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'9/11: Timeline of Terror': Pentagon

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Witnesses describe watching American Airlines flight crash into Pentagon
Duration 1:34
Date Sep 7, 2011

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At some point we got cut off I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that I my wife was on a plane.

That have been hijacked that I keep driving notices plane coming and really fast and really low.

And I noticed this silver and American or American Airlines jetliner and it's obviously after -- a pretty big one -- I told her.

In the first conversation that.

Two hijacked planes had hit the World Trade Center her instinct was actually tell the pilot was trying to.

I asked her where where she was essentially tried to tell me where she was and what direction.

Flight 77.

Made me.

A left turn heading back after was hijacked they came back over Washington fairly high and then He did it left -- spending turn.

Which.

Gave him good visual visibility.

Of the Pentagon.

I heard it before I -- and looked up and then directly in front of my field of vision.

Parallels to the to the ground I saw and jet airplane.

-- the silver paint job with the red white and blue.

Stripes underneath the windows it was clearly an American Airlines passenger jet comes roaring by.

We did not know where that aircraft was.

And then just moments later that aircraft hit.

And of course our aircraft there of course Washington DC.

-- -- south -- here at that time not yet over Washington.