had been burned with Jet Fuel. Photographs taken immediately after the crash, show Jet Fuel
Fires burning over vast areas on both sides of the hole where the fuselage crashed through the Walls.
5. Plane Parts were all over the area outside the Pentagon, after the crash.
They rained down on Witnesses, their Cars and the Whole Surrounding Area.
6. The hole in the Pentagon where the Plane entered, is the size of the fuselage of a Boeing 757.
The Wings exploded on contact when they crashed against a fortified surface, unlike the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers in
New York City, that were of different construction.
7. Lamp Posts and other objects were clipped off as the Jet flew into the Pentagon.
8. Sounds of a Jet were reported by most Eyewitnesses, as they watched the Plane hit the Pentagon.
9. Radar-tracking Stations tracked AA 77 to the Pentagon and reported their sightings during flight.
10. Stand down of Military Defense Systems points to U.S. Government complicity, and not an outside
Nation, as the perpetrator of AA 77 crashing into the Pentagon.
11. Documents need to be released to the Public, just as Photographs of the Crash and other important
Materials have been available, during and after 9/11, concerning the Crashes in New York City.
12. Black Box contents from all Four Crashes need to be released to the Public.
3. EIGHTY-SEVEN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS BEFORE AND AFTER AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77 CRASHING INTO
THE PENTAGON
1. Conclusive proof of what hit the Pentagon is not available due to parking lot videos and Materials
similar being held secret by the Government.
Documents need to be released. Similar types of Documents are in the hands of the Public in New York
regarding the WTC Towers. We need full disclosure from the FBI.
2. If AA 77 was crashed somewhere other than the Pentagon, where was this? Evidence of any other
Crash Site has never been produced.
3. The Black Boxes from AA 77 have never been produced, nor have the contents been discussed in the
News.
4. There is no Evidence that Bodies were carried from another Site to Pentagon Morgue.
5. There was a Woman at her desk in the Pentagon, who saw the Nose of the Plane push through her
office wall, and filed an Eyewitness Report about it.
I think that it is logical to assume that with Rumsfeld and other important insiders, still inside
the Pentagon at the time of impact, that whatever thing or things hit the Pentagon, would have had to be under remote control.
If the exact impact Location and Time, along with Extent of Damage, was not fully under control, there's no way an Unidentified
Aviation Vehicle, Flight 77, or a Missile would have been allowed anywhere near the Pentagon, or the White House. --Abel Ashes,
San Francisco, CA
DONALD RUMSFELD was interviewed by Parade Magazine, in September of October 2001 and the Article
appeared in the October 12, 1001 Issue.
"Well, I was sitting right here in the Building when it was struck...Here we're talking about Plastic
Knives and using an American Airlines Flight filled with our Citizens, and the Missile to damage this Building and similar
(inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center...."
1. WITNESS STATEMENT BY AA FLIGHT ATTENDANT
An American Airlines Flight Attendant, would have been Scheduled to fly on her regular flight, AA
77, on September 11, 2001. That day she was excused from work because her Father was ill. Her Friend and Fellow Flight Attendant,
Renee, was on that Plane.
Renee boarded AA 77 in Washington DC on this regularly scheduled route to Los Angeles. Over Ohio,
Renee called her Mother on her cell phone and told her to call American Airlines Operations and report that the Plane had
been hijacked. Renee said there were Six Hijackers. Press Releases since then have only reported Five Hijackers. But that
is a separate subject due to its size and scope. There were no sounds of struggle when Renee phoned her Mother. Her Mother
could also hear Crew members calling out phone numbers for American Airlines. Renee did not call her again.
The Flight Attendant states that she went to the Crash Site on Friday September 21st during the 10pm
to 10am Shift with her Mother to give support to the crews working on the clean-up of the wreckage. She went inside the Pentagon
Crash Site and saw parts of the Plane that she recognized to be a American Airlines Boeing 757 that she was familiar with
from her years of flying. She recognized part of a tail section bearing the A/A Logo. She saw Charred Human Bones. She has
no doubts that Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th.
I first heard this person describe her memories of the Pentagon Crash, in Dallas at the COPA Conference
on the Anniversary of the JFK Assassination, on November 23, 2002. She was still shaken by the loss of her Friend and the
devastation she had seen on September 11, 2001. Her words can be heard on the Website, http://www.parapolitics.info/copa/copa2002gallery/
2. EYEWITNESS STATEMENT BY WJLA (ABC 7) CAMERAMAN ON 9/11/01 IN WASHINGTON DC
Wayne Madsen, an Investigative Reporter, talked with a Cameraman for WJLA, ABC 7, in Washington DC,
who had been driving to the Pentagon and came upon a Woman standing beside her Car in shock. The Cameraman stopped and walked
over to her. She could not speak, but pointed to the far side of her Car. He went around the other side of the Car and saw
that parts of the Passenger side had been sheared off and that there was a piece of a Plane's Landing Gear on the ground nearby.
