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Penny Elgas:
"For most of my drive I had been totally focused on my radio and was extremely aware of the events that were unfolding in New York. Even though the radio reporters were cautious, I was already convinced from the first strike that it was not just an unfortunate pilot error." "Traffic was at a standstill. I heard a rumble, looked out my driver's side window and realized that I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us from over the road (Columbia Pike) that runs perpendicular to the road I was on. The plane just appeared there- very low in the air, to the side of and not much above) the CITGO gas station that I never knew was there. My first thought was 'Oh My God, this must be World War III!' "In that split second, my brain flooded with adrenaline and I watched everything play out in ultra slow motion, I saw the plane coming in slow motion toward my car and then it banked in the slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport. In the nano-second that the plane was directly over the cars in front of my car, (the plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground and about 4-5 car lengths in front of me. It was far enough in front of me that I saw the end of the wing closest to me and the underside of the other wing as that other wing rocked slightly toward the ground. I remember recognizing it as an American Airlines plane -- I could see the windows and the color stripes. And I remember thinking that it was just like planes in which I had flown many times but at that point it never occurred to me that this might be a plane with passengers."
"as I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling up. Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft appeared in my window, coming over my right shoulder as I faced the Westside of the Pentagon directly towards the heliport. The aircraft [...] seemed to come directly over the annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike […] All in all, I probably only had the aircraft in my field of view for approximately 3 seconds.[...] He was slightly left wing down as he appeared in my line of sight, as if he'd just "jinked" to avoid something. As he crossed [Route 27] he appeared to level his wings, making a slight right wing slow adjustment as he impacted low on the Westside of the building to the right of the helo tower and fire vehicle around corridor 5."
posted by GenRadek
Oh yes, and I wonder why you guys forgot the fact that the VDOT tower was clipped by Flight 77?
posted by GenRadek
Now, why does CIT ignore this person's account?
Originally posted by SPreston
That is not the VDOT tower. The VDOT tower is up next to the Naval Annex about 350 feet away from the building. Your imaginary aircraft wing could not possibly have hit that pole there, because if it had, the left wing would have not reached the #2 light pole which would have been too far away. A 757 has a wingspan of 124 ft 10 in, or 62 ft 5 in from centerline to wingtip. The #2 light pole needed to be knocked down at the same time as the #1 light pole. Besides, see that light pole peeking out from the side? Why is it still standing if a wing went through it?
Originally posted by SPreston
posted by jthomas
How long are you going to deny that AA77 hit the Pentagon, SPreston?
posted by jthomas
How long are you going to deny that AA77 hit the Pentagon, SPreston?
Forever, because it did not. Did you have to ask the question twice to convince yourself jthomas?
AA77 was not even in Virginia. The aircraft which took its place was proven Over the Naval Annex by 20+ real living eyewitnesses, most of whom were interviewed way back in 2001 and reinterviewed in 2008 and earlier.
jthomas YOUR pathetic 9-11 Pentagon OFFICIAL STORY is dead dead dead and no aircraft hit the Pentagon.
posted by SPreston
That is not the VDOT tower. The VDOT tower is up next to the Naval Annex about 350 feet away from the building. Your imaginary aircraft wing could not possibly have hit that pole there, because if it had, the left wing would have not reached the #2 light pole which would have been too far away. A 757 has a wingspan of 124 ft 10 in, or 62 ft 5 in from centerline to wingtip. The #2 light pole needed to be knocked down at the same time as the #1 light pole. Besides, see that light pole peeking out from the side? Why is it still standing if a wing went through it?
posted by Pilgrum
Perhaps VDOT camera mast is a better name for it. I checked the scale of that plane overlaid on the overhead pic and it's very close to accurate - Oh I'm sure someone will come along and claim it's 0.05% out which invalidates the whole thing but nevertheless, it's a good representation. The wingspan of the 757 does take out all the damaged poles on that flight path while those still standing are outside that wingspan which is hardly a surprise.
Why do poles #1 and #2 need to be knocked down at the same time?
They're approx 47m (155') apart along that trajectory which amounts to about 200mS at the highest conjectured speed. Barely a blink of the eye but not strictly the same instant in time is it.
Originally posted by Pilgrum
reply to post by SPreston
Check this pic which a better rendition of the one you posted (using an actual overhead photo showing the pole locations) and see if there's any major problem with the scaling of the overlaid plane. I found it to be very close to reality in terms of a 757. All 5 poles are impacted in 1 pass.
