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An F-16 launched from Langley Air Force Base is directed toward two unidentified aircraft and then asked to inspect and report on the damage to the Pentagon. Major Dean Eckmann, one of the three F-16 pilots who took off from Langley at 9:30 (see (9:25 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001), is reportedly flying in the Washington area. He will later recall, “I set up a combat air patrol with air traffic controllers,” and then, at around 9:45, “they come back to me and say there are a couple [of] unknowns heading north on the Potomac River toward the White House.” He is flying above 20,000 feet but heads straight down and reaches his target in “no time,” he says. The unknowns turn out to be a military helicopter and a law enforcement helicopter apparently heading towards the Pentagon to assist there. Eckmann flies over the Capitol and Mall area, he recalls, “to clear the area and make sure nothing else was coming in.”
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--Dan--
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--Dan-- We took -- well, actually, we took off from
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the base at 1555 and returned back to the base at 1650, so just under an hour flight. The main mission is to photograph the Pentagon. So we -- I don't remember the specifics of the route of flight. We approached it cautiously. By then ATC was back in business, and they were super jumpy and super cautious. But we got our clearance to Washington Tower to proceed to the Pentagon. Photography was around the perimeter of the Pentagon.
--snip--
Airport Tower Being Evacuated - Eagle I has made three or four orbits around the Pentagon when a controller in the Reagan Airport tower radios its pilot, Sergeant Ronald Galey. The controller says the tower is currently evacuating. [US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001; National Park Service, 1/17/2002] According to some accounts, the tower is being evacuated due to reports of more hijacked aircraft heading in its direction (see (9:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [NBC 4, 9/11/2003; Spencer, 2008, pp. 215-216] But according to other accounts, the controller tells Galey the tower is evacuating because it is being affected by smoke that is drifting across from the burning Pentagon. [US Department of Health and Human Services, 7/2002, pp. A-48; McDonnell, 2004, pp. 21 pdf file; Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 162] Galey will recall the controller saying: “Eagle I, we can’t see anything outside the tower. [The smoke is] getting in our ventilation system. We’re abandoning the tower.” Therefore, the controller gives Galey control of the airspace for the entire Washington area, telling him, “You’ve got the airspace.” [US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001; McDonnell, 2004, pp. 21 pdf file]
Pilot Alarmed at Being Given Control of Airspace - The control tower at Reagan Airport is “normally the ‘nerve center’ for directing any response to this type of incident,” according to a National Park Service news article. [National Park Service, 9/21/2002] Galey is initially alarmed. He will recall thinking, “Exactly what I need right now is I’ve got control of the airspace.” [US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001] However, he is unaware that the FAA has ordered that all airborne aircraft must land at the nearest airport (see (9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001), which will make his task easier. [US Congress. House. Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure, 9/21/2001; McDonnell, 2004, pp. 21 pdf file; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 29]
NORAD Advises Pilot on Controlling Airspace - The controller gives Galey the radio frequency for NORAD, and tells him to contact NORAD. [National Park Service, 1/17/2002; McDonnell, 2004, pp. 21-22 pdf file] The person Galey then talks to at NORAD informs him: “Look, you have no [air] traffic in DC, except for the traffic that you’re calling. The aircraft that you’re calling in, we’re going to allow to come in. Other than that, there should be no one besides the military, and we’ll call you out the military traffic.” Galey will later reflect: “So that helped tremendously. That function alone was not very taxing.” [US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001] The person at NORAD also tells Galey there is “an unauthorized aircraft inbound from the Pennsylvania area, with the estimated time of arrival approximately 20 minutes into DC.” Galey will recall that he and the rest of his crew discuss what they should do, and decide that “we’d take our chances and stay there [at the Pentagon], and do what we came there to do.” [National Park Service, 1/17/2002]
