Most FEMA photos in the public domain were taken on 9/14/01, after much of the debris was cleared out of the building…
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From Sarah Roberts
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| The recent Pentagon crash discussion on Rense.com has almost entirely focused on photos of plane debris on the lawn. Since most of the plane reportedly entered the building, we should also look for images of debris inside the building. Unfortunately, such images are very hard to come by since: (1) Much of the debris was burned and torn beyond recognition, (2) Most FEMA photos in the public domain were taken on 9/14/01, after much of the debris was cleared out of the building, (3) Most other photos remain in the private hands of investigators, rescue workers, and others who were inside the building. Many images are officially classified. The following article attempts to bring together all known images sent to me or in the public domain that show aircraft debris inside the Pentagon. The images were either found online or sent to me by recovery workers to be used with permission.First, we shall examine witness accounts of plane debris inside the Pentagon. These were given by recovery workers, firefighters, engineers, and Pentagon officials. Their statements help in interpreting the various photos taken inside the building.
I. Witness Accounts of Wreckage Inside the Building Witnesses described small pieces of plane debris in the building. Because of the fire, much of the debris was burned beyond recognition. Some pieces bore lime or yellow primer paint characteristic of internal aircraft parts. Larger pieces included seats, cockpit circuitry, and a landing gear. These accounts were drawn from Ron Harvey’s excellent compilation and from my own research. 1) “Most of the wreckage was in very small pieces and most was carried out in drywall buckets. Some was large enough to identify — including the tail number on the aircraft. I don’t think there’s any doubt about what it was and who owned it.” (From a letter by an employee of the Pentagon) 2) “DC Matthew” wrote about his work inside the Pentagon: “After about 15 minutes shoveling up chunks of carpet and brick, I found a piece of circuit board, and a chunk of the plane. When I say a chunk of it, I mean a piece that was about 3 oz of twisted aluminum. The biggest piece I’ve seen so far is about the size of a refrigerator.” 3) While searching through wreckage inside the building, firefighters Carlton Burkhammer and Brian Moravitz “spotted an intact seat from the plane’s cockpit with a chunk of the floor still attached.” Burkhammer also “spotted lime-green pieces from the interior of the plane” within the building. 4) CMSgt. John Monaccio wrote: “I was in room 1B461. The plane’s inertia carried aircraft remains all the way through the building coming to rest on the outside walls of our offices. We discovered cockpit wreckage at our feet while attempting to rescue people from a Navy operations area.” 5) ARFF Captain Michael Defina said: “The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear.” The Navy operations area, where the cockpit was discovered, was in C-ring near the punchout hole. Many witnesses also recalled seeing plane wreckage in A-E Drive next to the punchout hole. The following three items were mentioned: a piece of the nose fuselage or nose cone, a landing gear, and a tire tread. 6) Navy Lt. Commander David Tarantino described the A-E Drive punchout hole: “They found an area where fire surrounded a hole in a wall that was blown out. They heard cries from people who were trapped and saw a plane tire.” 7) Lt. Kevin Schaeffer from the Navy Command Center recalled that “on a service road that circled the Pentagon between the B and C rings, a chunk of the 757’s nose cone and front landing gear lay on the pavement a few feet away, resting against the B Ring wall.” 8) “The nose of the plane just barely jutted out into A/E Drive (the street that runs around the inside of the building). It made a perfectly round, 5-foot hole in the wall. There was one set of landing gear (presumably from the nose) out in A/E Drive. But most of the plane’s skin was in pieces not much bigger than a piece of notebook paper.” (From a letter by an employee of the Pentagon) 9) “I thought it was a terrorist bomb. . . .But then I saw the landing gear. It was on the ground in the alley between the B and C rings. When I saw it there, not only did I realize an airplane had struck the Pentagon but it was clear that the plane had come through the E, D, and C buildings to get there.” (Paul K. Carlton, Jr., U.S. Air Force surgeon general, quoted by Dean Murphy, “September 11: An Oral History,” p. 216 10) Rep. Ted Tiahrt wrote: “In the C and B rings the plane had punched a hole you could a drive a truck around in, and I saw an airplane tire. It made it very real.” 11) When LTC Victor Correa went back inside the Pentagon, “he found out what caused the horrific attack he survived earlier that morning; he saw the nose cone and the landing gear of the airliner.” More witness accounts may be found on Ron Harvey’s website: http://www.dragonslair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/77/ffdd.html We shall now see some interesting images taken inside the Pentagon on 9/12 and 9/13 — photos of some of the objects mentioned by these witnesses. II. Photos of Plane Wreckage Inside the Building Because of the destructive fire that raged inside the building, most photos show only charred heaps of scrap. A good place to look for plane wreckage is around structural columns which tore the plane into pieces as it entered. Many columns show shredded or wrecked pieces of metal wrapped around them or stacked beside them. The following photo (by MDW Engineer Co. Fort Belvoir photographers) shows such a column in D-ring near column 3H:  Resting next to another pillar is another section of lime-green material bearing clear rivet lines (photographed by FEMA‘s Jocelyn Augustino):       As other witnesses related, debris lying outside the C-ring punchout hole in A-E Drive included a chunk of nose fuselage or nose cone, a landing gear, and an aircraft tire tread.The following photo (by Fort Belvoir photographers) shows two pieces of fuselage debris (note the green primer) lying in front of the hole. Note a ring of 8 small holes on the larger piece. A similar ring of 8 holes may be found on a 757 nose (with an attaching piece), just below the cockpit windows — but it is far from clear whether the configuration is a match. This larger piece of debris may be the fragment of “nose cone” referred to by Lt. Kevin Shaeffer and Victor Correa.  
The following photo, which ironically enough graced the cover of T. Meyssan’s “Pentagate” book, shows both the fuselage fragment and the wheel hub: 
 Despite the destructive fire that raged inside the impact area on 9/11, pieces of debris were visible on 9/13 and 9/14, and were photographed by recovery workers. These photos clearly show pieces of landing gears, a large turbofan engine, and fuselage. The evidence inside the building is consistent with the evidence of plane wreckage outside — indicating that a commercial airliner flew into the Pentagon on September 11th. |
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