9/11 and the Pentagon Attack: What Eyewitnesses Described

9/11 and the Pentagon Attack: What Witnesses Described

NOTE: there are some minor errors that I need to fix and that have been pointed out to me. A handful of witnesses described what they saw after the attack and are not first hand accounts. I will also be adding transcripts of of live television witnesses, never before transcribed.

The Flight Path of the Plane according to Witnesses

1.        “I noticed a large aircraft flying low towards the White House. This aircraft then made a sharp turn and flew towards the Pentagon.”[1]

2.        “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.”[2]

3.        UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As we were driving into town on 395, there was an exit. We were trying to get off of the exit for the Memorial Bridge. On the left-hand side, there was a commercial plane coming in, and was coming in too fast and the[n?] too low, and the next thing we saw was [it?] go-down below the side of the road… coming down towards the side of the—of 395. And when it came down, it just missed 395 and went down below us”[3]

4.        I had just passed the closest place the Pentagon is to the exit on 395… we realized the jet was coming up behind us on that major highway. And it veered to the right into the Pentagon.[4]

5.        “The jet came in from the south”[5]

6.        “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”[6]

7.        “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 annex is only a few hundred yards from the Pentagon.”[7]

8.        “which had come up the river in back of our building, turned sharply over the Capitol, ran past the White House and the Washington Monument, up the river to Rosslyn, then dropped to treetop level and ran down Washington Boulevard to the Pentagon.”[8]

9.        “He and two colleagues from Oracle software were stopped in a car near the Naval Annex, next to the Pentagon, when they saw the plane dive down and level off.”[9]

10.     “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… then it banked in the slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport.”[10]

11.     “seemed to come directly over the annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike—an Arlington road leading to Pentagon.”[11]

12.     “The plane came up I-395 also known as Shirley Hwy. (most likely used as a reference point.) The plane had been seen making a lazy pattern in the no fly zone over the White House and US Cap… the aircraft went southwest near Springfield and then veered left over Arlington and then put the nose down coming over Ft Myer.”[12]

13.     “They saw the plane hovering over the Washington Mall Area at an altitude lower that the height of the Washington Monument.”[13]

14.     “At the BMDO offices at the old Navy Annex. Having just reached the elevator in the 5^th wing of BMDO Federal Office Building (FOB) #2. He heard “an increasingly loud rumbling” One to two seconds later the airliner came into my field of view… The aircraft was essentially right over the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel the outer edge of the FOB)… Within seconds the plane cleared the 8th wing of BMDO and was heading directly towards the Pentagon.”[14]

15.     “A silver, twin-engine American airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex.”[15]

16.     “I was going up 395, up Washington Blvd… and from my left side…I saw a silver plane… It came swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight across where my car was heading.”[16]

17.     “A commuter jet swooped over Arlington National Cemetery.”[17]

18.     “It actually came up I-395 and it went over the rise and came in front of a bridge in which I was sitting [in traffic].”[18]

19.     “[It] approached from the west, coming in low over the nearby five-story Navy Annex on a hill overlooking the Pentagon.”[19]

20.     “at that point it went down because I was approaching a hill. And at that point it went straight down over the hill.”[20]

21.     “Personnel working in the Navy Annex, over which the airliner flew… saw this [plane] come flying over the Navy Annex.”[21]  

22.     “A plane flew over my house,” (one mile away from the Pentagon). “It was loud, but not unusual because the [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport] is by my house, on the other side of the Pentagon.”[22]

23.     “flying low over the tree tops near Seminary Rd. in Springfield, VA.”[23]

24.     “I had just passed the Pentagon and was near the Macy’s store in Crystal City when I noticed a plane making a sharp turn from north of the Pentagon. I had to look back at the road and then back to the plane as it sort of leveled off.”[24]

25.     “He left Bolling Air Force Base, D.C., for a meeting at the Pentagon, only to be told it was cancelled. Walking back to his motorcycle he saw a commercial airliner coming from the direction of Henderson Hall the Marine Corps headquarters. It “flew above a nearby hotel.”[25]

26.     “About 10 minutes ago, there was a white jet circling overhead. Now, you generally don't see planes in the area over the White House. That is restricted air space.  No reason to believe that this jet was there for any nefarious purposes, but the Secret Service was very concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky.”[26]

27.     “I was right underneath the plane, said Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co., who was on the Arlington National Cemetery exit of Interstate 395.”[27]

28.     “I did see, myself a plane, about half hour ago, circling over the Capitol.”[28]

29.     “Personnel working in the Navy Annex, over which the airliner flew, said they heard the distinct whine of jet engines as the airliner approached... I saw this [plane] come flying over the Navy Annex.”[29]

30.     “Time seemed to slip into slow motion as he watched the plane cross over Route 395, tip its left wing as it passed the Navy annex, veer sharply and then slice into the Pentagon.”[30]

31.     “A white 737 twin-engine plane with multicolored trim fly 50 feet over I-395 in a straight line.”[31]

32.     “You could just see him descend and just keep descending lower and lower, until he was almost on top of Route 27 that runs alongside the Pentagon.”[32]

33.     “I looked out to the southwest, and it came right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as is went by the Sheraton Hotel.”[33]

34.     “The plane took “a flight path straight up 395.”[34]

35.     “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… Georgetown is a sector of the District of Columbia… A few minutes later, Vaughn witnessed the craft’s impact.”

36.     “I looked up and saw the underbelly of the jet as it gracefully banked, then I watched in shock as the jet basically lined up the Pentagon in its sights and began to scream towards the mammoth structure.”[35]

37.     “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.”[36]

38.     “I watched it come in very low over the trees and it just dipped down and came down right over 395 right into the Pentagon.”[37]

39.     “I was so scared I thought it was coming after me and just ducked for cover… It was going so fast and it was so low,” he said, standing on Army-Navy Drive.”[38]

40.     “It was an airliner coming straight up Columbia Pike”[39]

41.     “Headed eastbound over the Pike, possibly toward the Pentagon.”[40]

42.     “The plane flew very low over his car and hit the building and blew his windows out of the vehicle and he’s on interstate 395.”[41]

Witnesses who were very close to the Pentagon Damage Area:

Frank Probst, Noel Sepulveda, Mickey Bell, William Yeingst, Alan Wallace

Witnesses Predicted that the Pentagon Would be Attacked

“…I warned my crew to stay alert. One of them just looked at me and said, ‘This is Arlington. Nothing like that will ever happen here.’ When I saw him later that day at the incident, he told me he’d never say anything like that again.”[42]

“Someone had a television turned on in the trailer’s break room that showed smoke pouring out of the twin towers in New York. ‘The Pentagon would make a pretty good target,’ someone in the break room commented.”[43]

Witnesses described the Plane Approach the Pentagon

“Plane”

1.        “I was looking down at my desk, the plane caught my eye. It didn't register at first.”[44]

2.        “Suddenly I saw this plane right outside my window. You felt like you could touch it; it was that close.”[45]

3.        “I saw the plane that hit the Pentagon. It went behind some trees.”[46]

4.        “[The plane] was coming down head first.”[47]

5.        “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.”[48]

6.        “It looked like the plane was just in normal flying mode but heading straight down.  It was straight.”[49]

7.        “The aircraft crossed about 200 yards [should be more than 150 yards from the impact] in front of me.”[50]

8.        “…in my car, sitting on a bridge, and saw the plane.”[51]

9.        “I saw the plane at the Navy Annex area…I knew it was going to strike the building.”[52]

10.     “I saw the plane.”[53]

11.     “The lady next to me was in absolute hysterics [on the highway next to the Pentagon].”[54]

12.     “They saw the plane dive down and level off… I can still see the plane. I can still see it right now. It's just the most frightening thing in the world, going full speed, going full throttle, its wheels up.”[55]

13.     “We had one guy who was standing, looking out the window [of the Pentagon] and saw the plane when it was coming in.”[56]

14.     “We saw the shadow of a plane… We all said, ‘That plane is flying kind of close.’”[57]

15.     “Dad, look [at] that plane!”[58]

16.      “Suddenly, an airplane roared into view, nearly shearing the roof off the trailer before slamming into the E ring.”[59]

17.     “I could see the windows. I saw the entire plane.”[60]

18.     “He took the Highway 95 loop in the area of the Pentagon and thought it odd to see a plane in restricted airspace.”[61]

19.     “The plane approached the Pentagon.”[62]

20.     “My people who did see it… described it as entering the building.”[63]

21.     “(The plane) was flying fast and low and the Pentagon was the obvious target…the plane passed about 150 feet overhead. It was flying very smoothly and calmly, without any hint that anything was wrong.”[64]

22.     “I got on Interstate 395 and saw the plane come in. I didn’t see the actual impact, but 395 curves around the Pentagon, and I saw that plane coming in.”[65]

23.     “I saw the plane.”[66]

24.     “I was in my Jeep Cherokee, driving on Route 395 toward DC and listening to NPR. I saw the plane coming down.”[67]

25.     “Fred Hey was driving by on Route 50 at that moment. “I can’t believe it! This plane is going down into the Pentagon!”[68]

26.     “The plane came up I-395 also known as Shirley Hwy. (most likely used as a reference point.) 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 Reagan 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.”[69]

27.     “I saw it go overhead, the plane.”[70]

28.     “The plane came over the top of us [over our car] and brushed the trees… and went right into the first and second floors.”[71]

29.     “I saw it.”[72]

30.     “What is that plane doing?” [73]

31.     “Suddenly they saw the plane.”[74]

32.     “I looked out the window to see an airplane.”[75]

33.     “I actually pointed it out and said: ‘Look at this plane.”[76]

34.     “I saw a plane coming what I thought was toward National Airport, which is very close. You see that all the time.”[77]

35.     “My group (4 of us) was unaware of the happenings in New York but knew something was wrong when we saw the jet coming down the freeway…”[78]

36.     “I saw it.”[79]

37.     “The plane flew in front of us by about 200 ft at ground level.”[80]

38.     “The plane approached low, flying ‘directly’ over him.”[81]

39.     “I was right underneath the plane…I saw it.”[82]

40.     “Looking up didn’t tell me what type of plane it was because it was so close I could only see the bottom.”[83]

41.     “[I] saw a plane.”[84]

42.     “[The plane] was coming straight into the wedge.”[85]

43.     “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.”[86]

44.     “I looked out the window to the West just in time to see the belly of that aircraft and the tail section fly directly over my house… It was utterly sickening to see, knowing that this plane was going to crash.”[87]

45.     “Wanda Ramey, a DPS master patrol officer, had had a bird’s eye view. Ramey stood at the Mall plaza booth when she saw a low-flying airplane.”[88]

46.     “The plane came in at an incredibly steep angle with incredibly high speed.”[89]

47.     “when out of the corner of my eye I saw the airplane.”[90]

48.     “A plane flew over my house… [one mile away from the Pentagon].”[91]

49.     “I had just passed the Pentagon and was near the Macy’s store in Crystal City when I noticed a plane making a sharp turn from north of the Pentagon. I had to look back at the road and then back to the plane as it sort of leveled off.”[92]

50.     “Where the plane came in was really at the construction entrance…The plane’s left wing actually came in near the ground and the right wing was tilted up in the air. That right wing went directly over our trailer, so if that wing had not tilted up, it would have hit the trailer.”[93]

51.     “I saw the plane not more than 200 feet over my head.”[94]

52.     “[he saw] the tail of a plane.”[95]

53.     “We saw the plane.”[96]

54.     “The guy I was with looked up and said: ‘What the hell is that plane doing?”[97]

55.     “I did see, myself a plane, about half hour ago, circling over the Capitol.”[98]

56.     “I followed the plane down with my eyes.”[99]

57.     “I saw this [plane] come flying over the Navy Annex. It flew over the van.”[100]

58.     “We saw a plane near the Pentagon.”[101]

59.     “You don’t see planes on that side of the Pentagon, and that was my first thought. I thought, ‘What is he doing on that side of the Pentagon, It’s so strange.’ And then you could just see him descend and just keep descending lower and lower, until he was almost on top of Route 27 that runs alongside the Pentagon.”[102]

60.     “I glanced up just at the point where the plane was going into the building.”[103]

61.     “On the deck of his house about 1 mile away from the Pentagon and just west of I-395… I heard a boom. I knew something awful had happened—that an airplane had crashed somewhere in Washington, D.C.”[104]

62.     “He was in his car on nearby Interstate 395 when the plane hit the pentagon on Tuesday morning… ‘I was scanning the air…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…That may have been the plane. I have never seen one on that (flight) pattern.’”[105]

63.     “Just prior to the impact there were three firemen on the helipad at the Pentagon… they looked up and saw the plane coming over the Navy Annex building.”[106]

64.     “About 10 minutes ago, there was a white jet circling overhead. Now, you generally don't see planes in the area over the White House. That is restricted air space.  No reason to believe that this jet was there for any nefarious purposes, but the Secret Service was very concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky.”[107]

Witnesses described the type of Plane:

“Commercial/Passenger Plane/Jetliner/Large Aircraft”

