DEBRIS
This page will look at some of the more substantial debris evident on the scene. These are pieces
that as far as I know are unidentified. On the "About" page is an email address to send solid information
in to identify these parts. Please make sure it is backed with a photo of the original part, a part number, or a parts diagram.
Please send only proven and definite identification and you will get credit posted on that part's page.
The following quotes are from JAMIE MCINTYRE, Sr. Pentagon Correspondent. He was the first reporter
on the scene and took a lot of video. The quotes are taken from several different interviews. Jamie has no question in his mind about
a plane impacting the Pentagon in the full context of the interviews. He has been honest in describing the size and quantity
of the debris and his experience though. He also filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the videos that had been
confiscated and was denied.
Jamie McIntyre, correspondent of CNN at the Pentagon, was in his office at the time of the crash.
"I immediately ran on the spot of the crash. Hundreds of pieces from the plane were strewn on the ground, including a
piece of the fuselage and a partial cockpit windshield identified by CNN."
"First of all, as you said, I was there that day. I went and looked. I saw the plane wreckage.
There were thousands of pieces of this plane all over the ground near the Pentagon as I went out there that day."
"I could see parts of the airplane that crashed into the building, very small pieces of the plane on the heliport outside
the building. The biggest piece I saw was about three feet long, it was silver and had been painted green and red, but
I could not see any identifying markings on the plane. I also saw a large piece of shattered glass. It appeared to be a
cockpit windshield or other window from the plane."
"You know, it might have appeared that way, but from my close-up inspection, there's no evidence of
a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. The only site is the actual site of the building that's crashed in,
and as I said, the only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you can pick up in your hand. There are no
large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around, which would indicate that the entire
plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse. Now, even though if you look at the
pictures of the Pentagon you see that the floors have all collapsed; that didn't happen immediately....."
You can hear in his comments that even being there in person was
confusing in the face of the quantity and nature of the debris outside. This reported pulverization of a 757-200
supports the possibility of an aircraft that would have exploded mostly outside the building as the 5
video frames seem to indicate. This makes the interior damage very hard to understand. Especially the exit hole.
