3. Eighty-Seven Eyewitness Accounts

Before and After American Airlines Flight 77

Crashing Into The Pentagon

I think that it is logical to assume that with Rumsfeld and other important insiders, still inside the Pentagon at the time of impact, that whatever thing or things hit the Pentagon, would have had to be under remote control. If the exact impact location and time, along with extent of damage, was not fully under control, there's no way an unidentified aviation vehicle, Flight 77, or a missile would have been allowed anywhere near the Pentagon, or the White House.

-- Abel Ashes

San Francisco, CA

sf911truthalliance[at]riseup[dot]net

Donald Rumsfeld was interviewed by Parade Magazine, in September or October 2001 and the article appeared in the October 12, 2001 issue.

"Well, I was sitting right here in the building when it was struck . . . Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. . . ."

Witness Statement by AA Flight Attendant

An American Airlines flight attendant, would have been scheduled to fly on her regular flight, AA 77, on September 11, 2001. That day she was excused from work because her father was ill. Her friend and fellow flight attendant, Renee, was on that plane.

Renee boarded AA 77 in Washington DC on this regularly scheduled route to Los Angeles. Over Ohio, Renee called her mother on her cell phone and told her to call American Airlines Operations and report that the plane had been hijacked. Renee said there were six hijackers. Press releases since then have only reported five hijackers. But that is a separate subject due to its size and scope. There were no sounds of struggle when Renee phoned her mother. Her mother could also hear crew members calling out phone numbers for American Airlines. Renee did not call her again.

The flight attendant states that she went to the crash site on Friday September 21st during the 10pm to 10am shift with her mother to give support to the crews working on the clean-up of the wreckage. She went inside the Pentagon crash site and saw parts of the plane that she recognized to be a 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. She saw charred human bones. She has no doubts that Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th.

I first heard this person describe her memories of the Pentagon crash, in Dallas at the COPA Conference on the anniversary of the JFK assassination, on November 23, 2002. She was still shaken by the loss of her friend and the devastation she had seen on September 11, 2001. Her words can be heard on the website, http://www.parapolitics.info/copa/copa2002gallery/ .

See Also: "The Pentagon Attack and American Airlines Flight 77," by John Judge, 2/21/04



Eyewitness Statement by WJLA (ABC 7) Cameraman

on 9/11/01 in Washington DC

Wayne Madsen, an investigative reporter, talked with a cameraman for WJLA, ABC 7, in Washington DC, who had been driving to the Pentagon and came upon a woman standing beside her car in shock. The cameraman stopped and walked over to her. 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.

Phone interview with Wayne Madsen by David Ratcliffe



Steve Riskus

. . . I saw the plane hit the building. It did not hit the ground first. . . It did not hit the roof first. . . It hit dead center on the edge. . . 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. . . It was not completely level, but it was not going straight down, kind of like it was landing with no gear down. . . It knocked over a few light poles on its way. . . I did not see any smoke or debris coming from the plane. 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. . . and yes, it did impact the Pentagon. . . There was none of this hitting-the-ground first crap I keep hearing. . . It was definitely an American Airlines jet. . . There is no doubt about that. . . When I got to work I checked it out.

"Emerging Theories - Agent Fescado Looks to Eye-Witness, www.humanunderground.com, 3/11/02

The Pentagon and Government sources are not releasing any photographs taken by witnesses, collected after the Pentagon crash. 9/11 Citizens Watch in Washington DC is asking for the release of all witness materials, citing that none of this material is classified or should be withheld from the public. Photographs of the New York City Trade Center crashes are all public information. There is no reason to not release all photos and witness statements.

October 14, 2003, there was a press conference in DC, concerning the release of records by the government to the Kean Commission. But when the press conference convened, the commission balked at giving the information that it was scheduled to announce and said that it would make a statement the next day. On October 15th subpoenas were served on FAA officials. John Judge believes that the FAA may be blamed for not responding in time to stop the planes from crashing into buildings on 9/11, thereby taking NORAD off the hook for not scrambling fighter jets from military bases.

The most compelling evidence we have so far is that American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into the Pentagon. The question arises that if the government is complicit in planning or allowing 9/11 to happen, why put a missile into the Pentagon? What would this cover-up, or change, or add to the incident if it is a "black op."

The families and friends of the deceased passengers on Flight 77 certainly are convinced that the plane flew into the Pentagon, having visited the site and identified their loved ones when possible, and they are pursuing legal avenues the same as the New York City victims families are.