65.     “There was a commercial plane coming in… ENSOR: So you believe it was a commercial airliner that was hitting the Pentagon? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes… coming down towards the side of the—of 395. And when it came down, it just missed 395 and went down below us… I did not see what kind of an airline.”[108]

66.     “Engine 101 actually saw the jetliner.”[109]

67.     “I just looked up and I saw the big nose and the wings of the aircraft coming right at us.”[110]

68.     “I noticed a large aircraft flying low towards the White House.”[111]

69.     “He saw the blur of a commercial jet… That is a big plane.”[112]

70.     “Allen Cleveland of Woodbridge Virginia looked out from a Metro train going to National Airport, to see a jet heading down toward the Pentagon… I looked to the right of the train as we were coming into the station, and noticed a jet flying in real low, about a mid-sized passenger jet flying in. I know it was silver, that's the only thing I know.”[113]

71.     “[Allen Cleveland’s Brother] said that he saw a jetliner.”[114]

72.     “As we walked away, there were people on the road, because we were very close to the exit, and they were saying ‘Oh my god, did you see that?  It was an airplane!  It was an airplane!’  They kept saying it was a ‘big airplane.’”[115]

73.     “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.”[116]

74.     “I looked back and saw a jet airliner.”[117]

75.     “We were watching the airport through binoculars…The plane was a two-engine turbo prop that flew up the river from National…[118] then it turned back to the Pentagon.”[119]

76.     “Kat Gaines, heading south on Route 110, approached the parking lots, saw a low-flying jetliner”[120]

77.     “I saw a large airliner sized plane—roughly a 767 size airliner.”[121]

78.     “I saw a plane going down—big plane, commercial airliner type going down full speed We were driving down from Columbia pike and it just flew right over us, full speed, But it was a big plane, maybe a 737—my husband said 747, but I’m not positive, I don’t know for sure.  But it was big, definitely the kind of plane when you get on when you want to fly to L.A. or wherever.”[122]

79.     “I saw this very, very large passenger jet.”[123]

80.     “[Watching from an 8^th floor high-rise:] At first, we thought it was the jets that sometimes fly overhead. However, it appeared to be a small commercial aircraft…”[124]

81.     “Aydan Kizildrgli, saw the jetliner bank slightly.”[125]

82.     “I looked in the rearview mirror to check the traffic and saw only a plane, flying very low. I followed it in my left outside mirror. I braked, looked out my left window and saw a large commercial aircraft aiming for the Pentagon…The aircraft, so close to the ground, was banked skillfully to the right, leveled off perpendicular to the Pentagon’s southwest side, then went full throttle directly toward the building.”[126]

83.     “Middleton looked up and spotted a commercial jet whose pilot seemed to be fighting with his own craft.”[127]

84.     “I looked over and saw this big silver plane.”[128]

85.     “Alfred S. Regnery, saw (…) a jetliner…”

86.     “His brother in-law also saw a jetliner.”[129]

87.     “I was on the street driving, and then the plane went over the top of my car… It was a big aircraft just on its course.”[130]

88.     “Walking back to his motorcycle he saw a commercial airliner coming from the direction of Henderson Hall the Marine Corps headquarters.”[131]

89.     “Philip Sheuerman, exiting the freeway, turning into the parking lot, of the Pentagon saw a passenger plane.”[132]

90.     “It was headed straight for the building. It made no sense. (…) A huge jet.”[133]

91.     “I saw the jet just before it crashed. Something big and silver, nose down… Most not knowing what exactly was happening. I had more fear because I saw what happened.”[134]

92.     “[He saw] a white 737 twin-engine plane with multicolored trim fly 50 feet over I-395 in a straight line.”[135]

93.     “[he saw] what looked like a 747… I saw this [plane] come flying over the Navy Annex. It flew over the van.”[136]

94.     “he saw a…commercial airliner…There was no reason for a plane to come in that low, that fast” …The plane took ‘a flight path straight up 395.’”[137]

95.     “I saw the plane hit the building on 9/11. It was a plane. It was big.”[138]

96.     “I saw the tail of a large airliner… 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.”[139]

97.     “I watched this—it looked like a commuter plane, twin-engine, come down from the south real low…it just dipped down and came down right over 395.”[140]

98.     “It was an airliner coming straight up Columbia Pike…  It was huge! It was silver. It was low—unbelievable! I could see the cockpit.”[141]

99.     “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… screamed overhead.”[142]

100.  “It was a commercial sized airliner.  I’m not sure how big it was.  A gentleman just said that he was sitting on 95—the plane flew very low over his car… and blew his windows out of the vehicle and he’s on interstate 395.”[143]

101.  “It was a good size jet aircraft.”[144]

 “American Airlines”

102.  “It was an American Airlines airplane, I could see it very clearly… it looked like the plane was just in normal flying mode but heading straight down.  It was straight.”[145]

103.   “There was a commercial airliner that said American airlines over the side of it.”[146]

104.  “He saw an American Airlines 737 twin-engine airliner… we saw a plane coming toward us… 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…”[147]

105.  “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.[148] The plane just appeared there- very low in the air, to the side of (and not much above) the CITGO gas station…[149] 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.”[150]

106.  “The plane flew over… He said he looked at it and saw American Airline insignia.”[151]

107.  “About two minutes later one of my guys pointed to an American airlines airplane.”[152]

108.  “I talked to a number of average people in route who said they saw the plane hovering over the Washington Mall Area at an altitude lower that the height of the Washington Monument…they reported to him they could clearly see the markings of an American airlines airliner.”[153]

109.  “I saw this large American airlines passenger jet…”There was no doubt in my mind what I was watching. Not for a second. It was accelerating,”[154] 

110.  “He saw an American airlines jet swooping in, its wings wobbly, looking like it was going to slam right into the Pentagon.”[155]

111.  “I saw a very low-flying American airlines plane that seemed to be accelerating.”[156]

112.  “Father Stephen McGraw was driving…when he mistakenly took the Pentagon exit onto Washington Boulevard, putting him in a position to witness American airlines Flight 77…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…”[157]

113.  “I looked out to the front and saw, coming straight down the road at us, a huge jet plane clearly with American airlines written on it, and it looked like it was coming in to hit us.”[158]

114.  “The aircraft was essentially right over the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel the outer edge of the FOB)[159]. I estimate that the aircraft was no more than 100 feet above me (30 to 50 feet above the FOB) in a slight nose down attitude. The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American airlines, but I couldn’t be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so reported to authorities. Within seconds the plane cleared the 8th wing of BMDO and was heading directly towards the Pentagon… The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled… As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the FOB blocked my view. I could now only see the tail of the aircraft. I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor turn in that direction.”[160]

115.  “A silver, twin-engine American airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex… The plane, with red and blue markings, hurtled by…”[161]

116.  “Then I looked up to my left and saw an American airlines jet flying right at me. The jet roared over my head, clearing my car by about 25 feet.”[162]

117.  “I saw a 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.”[163]

118.  “It was an American airlines plane that came in and hit the Pentagon.  I believe it was a 737—I could be mistaken, it might have been a 707—but it was definitely a commercial plane.  I saw the plane coming down—it actually came up I-395 and it went over the rise and came in front of a bridge in which I was sitting [in traffic].”[164]

119.  “He saw the airliner in the cloudless September sky American airlines Flight 77 approached from the west, coming in low over the nearby five-story Navy Annex on a hill overlooking the Pentagon… The plane seemed to be accelerating directly toward him. He froze. ‘I knew I was dead’ …He dove to his right. He recalls the engine passing on one side of him, about six feet away… I dove towards the ground and watched this great big engine from this beautiful airplane just vaporize… The starboard engine hit a low cement wall and blew apart.”[165]

120.  “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… 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… It was definitely an American airlines jet… There is no doubt about that… When I got to work I checked it out.”[166]

121.  “On my left, right above me—a little over. I see an American airlines plane, silver plane, I could see AA on the tail… I could see the windows of the plane. I could see every detail of the plane. In my head I have ingrained forever this image of every detail of that plane. It was a silver plane, American airlines plane, and I recognized it immediately as a passenger plane.”[167]

122.  “Then he caught the glint of silver out of the corner of his eye. He looked up to see a passenger plane with the trademark stainless-steel fuselage and stripes of American airlines… Time seemed to slip into slow motion as he watched the plane cross over Route 395, tip its left wing as it passed the Navy annex.”[168]

123.  “On my way to work Sept. 11, I saw an American airlines jet come overhead… and, turning to look, saw my driver’s side window filled with the fuselage of the doomed airliner…I could see the passenger windows glide by. The plane looked as if it were coming in for a landing.”[169]

124.  “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.”[170]

125.  “I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American airlines jet, coming… I looked up and saw the underbelly of the jet as it gracefully banked… I saw a big silver plane and those double A’s… I knew it was an American Airlines passenger jet. I watched as it continued to dip from the sky, diving towards the Pentagon.  There are some trees that are adjacent to 27 the road I was stuck on, so the jet went out of sight momentarily. Then I picked it up… I was surprised at how graceful and slow the banking of the jet appeared to be, and how quickly it accelerated after it had lined up the Pentagon.”[171]

126.  “Her brother… of Virginia Beach, spotted the planes first…the American airlines jet.”[172]

127.  “I look up, it looks like a silver American Airlines, twin-engine plane.”[173]

128.  “No doubt about it, it was an American Airlines.”[174]

129.  “Motor 14, it was an American airlines plane, uh, headed eastbound over the Pike, possibly toward the Pentagon.” [Radio transmission tape released by the Arlington Police Department].”[175]

American Airways?

130.  “It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane.”[176]

“757”

131.  “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 Washington Monument, up the river to Rosslyn, then dropped to treetop level and ran down Washington Boulevard to the Pentagon.”[177]

132.  “A huge airplane [which] look[ed] to me like a 757, American Airlines probably flying around 60 to 70 yards on top of my car… as I mentioned to you, I do fly small airplanes occasionally, and it looked to me someone professional—especially when you manoeuvre and turn the airplane—it would take you a few seconds to put the wings equally [level].  It [looked] like it was [planned]…  Just the way I looked at the airplane, it looked like… the rear of the [airplane was] going to land on my car… Unbelievable.”[178]

133.  “Col. Bruce Elliott… watched in horror Tuesday as a hijacked 757 airliner crashed into the nerve center of the U.S. military command.”[179]

134.  “Sgt. William Lagasse… was filling up his patrol car at a gas station near the Pentagon when he noticed a jet fly in low… I have some experience as a pilot… The 757’s flaps were not deployed and the landing gear was retracted…  I saw the aircraft above my head about 80 feet above the ground, 400 miles an hour. It was close enough that I could see the windows and the blinds had been pulled down. I read American airlines on it.”[180]

135.  “[he saw] 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…a mere 50 to 75 yards from his windshield… I saw the body and the tail; it was a silver jet with the markings along the windows that spoke to me as an American airlines jet, it was not a… business jet, it was not a Lear jet… it was a bigger plane than that… probably a 757.”[181]

136.  “A pilot who saw the impact, Tim Timmerman, said it had been an American Airways 757… I looked out to the southwest, and it came right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as is went by the Sheraton Hotel.”[182]

“757” …or Airbus… or 767?

137.  “Wallace and Skipper were walking along the right side of the truck (Young was in the station) [near the crash site]when the two looked up and saw an airplane… white airplane with orange and blue trim heading almost straight at him… and was coming in low and fast… just 200 yards away-the length of two football fields… He didn’t know how long he’d have or whether he could outrun the oncoming plane… Wallace and his buddy Mark “We have had a commercial carrier crash into the west side of the Pentagon at the heliport, Washington Boulevard side. The crew is OK. The airplane was a 757 Boeing or a 320 Airbus.”[183]

138.  “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.”[184]

139.  “When air traffic control asked me if we had him [Flight 77] in sight, I told him that was an understatement—by then, he had pretty much filled our windscreen. Then he made a pretty aggressive turn so he was moving right in front of us, a mile and a half, two miles away. I said we had him in sight, then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was. That caught us up, because normally they have all that information. The controller didn’t seem to know anything.” O’Brien reports that the plane is either a 757 or 767 and its silver fuselage means it is probably an American Airlines plane. “They told us to turn and follow that aircraft—in 20 plus years of flying, I’ve never been asked to do something like that.”[185]

Some Witnesses described a “small plane”… farther away from the Pentagon

140.  “A commuter jet swooped over Arlington National Cemetery and headed for the Pentagon…Steve Patterson, 43, said he was watching television reports of the World Trade Center being hit when he saw a silver commuter jet fly past the window of his 14th-floor apartment in Pentagon City. The plane was about 150 yards away, approaching from the west about 20 feet off the ground, Patterson said…The plane, which appeared to hold about eight to 12 people, headed straight for the Pentagon but was flying as if coming in for a landing on a nonexistent runway…At first I thought ‘Oh my God, There’s a plane truly misrouted from National.’”