Phone Interview with Wayne Madsen by David Ratcliffe
3. STEVE RISKUS
... I saw the Plane hit the Building. It did not hit the ground first...It did not hit the roof first...It
hit dead center on the edge...I was close enough (about 100 feet or so) that I could see the "American Airlines" Logo on the
tail as it headed towards the Building... It was not completely level, but it was not going straight down, kind of like it
was landing with no gear down...It knocked over a few light poles on its way...I did not see any smoke or debris coming from
the Plane. I clearly saw the "AA" Logo with the Eagle in the middle...I don't really remember the Engine Configuration, but
it did have those Turbine Engines on the Wing...and yes, it did impact the Pentagon...There was none of this hitting-the-ground
first crap I keep hearing...It was definitely an American Airlines Jet...There is no doubt about that...When I got to work
I checked it out.
The Pentagon and Government Sources are not releasing any Photographs taken by Witnesses, collected
after the Pentagon Crash. 9/11 Citizens Watch in Washington DC is asking for the release of all Witness Materials, citing
that none of this Material is Classified or should be withheld from the Public.
Photographs of the New York City Trade Center Crashes are all Public Information. There is no reason
to not release all Photos and Witness Statements.
October 14, 2003, there was a Press Conference in DC, concerning the release of Records by the Government
to the Kean Commission. But when the Press Conference convened, the Commission balked at giving the Information that it was
scheduled to announce and said that it would make a Statement the next day. On October 15th Subpoenas were served on FAA Officials.
John Judge believes that the FAA may be blamed for not responding in time to stop the Planes from crashing into Buildings
on 9/11, thereby taking NORAD off the hook for not scrambling Fighter Jets from Military Bases.
The most compelling evidence we have so far is that American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into
the Pentagon. The question arises that if the Government is complicit in planning or allowing 9/11 to happen, why put a Missile
into the Pentagon? What would this cover-up, or change, or add to the incident if it is a "black op."
The Families and Friends of the Deceased Passengers on Flight 77 certainly are convinced that the
Plane flew into the Pentagon, having visited the Site and identified their Loved Ones when possible, and they are pursuing
Legal Avenues the same as the New York City Victims Families are.
EYEWITNESS REPORTS BY ONLOOKERS WHO "SAW PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON":
4. BOGER, SEAN
"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."
Tower terr - Air traffic controller watches as plane slams into Pentagon, by Spc. Jennifer Lilly
5. BOUCHOUX, DONALD R.
Donald R. Bouchoux, 53, a Retired Naval Officer, a Great Falls Resident, a Vietnam Veteran and Former
Commanding Officer of a Navy Fighter Squadron, was driving West from Tysons Corner to the Pentagon for a 10am Meeting.
He wrote: "At 9:40 a.m. 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 second 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.
DOBBS, MIKE
"... we saw a Plane coming toward us, for about 10 seconds... It was like watching a Train Wreck.
I was mesmerized.... At first I thought it was trying to crash land, but it was coming in so deliberately, so level... Everyone
said there was a Deafening Explosion, but with the Adrenaline, we didn't hear it.
St. Louis post-Dispatch, Phillip Dine, 13 Sept 2001,
Marine Corps officer Mike Dobbs was standing on one of the upper levels of the outer ring of the Pentagon
looking out the window when he saw an American Airlines 737 Twin-engine Airliner strike the Building.
"It seemed to be almost coming in slow motion," he said later Tuesday. "I didn't actually feel it
hit, but I saw it and then we all started running.
"Mournful church bells toll, police sirens soar as D.C. explodes into panic," by Jessica Wehrman,
Scripps Howard News Service/The Albuquerque Tribune, 9/12/01
7. HEMPHILL, ALBERT
{A Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Staff Member watched from the Navy Annex.}
This office, with two nice windows and a great view of the Monuments, the Capitol and the Pentagon
was "good digs" by any Pentagon standard.
... I walked in the office and stood peering out of the window looking at the Pentagon.... 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-and Arlington Road leading to Pentagon. The Aircraft was moving fast, at what I could only be
estimate (sic) 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. What instantly followed was a large Yellow Fireball accompanied by an extremely
bass sounding, deep thunderous boom. The Yellow Fireball rose quickly as black smoke engulfed the entire Westside of the pentagon,
obscuring the whole of the Heliport. I could feel the concussion and felt the shockwave of the blast impact the window of
the Annex, knocking me against the desk.
"RE: The flag was still there - Pentagon Eye-Witness account," e-mail by Albert
Hemphill, TML September 2001 archive, lists.travellerrpg.com,9/12/01
8. MCGRAW, STEPHEN
Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a Graveside Service at Arlington lNational 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... 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... it looked like a Plane coming in for a landing. I mean in the sense
that it was controlled and sort of straight....
"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."
"Pentagon crash eyewitness comforted victims," by Paul Haring, Pentagram/dcmilitary.com, 9/28/01
Military District of Washington News Service, 9/28/01
9. O'BRIEN, DANIELLE
At the Dulles Tower, O'Brien saw the TV Pictures from New York and headed back to her post to help
other Planes quickly land.
"We started moving the Planes as quickly as we could," she says.
"Then I noticed the Aircraft. It was an Unidentified Plane to the Southwest of Dulles, moving at
a very high rate of speed... I had literally a blip and nothing more."
O'Brien asked the controller sitting next to her, Tom Howell, if he saw it too.
"I said, 'Oh my God, it looks like he's headed to the White House," recalls Howell. "I was yelling...
'We've got a target headed right for the White house!"
At a speed of about 500 miles an hour, the Plane was headed straight for what is known as P-56, Protected
Air Space 56, which covers the White House and the Capitol.
