EXIT HOLE CHRONOLOGY
Date: 9/11/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
DESCRIPTION:
First known shot of the exit hole. This appeared in the Arlington County After-Action report.
It is most likely taken by a firefighter on the initial size-up of the back of the building. Everything else will be chronological according to the dates I acquired from the
photographer or the date on the file.
KEY NOTES:
1) No painting on the wall.
2) The white pipe on the right is blown out evenly in an arc as if from a blast as opposed to a solid object.
3) The fire extinguisher.
4) No obvious aircraft parts.
5) The apparently flammable contents are not on fire or even blackened from smoke.
6) The nearly perfect crisp edge.
7) The white board to the left will later have an aircraft part on it.
8) No hose lines.
Date: 9/11/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
DESCRIPTION:
Second known shot of the exit hole. The rubble pile has been pulled forward. Witnesses
from the A-E drive said that they had cleared the hole to facilitate rescue trying to use hand held extinguishers.
KEY NOTES:
1) The pile has been moved.
2) The white pipe on the right of the hole is gone.
3) The rebar on the right of the hole has been pulled out.
4) Note the fact that the center of the hole is nearly dead center between the columns. This would be the weakest point in the wall.
If you wanted to have an impact or an explosion to penetrate the wall, you couldn't have done better.
5) The piece that is claimed to part of the fuselage is now on the board. You will see it from various angles in the rest of the photos.
6) Still no hose lines.
Date: 9/12/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: Anonymous
DESCRIPTION:
This was shot sometime on the morning of the 12th. That is confirmed by the photographer and the following statement,
"It ramped up and was fully operational on the morning of September 12. Functional branches were established for fire suppression
at the impact area (River Division), the Center Courtyard (A-E Division)....."
(Arlington County After-Action Report Annex A Page A-21). That means fully organized fire operations in the back did not start
until then.
KEY NOTES:
1) Only one line is stretched, probably from a hose reel at the pentagon. It couldn't be operational with those tight
kinks in it.
2) No large diameter fire department hose lines are present and there is only one firefighter without a backup.
3) A portion of the debris have been moved to the "B" ring wall.
4) The interesting blue marking on the "C" ring wall in the top photo.
Date: 9/12/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: Unknown
DESCRIPTION: "Still other DPS officers set up a perimeter around A-E Drive
and the crash site to keep people away from those areas" (Arlington County After-Action Report Annex C Page C-32).
Is this officer coming after the guy with the camera?
KEY NOTES:
1) The most important observation is that there is no damage on the opposing "B" ring wall. If something solid broke through
the "C" ring wall at any significant rate of speed, what caused it to decelerate before striking the opposite wall?
2) The dispersal of bricks seems much more indicative of a blast.
3) There are only military officers, security, a photographer, and possibly one firefighter allowed back there. Firefighters in breathing apparatus's
with hose lines near a fire building are required by law to operate in pairs.
4) The military officer is spraying the debris pile.
5) No obvious or large aircraft parts evident against the "B" ring wall.
Date: 9/12/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: Michael W. Pendergrass - Photographer’s Mate 1st Class, U.S. Navy
DESCRIPTION:
Here we have the large diameter fire hoses laid over the original red rubber one.
This photo appears to be more smoky for a couple of reasons. They have high pressure ventilation fans operating in
the area now. Another reason is when you start to spray high volume water into the structure you disrupt the thermal layers and move
the smoke around.
KEY NOTES:
1) It also appears that the tire rim has popped into the photo. See the "757" Debris page for the details on this.
2) You can also see how far the bricks have been sprayed outward in the opposite direction of the alleged path of travel.
Date: 9/12/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: Fort Belvoir Firefighter
DESCRIPTION:
A closer look at the piece on the white board.
KEY NOTES:
1) Notice the angle that the metal bars are bent and that they appear to be "cut" straight across. This is how they appear in the first photo too.
2) The mesh appears to have been cut as well.
3) The pipe is in a smooth arc like the one on the right had been.
4) The very odd straight edge on the left of the hole.
Date: 9/12/01
Time: unknown
Photographer: Paul Disney
DESCRIPTION:
This is a good look at the wall and windows above the hole.