141.  “Out of the corner of my eye, I saw this plane coming down…I saw what looked to be maybe a 20-passenger corporate jet, no markings on the side, coming in at a shallow angle like it was landing right into the side of the Pentagon… I was across the I-395 from the Pentagon in an office tower with a direct view of the Pentagon.”[186]

142.  “[From an 8th floor high-rise:] At first, we thought it was the jets that sometimes fly overhead. However, it appeared to be a small commercial aircraft…”[187]

Mid-Size Plane

143.  “It was a mid size plane.”[188]

Witnesses observed the “Silver, Red and Blue” colors of the plane

“Silver”

1.        “A silver passenger jet, mid sized… I know it was silver, that's the only thing I know.”[189]

2.        “Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft appeared in my window.”[190]

3.        “I saw little bits of silver falling from the sky [after the crash]”[191]

4.        “The plane had a silver body.”[192]

5.        “I looked over and saw this big silver plane.”[193]

6.        “A silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner”[194]

7.        “I saw a silver plane I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet.”[195]

8.        “He saw a silver commuter jet fly past the window of his 14th-floor apartment in Pentagon City.”[196]

9.        “I see an American Airlines plane, silver plane.”[197]

10.     “I saw the jet just before it crashed. Something big and silver.”[198]

11.     “Then he caught the glint of silver out of the corner of his eye. He looked up to see a passenger plane with the trademark stainless-steel fuselage and stripes of American Airlines.”[199]

12.     “It was a silver jet with the markings along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet.”[200]

13.     “Wallace and his buddy Mark Skipper looked up and saw the gleam of a silver jetliner.”[201]

14.     “I saw a big silver plane and those double A's.”[202]

15.     “It was huge! It was silver.”[203]

 “Red and Blue Markings”

1.        “The plane had red and blue stripes down the fuselage…I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines, but I couldn't be sure.”[204]

2.        “The plane, with red and blue markings…”[205]

3.        “The markings along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet.”[206]

4.        “They could clearly see the markings of an American Airlines airliner.”[207]

5.        “I remember recognizing it as an American Airlines plane—I could see the windows and the color stripes.”[208]

6.        “He saw … a white 737 twin-engine plane with multicolored trim.”[209]

A few witnesses described colors closely similar to Silver, Blue, and Red.  Orange = Red?  White = Silver? [Anomaly]

1.        “White airplane with orange and blue trim heading almost straight at him.”[210]

Witnesses observed the landing gear and flaps of the plane

1.        “I didn’t see any flaps.”[211]

2.        “The wheels were up and I knew that this plane was not heading for National Airport.”[212]

3.        “In addition, landing gear would also be visible on an aircraft so low and so near landing. This aircraft had its landing gear retracted.”[213]

4.        “There were no flaps applied and no apparent landing gear deployed.”[214]

5.        “The 757’s flaps were not deployed and the landing gear was retracted.”[215]

6.        “It was wheels up, flaps up, engines full throttle.”[216]

7.        “The landing gear was up. There were no flaps.”[217]

8.        “He has lights off, wheels up, nose down.”[218]

9.        “I noticed the landing gear was up.”[219]

10.     “Strangely, the landing gear was up and the flaps weren’t down.”[220]

11.     “There were no wheels down.”[221]

12.     “No landing wheels visible.”[222]

13.     “the wheels were up… There were no wheels down.”[223]

14.     “kind of like it was landing with no gear down”

15.     “its wheels up,”

Witnesses observed the “twin” engines of the plane

1.        “It was descending at a much steeper angle than most aircraft. Trailing a thin, diffuse black trail from its engines.”

2.        “it did have those turbine engines on the wing.”

3.        “twin-engine airliner”

4.        “A silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner”

5.        “[a] twin-engine plane”

6.        “The plane was a two-engine turbo prop.”

7.        “It looked like a commuter plane, two-engined.”

8.        ““The right engine hit high, the left engine hit low.”

Witnesses observed the tail of the plane

1.         “I was close enough (about 100 feet or so) that I could see the ‘American Airlines’ logo on the tail.”[224]

2.        “I could see AA on the tail.”[225]

3.        “As I turned to my right, I saw a jumbo tail go by me along Route 395.”[226]

4.        “I saw a big silver plane and those double A’s.”[227]

Witnesses described Jet engine and plane sounds and the plane sped up before crashing

1.        “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.”[228]

2.        “I heard the roar of a jet engine.”[229]

3.        “It sounded like it was jetting instead of slowing down.”[230]

4.        “Bell had just left the trailer when he heard a loud noise… [He] had been less than 100 feet from the initial impact of the plane, [and] was nearly struck by one of the plane’s wings as it sped by him.”[231]

5.        “He heard the plane “power-up” just before it struck the Pentagon.”[232]

6.        “I was cutting the grass and [the plane] came in screaming over my head.”[233]

7.        “It came in in a perfectly straight line…It didn't slow down. I want to say it accelerated.”[234]

8.        “It was screaming. It was just screaming.”[235]

9.        “We heard the engine…That plane is flying kind of close.”[236]

10.     “Riding in a convertible with the top down, I then heard a tremendously loud noise from behind me and to my left… This aircraft sped by very loudly and very quickly.”[237]

11.     “I heard a rumble… I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us.”[238]

12.     “Most of the cars that had their front windshields broken because of the noise of the airplane, and just [at] the time I turned my head to the left, it [seemed] like the pilot or the person who was in charge of the airplane put full torque or treble to the airplane.”  [Reporter:] “It seemed like it was going faster as it was going in?” [Aziz:] “Exactly.”[239]

13.     “He happened to hear this terrible noise behind him.”[240]

14.     “At that moment I heard a plane and then a loud cracking noise.”[241]

15.     “There was a huge screaming noise.”[242]

16.     “As I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling up.”[243]

17.     “I just happened to look out the window because I heard a low flying plane.”[244]

18.     “Terrance Kean, 35, who lives in a 14-story building nearby, heard the loud jet engines and glanced out his window.”[245]

19.     “As he ran to an entrance, he heard jet engines… full throttle… I heard the plane first.”[246]

20.     “I actually saw the plane in front of me…going fast—I think I actually heard it accelerate.”[247]

21.     “It sounded like the pilot had the throttle completely floored.”[248]

22.     “They heard a plane fly directly overhead around 9:45 a.m. It was unusually loud and low.”[249]

23.     “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.”[250]

24.     “He heard a harsh whistling sound overhead… and spotted a commercial jet.”[251]

25.     “I heard a plane…It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh.”[252]

26.     “He heard ‘an increasingly loud rumbling’… One to two seconds later the airliner came into my field of view. By that time the noise was absolutely deafening… Everything was shaking and vibrating, including the ground…Engines were at a steady high-pitched whine, indicating to me that the throttles were steady and full.”[253]

27.     “The jet roared over my head.”[254]

28.     “I don’t know whether I saw or heard it first.”[255]

29.     “The sound of sudden and certain death roared in my ears… but it wasn’t until I heard the demon screaming of that engine that I expected to die… But this engine noise was different. It was too sudden, too loud, too encompassing… I didn’t think the careering, full-throttled craft would get that far… I involuntarily ducked as the wobbling plane thundered over my head.”[256]

30.     “The car shook as the plane flew over.”[257]

31.     “I heard the sound of a very loud aircraft. Since we are not far from Reagan National Airport, at fist I just chalked it up to that and voiced my annoyance aloud for my work being disrupted. But as the sound of the plane grew louder and louder, I thought to myself- that plane is in trouble. I jumped up from my chair as the screeching and whining of the engine got even louder… The sound was so incredibly piercing and shrill- the engines were straining to keep the plane aloft…”[258]

32.     “At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion.”[259]

33.     “Then the engine revved up [before hitting the Pentagon].”[260]

34.     “[The plane was] apparently at full throttle.”[261]

35.     “What made me look up was the sound. Because typically you would hear planes flying over and they make a steady sound like (mimics) when they’re coming to land… And then straightened out sort of suddenly and hit full gas. (mimics) It was so loud it hurt my ears. It was just so loud.”[262]

36.     “It was loud, but not unusual because the [Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport] is by my house, on the other side of the Pentagon.”[263]

37.     “You could hear the engines being revved up even higher.”[264]

38.     “The noise was beyond description.”[265]

39.     “He heard the roar of engines.”[266]

40.     “Minutes later, jet engines rumbled overhead.”[267]

41.     “That plane was screaming. The engines were so loud …”[268]

42.     “I hear this huge rumble.”[269]

43.     “There was a sonic boom… it came screaming across the highway.”[270]

44.     “They heard the distinct whine of jet engines as the airliner approached. I was driving away from the Pentagon in the South Pentagon lot when I hear this huge rumble, the ground started shaking.”[271]

45.     “As soon as I got out of my car, I looked over my shoulder and you can hear the plane coming in, it was just so loud.”[272]

46.     “All of the sudden I heard this loud screeching sound that just came out of nowhere and it intensified. This huge WHOOSH!”[273] 

47.     “After the initial whoosh and blast [when it crashed], it had seemed eerily silent.”[274]

48.     “I heard the scream of a jet engine.”[275]

49.     “And being next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet engine was way too loud… the pilot added power to the engines. I heard it pull up a little bit more.”[276]

50.     “The engines were just screaming.”[277]

51.     “He made it about 30 feet, heard a terrible roar.”[278]

52.     “I rolled down the window and heard the sound of the jet overhead… I watched in shock as the jet basically lined up the Pentagon in its sights and began to scream towards the mammoth structure.”[279]

53.     “It was extremely loud, as you can imagine, a plane that size, it was deafening.”[280]

54.     “I heard this enormous sound of turbulence…”[281]

55.     “All of a sudden I hear incredibly loud jet engines flying very low over the highway.”[282]

56.     “Madelyn Zakhem… 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.”[283]

57.     “A jetliner, apparently at full throttle…screamed overhead.”[284]

Witnesses who described the plane as “a missile”

1.        “An airplane roared into view…it sounded like a missile.”[285]

2.        “We heard a sound like a missile and the plane flew in front of us.”[286]

3.        “A huge jet plane clearly with American airlines written on it… it looked like a deadly missile on the final phase of its mission into the building.”[287]

4.        I saw an American airlines jet… It was so eerily similar to another experience during the Gulf War—a missile strike that killed a Marine in my unit—that when I jumped out of my SUV, I felt like I’d jumped into my past and was in combat once again.”[288]

5.         “At that point I didn’t know it was a plane… I thought it was a missile strike - how dangerous things were. 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.”[289]

6.        “The large plane… almost like a heat-seeking missile was locked onto its target and staying dead on course…”[290]

7.        “I saw this plane, this jet, an American airlines jet, coming.  And I thought, ‘This doesn’t add up, it’s really low.’ “And I saw it. I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings… [years later:] I said it was like a cruise missile with wings. I never imagined for a moment that a statement like that would come back to haunt me over and over again.  A French author would come out with a book describing in detail the conspiracy theory and he would use that quote out of context to help promote his conclusions. I was very angry about all of this, and I remain angry about it today.”[291]

Witnesses who did not see the plane, but described “missile sounds”

1.        “At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane. [Note: notice the “whooshing” as described by people who saw the plane.]”[292]

2.        “We heard what sounded like a missile, then we heard a loud boom,”[293]

Witnesses who saw the plane but didn’t remember it being loud

1.        “ENSOR: Was there a sound as well?  UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We—that I can’t verify, because the windows were up in the vehicle…”[294]

2.        “While he remembers seeing the crash, Cissell remembers none of the sounds.”[295]

3.        “In that split second, my brain flooded with adrenaline and I watched everything play out in ultra slow motion… 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.”[296]

4.        “Gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex.”[297]

“Everyone said there was a deafening explosion [when the plane hit the Pentagon], but with the adrenaline, we didn’t hear it.”

Witnesses described the speed of the plane

1.        “The aircraft was moving fast… I… estimate as between 250 to 300 knots [288 to 345 mph].”[298]

2.        “About… 400 miles an hour.”[299]

3.        “I estimated the aircraft speed at between 350 and 400 knots [400 to 460 mph].”[300]

4.        “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… at a speed of about 500 miles an hour.”[301]

5.        “I saw this plane coming right at me at what seemed like 300 miles an hour.”[302]

6.        “[CBS news:] The jetliner disappeared from radar at 9:37 and less than a minute later it clipped the tops of street lights and plowed into the Pentagon at 460 mph.”[303]

Witnesses who described the plane as “flying low”

1.        “I watched in horror as the plane flew at treetop level, banked slightly to the left…”[304]

2.        “I couldn't believe the pilot was flying so low… at treetop level.”[305]

3.        “[the plane was coming in too fast and the[n?] too low.”[306]

4.        “It was very, very low—at the height of the street lights.”[307]

5.        “[He] wondered why it was flying so low.”[308]

6.        “Flying at just above treetop height.”[309]

7.        “He saw a jetliner flying low over the tree tops near Seminary RD in Sprigfield, VA.”[310]

8.        “It was no more than 30 feet off the ground.”[311]

9.        “John aged 12, pointed out the window yelling, ‘Dad look how low that plane is!’”[312]

10.     “The jet was 40-feet off the ground.”[313]

11.     “It was flying very low… The aircraft was so very low -- as an aircraft would be on its final approach to an airport.”[314]

12.     “It was odd that it was flying so low… he watched the plane disappear behind a line of trees.”[315]

13.     “The plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground.”[316]

14.     “The plane approached the Pentagon about six feet off the ground.”[317]

15.     “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.”[318]

16.     “[she saw] a low-flying jetliner.”[319]

17.     “(The plane) was flying fast and low”[320]

18.     “That plane is too low; it’s going to crash.”