Airspace Control Passed on to Metropolitan Police Helicopter - Eagle I becomes “the air traffic control function for the area, flying a slow racetrack pattern over the site and clearing aircraft in and out,” according to Lieutenant Philip Cholak, the Park Police Aviation Unit commander. [Aviation International News, 10/1/2001] But after a time Galey asks his paramedic to request that a Metropolitan Police helicopter be launched to take over the command and control of the Washington airspace. He tells the paramedic: “You know we’re going to have to do a medevac mission here. We’re going to have to relinquish the command/control function to somebody else.” A Metropolitan Police helicopter subsequently arrives and relieves Eagle I of its command and control function. [US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001; McDonnell, 2004, pp. 22 pdf file]
Entity Tags: Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, United States Park Police, Philip W. Cholak, Ronald A. Galey, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, North American Aerospace Defense Command
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Other Departments Send Helicopters - Galey then contacts MedStar at the Washington Hospital Center and AirCare at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. Each of them dispatches helicopters to the Pentagon. Galey will recall that these two departments “hadn’t gotten the word that the airspace was shut down, and since I’m the one who requested the aircraft and informed NORAD, NORAD allowed them to come in.” [Rotor and Wing, 11/2001; US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001] It is unclear exactly when Galey contacts the different departments. But according to the Arlington County After-Action Report, the helicopter that MedStar launches arrives at the Pentagon at around 10:18 a.m. Inova Fairfax Hospital launches one helicopter at “approximately 10:00 a.m.” and then sends a second helicopter to the Pentagon at around 10:40 a.m. [US Department of Health and Human Services, 7/2002, pp. A-45]
Entity Tags: MedStar Health, Ronald A. Galey, Maryland State Police, United States Park Police, AirCare
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline.
Originally posted by 911files
Originally posted by waypastvne
Yellow line is the starboard engine track ?
You did notice that it does go right through that tree.
Oh my, isn't that the VSP/VDOT antenna that the Paik brothers said had a bent antenna? Looks like one of the wings go right over the top of it. You don't reckon .... ? Nah, we all know that didn't happen. But seeing as how that is what both Paik brothers thought did happen, then Edward must have thought he saw the plane pass right over it or else why would he believe it hit the antenna?
Isn't it cool how things just fit together when you don't try to force them into something else?
I just recalled, that path matches pretty much with this one that the Fairfax County Police helicopter flew the next day (might have been that afternoon, I forget and don't feel like reading his statement again) based on the Reagan National ASR track and eyewitness accounts.
Image taken by FCPD pilot as he retraced the flight path and given by him to the Army Center for Military History.
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Helicopter
Lincoln Leibner --
He said that he saw a helicopter circle the building. He said it appeared to be a U.S. military helicopter, and that it disappeared behind the building where the helicopter landing zone is - excuse me - and he then saw fireball go into the sky. [...] It's a very tense situation obviously, but initial reports from witnesses indicate that there was in fact a helicopter circling the building, contrary to what the AP reported, according to the witnesses I've spoken to anyway, and that this helicopter disappeared behind the building, and that there was then an explosion.
Lincoln Leibner --
the aircraft struck a helicopter on the helipad, setting fire to a fire truck.
Paul Begala --
He said another witness told him a helicopter exploded.
Skarlet --
As I came up along the Pentagon I saw helicopters. That's not strange. It's the Pentagon. Then I saw the plane. There were only a few cars on the road, we all stopped. I know I wanted to believe that plane was making a low descent into National Airport, but it was nearly on the road. And it was headed straight for the building. It made no sense. The pilot didn't seem to be planning to pull up anytime soon. It was there. A huge jet. *
* CORRECTION: Before Site Version 1.055, this page contained a shorter and garbled excerpt from Skarlet's account in the Helicopter section. Because the excerpt was taken out of context, it incorrectly implied that Skarlet reported seeing a helicopter rather than a jetliner hit the Pentagon. In fact Skarlet's full account is quite emphatic that a "huge jet" flew into the Pentagon, and is consistent with all the other eyewitness accounts.
Right Wing Hits Generator
Lee Walker Evey --
On its way in, the wing clipped. Our guess is an engine clipped a generator. We had an emergency temporary generator to provide life-safety emergency electrical power, should the power go off in the building. The wing actually clipped that generator, and portions of it broke off.
