It sounded like a small plane. Male witness, cited Face the Facts
I mean it was like a Cruise missile with wings. Male witness, cited Face the Facts
A four-engine propeller plane which ... resembled a C-130, started a steep descent towards the Pentagon. Scott Cook
I witnessed a military cargo plane fly over the crash site and circle the mushroom cloud. My brother in law also witnessed the same plane following the jet while he was on the HOV lanes in Springfield. He said that he saw a jetliner flying low over the tree tops near Seminary RD in Springfield, Virginia, and soon afterwards a military plane was seen flying right behind it. Allen Cleveland
Then the plane – it looked like a C-130 cargo plane – started turning away from the Pentagon; it did a complete turnaround. John O’Keefe
It was white with maroon writing on it. Mrs Hubbard, recorded interview Flight 77: The White Plane
You just sort of saw the white go by ... It was white. Veronica, recorded interview, Flight 77: The White Plane
I could see the propellers, I could see the windows ... White. It was white ... It was a white plane. Cindy Reyes, interview Flight 77: The White Plane
More of a champagne ... like an off-white. Sergeant Chadwick Brooks, interview Flight 77: The White Plane
The aeroplane appeared to be a Boeing 757 or an Airbus 330 – white with blue and orange stripes. Firefighter Alan Wallace, cited Flight 77: The White Plane
… Turning road expecting to see a fighter jet flying over, he saw only a split-second glimpse of a white commercial airliner streaking low toward the building and him. Sergeant Maurice L Bease, recorded Major Fred H Allison, cited Flight 77: The White Plane
They saw the white plane and were puzzled that it was flying so low with no airport in that direction. Vera Goodson Stover, high school media library specialist, cited Flight 77: The White Plane
I know what an American Airlines looks like; it has coloured stripes running down the side. But I don’t know what that was supposed to be. Robert Tursios, cited Flight 77: The White Plane
More confusion came from the fabricated accounts of the C-130 ‘shadowing’ or ‘following’ the AA jet which never happened. Flight 77: The White Plane
This presentation will feature on the account of one individual: that’s Lloyd England, a taxicab driver who was travelling south on route 27 at the time of the Pentagon attack. He claims that his windshield was speared by light-pole-number-one by a plane as it headed straight for the Pentagon. Lloyd England & His Taxicab – The Eye of the Storm, Youtube 2008
We saw a huge black cloud of smoke, she said, saying it smelled like cordite or gun smoke. Gilah Goldsmith, The Guardian
I know from my experience that it would have been highly improbable that even a seasoned American test pilot, a military test pilot, could have flown a T-category aircraft 757 into the first floor of the Pentagon because of a thing called ground effect. Fred Fox, US Navy retired and commercial pilot for American Airlines
On September 12th we were told that if the plane had not made this incredible turn, if it had just headed straight into the Pentagon, it would have crashed into the most high level top secret area of the Pentagon. It would have crashed into the offices of Donald Rumsfeld and all the top brass. But instead of flying straight ahead it made this ridiculous turn so that it crashed into an area that had been under construction for weeks before into an area that had been specially reinforced during those weeks to make it more able to withstand just such an attack. And it crashed into an area that because of the construction was mostly empty. Justice for 9/11!
In my professional opinion, based on my years of experience, my study of aeroplane accidents and incidents, it’s my opinion that a Boeing 757 did not hit the Pentagon – there would be an abundance of wreckage. And that the official sources have not been able to produce the evidence of any wreckage. Glen Stanish, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, interview 9/11 Ripple Effect
I look at the hole in the Pentagon, and I look at the size of an aeroplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon, and I said, the plane does not fit in that hole! So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What’s going on? Major General Albert Stubblebine, US Army General, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
It’s not a part from any Rolls Royce engine that I’m familiar with. John W Brown, spokesperson for Rolls Royce, Indianapolis
What’s unusual about the five frames that the Pentagon released is they don’t show a plane streaking across the Pentagon lawn. They just show a white vapour trail. Phil Jayhan, 9/11 researcher, interview 9/11 Ripple Effect
I challenge any pilot, any pilot anywhere – give him a Boeing 757 and tell him to do 400 knots 20 feet above the ground for half a mile. Can’t do. It’s aerodynamically impossible. Nita Sagadevan, pilot & aeronautical engineer, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
Why wasn’t the hole as wide as the 757’s 124-feet 10-inch wingspan? Popular Mechanics magazine performance report
The official trajectory has this plane just skimming the ground at about five hundred miles per hour as it impacts with the building on the ground floor – that turns out to be aerodynamically impossible. Professor Jim Fetzer, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, interview 9/11 Ripple Effect
The lawn is perfectly smooth – green and smooth – which turns out ironically to be a smoking gun at the Pentagon. ibid.
There are lots of oddities ... I have residents of the area call me to say that they told the FBI they heard an explosion in the air before they heard any impact on the ground. But the FBI refused to write it down. I have other residents in the area write me and explain to me they were taken to a search area far larger than the officially designated crash zone to look for body parts and aircraft debris, but ... were told by the deputy sheriff taking them that they were to deny it if they mentioned this to anyone ... In fact, it was distributed over eight square miles, which is a scenario consistent with a plane having been shot down in the air but not one that crashed. Professor Jim Fetzer
It was a combination of a missile plus the small plane delivering the missile. And the reason you needed a missile is then you can precisely target where it hits. Professor Jim Fetzer, cited 9/11 Myths
For an amateur who couldn’t even fly a Cessna to manoeuvre the jetliner in such a highly professional manner would have been totally impossible. Russ Wittenberg, pilot
[Flight 77] could not possibly have flown at those speeds which they said it did without going into a high-speed stall. Russ Wittenberg
The speed, the manoeuvrability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air-traffic controllers, that it was a military plane. Danielle O’Brien, ATC Dulles International Airport, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11, 2007
With all the evidence readily available at the Pentagon crash site, any unbiased rational investigator could only conclude that a Boeing 757 did not fly into the Pentagon. Colonel George Nelson, aircraft accident investigator US Air Force, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
One very strange thing that doesn’t make sense is the disappearance of various components of this Boeing. For example, the two engines. And what about the plane’s wings – where did they go? Dario Fo, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
Even if we suppose that such an incompetent pilot had the opportunity to fly a Boeing 757, we still have to ask ourselves how he managed to violate the most heavily protected airspace in the world. Dario Fo, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
If a plane, any kind of a plane, was coming in towards the Pentagon, why didn’t the anti-aircraft missile batteries that are there, why didn’t they fire to protect the building? This is after all the most heavily protected building on the planet. That craft had to have been a military craft, because only the military craft put out the signal ... Only a military craft would be allowed to approach the building. Barbara Honegger, senior journalist Department of Defense, cited Zero: An Investigation into 9/11
You’ve got a hole that’s no more than ten foot high and about maybe fifteen to twenty feet wide that we’re expected to believe a multi-ton 757 jet-liner with a wingspan of a hundred and twenty-five feet and a tail height of forty-four feet – that’s four storeys, folks – somehow managed to squeeze into this iddy-biddy hole of the ground floor of the Pentagon. Jim Marrs, interview 9/11 Ripple Effect
You know as well as I do ... that after every major air disaster, the National Transportation Safety Board conducts an investigation and they take every little scrap and piece of debris from the aeroplane and they take it to some big hanger or warehouse and they try to rebuild it. They reassemble it to find out what happened. Show me a photograph of Flight 77 pieced back together. Jim Marrs, Coast to Coast AM