"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the Radar Room, all of
us experienced Air Traffic Controllers, that that was a Military Plane," says o'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner.
It's unsafe."
The Plane was between 12 and 14 miles away, says O'Brien, "and it was just a countdown. Ten miles
West. Nine miles West... Our supervisor picked up our line to the White house and started relaying to them the information, {that}
we have an Unidentified very fast-moving Aircraft inbound toward your vicinity, 8 miles West."
Vice President Cheney was rushed to a special basement bunker.
White House Staff Members were told to run away from the Building.
"And it went, Six, Five, Four. And I had it in my mouth to say, Three, and all of a sudden the Plane
turned away. In the room, it was almost a sense of relief. This must be a Fighter. This must be one of our guys sent in, scrambled
to patrol our Capitol, and to protect our President, and we sat back in our chairs and breathed for just a second," says O'Brien.
But the Plane continued to turn right until it had made a 360-degree maneuver.
'We lost radar contact with that Aircraft. And we waited. And we waited. And your heart is just beating
out of your chest waiting to hear what's happened," says O'Brien. "And then the Washington National {Airport} Controllers
came over our speakers in our room and said, 'Dulles, hold all of our inbound traffic. The Pentagon's been hit."
"'Get These Planes on the Ground' -Air Traffic Controllers Recall Sept. 11," ABC News, October
24
10. SUCHERMAN, JOEL
USAToday.com Multimedia 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....
"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."
"Journalist Witnesses Pentagon Crash," by John Dodge, eweek.com,9/13/01
... There was a sonic boom and looking straight ahead there was a Jet, what looked to be an American
Airlines Jet, probably a 757. And it came screaming across the highway, it was Route 110, on the West side of the Pentagon.
Immediately flames were strewing up into the air. There was white smoke. And then within seconds,
think black smoke. Everybody got out of their Cars. People were shocked.
Then there was another Plane that was off to the Southwest and that made a beeline straight up into
the sky and then angled off and we weren't sure if that was going to come around and make another hit or if it was just trying
to get out of the way. That disappeared and we didn't see it again.
INTERVIEWER: Describe the first Plane again. You say
it was a Commercial Jet. Do you know how many engines?
I did not see the Engines. I saw the body and the tail. And it was a silver Jet with the markings
along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines Jet. This was not a Commercial, a, excuse me, a Business Jet, right.
It was not a Lear Jet, a Gulfstream, something like that. It was a bigger Plane than that.
Real Player (Video). "Joel sucherman, assistant managing editor of USATODAY.com, " 2001
This is Joel Sucherman, USAToday.com. On my way to work directly across from the Pentagon, about
100 yards away I saw an American Airlines Jet screaming low. I heard a sonic boom. And then the impact, the explosion. There
were flames that shot up, white smoke followed by black smoke.
It did not appear to do a substantial amount of damage to the area.
There was debris scattered about. There were light poles down. There was what appeared to be the
outside covering of the American Airlines Silver Jet strewn about.
Fire Trucks and Police Cars responded immediately. Within about two minutes there were Fire Trucks
on the scene.
Traffic stopped. People got out of their Cars, started parking wherever they could. It was a shocking
site. People started streaming out of the Pentagon. Within minutes there were Thousands of People on the hill next to the
small highway that runs directly to the side of the Pentagon.
The impact hit on the West front side of the Pentagon. The Plane came heading East. Again, it screamed
low. You couldn't even see the Plane before it was about, oh 20 feet or so off the ground, screamed across the highway and
slammed into the side of the Pentagon.
It was clear that the Plane made no attempt to slow down or land; made no emergency movements at
all.
Within a minute another Plane started veering up and to the side.
At that point it wasn't clear whether that Plane was trying to maneuver out of the way and out of
the air space or if that Plane was coming around for another hit as well. That Plane ended up disappearing into the sky.
Minutes later, Helicopters started circling the Pentagon. And it was unclear at that point whether
or not those Helicopters were Federal Helicopters and Traffic Helicopters, part of the media trying to survey the scene, or
whether or not they would be the next wave. There was no next wave. It was just the one single Jet.
Real Player (Audio): "Joel Sucherman," USAToday.com
Both of the above linked to at: "Plane crashes in Pa.; unclear if related," USAToday.com,
9/12/01
11. TERRONEZ, TONY
"Around 9:40 a.m. I reached the Heliport area (beside the pentagon)... So I got about 100 yards or
so past the heliport and then all of a sudden I heard this loud screeching sound that just came out of nowhere and it
intensified. This huge WHOOSH! And something made me look in my rearview mirror and by the time I looked up I saw the side
of the Pentagon explode....
... "As the Fireball got higher and higher, you saw this debris go up in the air. I'm watching this
in my rearview mirror, and then I thought, 'Oh my God, there's debris coming toward me!' So my reaction was, I ducked into
my passenger seat and I heard the pitter-patter of pebbles and concrete bouncing off my Car. And the next thing you know,
I heard this big crash come from somewhere. It sounded like glass being shattered and I thought maybe, at first, it was one
of my windows so I popped up to look but everything was fine. But when I looked to the Car next to me I realized that something
went through (the driver's) rear windshield and shattered it. There was a hole where you could see that something went through
it....
