Pentagon debris

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Pentagon

Aircraft debris

Flight data recorder

Cockpit voice recorder - so badly damaged that data was unrecoverable

Debris in the A-E Drive, including airplane tire

CBS footage shows debris on the Pentagon lawn, before the section of the building collapsed.

Witnesses

  • After the crash at the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Ted Anderson quickly evacuated the building. Anderson then ran down the hall to an emergency exit and out into the parking lot. As the crowd surged away from the building. Anderson looked to his left and "everything I could see, as far as I could see, were chunks of steel, some huge, some small, and I immediately knew it was an airplane."[1]
  • "Early Friday morning, shortly before 4 a.m., Carlton Burkhammer and another firefighter, Brian Moravitz, were combing through debris near the impact site. Peering at the wreckage with their helmet lights, the two spotted an intact seat from the plane’s cockpit with a chunk of the floor still attached. Then they saw two odd-shaped dark boxes, about 1.5 by 2 feet long. They’d been told the plane’s “black boxes” would in fact be bright orange, but these were charred black. The boxes had handles on one end and one was torn open."[2]
  • Lt. Kevin Shaeffer was "on a service road that circled the Pentagon between the B and C rings. A chunk of the 757's nose cone and front landing gear lay on the pavement a few feet away, resting against the B Ring wall."[3]
  • Todd Tiahrt (congressman) - next day we came to the Pentagon. The Pentagon has five outer rings labeled A through E, with E being the outer ring. In the C and B rings the plane had punched a hole you could a drive a truck around in, and I saw an airplane tire. It made it very real. I will never forget Sept. 11.[4]
  • Army Staff Sgt. Mark Williams "discovered the scorched bodies of several airline passengers, they were still strapped into their seats. The stench of charred flesh overwhelmed him. “It was the worst thing you can imagine,” said Williams, whose squad from Fort Belvoir, Va., entered the building, less than four hours after the terrorist attack. “I wanted to cry from the minute I walked in. But I have soldiers under me and I had to put my feelings aside.”[5]
  • Lieutenant Paul K. Carlton Jr., Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force - "I thought it was a terrorist bomb. Smoke was filling the Pentagon. There were a large number of burn patients. The roof was on fire and the windows and walls were bulging from the C ring, which is the middle building in the series of five buildings that make up the Pentagon. But then I saw the landing gear. It was on the ground in the alley between the B and C rings. When I saw it there, not only did I realize an airplane had struck the Pentagon but it was clear that the plane had come through the E, D and C buildings to get there."[6]
  • Victor Correa - "My rescue team ended up in the area where the nose cone and landing gear came to rest. But because of the fire and heat we could not go inside the building. So we helped firefighters with the equipment and making sure they drank water."[7]
  • Victor Correa - "It was probably around 3:30 or 4:00 when we were sent over near the helipad, where the plane had hit the building. The 3rd Infantry Division came in to take over. One of the generals came out and thanked us for our help. "Time to go home," he said. I stayed around because it was the first time I really could see the impact of everything. You could not see all of the damage from where I had been before. I was amazed at the catastrophe that had just occurred. I could see a piece of the airplane with the whole letter "C" from "American" on it."[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Washington’s Heroes - On the ground at the Pentagon on Sept. 11", MSNBC, September 28, 2001.
  2. ↑ "Washington’s Heroes - On the ground at the Pentagon on Sept. 11", MSNBC, September 28, 2001.
  3. ↑ Swift, Earl. "Inside the Pentagon on 9/11: The Call of Duty", The Virginian Pilot (Hampton Roads), September 9, 2002.
  4. ↑ "Where were you when ...", Wichita Business Journal, September 6, 2002.
  5. ↑ Stone, Andrea. "Pentagon searchers encounter grisly scenes", USA Today, September 13, 2001.
  6. ↑ Murphy, Dean (2002). September 11: An Oral History. Doubleday, p.216. 
  7. ↑ Murphy, Dean (2002). September 11: An Oral History. Doubleday, p.234-235. 
  8. ↑ Murphy, Dean (2002). September 11: An Oral History. Doubleday, p.234-235. 

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