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Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
According to Lloyd England's account the plane took a hell of a long time to reach the Pentagon after knocking the light pole into his car!

Long enough time for him and a "silent stranger" to struggle the pole out of his car. Amazing!
Thank you for a classic demonstration of the unreliability of eye-witness accounts.

This man, Loyd, observed a plane, flying low-overhead, knocking over a lap-post, onto his taxi cab.

Then, about (let's say) 2-3 minutes later, he's heard an explosion. Assuming this is accurate, as you imply - we still know that there was a low-flying plane that knocked over the lap-post. What happened to that plane?
Lloyd England's account is clearly unreliable.
He's the only witness so far to say that a plane hit a light pole, and the undamaged hood on his car doesn't support his version of events.

The timeline he gives for that incident doesn't indicate that an airliner knocked a light pole into his car, then crashed into the Pentagon, either.

The plane seen by witnesses was on another flight path, further north from where the light poles were knocked down, and rose slightly to fly over, or close to, the south east corner of the Pentagon, disappearing from view.

No one saw it hit the Pentagon.

What happened to that plane has not been disclosed.

"But as for the simple mechanics of building collapse, it really _IS_ Popular Mechanics stuff" latindancer re. WTC 911.