Reply #108: The Pentagon confirmed the C-130 flight on Oct. 16, 2001. [View All]

[Make7]

 

DoYouEverWonder wrote:

The Pentagon denied the existance of this plane [the C-130] following Flight 77, until the 9-11 Commission.

According to the article quoted below the Pentagon confirmed that the C-130 was near the Pentagon at the time of the attack.

The crew of a military cargo plane watched helplessly on Sept. 11 as a hijacked airliner plunged into the Pentagon, a defense official confirmed Tuesday. [October 16, 2001]

The report confirms the eyewitness account of two Hampton Roads residents who were near the Pentagon that day and said they saw a second plane flying near the doomed passenger jet.

A C-130 cargo plane had departed Andrews Air Force Base en route to Minnesota that morning and reported seeing an airliner heading into Washington "at an unusual angle," said Lt. Col. Kenneth McClellan, a Pentagon spokesman.

Air-traffic control officials instructed the propeller-powered cargo plane "to let us know where it's going," McClellan said.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/C130sawF772P.html

The article is still available from the original source for a fee - here is an abstract.

And here is an archived version of the http://dailypress.com/">Daily Press home page with a link to that story. Unfortunately the article itself does not appear to be archived.

- Make7