19.     “Low. Too low. Fast.”[321]

20.     “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.”[322]

21.     “[the plane was] 20 feet high over Washington Blvd”[323]

22.     “I heard a low flying plane.”[324]

23.     “Look at how low it’s flying.”[325]

24.     “I saw the aircraft above my head about 80 feet above the ground.”[326]

25.     “Fast and low…My first thought was I’ve never seen one that high.”[327]

26.     “It was 50 ft. off the deck when he came in.”[328]

27.     “It was unusually loud and low.”[329]

28.     “The plane was no higher than the tops of telephone poles as it lurched toward the Pentagon.”[330]

29.     “[the plane was] about 20 feet altitude.”[331]

30.     “I estimate that the aircraft was no more than 100 feet above me, 30 to 50 feet above the Federal office building #2 [by the Navy Annex].”[332]

31.     “The jet roared over my head, clearing my car by about 25 feet.”[333]

32.     “Elevation of maybe 50 feet, too low.”[334]

33.     “[it was] about 20 feet off the ground, Patterson said… the plane… approached the Pentagon below treetop level.”[335]

34.     “At treetop height.”[336]

35.     “On either side of him, three streetlights had been sheared in half by the airliner’s wings at 12 to 15 feet above the ground.”[337]

36.     “[The plane was] not more than a couple of hundred yards above the ground.”[338]

37.     “[it was] flying low over the tree tops near Seminary Rd.”[339]

38.     “[it flew] just over the treetops.”[340]

39.     “Within a hundred feet. It was very low.”[341]

40.     “The plane was also alarmingly low, passing behind nearby apartment buildings that were only several stories high…”[342]

41.     “The large plane was 20 feet off the ground.”[343]

42.     “You just knew he was going to hit the pentagon, I mean there was no way he could not have hit it.”[344]

43.     “It was flying only a couple of hundred feet off the ground—I could see the passenger windows glide by.”[345]

44.     “[the plane flew] just above the tree line ‘coming in lower and lower’ on what he instantly registered as the ‘wrong side’ of the flight path to the airport. ‘There was no reason for a plane to come in that low, that fast.’”[346]

45.     “It was about 25 feet off the ground.”[347]

46.     “It’s really low.”[348]

47.     “The plane was flying low.”[349]

48.     “It was flying low.”[350]

49.     “I watched it come in very low over the trees.”[351]

50.     “About 100 yards off the ground.”[352]

51.     “It was an airliner coming straight up Columbia Pike at tree-top level.”[353]

52.     “Not more than a couple of hundred yards above the ground.”[354]

53.     “The plane flew very low over his car.”[355]

Witnesses who described the approach of the plane as “unusually steep”

1.        “It was coming on less than a 45 degree angle.”[356]

2.        “It was descending at a much steeper angle than most aircraft.”[357]

3.        “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.”[358]

4.        “It came in… at an angle?”[359]

5.        “The aircraft was at a sharp downward angle of attack, on a direct course for the Pentagon.”[360]

6.        “I saw a plane coming what I thought was toward National Airport, which is very close. You see that all the time. But this one looked different. It was at a very steep angle”[361]

7.        “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.’”[362]

8.        “It was a straight-in flight, angled slightly down, and there was--there was no intent to turn or to maneuver in any way.”[363]

9.        “I didn’t think the careering, full-throttled craft would get that far. Its downward angle was too sharp.”[364]

10.     “The plane came in at an incredibly steep angle… The jet creamed in at a dive bombing angle”[365]

11.     “The sight of the 757 diving in at an unrecoverable angle is frozen in my memory.”[366]

12.     “The plane [flew] at a 45-degree angle… The plane dipped its nose and crashed into the southwest side of the Pentagon.”[367]

13.     “[The] nose [was] down… going aimed like a dart straight into it.”[368]

14.     “The plane… rapidly descended.”[369]

Witnesses observed the plane for only “seconds”

1.        “About five seconds before the crash, Jeff said he heard the sound of “tin being dropped,” likely as construction workers building an addition to the hotel saw the plane and dropped their building materials… Then, about 5 seconds later, the whole hotel shook.”[370]

2.        “We saw a plane coming toward us, for about 10 seconds.”[371]

3.        “This aircraft then made a sharp turn and flew towards the Pentagon and seconds later crashed into it.”[372]

4.        “I looked to my left and saw the plane coming in… for several seconds.”[373]

5.        “All in all, I probably only had the aircraft in my field of view for approximately 3 seconds.”[374]

6.        “We saw what I estimate to be about the last seven seconds of the flight.”[375]

7.        “Perhaps 10 seconds had passed since I first saw the plane.”[376]

8.        “He heard ‘an increasingly loud rumbling’…One to two seconds later the airliner came into my field of view…Elapsed time from hearing the initial noise [of the plane outside of the Navy Annex] to when I saw the impact flash was between 12 and 15 seconds.”[377]

9.        “It was utterly sickening to see, knowing that this plane was going to crash… I thought this was ‘just’ a troubled plane en route to the airport. I started to run toward my front door but the plane was going so fast at this point that it only took 4 or 5 seconds before I heard a tremendously loud crash.”[378]

10.     “He heard the roar of engines and looked up in time to see the tail of a plane seconds before it exploded into the building.”[379]

The left wing of the plane touched the ground by the helicopter pad

1.        “It drug its wing along the ground.”[380]

2.        “The jet came in from the south and banked left as it entered the building, narrowly missing the Singleton Electric trailer and the on-site foreman.”[381]

3.        “The right engine hit high, the left engine hit low.”

4.        “He appeared to level his wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low on the Westside of the building.”[382]

5.         “Then it looked like it hit the helicopter pad and skipped up.”[383]

6.        “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.”[384]

7.        “I…grimaced as the left wing dipped and scraped the helicopter area.” [385]

8.        “The plane's left wing actually came in near the ground and the right wing was tilted up in the air. That right wing went directly over our trailer, so if that wing had not tilted up, it would have hit the trailer.”[386]

Witnesses described the plane hitting lamp poles and objects

1.        “It was very, very low -- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down.”[387]

2.        “He said the craft clipped a utility pole guide wire.”[388]

3.        “Penny Elgas stopped as she saw a passenger jet descend, clip a light pole near her.”[389]

4.        “The plane approached the Pentagon… clipping a light pole, a car antenna… It clipped a couple of light poles on the way in.”[390]

5.        “Next to me was a cab from D.C., its windshield smashed out by pieces of lampposts.”[391]

6.        “[she saw] a low-flying jetliner strike the top of nearby telephone poles.”[392]

7.        “It hit some lampposts on the way in.”[393]

8.        “[the [plane flew] over Ft Myer picking off trees and light poles near the helicopter pad next to building.”[394]

9.        “[he watched the plane clip] the antenna of the vehicle immediately behind him. It also struck three light poles between him and the building.”[395]

10.     “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.”[396]

11.     “I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles.”[397]

12.     “As the aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole down on Hwy 110.”[398]

13.     “The tail of the plane clipped the overhanging exit sign above me.”[399]

14.     “Street lights toppled as the plane barely cleared the Interstate 395 overpass.”[400]

15.     “On either side of him, three streetlights had been sheared in half by the airliner’s wings at 12 to 15 feet above the ground. An engine had clipped the antenna off a Jeep Grand Cherokee stalled in traffic not far away.”

16.     “I saw the wing of the plane clip the light post, and it made the plane slant.”[401]

17.     “It knocked over a few light poles in its way…”[402]

18.     “[It] struck a light pole…The plane tried to recover, but hit a second light pole and continued flying at an angle.”[403]

19.     “There were light poles down.”[404]

20.     “It turned and came around in front of the vehicle and it clipped one of these light poles…”[405]

21.     “The plane was flying low and rapidly descended, knocking over light poles.”[406]

22.     “I saw it clip a light pole.”[407]

“As he reached the west side of the building he saw a light post bent in half.”[408]

“The only thing we saw on the ground outside there was a piece of a… the tail of a lamp post.”

Witnesses described the plane hitting a generator

1.        “the plane approached… clipping a construction trailer and an emergency generator”[409]

2.        “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.”[410]

3.        “The plane had sliced through the emergency lighting generators leaving everything in blackness.”[411]

4.        “He witnessed a small explosion as the portable generator was struck by the right wing.”[412]

5.        “The plane’s right wing went through a generator trailer ‘like butter.’”[413]

Witnesses described the plane hitting the Pentagon

“The plane hit the Pentagon”

1.        “I witnessed the jet hit the Pentagon on September 11… [It] slammed into the west wall of the Pentagon.”[414]

2.        “I saw this plane right outside my window… 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).” [415]

3.         “It was coming down head first,” he said. “And when the impact hit, the cars and everything were just shaking.”[416]

4.        “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…”[417]

5.         “And when the impact hit, the cars and everything were just shaking.”[418]

6.        “[The plane] impacted the side of the building.”[419]

7.        “[I] saw the plane hit the Pentagon.”[420]

8.        “Mark Bright, actually saw the plane hit the building.”[421]

9.        “This aircraft then made a sharp turn and flew towards the Pentagon and seconds later crashed into it.”[422]

10.     “I saw the plane hit and the fireball and explosion at the Pentagon.”[423]

11.     “He realized he had a front-row seat to history, as the plane plowed into the Pentagon.”[424]

12.     “I thought, ‘There’s no landing strip on that side of the subway tracks,’ “Before he could process that thought, he saw “a huge mushroom cloud.”[425]

13.     “He was in front of one of the blast-resistant windows [inside of the Pentagon as he saw the plane coming in to crash]…”[426]

14.     “[The plane] nearly shearing the roof off the trailer before slamming into the E ring.”[427]

15.     “[he saw the plane] 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.’”[428]

16.     “This plane was going to slam into the Pentagon. I steeled myself for the explosion.”[429]

17.     “The airliner crashed into the Pentagon and exploded.”[430]

18.     “He saw the plane approach and slam into the west side of the structure… it crashed into the building and burst into flames.”[431]

19.     “The plane approached the Pentagon… slicing into the building, said Lee Evey.”[432]

20.     “The plane hit the building.”[433]

21.     “We thought it had been waved off and then it hit the building.”[434]

22.     “When [the plane] made impact with the Pentagon initially he saw smoke, then flames.”[435]

23.     “It seemed like [the plane] made impact just before the wedge.”[436]

24.     “He impacted low on the Westside of the building to the right of the helo[copter], tower.”[437]

25.     “What instantly followed was a large yellow fireball accompanied by an extremely bass sounding, deep thunderous boom.”[438]

26.     “This plane is going down into the Pentagon!”[439]

27.     “By the time I looked up, the plane was moving so fast all I saw was an explosion.”[440]

28.     “The crash was exceptionally loud… It shook the building and knocked people down who were closer to the point of impact.”[441]

29.     “I [saw] an airplane descend into the side of the Pentagon.”[442]

30.     “[He saw the plane] strike a western wall of the huge five-sided building that is the headquarters of the nation’s military.”[443]

31.     “He watched as the plane plowed into the Pentagon.”[444]

32.     “[We] watched it crash.”[445]

33.     “I turned my head to the right and saw it crash into the Pentagon about 200 yards away.”[446]

34.     “‘There was a big noise when it hit the building,’ said Oscar Martinez, who witnessed the attack.”[447]

35.     “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.”[448]

36.     “I saw it crash into the building…My only memories really were that it looked like a plane coming in for a landing.”[449]

37.     “I saw…this big silver plane run into the side of the Pentagon.”[450]

38.     “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.”[451]

39.     “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.”[452]

40.     “[He] saw a plane crash into the building.”[453]

41.     “I saw it crash.”[454]

42.     “it was an American airlines plane that came in and hit the Pentagon.”[455]

43.     “I knew it was about to crash.”[456]

44.     “The impact created a huge yellow and orange fireball, he added.”[457]

45.     “I am sorry to rain on your parade, but I saw the plane hit the building. It did not hit the ground first… It did not hit the roof first… and yes, it did impact the Pentagon… There was none of this hitting-the-ground first crap I keep hearing…”[458]

46.     “The Pentagon is about a mile and half distant in the center of the tableau. I was looking directly at it when the aircraft struck.”[459]

47.     “I saw the airplane” a split second before it struck.”[460]

48.     “I looked back at the road, and when I turned to look again, I felt and heard a terrible explosion. I looked back and saw flames shooting up and smoke starting to climb into the sky.”[461]

49.     “[He saw the plane] seconds before it exploded into the building.”[462]

50.     “[the plane was] aimed like a dart straight into it.”[463]

51.     “The plane hit the Pentagon.”[464]

52.     “I saw it hit the building.”[465]

53.     “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 National Airport. But whoever was flying the plane made no attempt to change direction.”[466]

