I saw this airplane coming, heading straight down toward the ground. It was an American Airlines airplane, I could see it very clearly.
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"It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane,"
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''I thought, 'This isn't really happening. That is a big plane.'
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There was a commercial airliner that said American Airliners over the side of it flying at just above treetop height
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It was an American airlines airliner. I
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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
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"We saw the big American Airlines plane and started running."
wow, more than I thought there would be
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About two minutes later one of my guys pointed to an American Airlines airplane 20 feet high over Washington Blvd
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The aircraft, looking to be either a 757 or Airbus
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"I saw this very, very large passenger jet,"
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I read American Airlines on it
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I braked, looked out my left window and saw a large commercial aircraft aiming for the Pentagon
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I saw this large American Airlines passenger jet coming in fast and low
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he saw an American Airlines jet swooping in, its wings wobbly
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I saw a big jet flying close to the building coming at full speed
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I saw a very low-flying American Airlines plane that seemed to be accelerating
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Middleton looked up and spotted a commercial jet whose pilot seemed to be fighting with his own craft.
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I looked out to the front and saw, coming straight down the road at us, a huge jet plane clearly with American Airlines written on it, and it looked like it was coming in to hit us.
Whew, that's a lot, only half way through it now
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The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines
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A silver, twin-engine American Airlines jetliner
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Then I looked up to my left and saw an American Airlines jet flying right at me.
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this silver plane; I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet
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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... I clearly saw the "AA" logo with the eagle in the middle... It was definitely an American Airlines jet
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The sight of the 757 diving in
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I see an American Airlines plane, silver plane, I could see AA on the tail... In my head I have ingrained forever this image of every detail of that plane. It was a silver plane, American Airlines plane, and I recognized it immediately as a passenger plane.
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He looked up to see a passenger plane with the trademark stainless-steel fuselage and stripes of American Airlines
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there was a sonic boom, and looking straight ahead there was a jet, what looked to be an American Airlines jet, probably a 757, and it came screaming across the highway.
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FRANKEN: What can you tell us about the plane itself?
TIMMERMAN: It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question.
FRANKEN: You say that it was a Boeing, and you say it was a 757 or 767?
TIMMERMAN: 7-5-7.
FRANKEN: 757, which, of course...
TIMMERMAN: American Airlines.
FRANKEN: American Airlines, one of the new generation of jets.
TIMMERMAN: Right. It was so close to me it was like looking out my window and looking at a helicopter. It was just right there.
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"We have had a commercial carrier crash into the west side of the Pentagon at the heliport, Washington Boulevard side. The crew is OK. The airplane was a 757 Boeing or a 320 Airbus."
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I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet
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It was an American Airlines jet. And I watched it go into the building. I saw the big 'AA' on the side
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I look up, it looks like a silver American Airlines
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it was an American Airlines plane
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It was a good size jet aircraft.
Now that's a lot of people saying it was American Airlines (or a large jet)
I've also seen 4 reports of a supposed C-130 flying over. Why the **** would we fly a CARGO plane over?
and THIS is why :
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A C-130 cargo plane had departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to Minnesota that morning and reported seeing an airliner heading into Washington "at an unusual angle," said Lt. Col. Kenneth McClellan, a Pentagon spokesman. Air-traffic control officials instructed the propeller-powered cargo plane "to let us know where it's going," McClellan said. But, he said, there was no attempt to intercept the hijacked airliner. "A C-130 obviously goes slower than a jet," McClellan said. "There was no way he was going to intercept anything." The C-130 pilot "followed the aircraft and reported it was heading into the Pentagon," he said. "He saw it crash into the building. He saw the fireball."
Only 4 reports saying it was a turboprop (Small commuter jet) Funny thing though, American Airline turboprops say American Connection, not American Airlines. (All four reports never specified any writing)
Only 1 report of it being a missile, of course this report only HEARD the plane, never saw it. I never knew American Airlines made missiles
Here is a nice eyewitness quote to finish 'er up
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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. Then it was gone. A massive hole in the side of the Pentagon gushed smoke. The noise was beyond description. ... I called my boss. I had no memory of how to work my cellphone. I hit redial and his number came up. "Something hit the Pentagon. It must have been a helicopter." I knew that wasn't true, but I heard myself say it. I heard myself believe it, if only for a minute. "Buildings don't eat planes. That plane, it just vanished. There should have been parts on the ground. It should have rained parts on my car. The airplane didn't crash. Where are the parts?" That's the conversation I had with myself on the way to work. It made sense this morning. I swear that it did. ... There seems to be no footage of the crash, only the site. The gash in the building looks so small on TV. The massiveness of the structure lost in the tight shots of the fire. There was a plane. It didn't go over the building. It went into the building. I want them to find it whole, wedged between floors or something. I know that isn't going to happen, but right now I pretend. I want to see footage of the crash. I want to make it make sense. I want to know why there's this gap in my memory, this gap that makes it seem as though the plane simply became invisible and banked up at the very last minute, but I don't think that's going to happen.