KEY NOTES:
1) The two windows above are not broken out from the top from heat. In fact, there was no smoke coming from them as is
the case with the hole. The third window has been knocked open by some force.
2) The two windows above appear to have broken with force from below. The floor was NOT breached between. The only place the floor was breached was
back in "D" ring here (see the beige area in diagram).
3) The two blown windows with no smoke and the third knocked open with no continuous path between the floors indicates an explosive event in the area.
4) On this link you can see the "smudge" mark on the opposing wall and the boarded up windows on floor five opposite the wall
which also point to a blast rather than a solid object as claimed by the official story
(photos).
5) The brick is sprayed out evenly to both sides in an arc as if with equal force.
6) The piece on the board and the tire rim are evident still.
Date: The night of 9/12/01
Time: unknown
Photographer: anonymous
DESCRIPTION:
These first paint markings to appear indicate that the location of bodies had been identified.
The circle means that they had been removed. The "MD TF-1" represents Maryland Task Force-1.
KEY NOTES:
1) The aircraft parts are gone now.
2) You can see the high pressure ventilation fans inside.
3) Now that the debris pile is smaller you can see the brick underneath.
4) The forensics workers are not identified by jackets or shirts.
International Rescue Symbols
DESCRIPTION:
These are the symbols used by search and rescue crews to mark various aspects of the scene.
Date: 9/13/01
Time: Unknown
Photographer: TLC video still
DESCRIPTION: This shows the debris pile
against the "B" ring wall sometime on the 13th. It seems the efforts to extinguish it were unsuccessful.
KEY NOTES:
1) Here you can clearly see that the "B" ring really appears to have a "smudge" mark and not damage from any solid object.
2) There are no large aircraft pieces evident.
Date: 9/14/01
Time: unknown
Photographer: anonymous
DESCRIPTION:
This is from inside the exit hole. The column to the right is identified as 3N North. The
heavily damaged column in the center is 5N North. They were both rated "Yellow - Cracking and spalling but with no significant imapirment in function".
If you look at this diagram you can orient yourself.
North means that this was three columns to the north of the renovation line. Pay attention to the damage keys for the columns
and try to trace a straight line from the impact to the exit. Then try to imagine how this column in the center of the photo
was damaged.
KEY NOTES:
1) There is a very obvious distinction in the damage between columns here.
2) If a "flow of energy" and debris hit that, then did it rejoin in a concentrated ball immediately on the other side to create the
nearly perfectly round exit hole?
3) To the right of the hole you can see that the wire mesh also had a layer of sheetrock on the inside.
Date: unknown
Time: unknown
Photographer: unknown
DESCRIPTION:
This is closer to the exit hole. The column to the left is destroyed.
It is column 5N north.
KEY NOTES:
1) More detail is clear inside here.
2) Notice how round and crisp that hole is.
3) The floor does not appear to be gouged from the nose of an aircraft.
4) Notice the "chiseling" around the inside of the hole to the left.
Date: 9/20/01
Time: unknown
Photographer: Jocelyn Augustino - FEMA
DESCRIPTION:
This is the first time we see "punch out" painted on the wall (actually it appeared in a photo from the 14th first).
This was an arbitrary term chosen for the location. This was for report and mapping purposes.
It was to later be used interchangeably with the term "exit hole" in the various reports.
KEY NOTES:
1) Those are just metal debris from inside the building.
CONCLUSION: The exit hole has many discrepancies with the official story. Some have even tried to say later
that it was man made to assist in rescue. The earliest photo shows that it was not. There was no equipment, hose lines, or personnel
and the opening was obstructed by debris. Some have also claimed that the term "punch out" and/or the arrows were to direct a backhoe where to
break an opening. As you can see the painting was progressive over 3 days and the meanings clearly defined. The final blow to this theory is that
the arrow on the left goes into the broken brick which would be impossible if it was there first.
The next VERY curious thing is that ALL official reports neglect to explain the hole. The Building Performance Report, the Shoring
Report, the Arlington County After-Action fire report, and the 9/11 Commission Report. I have offered engineers a page on this site
to explain it and they flat out refuse and say something like, "a plane hit the building".
Rapid Wall Breaching Kit
Column Damage Falsification?
Main Exit Hole Page