54.     “[he saw it] fly 50 feet over I-395 in a straight line, striking the side of the Pentagon.”[467]

55.     “[it] plowed into the south side of the Pentagon.”[468]

56.     “And then he just slammed into the Pentagon.”[469]

57.     “I saw an American airlines jet come overhead and slam into the Pentagon.”[470]

58.     “[the plane flew] fast and low over his car and struck the Pentagon.”[471]

59.     “It added power on its way in…The nose hit, and the wings came forward and it went up in a fireball.”[472]

60.     “A few minutes later, Vaughn witnessed the craft’s impact.”[473]

61.     “Wallace hadn’t gotten far when the plane hit. ‘I hadn’t even reached the back of the van when I felt the fireball. It slammed into the building just a couple hundred feet from him… Wallace switched on the truck’s radio.  We have had a commercial carrier crash into the west side of the Pentagon at the heliport, Washington Boulevard side.”[474]

62.     “They watched the jet approach and slam into the Pentagon.”[475]

63.     “It hit the Pentagon.”[476]

64.     “[I saw the plane] crash right into the Pentagon.”[477]

65.     “The only intelligent thought that came into my head was, ‘Oh my God, they hit the pentagon.’”[478]

66.     “They turned and ran, and at the point of impact were partially shielded by their fire truck from the flying debris of shrapnel and flames.”[479]

67.     “It slammed right into the building.”[480]

68.     “[I saw the plane] keep coming and then slam into the front of the building.”[481]

69.     “Looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, sir.”[482]

 “The plane ‘disappeared’ into the Pentagon”

70.     “[The plane] came from behind us and banked to the right and went into the Pentagon.”[483]

71.      “The jet came in from the south and banked left as it entered the building.”[484]

72.     “Engine 101… saw the airliner plow into the northwest side of the Pentagon. The radio crackled, ‘Engine 101—emergency traffic, a plane has gone down into the Pentagon.’”[485]

73.     “I just watched it hit the building. It exploded… I could actually hear the metal going through the building.”[486]

74.     “I saw it fly right into the Pentagon… ‘It just was amazingly precise… It completely disappeared into the Pentagon.”[487]

75.     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. [Note: this eyewitness claims he watched everything in ‘slow motion’ due to ‘adrenaline’].  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…… I saw an explosion and watched the tail of the plane slip into the building”[488]

76.     “The next thing we saw, the airplane crashed into the Pentagon…  [It] sucked in the airplane.”[489]

77.     “My people who did see it enter the building described it as entering the building and then there being flames coming out immediately afterwards.”[490]

78.     “[It went] inside the side of the Pentagon.  Obviously, it was going in the Pentagon purposefully.  I told my husband ‘he’s going into the Pentagon.’  We heard the direct hit—huge crash, saw this fireball, flame and smoke.”  Reporter: ‘so you actually saw the plane impact the side of the building?’  [Isabel:] “Yes I did.”[491]

79.      “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… 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 (shown in news photo) fell in on the wreckage.”[492]

80.     “I saw it hit the pentagon. It happened so fast… it was in the air one moment and in the building the next…”[493]

81.     “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.”[494]

82.     “The plane vanished, absorbed by the building, and there was a slight pause. Then a huge fireball rose into the sky.”[495]

83.     “The plane came in hard and level and was flown full throttle into the building, dead center mass, Maj. Leibner said. “The plane completely entered the building… The plane went into the building like a toy into a birthday cake…The aircraft went in between the second and third floors.”[496]

84.     “I think I actually heard it accelerate—and then it disappeared and a cloud of smoke started billowing.”[497]

85.     “It hit the pentagon. It happened so fast… it was in the air one moment and in the building the next… I still have a hard time believing it, but every time I look out the window, it seems to be more real than it did the time before.”[498]

86.     “A groundskeeper who watched in horror as the plane crashed into the Pentagon… The jet accelerated in the final few hundred yards before it tore into the building.”[499]

87.     “We watched it go in. It struck the Pentagon, and there was no indication whatever that it was doing anything other than performing a direct attack on that building.”[500]

88.     “The tail was barely visible when I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon… the aircraft had been flown directly into the Pentagon without hitting the ground first or skipping into the building.”[501]

89.     “The hijacked jet slammed into the Pentagon at a ferocious speed. But the Pentagon’s wall held up like a champ. It barely budged as the nose of the plane curled upwards and crumpled before exploding into a massive fireball. The people who built that wall should be proud. Its ability to withstand the initial impact of the jet probably saved thousands of lives.”[502]

90.     “He also recalled seeing the tail of the plane as it entered the building, followed by a fireball that erupted upon the plane’s impact.”[503]

91.     “The nose crashed into the southwest wall of the Pentagon. Still gripping the wheel, I could feel both the car and my heart jolt at the moment of impact. An instant inferno blazed about 125 yards from me. The plane, the wall and the victims disappeared under coal-black smoke, three-storey tall flames and intense heat.”[504]

92.     “[It] headed for the Pentagon “at a frightening rate… just slicing into that building…”Then this thing just became part of the Pentagon… he saw the Pentagon “envelope” the plane.”[505]

93.     “It was pretty horrible… he said of the noiseless images he carries inside him, of the jet vanishing in a cloud of smoke and dust… the memory starts to come back when he hears a particularly low-flying airliner heading into nearby Reagan National Airport.”[506]

94.     “[It] crashed into the west side of the building…It happened so fast. One second I saw the plane and next it was gone.” Recalling those moments again, Ramey said it appeared the building sucked the plane up inside.”[507]

95.     “It was headed straight for the building. It made no sense… A huge jet. Then it was gone. A massive hole in the side of the Pentagon gushed smoke. ‘Buildings don't eat planes. That plane, it just vanished. There should have been parts on the ground. It should have rained parts on my car. The airplane didn't crash. Where are the parts?’ That's the conversation I had with myself on the way to work… There was a plane. It didn't go over the building. It went into the building.”[508]

96.     “[it veered] sharply and then slice into the Pentagon… [he] watched the plane slide silently into the Pentagon ‘like a car entering a garage’ [note: witness was far from Pentagon causing a delay before the explosion could be heard].”[509]

97.     “I glanced up just at the point where the plane was going into the building…I saw an indentation in the building and then it was just blown-up up—red, everything red.”[510]

98.     “It was an American airlines jet.  And I watched it go into the building. I saw the big ‘AA’ on the side…”[511]

99.     “[The plane went] into the Pentagon.”[512]

100.  “It ploughed right into the Pentagon.”[513]

The pilot “knew what he was doing”

1.        “At first I thought it was trying to crash land, but it was coming in so deliberately, so level…”[514]

2.        “I remember thinking that whoever is flying this knows what they're doing.”[515] 

3.        “It looked like a normal landing, as if someone knew exactly what they were doing…This looked intentional.”[516]

4.        “It just was amazingly precise.”[517]

5.        “As I mentioned to you, I do fly small airplanes occasionally, and it looked to me someone professional—especially when you manoeuvre and turn the airplane—it would take you a few seconds to put the wings equally [level].  It [looked] like it was [planned].”[518]

6.        “The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled.”[519]

The plane hit the “bottom floors” of the Pentagon

1.        “He impacted low on the Westside of the building.”[520]

2.        “It went right into the first and second floors.”[521]

3.        “The plane… went right into the first and second floors.”[522]

4.        “The aircraft went in between the second and third floors.”[523]

5.        “The large aircraft struck the outermost corridor (E-ring) of the five-ring building at ground level (the second floor).”[524]

6.        “What I saw was the jet went very low into the Pentagon and it went straight… I just remember most that it struck very low into the Pentagon.”[525]

From inside the Pentagon

7.        “He stepped off an elevator on the second floor in Corridor 4, ladder in hand. Suddenly the walls and the ceiling began to collapse around him… he was thrust 70 feet down the corridor…he had been 40 feet away from the plane’s point of impact.”[526]

8.        “Sinclair, 54, was sitting at his desk on the first floor of the Pentagon that morning when he felt a giant ‘gush of air’… [He] heard it before he felt it. He outfitted computers for the Army on the first floor of the D Ring. As usual that morning, Sinclair…could be at work by 6, always the first of the seven employees to arrive in Room 1D520.”[527]

9.        “Over in his office at 1D-525 on the first floor of D Ring, Robert Snyder, an Army lieutenant colonel, had been surfing the Web to check on the World Trade Center horror. He heard a crack and boom, and then, instantly, he saw flame and felt engulfed.”[528]

Descriptions of the Damage inside the Pentagon

“Once we did get inside, we were able to see the destruction for ourselves. It was extensive on the interior because of the inertia of the fire and fuel once the jet entered beyond the outer ring. The skin of the building doesn’t tell you squat about the damage.”[529]

The Scene outside the Pentagon

1.        “But when I looked at the site, my brain could not resolve the fact that it was a plane because it only seemed like a small hole in the building… No tail. No wings. No nothing.”[530]

2.        “The funny thing, when I came here I’ve worked at a lot of secure buildings and that was the first question I asked.  Where is the alert sign?  There’s always an alert sign.  And I’ve walked around the building all the time and I kept thinking where is the alert sign?  It went in the new wedge the old wedge and I couldn’t find it so I asked a general—somebody with a military uniform and he said ‘This building is so safe that we don’t post that.’ So I felt very comfortable in here, where in other buildings where I’ve worked I do keep up with what’s going on in the buildings.  So I’ve never in a million years expected this to happen here at the Pentagon.”[531]

3.        “Just a big black hole in the building with smoke pouring out of it.”[532]

4.        “I took a look at the huge gaping hole that's in the side of the Pentagon…see entire statement.”[533]

Plane Debris

“Raining debris” after the crash

1.        “There was an enormous fireball, followed about two seconds later by debris raining down… 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.”[534]

2.        “A fireball [exploded] into the air and scattering debris—including a tire rim suspected of belonging to the airplane - past his car.”[535]

3.        “Penny Elgas built a patriotic box to preserve this piece of American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon… driving on a highway adjacent to the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, Penny Elgas stopped as she saw a passenger jet descend, clip a light pole near her, and then crash into the Pentagon. Arriving home, Elgas found this plane fragment in the back seat of her car (she theorizes that it dropped through the open sunroof). Feeling that it was her patriotic duty to preserve the fragment as a relic, she crafted a special box and lined it with red, white, and blue material.”[536]

4.        “[Holding up a piece of debris during the interview:] It just landed by the car.”[537]

5.        “Sitting only 300 meters away from the carnage… I saw little bits of silver falling from the sky.”[538]

6.        “Then debris began falling over the cars.”[539]

7.        “Bits of metal and concrete drifting down like confetti… pieces were flying out everywhere.”[540]

8.        “[I saw] what looked like white confetti raining down everywhere.” He said it soon became apparent “that the ‘confetti’ was little bits of airplane, falling down after being flung high into the bright, blue sky.”[541]

9.        “It looks like [a piece of] insulation—I was just standing here watching and all sorts of paper and debris… and insulation… [was] just flying down and landing on us over here… it was just amazing.”[542]

10.     “You saw this debris go up in the air.  I am watching this in my rearview mirror, and then I thought, Oh my God, there is 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 drivers) rear windshield and shattered it. There was a hole where you could see that something went through it… 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 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.”[543]

11.     “The van protected him against burning metal that was flying around… There was debris falling down everywhere… Hot slices of aluminum were everywhere.”[544]

12.     “Cars traveling nearby were…showered with rocks and other debris.  Among the trash littering the road was a scorched green oxygen tank marked ‘Cabin air. Airline use.’ When the debris shower stopped, people began getting out of their cars.”[545]

“Pieces of aircraft debris”

1.        “By afternoon, the investigation was underway. At one point, a column of 50 FBI officers walked shoulder-to-shoulder across the south grounds of the Pentagon, picking up debris and stuffing it into brown bags. The lawn was scattered with chunks of the airplane, some up to four feet across.”[546]

2.        “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.”[547]

3.        “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…It smelled like it was still burning.”[548]

4.        “The lawn was littered with twisted pieces of aluminum. He saw one chunk painted with the letter ‘A,’ another with a ‘C’… This was a jet.”[549]

5.        “He saw pieces of what appeared to be small aircraft on the ground.”[550]

6.        “walking along Fort Meyer Drive, a bike trail, you could see pieces of the plane.”[551]

7.        “The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear. The devastation was horrific.”[552]

8.        “The plane peeled back as it entered, leaving pieces of the front of the plane near the outside of the building and pieces from the rear of the aircraft farther inside… There’s considerable evidence of the aircraft outside the E ring. It’s just not very visible…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.”[553]

9.        “…I ran down the hill to the site and arrived there approximately 10 minutes after the explosion. I saw the piece that was near the heliport pad…I was able to get in close and make that image within fifteen minutes of the explosion because security had yet to shut off the area… That was the only piece of wreckage of any SIZE that I saw, but was by no means the ONLY piece… As I stepped onto the highway next to the triage area, I knelt down to tie my shoe and all over the highway were small pieces of aircraft skin, none bigger than a half-dollar. Anyone familiar with aircraft has seen the greenish primer paint that covers many interior metal surfaces—that is what these shards were covered with.”[554]  