... "Then both I and the guy in front of me looked at his rear windshield and saw what was about
a four-inch hole in it and the rest of the window was shattered as if someone took a baseball bat to it.
"At that point... I didn't know it was a Plane, I thought it was a Missile Strike...
"Pulling away from the Pentagon there was tons of stuff on the ground, big pieces of Metal, Concrete,
Everything. We got up to a certain point and there was this huge piece of something -- I mean it was big, it looked like a
piece of an Engine or something -- in the road. And there was somebody, definitely a Security Guard or maybe a Military Person,
with his Car in front of it making sure no one touched it."
"I looked back and I saw the Fire, It was just huge and just incredible. I still can't believe it.
At that point in time, I remembered I had a camera in my trunk. I got off an off-ramp beside the Pentagon and parked my Car
in the grass and started taking pictures. The whole time I was taking Pictures it was so detailed. I could see this huge piece
of a wheel on Fire through the black smoke, but I couldn't see into the Pentagon itself.
"Amazing stories: The air, the island and the fortress," by Jennifer Simmons, Counseling Today
Online, 10/01
12. VELASQUEZ, JOSE'
"It was like an Earthquake... By the time I got outside all I could see was a giant cloud of smoke,
first white then black, coming from the Pentagon," he said... Velasquez says the gas station's security cameras are close
enough to the pentagon to have recorded the moment of impact.
"I've never seen what the Pictures looked like," he said. "The FBI was here within minutes and took
the film."
"Three Months On, Tension Lingers Near the Pentagon," By Bill MdKelway, Richmond Times-Dispatch/nationalgeographic.com,
12/11/01
13. ANDERSON, STEVE
I witnessed the Jet hit the Pentagon on September 11. From my office on the 19th floor of the USA
TODAY Building in Arlington, Va., I have a view of Arlington Cemetery, Crystal City, the Pentagon, National Airport and the
Potomac River....
Shortly after watching the second tragedy {at the WTC}, I heard Jet Engines pass our Building,
which, being so close to the Airport is very common. But I thought the Airport was closed. I figured it was a Plane coming
in for landing. A few moments later, 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.
"September 11, 2001, James Madison University Alumni, Class of 1985, message posted 10/2/01
14. ABSHIRE, MARC
Air Force Lt. Col. Marc Abshire, 40, a Speechwriter for Air Force Secretary James Roche, was working
on several Speeches this morning when he felt the blast of the explosion at the Pentagon. His office is on the D ring, near
the Eighth Corrider, he said.
"It shot me back in my chair. There was a huge blast. I could feel the air shock wave of it," Abshire
said. "I didn't know exactly what it was. It didn't rumble. It was more of a direct smack.... we found ourselves on the lawn
and looking back on our Building. It was very much a surrealistic sort of experience. It's just definitely not right to see
smoke coming out of the Pentagon. It was a very strange sight to see."
"'Extensive Casualties' in Wake of Pentagon Attack," by Barbara Vobejda, Washington Post, 9/11/01
15. ANLAUF, DEB & JEFF
{Mrs. Deb Anlauf, resident of Colfax, Wisconsin, was in her 14th floor of the Sheraton Hotel, located
1.6 mile from the explosion, immediately West of the Navy Annex when} she heard a "loud roar... Suddenly I saw this Plane
right outside my window.... You felt like you could touch it; it was that close.
"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 (of the Pentagon). When it hit, the whole hotel shook."
"Area woman watched as Pentagon exploded," by Julian Emerson and Eric Lindquist, {Wisconsin}
Leader-Telegram, 9/12/01
16. BAUER, GARY
Gary Bauer, a Former Presidential Candidate, driving into Washington, D.C. that morning, to a Press
Conference on capitol Hill. "I was in a massive traffic jam, hadn't moved more than a hundred yards in twenty 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."
"Gary Bauer Identifies the Enemy at MFI Banquet - Was Eyewitness to Pentagon Explosion," by
Amy Contrada; Massachusetts News, December 2001
17. BELL, MICKEY
The Jet cam in from the South and banked left as it entered the Building, narrowly missing the Singleton
Electric Trailer and the on-site Foreman, Mickey Bell....
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...
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 Sheet Metal, but Bell had no idea what had happened.
"NECA Members and Electricians Narrowly Escape Death At Pentagon, National Electrical Contractors
Association, 9/13/01
18. BENEDETTO, RICHARD
{Richard Benedetto, a USA TODAY Reporter, was on his way to work, driving on the Highway parrallel
to the Pentagon.} "I was on my way to work and driving on the highway that runs parallel to the Pentagon.
traffic was pretty heavy. I heard an Airplane, a very loud Airplane... come from behind me... It
was an American Airlines Airplane, I could see it very clearly...."
Real Player (Video): "benedetto", Digipresse, 2002 (low bandwith recording)
19. BIGGERT, JUDY
Members of Congress have been shuttled to the site to inspect the damage. Rep. Judy Biggert (R-III.)
made the trip on Thursday. She saw remnants of the Airplane.
"There was a seat from a Plane, there was part of the tail and then there was a part of Green Metal,
I could not tell what it was, a part of the outside of the Plane," she said. "It smelled like it was still burning."
