Luogocomune - 11 settembre

Instead of following the streams of people away from the Pentagon, Steve DeChiaro ran toward the smoke. As he reached the west side of the building he saw a light post bent in half. "But when I looked at the site, my brain could not resolve the fact that it was a plane because it only seemed like a small hole in the building," he said. "No tail. No wings. No nothing." He followed the emergency crews that had just arrived. He saw people hanging out of windows and others crawling from the demolished area.

Il mio cervello non riusciva a far quadrare il fatto che fosse stato un aereo, perchè sembrava ci fosse solo un piccolo buco nell'edificio - ha detto. "Niente coda, niente ali, niente di niente."

Khavkin, D. S.

from an 8th floor high-rise: "At first, we thought it was the jets that sometimes fly overhead. However, it appeared to be a small commercial aircraft..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1540000/1540586.stm

Al primo momento, ho pensato che fossero quei jet che a volte ti passano sopra. Ma comunque, sembrava essere un piccolo aereo commerciale...

Rains, Lon

Eyewitness: The Pentagon By Lon Rains Editor, Space News - In light traffic the drive up Interstate 395 from Springfield to downtown Washington takes no more than 20 minutes. But that morning, like many others, the traffic slowed to a crawl just in front of the Pentagon. With the Pentagon to the left of my van at about 10 o'clock on the dial of a clock, I glanced at my watch to see if I was going to be late for my appointment. At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane. Friends and colleagues have asked me if I felt a shock wave and I honestly do not know. I felt something, but I don't know if it was a shock wave or the fact that I jumped so hard I strained against the seat belt and shoulder harness and was thrown back into my seat. ' http://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-1.html

Ho sentito come un rapido sibilo... Ero convinto che fosse un missile. E venuto giù così veloce che il suono non aveva niente a che vedere con quello degli aerei.

Seibert, Tom

Tom Seibert : "We heard what sounded like a missile, then we heard a loud boom," said Tom Seibert, 33, a network engineer at the Pentagon. "We were sitting there and watching this thing from New York, and I said, you know, the next best target would be us. And five minutes later, boom."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0%2C1300%2C550486%2C00.html

Abbiamo sentito qualcosa che sembrava (/ faceva il rumore di) un missile, poi abbiamo sentito una forte esplosione.

Brown, Ervin

At the Pentagon, employees had heard about or seen footage of the World Trade Centre attack when they felt their own building shake. Ervin Brown, who works at the Pentagon, said he saw pieces of what appeared to be small aircraft on the ground, and the part of the building by the heliport had collapsed.

... ha detto di aver visto in terra quelli che sembravano essere dei pezzi di un piccolo aereo...

Terronez, Tony

Then both I and the guy in front of me looked at his rear windshield and saw what was about a four-inch hole in it and the rest of the window was shattered as if someone took a baseball bat to it. At that point I realized - you see at that point I didn't know it was a plane, I thought it was a missile strike - how dangerous things were. And I just started yelling, We gotta get out of here, to the guy in front of me - and he agreed - and we started yelling at people, Get back in your cars! We gotta get the f--- out of here!

... in quel momento non sapevo che era un aereo, e ho pensato che fosse un missile a colpire...

Walter, Mike

Washington, Mike Walter, USA Today, on the road when a jet slammed into the Pentagon: "I was sitting in the northbound on 27 and the traffic was, you know, typical rush-hour -- it had ground to a standstill. I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. And I thought, 'This doesn't add up, it's really low.' "And I saw it. I mean it was like a cruise missile with wings. It went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/09/11/witnesses/
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/pentagon.terrorism/

... e ho visto questo aereo, questo jet della American Airlines, e mi sono detto "qualcosa non quadra, è davvero basso" E poi l'ho visto. Voglio dire, era come un missile cruise con le ali.

Creed, Dan

He and two colleagues from Oracle software were stopped in a car near the Naval Annex, next to the Pentagon, when they saw the plane dive down and level off. "It was no more than 30 feet off the ground, and it was screaming. It was just screaming. It was nothing more than a guided missile at that point," Creed said. "I can still see the plane. I can still see it right now. It's just the most frightening thing in the world, going full speed, going full throttle, its wheels up," Creed recalls.
http://www.ahwatukee.com/afn/community/articles/020906a.html

... quando hanno visto l'aereo scendere in picchiata e mettersi in orizzontale. Era a non più di dieci metri da terra, e urlava. Non era niente di più di un missile teleguidato, a quel punto. ... alla massima velocità, con l'acceleratore al massimo...

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