10.     “There were pieces of the plane all over the highway, pieces of wing, I think.”[555]

11.     ““You say you saw the nose gear of the plane inside of the Pentagon?” [John:] “They organized rescue teams and we all went in to see what we could do to help.  I was working in an area where between the two rings [was] a large 10-diameter hole… burst through and there was nose gear on the deck.”[556]

12.     “Reporter: ‘I’ve seen debris 20 feet from where we’re standing—have you seen debris also?’ Witness: Yes… it just seemed like parts of the landing carriage or possibly the engines.”[557]

13.     “One of the aircraft’s engines somehow ricocheted out of the building and arched into the Pentagon’s mall parking area between the main building and the new loading dock facility”[558]

14.     “You ask were the debris is… well it was in the building… I saw it everywhere… Have you ever seen photos of other aircraft accident photos…? There usually isn’t huge amounts of debris left…[559] how much did you see from the WTC…?”[560]

15.     “I saw the remains of the engines in the North parking lot of the Pentagon as well as melted aluminum and other debris left from the aircraft.”[561]

16.     “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 could [see] this huge piece of a wheel.”[562]

17.     “I saw the remains of the engines in the North parking lot of the Pentagon as well as melted aluminum and other debris left from the aircraft.”[563]

18.     “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… and as I said, the only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you can pick up in your hand.  There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around.”[564]

19.     “Traffic [was] moving again, which was now crunching over twisted metal Sucherman guessed was the skin of the plane… There was what appeared to be the outside covering of the jet strewn about.”[565]

20.     “FBI evidence teams combing the area of impact along the building’s perimeter found parts of the fuselage from the Boeing 757, said Michael Tamillow, a battalion chief… for the Fairfax County, Virginia, Fire department. No large pieces apparently survived.”[566]

21.     “A piece of twisted aircraft fuselage lay nearby.”[567]

22.     “As I got out of the car and made my way towards the Pentagon I saw pieces of wreckage on the ground. Your natural instinct is to reach down and pick up the pieces and look at them. But I decided against it, because I knew that the wreckage was evidence… I didn’t see a significant amount of debris. I just remember two things about this. One was the piece of wreckage I described earlier and the instinct to pick it up. Then I remember at some point later in the morning seeing a guy holding a piece of wreckage next to his head with the Pentagon in the background smiling and having his picture taken. I can’t describe for you the rage I felt. I unleashed on the guy and told him that he had no business doing what he was doing and that this was evidence and he should have just left it where he found it.”[568]

23.     “There are parts all over the place, they are all smaller than a US nickle because of the force of the crash.”[569]

24.     “At one point, a column of 50 FBI officers walked shoulder-to-shoulder across the south grounds of the Pentagon, picking up debris and stuffing it into brown bags. The lawn was scattered with chunks of the airplane, some up to four feet across.”[570]

25.     “There [are] parts of debris of [the] airplane scattered along the road here.”[571]

26.     “She went inside the Pentagon crash site and saw parts of the plane that she recognized to be an 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.”[572]

27.     “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.”[573]

Highway Traffic Jams right next to the Pentagon

There were reported traffic jams on early morning 9/11 near the Pentagon.  Traffic jams were reported on I-395, Washington Boulevard, and Columbia Pike.  All of these witnesses were in excellent position to observe the plane.

“I took these pictures less then 1 minute after I watched the American airlines 757 airplane crash into the pentagon on September 11 2001. I left shortly after the pictures were taken in fear of further attacks… Yes, I did actually see the plane impact the building.”[574] Steve Riskus

1.        “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.”[575]

2.        “James R. Cissell sat in traffic on a Virginia interstate by the Pentagon Tuesday morning.”[576]

3.        “we slowly crept along in traffic at about 9:30 am”[577]

4.        “Traffic was at a standstill… I believe that I may have also had one or more car windows open because the traffic wasn’t moving anyway.”[578]

5.        “Traffic was at a standstill, so I parked on the shoulder, not far from the scene and ran to the site.”[579]

6.        “Afework Hagos, a computer programmer, was on his way to work but stuck in a traffic jam near the Pentagon… [when the plane came]Everybody was running away in different directions.”[580]

7.         “At the time of the crash, Mason was “stopped in traffic west of the building.”[581]

8.        “Traffic is normally slow right around the Pentagon as the road winds and we line up to cross the 14^th Street bridge heading into the District of Columbia.”[582]

9.        “He mistakenly took the Pentagon exit onto Washington Boulevard…The traffic was very slow moving, and at one point just about at a standstill.”[583]

10.     “With traffic at a standstill, my eyes wandered around the road, looking for the cause of the traffic jam… [after the plane hit]  the highway was filled with shocked commuters, walking around in a daze.”[584]

11.     “I was sitting in traffic on route 110 on my way to work.”[585]

12.     “I sat lodged in gridlock on Washington Boulevard, next to the Pentagon on September 11. [I experienced] frustration with the worse-than-normal traffic snarl.”[586]

13.     “I was sitting in heavy traffic in the I-395 HOV lanes about 9:45 a.m., directly across from the Navy Annex. I could see the roof of the Pentagon and, in the distance, the Washington Monument.”[587]

14.     “For all of my twenty-eight years living in the Washington, D.C. area, terrible traffic was a constant… and now I was officially late for work. 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.”[588]

15.     “Probst took a sidewalk alongside Route 27, which runs near the Pentagon’s western face. Traffic was at a standstill because of a road accident.”[589]

16.     “Naval officer Clyde Ragland, who works near the Pentagon, was stuck in his office because the streets outside were clogged with traffic.”[590]

17.     “I was sitting in heavy traffic in the I-395 HOV lanes about 9:45 a.m., directly across from the Navy Annex. I could see the roof of the Pentagon and, in the distance, the Washington Monument… Like the other commuters on the road, I was stunned into disbelief.”[591]

18.     “I was sitting in the northbound on 27 and the traffic was, you know, typical rush-hour—it had ground to a standstill.”[592]

19.     “Rodney Washington, a systems engineer for a Pentagon contractor, was stuck in stand-still traffic a few hundred yards from the Pentagon.”[593]

The scene at highway traffic after the plane hit

1.        “People were just leaving their vehicles on Highway 110 and staring in disbelief.”[594]

2.        “[on highway 110:] Everybody stopped [their cars] and got out…and started running left to right, and we had [a lot of] panic at that time.”[595]

3.        “I parked my car and got out, and by the time I got out all the [people from the] buildings in the area had come out into the street, and everybody was seeing what was happening.”[596]

4.        “Ironically, the passage of emergency vehicles got traffic moving again.”[597]

5.        “Drivers began pulling over to the side—some taking pictures—not quite believing what they were seeing.”[598]

6.        “[after the Pentagon was hit] Cars were going over the median on Route 27 because there wasn’t any traffic coming southbound toward the Pentagon. People were hopping over it any way they could, on the grass, anything… and we started yelling at people, Get back in your cars! We gotta get the f--- out of here! And I just kept repeating, Get in your cars! Let’s go, Let’s go! Get the f--- out of here. Go! Go! Go! And people must have listened because down the road you heard more people telling everyone to get in their cars and go.”[599]

7.        “Afraid of being trapped, I drove through a gap in the median barrier and drove across 395 to an exit ramp.“[600]

8.        “All of the drivers seemed to be in a trance. Then suddenly it ended when a woman began to scream, ‘They just hit the Pentagon, get back, get back.’  She backed her SUV back and forth until she was able to create a crease and then she sped out of the area on the emergency lane. That’s when all hell broke loose as people began trying to get out of the area any way they could, some went forward, and others turned their cars around and drove in the wrong direction.  All in an effort to get out of the area.”[601]

9.        “I could then hear cars squealing all around and people were just stunned.”[602]

Secondary Explosions

1.        “Nearby, tanks full of propane and aviation fuel had begun igniting, and they soon began exploding, one by one… (…) Back in the building again… secondary and third-order explosions started going off. One of them was a fire department car exploding-I think my right eardrum exploded at the same time, and it unequivocally scared the heck out of me.”[603]

2.        “15 minutes later there was a terrible explosion again and we just went through the tunnel and away.”[604]

3.        “Dave heard two booms, which sounded like the artillery salutes on the Mall on the Fourth of July, he said. It was likely the noise from a secondary blast at the Pentagon.”[605]

4.        “I tried to get out from the car but… immediately we saw a lot of military police and police get involved and we didn’t know if they were going to have other explosions so after the third [explosion] happened…”[606]

5.        “Those fleeing the building heard a loud secondary explosion about 10 min. after the initial impact.”[607]

6.        “We heard another couple of explosions, and I ran and got back in my car.”[608]

7.        “I heard a second explosion.”[609]

8.        “Two explosions, a few minutes apart, prompted me to start walking.”[610]

9.        “Robert Snyder…was in the basement level of the Pentagon building when one of the explosions hit.”[611]

10.     “Secondary explosions were reported in the aftermath of the attack.”[612]

11.     “[Explosion in the background:] “Oh my goodness.  What was that?”  [Reporter off camera:] “As we were talking to that man we could see there that there was another explosion that kind of took place inside the fire…”[613]

12.     “[Explosion in the background] I just heard an explosion back over that way [pointing away from and to the right of the Pentagon]—I’m not sure what that was either… “[Did you know they just] hit the Washington monument… that boom you heard?”  Question: “that’s what that was?”  Answer: “Yes.”  Reporter: [referring to person who just spoke in the background?] “People have been telling me that the Washington monument has just been hit… we’re still trying to confirm that.  We all heard that same loud boom out here.  And now we’re all looking to just see what it was.”[614]

Witnesses described a second plane, a C-130 following the plane that hit the Pentagon

“Reagan Airport flight control instructs a military C-130 (Golfer 06) that has just departed Andrews Air Force Base to intercept Flight 77 and identify it.” [New York Times, 10/16/2001; Guardian, 10/17/2001]

1.        “I witnessed a military cargo plane (Possibly a C-130) fly over the crash site and circle the mushroom cloud. My brother in-law also witnessed the same plane following the jet while he was on the HOV lanes in Springfield. He said that he saw a jetliner flying low over the tree tops near Seminary RD in Springfield, VA. and soon afterwards a military plane was seen flying right behind it… I personally believe that the government new full well that this was about to happen and they are hiding something a lot bigger than they are willing to let out.”[615]

2.        “We saw an odd sight that no one else has yet commented on. Directly in back of the plume, which would place it almost due west from our office, a four-engine propeller plane, which Ray later said resembled a C-130, started a steep decent towards the Pentagon. It was coming from an odd direction (planes don’t go east-west in the area), and it was descending at a much steeper angle than most aircraft. Trailing a thin, diffuse black trail from its engines, the plane reached the Pentagon at a low altitude and made a sharp left turn, passing just north of the plume, and headed straight for the White House. All the while, I was sort of talking at it: “Who the hell are you? Where are you going? You’re not headed for downtown!” Ray and Verle watched it with me, and I was convinced it was another attack. But right over the tidal basin, at an altitude of less than 1000 feet, it made another sharp left turn to the north and climbed rapidly. Soon it was gone, leaving only the thin black trail.”[616]

3.        “A C-130 cargo plane had departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to Minnesota that morning and reported seeing an airliner… 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. “There was no way he was going to intercept anything.” 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.”[617]

4.        “I hopped out of my car after the jet exploded, nearly oblivious to a second jet hovering in the skies.”[618]

5.        “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.”[619]

6.        “He stopped his car to watch and saw another plane following and turn off after the first craft’s impact.”[620]

7.        “Soon afterwards a military plane was seen flying right behind it.”[621]

8.        “Within a minute another plane started veering up and to the side.  At that point it wasn’t clear if that plane was trying to maneuver out of the air space or if that plane was coming round for another hit.”[622]

9.        “Then a gray C-130 flew overhead, setting off a new round of panic. I tried to reassure people that the plane was not a threat. All around me people began to panic, fleeing for their lives.”[623]

10.     “Both of them, as well as at least one other person at the funeral, insist that there was another plane flying near the hijacked jet…Wheelhouse said the second plane looked like it may have been a C- 130 transport plane, but the other three witnesses say they’re not sure what the plane looked like… Wheelhouse believes it flew directly above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing on radar while at the same time guiding the jet toward the Pentagon. As Flight 77 descends toward the Pentagon, the second plane veers off west.”[624]

11.     “The only large fixed wing aircraft to appear was a gray C-130, which appeared to be a Navy electronic warfare aircraft, he seemed to survey the area and depart in on a westerly heading.”[625]

Military Planes came later

1.        “Soon after, military planes including F-15s were circling the Pentagon.”[626]

2.        “Fortunately, the only aircraft noise was the crisp distinctive ripping sound was of Air Force F-16’s.”[627]

Explosives at the Pentagon?

