Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect

Tue Sep 11 14:41:11 UTC 2001

>hi,
>
>>  A plane reportedly just flew into the pentagon in dc.
>>  I heard it on a local radio station.  still trying to get more info...
>
>been confirmed by CNN. A third plane.
>
>The first was apparently a boeing 767, hijacked out of Boston. Bush has
>already appeared on national tv to announce it as a terroist attack, NYC
>is shut down, all airports are shut down.
>
>good luck:(
>
>m

I live about 4 miles from the Pentagon, and heard a distant explosion 
Local TV is showing an apparently intact building, although there is 
smoke on the far side, in the direction of National Airport. There 
are conflicting reports if a helicopter or an airliner, or both, hit 
near the Pentagon, but the building itself does not seem to have 
taken massive damage.

Obviously, there are lots of sounds of emergency vehicles.  I started 
hearing high-speed passes of what sounded like jet fighters starting 
about an hour ago. There was another sound at about 10:20, which 
shook my windows.  It was about the magnitude of a very large 
fireworks burst down on the Mall. Can't say if it was a secondary 
explosion, a sonic boom, or what.

Howard