"Wind carries stench of death," by Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, 9/16/01
20. BRAMAN, CHRIS
Staff Sgt. Chris Braman and another rescuer, an Army Lieutenant Colonel, clambered through a broken
first-floor window and into the E Ring's Fiery Wreckage. Just inside, Braman saw a bright light, and turning, discovered that
it was a Man engulfed in flames. The Man sprinted for an unbroken window, bounced off the glass and flopped to the floor.
Braman and the Colonel pounced on him, smothered the fire with their bodies, then threw him to rescuers
outside....
But by then, explosions were rocking the Pentagon, and rescuers were not allowed to get closer than
200 yards. Braman and about a hundred others watched the new wedge burn from a highway underpass.
The lawn was littered with twisted pieces of aluminum. He saw one chunk painted with the letter "A,"
another with a "C."
It didn't occur to Braman what the letters signified until a Man in the Crowd stooped to pick up
one of the smaller metal shards. He examined it for a moment, then announced: "This was a Jet."
"Inside the Pentagon on 9/11: The Call of Duty," by Earl Swift, The Virginia-Pilot, 9/2/02
21. CAMPO, OMAR
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."
"'Everyone was screaming, crying, running. It's like a war zone," by Julian Borger, Duncan
Campbell, Charlie Porter and Stuart Millar, The Guardian, 9/12/01
22. CISSELL, JAMES R.
As Former Cincinnatian James r. Cissell sat in traffic on a Virginia Interstate by the Pentagon...he
saw the blur of a Commercial Jet and wondered why it was flying so low. "right about the time it was crossing over the highway,
it kind of dawned on me what was happening," said Cissell...
In the next blink of an eye, he realized he had a front-row seat to History, as the Plane plowed
into the Pentagon, sending a Fireball exploding into the air and scattering debris -- including a tire rim suspected of belonging
to the Airplane -- past his Car....
"Out of my peripheral vision," Cissell said, "I saw this Plane comin in and it was low -- and getting
lower.
"If you couldn't touch it from standing on the highway, you could by standing on your Car." ...
He remembers the Helipad the Plane flew over before smacking into the Pentagon was close enough to
him that "I could have thrown a baseball at it and hit it." ...
"It came in in a perfectly straight line," he said.
"It didn't slow down. I want to say it accelerated. It just shot straight in.
"'I saw the faces of some of the passengers'," by Kimball Perry, Cincinnati Post, 9/12/01
23. CLEVELAND, ALLEN
{Allen Cleveland of Woodbridge Virginia} "was sitting on the Metro rail on the subway system coming
in to National Airport, ...my back was actually towards the Pentagon...as the train was going forward I was sitting on the
left side of the train but my back was facing the direction we were going. I looked over to the right and I noticed a Small
Passenger Jet flying in, Mid-Sized Jet flying in....I thought to myself, 'There's no landing strip on that side of the subway
system.' I knew it was coming in so low that there was no way that it could be landing....I had my eye on this Jet. It went
behind some Buildings. And then the next thing I saw was a Huge Mushrom Cloud...."
INTERVIEWER: "dID YOU SEE ANY MARKINGS ON THE jET AT ALL? cOULD YOU IDENTIFY WHAT aIRLINES
IT WAS?"
AC: "All I could see was that, I know it was Silver....A Silver Passenger Jet, Mid-Sized..."
Real Player (audio): Allen Cleveland, 2001
24. COOK, SCOTT P.
I had just scanned the sky and the scene one more time, and turned to Ray. We were talking about
the need for a swift response to this Attack (we were already talking about Bin Laden) when Ray leapt to one side, his face
instantly animated beyond anything I had ever seen.
"They just hit the Pentagon!"
I turned. Rising up from the right corner of the Pentagon's mass was a Gigantic Spherical Orange
Mass, the flames oddly bright and vivid in the clear direct sunlight. I stepped to the window, and instinctively put my hand
to the glass. Verle and Ray were quickly on either side of me. A few seconds after the explosion, the glass rattled and a
dull boom shook the room....
We didn't know what kind of Plane had hit the Pentagon, or where it had hit. Later, we were told
that it was a 757 out of Dulles, which had come up the river in back of our Building, turned sharply over the Capitol, ran
past the White House and the Washinton Monument, up the river to Rosslyn, then dropped to treetop level and ran down Washington
Boulevard to the Pentagon.
"September 11, 2001," by Scott P. Cook
25. DUBILL, BOB
Every morning for years Bob Dubill drove past the Pentagon on his way to work at USA Today.
He was passing the Building the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when he saw a Jetliner fly over the roadway.
It filled his field of vision. The Jet was 40-feet off the ground speeding toward the Pentagon.
"The wheels were up and I knew that this Plane was not heading for National Airport," he said. "This
Plane was going to slam into the Pentagon. I steeled myself for the explosion."
"St. Bona Pulitzer winners share 9/11 experiences," by John T. Eberth, The Times Herald (Olean,
NY), 9/19/02
26. EBERLE, BOBBY
The route from where I'm staying to my conference hotel runs right by the Pentagon. As we slowly
crept along in traffic at about 9:30 am, we rounded a bend and had the Pentagon in our sites -- right in front of us...
Riding in a convertible with the top down, I then heard a tremendously loud noise from behind me
and to my left. I looked back and saw a Jet Airliner flying very low and very fast. It's amazing what can run through your
mind in just a matter of seconds. As a Pilot, I can't help but look at an Airplane and think about Airplane Topics....