“Shockwave”

1.        “It shot me back in my chair. There was a huge blast. I could feel the air shock wave of it.”[628]

2.        “The blast lifted Beans off the floor as he crossed a huge open office toward his desk.  You heard this huge concussion…”[629]

3.        “The blast had thrown him down, giving him a concussion.”[630]

4.        “The car moved about a foot to the right when the shock wave hit.”[631]

5.        “She was walking in a corridor near the blast site and was thrown to the ground by the force of the blast… I heard two loud booms—one large, one smaller, and the shock wave threw me against the wall.”[632]

6.        “When he was knocked down by the impact…Being knocked down turned out to be a life-saver…We thought it was some kind of explosion. That somehow someone got in here and planted bombs because we saw these holes.”[633]

7.        “I could feel the concussion and felt the shockwave of the blast impact the window of the Annex, knocking me against the desk.”[634]

8.        “Friends and colleagues have asked me if I felt a shock wave and I honestly do not know. I felt something, but I don’t know if it was a shock wave or the fact that I jumped so hard I strained against the seat belt and shoulder harness and was thrown back into my seat.”[635]

9.        “The blast of the impact was so tremendous, that from his vantage point, it threw him backward over 100 feet slamming into a light pole causing him internal injuries.”[636]

10.     “I felt myself being slammed to the deck by a massive and thunderous shock wave. It felt to me as if the blast started at the outer wall, blowing me forward toward Commander Dunn’s desk… a roiling, bright orange ball of fire shot toward him and everything—cubicles, desks, ceiling tiles, the building’s concrete support columns—everything blew to pieces.”[637]

11.     “Papers and furniture and debris just went flying through the hallway and I thought it was a bomb or something.”[638]

“Bright or Silvery Flash”

1.        “the room filled with this real bright light, just like everything was encompassed within this bright light.”[639]

2.        “I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon. There was a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this type of sound. Associated with that was the increase in air pressure, momentarily, like a small gust of wind. For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off 1/2 mile in front of you.”[640]

3.        “There was a silvery flash, an explosion, and a dark, mushroom shaped cloud rose over the building.”[641]

4.        “A huge flash of orange flame and black smoke poured into the sky.”[642]

“Smelled Cordite”

1.        “We saw a huge black cloud of smoke,” she said, saying it smelled like cordite, or gun smoke.”[643]

2.        “I walked to my office, shut down my computer, and headed out. Even before stepping outside I could smell the cordite. Then I knew explosives had been set off somewhere.”[644]

Jet Fuel

1.        “The best, cutting edge burn doctor in the U.S. The doctor told him that had he not gone to Georgetown first, he probably would not have survived because of the jet fuel in his lungs.”[645]

2.        “Once we did get inside, we were able to see the destruction for ourselves. It was extensive on the interior because of the inertia of the fire and fuel once the jet entered beyond the outer ring. The skin of the building doesn’t tell you squat about the damage.”[646]

3.        “Jet fuel was on him and it irritated his eyes, but he didn't get burned.”[647]

4.        “Buried in debris and covered with airplane fuel, he was briefly listed by authorities as missing.”[648]

5.        “Fires from the plane’s 20,000 gallons of fuel melted windows into pools of liquid glass.”[649]

6.        “Now fires were burning closer as deposits of jet fuel ignited. “You could hear them lighting off,” Henson said. “They would go ‘poof,’ kind of like when you light a furnace. You could hear these getting closer.”[650]

7.        “Will Jarvis… knows what aviation fuel smells like. That smell was his only clue that a plane had crashed into the Pentagon.”[651]

8.        “The first thing you smell is the burning. And then you can smell the aviation fuel.”[652]

9.        “The firemen were appreciative, as the heat inside the building generated from the 8,500 gallons of jet fuel was, in their words, ‘unbelievable.’ It was reported that at least three of the fireman had to be given IV fluids due to the extreme heat.”[653]

10.     “After the initial inferno was knocked down on Sept. 11, firefighters contended with flames and hot spots at the Pentagon, fed by jet fuel and mountains of rubble. ‘It’s just stubborn, very difficult to get to and very difficult to extinguish.’”[654]

11.     “Then he smelled jet fuel and smoke. The putrid odor was seeping into the closet.” It was this odor that I can’t describe, but one that I’ll never forget, that’s for sure…”[655]

12.     “I ran down the hallway and there was smoke everywhere. You could smell the jet fuel, it was unbearable.”[656]

13.     “There was a hole in the building, and you could smell it in the air. It’s a beautiful day, but you can smell the burning concrete and burning jet fuel.”[657]

14.     “As soon as Mr. Slater stepped outside, he saw and smelled something uncomfortably familiar. “I saw a mass of oily smoke and thought of the oil fields of Kuwait.”[658]

15.     “His glasses remained on his face. They were smeared with something—unburned jet fuel, which Yates mistook for blood.”[659]

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[1] Candelario, Joseph

[2] Ford, Ken

[3] “Barbara”

[4] Bauer, Gary

[5] Bell, Mickey

[6] Bouchoux, Donald R.

[7] Bright, Mark

[8] Cook, Scott P.

[9] Creed, Dan

[10] Elgas, Penny

[11] Hemphill, Albert

[12] Hovis, Tom

[13] Hunt, Bob

[14] Morin, Terry

[15] Munsey, Christopher

[16] O’Keefe, John

[17] Patterson, Steve

[18] Petitt, Mark

[19] Probst, Frank

[20] Ryan, James

[21] Stephens, Levi

[22] Schickler, Rob

[23] Rodriguez, Meseidy

[24] Scott, Don

[25] Sepulveda, Noel

[26] King, John

[27] Milburn, Kirk

[28] Snow, Kate

[29] Stephens, Levi

[30] Storti, Steve

[31] Sutherland, Jim

[32] Taylor, Shari

[33] Timmerman, Tim

[34] Tinyk, Michael

[35] Walter, Mike

[36] Winslow, Dave

[37] Wright, Don

[38] Wyatt, Ian

[39] Zakhem, Madelyn

[40] Unidentified man #2

[41] Unidentified Pentagon Worker

[42] Blunt, Ed

[43] Probst, Frank

[44] Anderson. Steve

[45] Anlauf. Deb & Jeff

[46] Artman, Stuart. Lt. Col

[47] Battle

[48] Bauer, Gary

[49] Benedetto, Richard

[50] Bouchoux, Donald R.

[51] Bradley, Pam

[52] Bright, Mark

[53] Carroll, Susan

[54] Cleveland, Allen

[55] Creed, Dan

[56] Day, Wayne T.

[57] Dent, Kim

[58] "Div Devlin"

[59] DiPaula, Michael

[60] Donley, Daryl

[61] Eiden, Steve

[62] Evey, Walker Lee

[63] Evey, Walker Lee

[64] Fred, Gaskins

[65] Gerson, Mike

[66]  “Gus”

[67] Hernandez, Eugenio

[68] Hey, Fred

[69] Hovis, Tom

[70] Hurst, Joe

[71] James, Michael

[72] “K.M”

[73] Kaiser, Andrea

[74] Keglovich, James

[75] Kelly, Leslie

[76] Krug, Ann

[77] Lyman, Mary

[78] “M.J.”

[79] M. K.

[80] “M., Rick”

[81] Mason, Don

[82] Milburn, Kirk

[83] Owens, Mary Ann

[84] Pak, Zinovy

[85] Perry, Scott

[86] Peterson, Christine

[87] Plaisted, Linda

[88] Ramey, Wanda

[89] Renzi, Rick

[90] Ryan, Darb

[91] Schickler, Rob

[92] Scott, Don

[93] Singleton, Jack

[94] Smiley, Elizabeth

[95] Smith, Dennis

[96] Snaman, Steve

[97] Snavel, Dewey

[98] Snow, Kate

[99] Stanley, G. T.

[100] Stephens, Levi

[101] Susteren, Greta van

[102] Taylor, Shari

[103] Thompson, Carla

[104] Thomas J. Trapasso

[105] Vaughn, Clyde A.

[106] Yeingst, William

[107] King, John

[108] "Barbara"

[109] Blunt, Ed

[110] Boger, Sean

[111] Candelario, Joseph

[112] Cissell, James R.

[113] Cleveland, Allen

[114] Cleveland, Allen

[115] Cohen, Terry

[116] Dubill, Bob

[117] Eberle, Bobby

[118] Google Maps, The Pentagon, and the Potomac river east of the Pentagon.  This statement suggests the plane flew around the river.  http://maps.google.com/

[119] Ford, Ken

[120] Gaines, Kat

[121] Hudson, Ed

[122] James, Isabel

[123] Kean, Terrance

[124] Khavkin, D. S.

[125] Kizildrgli, Aydan

[126] Leonard, Robert A.

[127] Middleton, William Sr.

[128] Mosley, James

[129] Rodriguez, Meseidy

[130] Joseph, Royster

[131] Sepulveda, Noel

[132] Sheuerman, Philip

[133] Skarlet

[134] “Steve”

[135] Sutherland, Jim

[136] Stephens, Levi

[137] Tinyk, Michael

[138] “Whisper2i”

[139] Winslow, Dave

[140] Wright, Don

[141] Zakhem, Madelyn

[142] Unidentified man #4

[143] Unidentified Pentagon Worker

[144] Unnamed Navy admiral

[145] Benedetto, Richard

[146] Clem, Dennis

[147] Dobbs, Mike

[148] Google Maps, The Pentagon.  Notice here that the witness is confirming that the plane went in the direction of the lamp poles. 

[149] Google Maps, “The Pentagon”, and the CITGO gas station.  Notice here that the witness confirms he was on Columbia Pike when he saw the plane.  This means the plane was not to the left of the CITGO gas-station.  Also notice that the witness claims the Plane was in front of him on the road (Columbia Pike). http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=the+Pentagon&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=38.870019,-77.060927&spn=0.004887,0.012188&t=h&iwloc=addr

[150] Elgas, Penny

[151] Hagos, Afework

[152] Harrington, Joe

[153] Hunt, Bob

[154] Liebner, Lincoln

[155] Marra, David

[156] McCusker, Elaine

[157] McGraw, Stephen

[158] Mitchell, Mitch

[159] “Terry Morin, a former USMC aviator, Program Manager for SPARTA, Inc was working as a contractor at the BMDO offices at the old Navy Annex. Having just reached the elevator in the 5^th wing of BMDO Federal Office Building (FOB) #2.”  See flight path section.

[160] Morin, Terry

[161] Munsey, Christopher

[162] Narayanan, Vin

[163] O’Keefe, John

[164] Petitt, Mark

[165] Probst, Frank

[166] Riskus, Steve

[167] Ryan, James

[168] Storti, Steve

[169] Thompson, Phillip

[170] Ticknor, Henry

[171] Walter, Mike

[172] Wheelhouse, Keith

[173] Wyatt, Ian

[174] Unidentified man #1

[175] Unidentified man #2

[176] Campo, Omar

[177] Cook, Scott P.

[178] ElHallan, Aziz

[179] Elliott, Bruce

[180] Lagasse, William

[181] Sucherman, Joel

[182] Timmerman, Tim

[183] Wallace, Alan

[184] Hemphill, Albert

[185] O’Brien, Steve

[186] Gerard, Steven

[187] Khavkin D. S.

[188] Rodriguez, Meseidy

[189] Cleveland, Allen

[190] Hemphill Albert

[191] Joe Hurst

[192] Morin Terry    

[193] Mosley James

[194] Munsey Christopher

[195] O'Keefe John

[196] Patterson, Steve

[197] Ryan James     

[198] "Steve"            

[199] Steve Storti

[200] Sucherman Joel              

[201] Wallace Alan

[202] Walter Mike    

[203] Zakhem Madelyn

[204] Morin Terry

[205] Munsey Christopher

[206] Sucherman Joel

[207] Hunt Bob

[208] Elgas Penny    

[209] Sucherman Joel

[210] Wallace, Alan

[211] Benedetto, Richard

[212] Dubill, Bob

[213] Eberle, Bobby

[214] Hemphill, Albert

[215] Lagasse, William

[216] Liebner, Lincoln

[217] Mitchell, Mitch

[218] Probst, Frank

[219] Ryan, James

[220] Thompson, Phillip

[221] Thomas J. Trapasso

[222] Wallace, Alan

[223] Trapasso, Thomas J.

[224] Steve Riskus

[225] Ryan James

[226] Winslow Dave

[227] Walter, Mike

[228] Anderson, Steve

[229] Bauer, Gary

[230] Banton, Ralph

[231] Bell, Mickey

[232] Bright, Mark

[233] Campo, Omar

[234] Cissell, James R.

[235] Creed, Dan

[236] Dent, Kim

[237] Eberle, Bobby

[238] Elgas, Penny

[239] ElHallan, Aziz

[240] Evey, Walker Lee

[241] Flyler, Kim

[242] Hagos, Afework

[243] Hemphill, Albert

[244] “K.M.”

[245] Kean, Terrance

[246] Liebner, Lincoln

[247] Lyman, Mary

[248] Marra, David

[249] McAdams, Cynthia and Daniel

[250] McGraw, Stephen

[251] Middleton, William Sr.