Frank Probst -- on a sidewalk alongside Route 27, near the Pentagon's western face
He recalls the engine passing on one side of him, about six feet away. The plane's right wing went through a generator trailer "like butter," Probst said. The starboard engine hit a low cement wall and blew apart.
Flaps Up
Lee Walker Evey --
The plane approached the Pentagon about six feet off the ground, clipping a light pole, a car antenna, a construction trailer and an emergency generator before slicing into the building, said Lee Evey, the manager of the Pentagon's ongoing billion-dollar renovation.
Originally posted by LaBTopHow about that is not an "Image taken by FCPD pilot as he retraced the flight path and given by him to the Army Center for Military History".
It is an image taken by him the next day..!
I just recalled, that path matches pretty much with this one [photograph] that the Fairfax County Police helicopter flew the next day ....
Originally posted by LaBTop
John, does it not strike you as extremely strange, that the FBI within MINUTES of the impact, confiscated ALL these video feeds of cameras possibly able to register that plane?
That is not a clever FBI director directly reacting after being informed of the impact.
You know that these kinds of operations normally take weeks of planning, to get the right men to the right places.
Bear with me : EIGHTY FIVE camera feeds, from which a great part were confiscated within minutes of impact?
We can be credulous, but not stupid, do not underestimate the growing anger under the populace, we can see what they did, do and still plan.
Immense amounts of money disappeared and are disappearing while we type.
And they plan to rise the energy prizes globally, to unknown heights.
Originally posted by Six Sigma
I believe you should take Reheat's advice and find a better hobby. The nice weather is here. Try bird watching or start a nice butterfly collection.
Originally posted by 911files
Originally posted by LaBTopHow about that is not an "Image taken by FCPD pilot as he retraced the flight path and given by him to the Army Center for Military History".
It is an image taken by him the next day..!
How about exactly what I said ...
I just recalled, that path matches pretty much with this one [photograph] that the Fairfax County Police helicopter flew the next day ....
I lost respect for you several days ago. I had thought you were sincerely trying to understand what happened. Yet over and over again you twist and spin statements to fit your agenda (whatever that is). You do all of this "deducing" from fragmentary evidence, and come up with crazy. I've learned over the past week or so that there is no interest in truth here at ATS, just crazy and fantasy. Good luck with that.
Isn't it cool how things just fit together when you don't try to force them into something else?
I just recalled, that path matches pretty much with this one that the Fairfax County Police helicopter flew the next day (might have been that afternoon, I forget and don't feel like reading his statement again) based on the Reagan National ASR track and eyewitness accounts.
(Here is your photo of a SoC officially endorsed flight path, over the high VDOT radio mast.)
Image taken by FCPD pilot as he retraced the flight path and given by him to the Army Center for Military History.
How about that!
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edit on 19-6-2012 by 911files because: (no reason given)
edit on 19-6-2012 by 911files because: (no reason given)
I lost respect for you several days ago. I had thought you were sincerely trying to understand what happened. Yet over and over again you twist and spin statements to fit your agenda (whatever that is). You do all of this "deducing" from fragmentary evidence, and come up with crazy. I've learned over the past week or so that there is no interest in truth here at ATS, just crazy and fantasy. Good luck with that.
Originally posted by Six Sigma
LaBTop : John, does it not strike you as extremely strange, that the FBI within MINUTES of the impact, confiscated ALL these video feeds of cameras possibly able to register that plane?
That is not a clever FBI director directly reacting after being informed of the impact.
You know that these kinds of operations normally take weeks of planning, to get the right men to the right places.
Bear with me : EIGHTY FIVE camera feeds, from which a great part were confiscated within minutes of impact?
We can be credulous, but not stupid, do not underestimate the growing anger under the populace, we can see what they did, do and still plan.
Immense amounts of money disappeared and are disappearing while we type.
And they plan to rise the energy prizes globally, to unknown heights.
Six Sigma : Did you bother to look at the receipt? The Citgo video and hard drive were confiscated on September 12th. Not within "minutes" of impact.
I believe you should take Reheat's advice and find a better hobby. The nice weather is here. Try bird watching or start a nice butterfly collection.