Overhead pic
Originally posted by Pilgrum
I marked up this pic not for antagonistic purposes, but simply because it shows all points of interest between Terry's location and the Pentagon. The red line is the northern limit of his field of view due to the Navy Annex building on his left and indicates he couldn't possibly have seen the plane after it passed over him if it was on an NOC path and that red line is damn close to the 'official' flight path plus it allows the plane to be over the Annex building (allowing for the 125' wingspan). He could also see the Fireball at the building from there (just).
September 11, 2001
“The plane … exploded in a ground-shaking whoomp”
Navy Times reporter Christopher Munsey was en route to work when he saw this morning’s attack on the Pentagon. This is his eyewitness account.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Traffic headed south on Interstate 395 just across the Potomac River and Washington, D.C. was light, but I was late for work and it was after the thick of the rush hour, about 9:30 a.m.
I was running late because I had to register my car in D.C. early that morning, an errand that fated me to witness a devastating act of destruction on American soil.
Already dumbfounded by the first, sketchy radio reports of the catastrophic attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York, I couldn’t believe what I was now seeing to my right: A silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner gliding almost noiselessly over the Navy Annex, fast, low and straight toward the Pentagon, just hundreds of yards away.
It was a nightmare coming to life.
The plane, with red and blue markings, hurtled by and within moments exploded in a ground-shaking “whoomp,” as it appeared to hit the side of the Pentagon.
A huge flash of orange flame and black smoke poured into the sky. Smoke seemed to change from black to white, forming a billowing column in the sky.
It all seemed so surreal. Sadly, it’s all too real.
— Christopher Munsey
Randy Papadopoulos, a historian with the NHC's Contemporary History branch, has been assigned the task of writing the history of the attack. Papadopoulos has a huge amount of information to absorb for the book.
So far, the record includes the oral interviews, more than 3,000 photographs and between 300 and 500 documents, Papadopoulos said.
The book, tentatively titled One Long and Tragic Day: The Attack on the Pentagon 11 Sept. 2001, should be published next year in time for the attack's second anniversary.
Papadopoulos said readers will learn that Pentagon employees responded bravely to the disaster, despite the confusion and shock.
They hear an explosion down the hall, and the first impulse is to run towards it. They were trying to help, trying to take care of one another. People really wanted to help, he said.
Christopher Munsey's e-mail address is [email protected].
I was right at the edge of being on the outer portion. When the plane went right over the top of me I was within 10 feet of the edge of the Navy Annex. I was inside, it flew over the top of me, it's right on the edge and I'm right here, and because I had already heard about the Twin Towers, I immediately ran to the outside and that's when I watched the airplane, and I moved into a position where I could see it. And there was some trees there, you may not know that, this was before the 8th Wing was destroyed, there used to be an 8th Wing there, and now there is an Air Force Memorial. If the Air Force Memorial had been built, the plane would have run into it...You see this treeline? As he starts to descend, he's 50 feet above this, and he descends, he basically starts to disappear, okay? And so the bottom of the airplane, and the engines disappear, the bottom of the fuselage, the wings, and so what I've got is a tail stabilizer, the ass-end of the airplane is all you can see and he comes down.
posted by Pilgrum
You mightn't think so, but I'm still trying to stay objective about this and other 9/11 issues. Terry Morin's account is one of the very few that clearly isolates certain areas in relation to the actual position of that aircraft and unfortunately for NOC theorists, it excludes that area.
posted by LaBTop
As I have drawn in this picture :
Original 1035x556px one :
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That green line of the sky view by Terry I drew above, is of course the LOWER boundary of Terry's view starting at his eyes, crossing over the roofs of the last wings of the Navy Annex building, passing under the plane and extending all the way further in the sky, but still far under the flight path of the plane.
I first wanted to draw the angle of view of Terry when he should have been at the spot YOU, GenRadek, wants us to believe he was. But he wasn't, he was on the street, Columbia Pike, still running uphill.
And I already proved to you why he wasn't at the spot you think he was, because then he would have described a plane coming head on to him. He didn't describe such event.
Thus, the real left ground boundary, my RED line of the angle of view of Terry on the ground, STREET LEVEL, is what he should have seen when the plane was taxiing on the ground, which it didn't.
And on top of that, his SKY VIEW would have improved enormously by shifting his position to the right of the Annex, exactly as he did so.
Thus he could follow the plane almost all the way after it passed that tree line, which was growing uphill in front of the Citgo, when he first saw it again clearly, after it passed over the roof of wing 8, until he lost nearly completely sight of it much further away in its descend, he then only saw the tail sticking above the foliage of that tree line.
He did not actually see the plane impact the building, he only saw and heard an explosion and billowing smoke afterwards.