The Aircraft was so very low -- as an Aircraft would be on its final approach to an Airport. however,
if you have watched any Aircraft come in for a landing, even though the Aircraft is descending, it is angled up slightly.
this Aircraft was angled downward. In addition, landing gear would also be visible on a Aircraft so low and so near landing.
This Aircraft had its landing gear retracted. Finally, an Aircraft on final approach is traveling rather slowly. This Aircraft
sped very loudly and very quickly.
"eyewitness to Tragedy," by Bobby Eberle, Opinion Central - GOPUSA.com, 9/12/01
27. EIDEN, STEVE
Steve Eiden, a Truck Driver, had picked up his cargo that Tuesday morning in williamsburg, Va., and
was en route to New York City and witnessed the aftermath....He took the Highway 95 Loop in the area of the Pentagon and thought
it odd to see a Plane in restricted airspace, thining to himself it was odd that it was flying so low.
"You could almost see the People in the windows," he said as he watched the Plane disappear behind
a line of trees, followed by a tall plume of black smoke. then he saw the Pentagon on fire, and an announcement came over
the radio that the Pentagon had been hit.
"Sept. 11, the Day America Changed," The Baxter Bulletin, 2001,
28. ELGAS, PENNY
Traffic was 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 (Comumbia 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...
...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 Airline 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...
...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.
"Statement from Penny Egas - Personal Experience At The Pentagon on September 11, 2001,"
Supporting Material - september 11: Bearing Witness to History, National Museum of American
History
29. ELLIOTT, BRUCE
Former Ammunition Plant Official...Col. Bruce Elliott...watched...as a Hijacked 757 Airliner crashed
into the Nerve Center of the U.S. Military Command.
Elliott, ...said he had just left the Pentagon and was about to board a shuttle van in a south parking
lot when he saw the Plane approach and slam into the West side of the Structure.
"I looked to my left and saw the Plane coming in....
"It was like a Kamikaze Pilot." ...
He said the Craft clipped a utility pole guide wire, which may have slowed it sown a bit before it
crashed into the Building and bust into flames.
"Attack on America - Commander saw Pentagon crash," by Dennis J. Carroll, The Hawk Eye, 9/13-14/01
30. EVEY, WALKER LEE
Internally, the Wedge One Project included: Complete Demolition of Existing Facilities; Significant
Abatement of Hazardous Materials (most natably, 28 million lbs. of Asbestos-Contaminated Material was removed); Installation
of all New Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing and Telecommunications Systems within the existing floorplan; Structural Steel
Reinforcement; and Replacement of all 1,282 windows in the section, inclusing 386 Blast-Resistant Units on the outermost "E
Ring" and innermost "A Ring" of the Building. All-new Office Space was created with an open space plan aimed at enhancing
flexibility.
...Amazingly, the Plane pushed through the outermost "E Ring," and drove deep into the interior,
its Nose coming to rest just inside the "C Ring."
"Saving the Pentagon, Part 1: Damage Control - Pentagon Shifts Into Higher Gear," by y Victoria
l. Tanner, Design Build Web Magazine, October 2001
EVEY: Actually, there's considerable evidence of the Aircraft outside the Ering. It's just
not very visible. When you get up close -- actually, one of my People happened to be walking on this sidewalk and was right
about here as the Aircraft approached. It came in. It clipped a couple of light poles on the way in. He happened to hear this
terrible noise behind him, looked back, and he actually -- he's a Vietnam Veteran -- jumped prone onto the ground so the Aircraft
would not actually -- he thinks it (would have) hit him; it was that low.
On its way in, the wing clipped. Our guess is an Engine clipped a generator. We had an Emergency
Temporary Generator to provide Life-Safety Emergency Electrical Power, should the Power go off in the Building. The wing actually
clipped that generator, and portions of it broke off. There are other parts of the Plane that are scattered about outside
the Building. None of those parts are very large, however. You don't see big pieces of the Airplane sitting there extending
up into the air.
But there are many small pieces. And the few larger pieces there look like they are veins out of
the Aircraft Engine. They're circular.
"September 11, 2001: Federal Response," Lee Evey, Pentagon Renovation Manager, Rear Adm. Craig
Quigley, Deputy Asst. Sec. of Def. for Public Affairs, Terry Mitchell, chief, Audiovisual Division, Office of ASD PA, The
Pentagon, The Patriot Resource - History: September 11, 2001, 9/15/01
31. FLYLER, KIM
"I pulled into the Pentagon parking lot and was trying to sneak into a spot closer to the Building
because I was pregnant. The security guard saw I was pregnant, so he was being nice and he was chatting with me. At that moment
I heard a Plane and then a loud cracking noise. We both looked up into the sky and it hit the Building at that instant. It
was so loud it still echoes in my head when I think about it.
"Right before the Plane hit the Building, you could see the Silhouettes of people in the back two
windows. You couldn't see if they were Male or Female, but you could tell there was a Human Being in there."
"Pain, fear and disbelief," by Vikki Miller, Dee O'Connell, Jason Burke, Dominic Nutt, The
Observer, 9/8/02
32. FORD, KEN
One Eyewitness, State Department Employee Ken Ford, said he watched from the 15th floor of the State
Department Annex, just across the Potomac River from the Pentagon.
We were watching the Airport through binoculars, Ford said, referring to Reagan National Airport,
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.
