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      09-13-2015, 10:44 AM   #77
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Originally Posted by charlie fairmont View Post
Maybe a day late posting, but I was across the street from the Pentagon when it happened. You don't know me to trust me, but I promise it happened. I picked up the pieces of the plane and everything else that was inside. We were the cleanup crew--3rd US Inf (TOG). It happened.
I saw on a documentary that the plane hitting the Pentagon did so at 530mph and Flight 93 went down in that field at 580mph.

The difference between a plane crashing at landing speed (~130mph) and nearly 550mph is just staggering.
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