D. S. Khavkin, from the eighth floor of a high-rise building:
"... knocked down a number of street lamp poles"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1540000/1540586.stm
Kirk Milburn, a construction supervisor for Atlantis Co. was on the exit of
Interstate 395.
"... saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles."
http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/5m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/sep01/attack.html
Afework Hagos, 26, of Arlington, stuck in a traffic jam on Columbia Pike,
"It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some
lamp posts .."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,550486,00.html
Kat Gaines, a Fairfax County Fire & Rescue technician was heading south on Route
110, by the parking lots to the south when she saw a "low-flying jetliner strike
the top of nearby telephone poles." She "then heard the plane power up" and
plunge into the Pentagon.
http://www.fccc.org/News/valor.htm
Vin Narayanan, a reporter for USA TODAY was driving near the Pentagon
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/11/washscene.htm
"The tail of the plane clipped the overhanging exit sign above me"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/17/first-person.htm
Rodney Washington, a systems engineer for a Pentagon contractor, was stuck in
the traffic a few hundred yards away:
"... knocking over light poles "
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/globe_stories/0912/After_assault_on_Pentagon_orderly_response+.shtml
Steve Riskus took pictures less then 1 minute after the impact
http://www.criticalthrash.com/terror/crashthumbnails.html
"It knocked over a few light poles on its way..."
http://www.humanunderground.com/11september/s11-media/et7.jpg
Father Stephen McGraw was waiting on the northbound side of Washington
Boulevard. driving to a graveside service at Arlington
"The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us, injuring a
taxi driver, whose taxi was just a few feet away from my car.
http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_39/local_news/10772-1.html
http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Pentagon_crash_eyewitness_comforted_victims.html
Jim R. Cissell, a former photojournalist, drives past the Pentagon every day on
his way to work at the Newseum in Arlington, Va.
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/09/14/loc_tristate_residents.html
.".. taking out telephone and power lines on its way in, hit the building."
http://www.cincypost.com/attack/cissel091201.html
Noel Sepulveda, a Master Sgt. was walking back to his motorcycle in the Pentagon
South Car Park
It "The plane’s right wheel struck a light pole, causing it to fly at a
45-degree angle.".", he said.
The plane tried to recover, but hit a second light pole and continued flying at
an angle. "You could hear the engines being revved up even higher,"
http://www.af.mil/news/Apr2002/n20020415_0585.shtml
Colonel Bruce Elliott, a World War II and Korean War Chemical Mortar Battalion
veteran and a former commander of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant wasalso in the
Parking Lot
"... the craft clipped a utility pole guide wire, which may have slowed it down
a bit"
http://www.thehawkeye.com/features/911/IdxThur.html
Air Force Honor Guard members were at the end of the cemetery directly across
the highway from the Pentagon.
" They had heard, some had seen a plane coming in skimming trees and light
poles."
http://www.bgcworld.org/events/snyder.htm
Mark Bright, 32, a traffic patrol officer was the first to arrive at the scene
after seeing the plane from his guard booth by the Mall Entrance.
"-- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down."
He also said he heard the plane "power-up"
http://www.dcmilitary.com/marines/hendersonhall/6_39/local_news/10797-1.html
http://206.181.245.163/ebird/e20011108vivid.htm
Wanda Ramey, a DPS master patrol office watched from the Mall plaza booth.
"I saw the wing of the plane clip the light post, and it made the plane slant.
Then the engine revved up."
http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Pentagon_policeman.html
Michael Anthony K (aka 'Mimi Angelica') a 42-year-old firefighter-paramedic saw
"...poles lying on the ground that had apparently been knocked over by the plane
as it headed for the building."
http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/mimiangelica/advocate.html
Mike Walter, 46, a USA Today reporter, said
"...It turned and then it went around ..it clipped one of these light poles."
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Richard Benedetto, another USA TODAY reporter said,
The only thing we saw on the ground outside there was a piece of a ... the tail
of a lamp post.
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A Pentagon Navy Admiral said,
"It was a good size jet aircraft. I saw it clip a light pole but keep coming
..."
Houston Chronicle, 9/11/01 - Michael Hedges
(mirror) http://www2.hawaii.edu/~julianr/lexisnexis/clark.txt
Don Fortunato, a plainclothes detective with the Arlington (Va.) Police
Department, was walking into his office when he heard a muffled explosion. He
dashed to the scene.
“Traffic was at a standstill, so I parked on the shoulder, not far from the
scene and ran to the site. Next to me was a cab from D.C., its windshield
smashed out by pieces of lampposts. There were pieces of the plane all over the
highway, pieces of wing, I think.”
LaVern L Schueller, a Military Chaplain surveyed the scene after the event.
"The top of a light pole was knocked off on an overpass. The FBI had marked it
as evidence. The top of a light pole had been knocked off on the street that
goes by the Pentagon. It too was marked as evidence. And finally, it took out
the entire light pole near the sidewalk.
http://www.aapc.org/prayer.htm
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/bill_campbell/010923col1.html
Frank Probst, dove to the ground to avoid a passing jet engine.
"On either side of him, three streetlights had been sheared in half by the
airliner's wings at 12 to 15 feet above the ground. An engine had clipped the
antenna off a Jeep Grand Cherokee stalled in traffic not far away."
http://www.militarycity.com/sept11/fortress1.html