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When the Pentagon was Attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 Kim Dent, 33, an administrative assistant at Ballistics Missiles of Defense, across the street from the Pentagon, said she and some co-workers were looking out the window of their office building. "We saw the shadow of a plane. We heard the engine. We all said, 'That plane is flying kind of close.'' (www.usatoday.com)
"I saw the tail
of a large airliner. ... It plowed right into the Pentagon," said an Associated
Press Radio reporter. "There is billowing black smoke."
One witness told CNN she saw a commercial jet flying "too fast, too low" and then she saw an explosion at the building. (www.worldtradecenterphotos.com)
Vaughn said he
was returning to the Pentagon Sept. 11 when he saw a Boeing 757 slam into
the west side of the building. He saw people coming out of the building
limping badly, he said, "and every one of them had two or three people
caring for them and comforting them."
(www.dtic.mil/armylink/news)
AP reporter Dave
Winslow also saw the crash. He said, ''I saw the tail of a large airliner.
... It plowed right into the Pentagon.''
(netscape.com/ex/shak/news)
Defense Protective
Service officers were the first on the scene of the terrorist attack. One,
Mark Bright, actually saw the plane hit the building. He had been manning
the guard booth at the Mall Entrance to the building.
"I saw the plane at the Navy Annex area," he said. "I knew it was going to strike the building because it was very, very low -- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down." The plane would have been seconds from impact -- the annex is only a few hundred yards from the Pentagon. He said he heard the plane "power-up" just before it struck the Pentagon. "As soon as it struck the building I just called in an attack, because I knew it couldn't be accidental," Bright said. He jumped into his police cruiser and headed to the area. (www.dcmilitary.com/marines
)
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