"Terror spreads as plane hits Pentagon; government installations evacuated," by Ken Fireman,
Newsday, Delaware News Journal, p.6, 9/11/01
Subscribers only: September 12 2001 Irish Times article
33. GAINES, KAT
Gaines was on her way to a part-time job at Reagan National Airport the morning of Sept. 11, 2001,
after working a 24-hour shift at Fire Station 16 in Clifton.
Her commute to the Airport took her South on Route 110, in front of the parking lots of the Pentagon.
As she approached the parking lots, she saw a low-flying Jetliner strike the top of nearby telephone poles. She then heard
the Plane power up and plunge into the Pentagon.
"Valor Awards Recipients, by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, Great Falls/McLean/Vienna
Times Staff, 2/19/02
34. HAGOS, AFEWORK
Afework Hagos, a Computer Programmer, was on his way to work but stuck in a traffic jam 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."
"'Everyone was screaming, crying, running. It's like a war zone," by Julian Borger, Duncan Campbell,
Charlie Porter and Stuart Millar, The Guardian, 9/12/01
HAGOS, ASEWORK
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.
"'Extensive Casualties' In Wake of Pentagon Attack ," by Barbara Vobejda, Washington Post,
9/11/01
35. HARRINGTON, JOE
Harrington was working on the installation of new furniture in Wedge One, when he was called out
to the parking lot to talk about security with his customer moments before the crash.
"About two minutes later one of my guys pointed to an American Airlines Airplane 20 feet high over
Washington Blvd.," Harrington said.
"It seemed like it made impact just before the wedge. It was like a Hollywood Movie or something.
"'Where is Safe?' Terrorists strike military nerve center," by Dennis Ryan, Pentagon/dcmilitary.com,
9/14/01
36. HOVIS, TOM
My office is 8 miles from the site. The recovery teams working 18 hour shifts are just now getting
to the body of the Aircraft that went right through the outer ring at full power according to Eyewitnesses. Being a Former
Transport Type (60s era) I cannot understand how that Plane hit where it did giving the direction the Aircraft was taking
at the time.
As most know, the pentagon lies at the bottom of two hills from the west with the east side being
next to the river at 14th Street Bridge.
One hill is at the Navy Annex and the other is Arlington Cemetery. The Plane came up 1-395 also known
as Shirley Hwy....The Plane had been seen making a lazy pattern in the no fly zone over the White House and Us Cap. Why the
Plane did not hit incoming traffic coming down the river from the north to Reagan Nat'l. is beyond me. Strangely, no one at
the Reagon Tower noticed the Aircraft. Andrews AFB Radar should have also picked up the Aircraft I would think. Nevertheless,
the Aircraft went southwest near Springfield and then veered left over Arlington and then put the Nose down coming over Ft.
Myer picking off trees and light poles near the Helicopter Pad next to Building. It was as if he leveled out at the last minute
and put it squre into the Building. The wings came off as if it went through an arch way leaving a hole in the side of the
Building it seems a little larger than the wide body of the Aircraft. The entry point was so clean that the roof...fell in
on the wreckage. They are just now getting near the second ring. Right now it is estimated that it will take two years to
repair the damage. Ironically, the area had just been remodeled with most of the area was still blocked off and some offices
were empty.
I know a Young Army Major who went to a planned staff meeting at 8:30 am sharp. He left his office
and attended the meeting, there was something he needed. He called his friend also a Major near his office on his cell phone.
As they were talking his friend said, My God a Plane has just came through near your office "(which was not part of the new
area, but near it). Fire rolled down the hallway, somehow his friend on the Phone ducked down another hallway....
Incidently, the Fireball also went along the outside of the Building as shown by the blackened side
of the Building to left of the impact point.
The reason the fire took so long to put out was because the attic was filled with "horse hair" for
insulation put there in 1942 when the Building was built.
37. K.,M.
I live in Pentagon City (part of Arlington) and can see the pentagon when I look out my window. I
still can't believe it. I was supposed to have been going to the Pentagon Tuesday morning at about 11:00 am (EDT) and was
getting ready, and thank goodness I wasn't going to be going until later. It was so shocking, I was listening to the news
on what had happened in New York, and just happened to look out the window because I heard a low flying Plane and then I saw
it hit the Pentagon. It happened so fast...it was in the air one moment and in the Building the next....
"US under attack: Your eyewitness accounts," BBC News, 9/14/01
38. KEAN, TERRANCE
Terrance Kean, 35, who lives in a 14-story Building nearby, heard the loud Jet Engines and glanced
out his window.
"I saw this very, very large Passenger Jet,....It just plowed 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....
It was very sort of surreal."
"Loud Boom, Then Flames In Hallways - Pentagon Employees Flee Fire. Help Rescue Injured Co-Workers,"
by Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 9/12/01
39. KHAVKIN, D.S.
We live in Arlington, VA just outside of Washington, DC in a high-rise building on the eigh 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.
"More eyewitness accounts of the attack on the US, " BBC News, 9/13/01
40. KIZILDRGLI, AYDAN
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-sides building that is the Headquarters of the nation's Military.
"Bush vows retaliation for evil acts', USA Today staff and wire reports, 9/12/01
41. LAGASSE, WILLIAM
Sgt. William Lagasse, a Pentagon Police Dog Handler, the Son of an Aviation Instructor, was filling
up his Patrol Car at a Gas Station near the pentagon when he noticed a Jet fly in low.