[252] Milburn, Kirk

[253] Morin, Terry

[254] Narayanan, Vin

[255] O’Keefe, John

[256] Owens, Mary Ann

[257] Peterson, Christine

[258] Plaisted, Linda

[259] Rains, Lon

[260] Ramey, Wanda

[261] Regnery, Alfred S.

[262] Ryan, James

[263] Schickler, Rob

[264] Sepulveda, Noel

[265] Skarlet

[266] Smith, Dennis

[267] Snavel, Dewey

[268] Stanley, G. T.

[269] Stephens, Levi

[270] Sucherman, Joel

[271] Stephens, Levi

[272] Taylor, Shari

[273] Terronez, Tony

[274] Theall, David

[275] Thompson, Phillip

[276] Timmerman, Tim

[277] Thomas J. Trapasso

[278] Wallace, Alan

[279] Walter, Mike

[280] Washington, Rodney

[281] Winslow, Dave

[282] Wyatt, Ian

[283] Zakhem, Madelyn

[284] Unidentified man #4

[285] DiPaula, Michael

[286] “M., Rick”

[287] Mitch Mitchell

[288] Thompson Phillip

[289] Terronez, Tony

[290] Sucherman Joel

[291] Walter, Mike

[292] Rains, Lon

[293] Seibert, Tom

[294] “Barbara”

[295] Cissell, James R.

[296] Elgas, Penny

[297] Munsey, Christopher

[298] Hemphill, Albert

[299] Lagasse, William

[300] Morin, Terry

[301] O’Brien

[302] Probst, Frank

[303] Cbsnews

[304] Anderson. Steve

[305] Anderson, Steve

[306] "Barbara"

[307] Bright, Mark

[308] Cissell, James R.

[309] Clem, Dennis

[310] Cleveland, Allen

[311] Creed, Dan

[312] "Div Devlin"

[313] Dubill, Bob

[314] Eberle, Bobby

[315] Eiden, Steve

[316] Elgas, Penny

[317] Evey, Walker Lee

[318] Evey, Walker Lee

[319] Gaines, Kat

[320] Fred, Gaskins

[321] “Gus”

[322] Hagos, Afework

[323] Harrington, Joe

[324] “K.M.”

[325] Krug, Ann

[326] Lagasse, William

[327] Liebner, Lincoln

[328] Marra, David

[329] McAdams, Cynthia and Daniel

[330] Middleton, William Sr.

[331] Mitchell, Mitch

[332] Morin, Terry

[333] Narayanan, Vin

[334] Owens, Mary Ann

[335] Patterson, Steve

[336] Plaisted, Linda

[337] Probst, Frank

[338] Regnery, Alfred S.

[339] Rodriguez, Meseidy

[340] Royster, Joseph

[341] Ryan, James

[342] Storti, Steve

[343] Sucherman, Joel

[344] Taylor, Shari

[345] Thompson, Phillip

[346] Tinyk, Michael

[347] Wallace, Alan

[348] Walter, Mike

[349] Washington, Rodney

[350] “Whisper2i”

[351] Wright, Don

[352] Wyatt, Ian

[353] Zakhem, Madelyn

[354] Unidentified man #4

[355] Unidentified Pentagon Worker

[356] "Barbara"        

[357] Cook, Scott P.

[358] Eberle, Bobby

[359] Evey, Walker Lee

[360] Hemphill Albert

[361] Mary Lyman

[362] Kenneth McClellan

[363] Mitchell, Mitch

[364] Owens Mary Ann          

[365] Renzi Rick

[366] Robbins James

[367] Sepulveda Noel

[368] “Steve”

[369] Washington, Rodney

[370] Anlauf Deb & Jeff

[371] Dobbs, Mike

[372] Joseph Candelario         

[373] Elliott Bruce

[374] Hemphill Albert

[375] Mitchell, Mitch

[376] Owens, Mary Ann

[377] Morin, Terry

[378] Linda Plaisted

[379] Dennis Smith

[380] Anderson, Steve

[381] Bell, Mickey

[382] Hemphill Albert

[383] James, Michael

[384] Marra, David

[385] Owens, Mary Ann

[386] Singleton, Jack

[387] Bright, Mark

[388] Elliott, Bruce

[389] Elgas, Penny

[390] Evey, Walker Lee

[391] Fortunato, Don

[392] Gaines, Kat

[393] Hagos, Afework

[394] Hovis, Tom

[395] Mason, Don

[396] McGraw, Stephen

[397] Milburn, Kirk

[398] Morin, Terry

[399] Narayanan, Vin

[400] Owens, Mary Ann

[401] Ramey, Wanda

[402] Riskus, Steve

[403] Sepulveda, Noel

[404] Sucherman, Joel

[405] Walter, Mike

[406] Washington, Rodney

[407] Unnamed Navy admiral

[408] DeChiaro, Steve

[409] Elliott, Bruce

[410] Evey, Walker Lee

[411] Henson, Jerry

[412] Mason, Don

[413] Probst, Frank

[414] Anderson, Steve

[415] Anlauf, Deb & Jeff

[416] Battle

[417] Bauer, Gary

[418] Battle

[419] Bouchoux, Donald R.

[420] Bradley, Pam

[421] Bright, Mark

[422] Candelario, Joseph

[423] Carroll, Susan

[424] Cissell, James R.

[425] Cleveland, Allen

[426] Day, Wayne T.

[427] DiPaula, Michael

[428] Dobbs, Mike

[429] Dubill, Bob

[430] Eberle, Bobby

[431] Elliott, Bruce

[432] Evey, Walker Lee

[433] Flyler, Kim

[434] Ford, Ken

[435] Hagos, Afework

[436] Harrington, Joe

[437] Hemphill, Albert

[438] Hemphill, Albert

[439] Hey, Fred

[440] Kaiser, Andrea

[441] Keglovich, James

[442] Kelly, Leslie

[443] Kizildrgli, Aydan

[444] Lagasse, William

[445] “M.J.”

[446] “M., Rick”

[447] Martinez, Oscar

[448] McCusker, Elaine

[449] McGraw, Stephen

[450] Mosley, James

[451] Munsey, Christopher

[452] O’Keefe, John

[453] Pak, Zinovy

[454] Perry, Scott

[455] Petitt, Mark

[456] Regnery, Alfred S.

[457] Renzi, Rick

[458] Riskus, Steve

[459] Robbins, James S

[460] Ryan, Darb

[461] Scott, Don

[462] Smith, Dennis

[463] “Steve”

[464] Snaman, Steve

[465] Stanley, G. T.

[466] Sucherman, Joel

[467] Sutherland, Jim

[468] Stephens, Levi

[469] Taylor, Shari

[470] Thompson, Phillip

[471] Ticknor, Henry

[472] Timmerman, Tim

[473] Vaughn, Clyde A.

[474] Wallace, Alan

[475] Wheelhouse, Keith

[476] “Whisper2i”

[477] Wright, Don

[478] Wyatt, Ian

[479] Yeingst, William

[480] Unidentified man #1

[481] Unnamed Navy admiral

[482] O’Brien, Steve

[483] Bauer, Gary

[484] Bell, Mickey

[485] Blunt, Ed

[486] Boger, Sean

[487] Donley, Daryl

[488] Elgas, Penny

[489] ElHallan, Aziz

[490] Evey, Walker Lee

[491] James, Isabel

[492] Hovis, Tom

[493] “K.M.”

[494] Kean, Terrance

[495] Leonard, Robert A.

[496] Liebner, Lincoln

[497] Lyman, Mary

[498] M. K.

[499] Middleton, William Sr.

[500] Mitchell, Mitch

[501] Morin, Terry

[502] Narayanan, Vin

[503] Mason, Don

[504] Owens, Mary Ann

[505] Patterson, Steve

[506] Probst, Frank

[507] Ramey, Wanda

[508] Skarlet, Skarlet

[509] Storti, Steve

[510] Thompson, Carla

[511] Walter, Mike

[512] Washington, Rodney

[513] Winslow, Dave

[514] Dobbs, Mike

[515] Storti, Steve    

[516] Patterson, Steve

[517] Daryl Donley

[518] ElHallan Aziz

[519] Morin, Terry

[520] Hemphill Albert

[521] Hurst, Joe

[522] James, Michael

[523] Liebner, Lincoln

[524] Aviationnow   

[525] Walter, Mike

[526] Pfeilstucker. Daniel C. Jr               

[527] Sinclair, Wayne

[528] Snyder, Robert

[529] Blunt, Ed

[530] DeChiaro, Steve

[531] Cohen, Terry

[532] Jarvis, Will

[533] McIntyre, Jamie

[534] Bouchoux, Donald R.

[535] Cissell, James R.

[536] Elgas, Penny.  http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/collection/record.asp?ID=28

[537] ElHallan, Aziz

[538] Jarvis, Will

[539] Owens, Mary Ann

[540] Probst, Frank

[541] Ragland, Clyde

[542] Nelson, Todd

[543] Terronez, Tony

[544] Wallace, Alan

[545] Delawareonline

[546] "Loud Boom, Then Flames In Hallways - Pentagon Employees Flee Fire, Help Rescue Injured Co-Workers," by Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 9/12/01

[547] Bell, Mickey

[548] Biggert, Judy

[549] Braman, Chris

[550] Brown, Ervin

[551] Damoose

[552] Defina

[553] Evey, Walker Lee

[554] Faram, Mark

[555] Fortunato, Don

[556] Gysin, John

[557] Hudson, Ed

[558] Krohn, Charles H.

[559] Jim Hoffman, Jet Crash Debris: Examples of Jetliner Crashes Leaving Little Recognizable Debris.

[560] Lagasse, William

[561] McClain, Tom

[562] Terronez, Tony

[563] McClain, Tom

[564] McIntyre, Jamie

[565] Sucherman, Joel

[566] Tamillow, Michael

[567] Timmerman, Tim

[568] Walter, Mike

[569] “Whisper2i”

[570] Washingtonpost http://www.washingtonpost.com…

[571] Un-identified Pentagon Worker

[572] Unnamed former flight 77 attendant

[573] Unnamed WJLA (ABC 7) cameraman

[574] Steve Riskus, Photographs of Pentagon Attack site, minutes after the crash.  http://criticalthrash.com/terror/crashthumbnails.html

[575] Bauer, Gary

[576] Cissell, James R

[577] Eberle, Bobby

[578] Elgas, Penny

[579] Fortunato, Don

[580] Hagos, Afework

[581] Mason, Don

[582] McCusker, Elaine

[583] McGraw, Stephen

[584] Narayanan, Vin

[585] Petitt, Mark

[586] Owens, Mary Ann

[587] Thompson, Phillip

[588] Peterson, Christine

[589] Probst, Frank

[590] Ragland, Clyde

[591] Thompson, Phillip

[592] Walter, Mike

[593] Washington, Rodney

[594] Blunt, Ed

[595] ElHallan, Aziz

[596] Petitt, Mark

[597] Sucherman, Joel             

[598] Sutherland, Jim

[599] Terronez, Tony

[600] Thompson, Phillip.

[601] Walter, Mike

[602] Wyatt, Ian

[603] Anderson, Ted

[604] Cohen, Terry

[605] Dave

[606] ElHallan, Aziz

[607] Krohn, Charles H.

[608] Lyman, Mary

[609] Milburn, Kirk

[610] Perkal, Don

[611] Snyder, Robert

[612] Firehouse

[613] Unidentified man #3

FOX News 2:27 PM

http://www.911blogger.com/node/7227

[614] Unidentified Pentagon Worker

FOX News 10:13 AM

http://www.911blogger.com/node/7227

[615] Cleveland, Allen

[616] Cook, Scott P.

[617] McClellan, Kenneth

[618] Narayanan, Vin

[619] O’Keefe, John

[620] Renzi, Rick

[621] Rodriguez, Meseidy

[622] Sucherman, Joel

[623] Thompson, Phillip

[624] Wheelhouse, Keith

[625] Family http://www.ournetfamily.com/WarOnTerror/emails/pentagonwitness.html

[626] McAdams, Cynthia and Daniel

[627] Family

[628] Abshire. Marc

[629] Beans, Michael

[630] Birdwell, Brian

[631] Bouchoux, Donald R.

[632] Burgess, Lisa

[633] Correa, Victor

[634] Hemphill, Albert

[635] Rains, Lon

[636] Sepulveda, Noel

[637] Shaeffer, Kevin

[638] St Clair, Stanley

[639] Beans, Michael

[640] Morin, Terry

[641] Robbins James S            

[642] Munsey, Christopher

[643] Goldsmith Gilah

[644] Perkal Don

[645] Birdwell, Brian

[646] Blunt, Ed

[647] Day, Wayne T.

[648] DiPaula, Michael

[649] Evey, Walker Lee

[650] Henson, Jerry

[651] Jarvis, Will

[652] Kirk, Mark Steven

[653] Morin, Terry

[654] “said Arlington County Fire Chief Edward Plaugher, quoted by New York Newsday” http://arlingtonfirejournal.blogspot.com/2005/03/attack-on-pentagon-sept-11-2001.html

[655] Pfeil-stucker, Daniel C. Jr

[656] Rosati, Arthur

[657] Schickler, Rob

[658] Slater, Mike

[659] Yates, John