Originally posted by tezzajw
Without being able to prove that statement (you've not supplied any links), you're better off retracting it, as it's merely your speculation.
We can ALL agree it would be very unlikely to see a plane crash and know what the flight number is.
Here are some "alleged" eye witness statements, etc.
You will tezz, choose to dismiss them like all the other evidence.
Here are some links:
Bob Blair was completing a routine drive to Shade Creek just after 10 a.m. Tuesday, when he saw a huge silver plane fly past him just above the
treetops and crash into the woods along Lambertsville Road.
Blair, of Stoystown, a driver with Jim Barron Trucking of Somerset, was traveling in a coal truck along with Doug Miller of Somerset, when they saw
the plane spiraling to the ground and then explode on the outskirts of Lambertsville.
“I saw the plane flying upside down overhead and crash into the nearby trees. My buddy, Doug, and I grabbed our fire extinguishers and ran to the
scene,” said Blair.
/guct4
"It was low enough, I thought you could probably count the rivets. You could see more of the roof of the plane than you could the belly. It was
on its side. There was a great explosion and you could see the flames. It was a massive, massive explosion. Flames and then smoke and then a massive,
massive mushroom cloud."
/m347n
Then Peterson said he saw a fireball, heard an explosion and saw a mushroom cloud of smoke rise into the sky.
Peterson rushed to the scene on an all-terrain vehicle and when he arrived he saw bits and pieces of an airliner spread over a large area of an
abandoned strip-mine in Stonycreek Township.
"There was a crater in the ground that was really burning," Peterson said. Strewn about were pieces of clothing hanging from trees and parts of the
Boeing 757, but nothing bigger than a couple of feet long, he said. Many of the items were burning.
/fa75e
The ensuing firestorm lasted five or 10 minutes and reached several hundred yards into the sky, said Joe Wilt, 63, who also lives a quarter-mile
from the crash site. "Jetliner Was Diverted Toward Washington Before Crash in Pa."
The Washington Post September 12, 2001
"I just watched with my mouth open as this yellow mushroom cloud rose up just like an atomic bomb over the hill where I like to go hunting,"
said 72- year-old John Walsh
Barefoot and in his bathrobe, he drove up the dirt road to rescue anyone he could find. There would be nothing he could do.
Debris, including photographs and other papers that survived the fireball, was strewn over a wide area. Residents have spent days collecting it.
/oapxx
"When the plane hit, it sounded like something just fell on the roof. Everybody sort of panicked," she said. "I went to the window and saw all
this smoke coming up and I just pointed and screamed."
-/oapxx
Charles Sturtz, 53, who lives just over the hillside from the crash site, said a fireball 200 feet high shot up over the hill. He got to the crash
scene even before the firefighters.
/rl5qc
Tim Lensbouer, 300 yards away: "I heard it for 10 or 15 seconds and it sounded like it was going full bore."
[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
9/12/01]
Rob Kimmel, several miles from the crash site: He sees it fly overhead, banking hard to the right. It is 200 feet or less off the ground as it
crests a hill to the southeast. "I saw the top of the plane, not the bottom."
[Among the Heroes, by Jere Longman, p. 210-211]
Tom Fritz, about a quarter-mile from the crash site: He hears a sound that "wasn't quite right" and looks up in the sky. "It dropped all of a
sudden, like a stone," going "so fast that you couldn't even make out what color it was."
[St. Petersburg Times, 9/12/01]
Terry Butler "It dropped out of the clouds." The plane rose slightly, trying to gain altitude, then "it just went flip to the right and then
straight down."
[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/12/01]
Terry Butler: He sees the plane come out of the clouds, low to the ground. "It was moving like you wouldn't believe. Next thing I knew it makes
a heck of a sharp, right-hand turn." It banks to the right and appears to be trying to climb to clear one of the ridges, but it continues to turn to
the right and then veers behind a ridge. About a second later it crashes.
[St. Petersburg Times, 9/12/01]
Lee Purbaugh, 300 yards away: "There was an incredibly loud rumbling sound and there it was, right there, right above my head – maybe 50 feet
up.... I saw it rock from side to side then, suddenly, it dipped and dived, nose first, with a huge explosion, into the ground. I knew immediately
that no one could possibly have survived."
[Independent, 8/13/02]
Linda Shepley: She hears a loud bang and sees the plane bank to the side. [ABC News, 9/11/01] She sees the plane wobbling right and left, at a low
altitude of roughly 2,500 feet, when suddenly the right wing dips straight down, and the plane plunges into the earth.
[Philadelphia Daily News,
11/15/01]
Kelly Leverknight in Stony Creek Township of Shanksville: "There was no smoke, it just went straight down. I saw the belly of the plane." It
sounds like it is flying low, and it's heading east.
[Daily American, 9/12/01, St. Petersburg Times, 9/12/01]
A witness told WTAE-TV's Paul Van Osdol that she saw the plane overhead. It made a high-pitched, screeching sound. The plane then made a sharp,
90-degree downward turn and crashed.
newsandviews.tripod.com...
Tim Thornsberg, working in a nearby strip mine: "It came in low over the trees and started wobbling. Then it just rolled over and was flying upside
down for a few seconds ... and then it kind of stalled and did a nose dive over the trees."
[WPIX Channel 11, 9/13/01]
[edit on 26-6-2008 by ThroatYogurt]