Initially, he thought the Plane was about to drop on top of him -- it was that close. Lagasse knew
something was wrong. The 757's flaps were not deployed and the landing gear was retracted.
By Avis Thomas-Lester, Washington Post Staff Writer, November 8th
"I saw the Aircraft above my head about 80 feet above the ground, 400 miles an hour. The reason,
I have some experience as a Pilot and I looked at the Plane. Didn't see any landing gear. Didn't see any flaps down. I realized
it wasn't going to land....It was close enough that I could see the windows and the blinds had been pulled down. I read American
Airlines on it....I got on the radio and broadcast. I said a Plane is, is heading toward the Heliport side of the building."
ABC Nightline - 9/11/02 Transcript (Lexis Nexis)
42. LIEBNER, LINCOLN
'I saw this large American Airlines Passenger Jet coming in fast and low,' said Army Captain Lincoln
Liebner....
'We got one guy out of the Fire Truck Cab,' he said, adding he could hear People crying inside the
wreckage.
"Pentagon evacuated, wounded treated after explosions," AFP, The Straits Times Interactive
"I saw this large American Airlines Passenger Jet coming in fast and low," said Army Captain Lincoln
Liebner.
"My first thought was I've never seen one that high. Before it hit I realized what was happening,"
he said.
Captain Liebner says the Aircraft struck a Helicopter on the Helipad, setting fire to a Fire Truck.
"We got one guy out of the {Fire Truck} Cab," he said, adding he could hear People crying inside
the wreckage.
Captain Liebner, who had cuts on his hands from the debris, says he has been parking his Car in the
Car Park when the crash occurred.
"Terrorist attacks rock US, destroy World Trade Centre," Australian Broadcast Company, 9/12/01
Maj. Liebner drove in and made it as far as the south parking lot, where he got out on foot. "I heard
the Plane first," he said. "I thought it was a flyover Arlington Cemetery."
From his vantage point, Maj. Liebner looked up and saw the Plane come in. "I was about 100 yards
away," he said. "You could see through the windows of the Aircraft. I saw it hit."
The Plane came in hard and level and was flown full throttle into the Building, dead center mass,
Jaj. Liebner said. "The Plane completely entered the Building," he said. "I got a little repercussion, from the sound, the
blast. I've heard Artillery, and that was louder than the loudest has to offer. I started running toward the site. I jumped
over a fence. I was probably the first person on the scene."
A tree and the backend of a crash truck at the Heliport near the crash site were on fire and the
ground was scorched, Maj. Liebner recounted. "The Plane went into the Building like a Toy into a Birthday Cake," he said.
"The Aircraft went in between the second and third floors."
At that point, no one was outside. Spotting a Pentagon door that had been blown of its hinges, Maj.
Leibner went in and out several times, helping rescue several People. "The very first person was right there," he said. "She
could walk. I walked her out onto the grass."
"Pentagon Medics Remember Sept. 11," by Matt Pueschel, U.S. Medicine, May 2002
43. MARRA, DAVID
David Marra, 23, an Information-Technology Specialist, had turned...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.
"Special Report: The Day of the Attack," by Nancy Gibbs, Time, 9/12/01
44. MARTINEZ, OSCAR
"I saw a big Jet flying close to the Building coming at full speed. There was a big noise when it
hit the Building," said Oscar Martinez, who witnessed the Attack.
"Apparent Terror Attacks Hit D.C.," Firehouse.Com, 9/11/01
45. MCCUSKER, ELAINE
I don't know what made me look up, but I did and I saw a very low-flying American Airlines Plane
that seemed to be accelerating. My first thought was just 'No, no, no, no,' because it was obvious the Plane was not heading
to nearby Reagan National Airport. It was going to crash.
"Sept. 11 remembered - 'It can't be real'," by Elaine MCCusker, University Week, Univ of Washington,
10/4/01
46. MCCLELLAN, KENNETH
The crew of a Military Cargo Plane watched as a Hijacked Airliner plunged into the Pentagon, a Defense
Official confirmed Tuesday.
the report confirms the Eyewitness Account of two Hampton Roads Residents who were near the Pentagon
that day and said they saw a second Plane flying near the doomed Passenger Jet.
A C-130 Cargo Plane had departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to Minnesota that morning and reported
seeing an Airliner heading into Washington "at an unusual angle," said Lt. Col. Kenneth McClellan, a Pentagon Spokesman.
Air-traffic Control Officials instructed the Propeller-powered Cargo Plane "to let us know where
it's going," McClellan said.
but, he said, there was no attempt to intercept the Hijacked Airliner.
"A C-130 obviously goes slower than a Jet," McClellan said....
The C-130 Pilot "followed the Aircraft and reported it was heading into the Pentagon," he said.
"He saw it crash into the Building. He saw the Fireball." ...
In the days immediately following the Sept. 11 Hijackings, the Pentagon had no knowledge of the C-130's
encounter, because all reports were classified by the Air National Guard, the Pentagon Spokesman said.
"It was very hard to get any information out," McClellan said.
"C-130 crew saw Pentagon strike, occicial confirms," by Terry Scanlon and David Leman, Daily
Press, 10/17/01
