Lyte Trip:
You quote Sucherman saying
Sucherman saw another plane climb steeply and make a sharp turn. "I thought, 'Is this thing coming around to make a second attack? If there is another explosion, we're toast.'"
You also claim
"We have personally interviewed Joel at the new USA Today building and he told us that this alleged "2nd plane" flew over the Pentagon within 3 to 5 seconds of the explosion."
Can you provide a source for that first quote and a transcript/videoclip of your interview of Sucherman that we can link to, because neither claim seems to agree with what he said in the following taped interviews:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1fhdp_joel-sucherman-interview-later-on-9
Let's me quote what he says in that video clip ...
"Well, we were stuck in traffic. Nobody was moving much and we heard a sonic bomb. All of a sudden we saw a jet ... what appeared to be an American Airlines passenger jet come screaming just a few feet above the highway which runs to the west side of the Pentagon. It within a second or so it slammed into the west side of the Pentagon. There was an explosion, flames shot up, there was white smoke and then within seconds there was thick black smoke surrounding the area."
Asked "How were you sure this was an American Airline's jet?" he said "I was a plane, a jet with silver uhhhh it was painted silver and then there was some markings along the window which reminded me of an American Airlines jet. They were red and blue."
Next he was asked what happened at that point. He said "Well everybody just stopped. There were a lot of people that did get out of their cars. I did not. I was just worried there would be another impact seconds later and without being able to maneuver away from the scene, another impact could have shot flames. We all would have been toast."
Here's another taped interview where he says basically the same thing:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1fa00_pentagon-eyewitness-joel-sucherman
Your claims also don't fit this excerpt from a USAToday interview
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/F77penta03.html "The impact hit on the west front side of the Pentagon. The plane came heading east. Again, it screamed low. You couldn't even see the plane before it was about, oh 20 feet or so off the ground, screamed across the highway and slammed into the side of the Pentagon. Within a minute another plane started veering up and to the side. At that point it wasn't clear whether that plane was trying to maneuver out of the way and out of the air space or if that plane was coming around for another hit as well. That plane ended up disappearing into the sky."
Nor does it fit this one:
http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoudontknow33/witnesses.htm "Well while listening to the radio reports of the World Trade Center problem, there was a sonic boom, and looking straight ahead there was a jet, what looked to be an American Airlines jet, probably a 757, and it came screaming across the highway. It was Route 110 on the west side of the Pentagon. The plane went west to east, hit the west side of the Pentagon. Immediately flames were searing up into the air. There was white smoke, and then within seconds, thick black smoke. ... Then there was another plane, that was off to the southwest, and that made a beeline straight up into the sky and then angled off and we weren’t sure if that was going to come around and make another hit or if it was just trying to get out of the way. That disappeared and we didn’t see it again. ... I did not see the engines, I saw the body and the tail and it was a silver jet, with the markings along the windows that spoke to me as an American Airlines jet. This was not a commercial, excuse me, a business jet, right it was not a Learjet, Gulfstream something like that. It was a bigger plane than that.”
Sucherman said something else, that I think is quite apropos, in another interview quoted at
http://911files.info/map/jsucherman.htm: "It's a terrible tragedy that someone is trying cash in on the fears and suspicions of an unsuspecting public with misinformation and a deliberate attempt to twist peoples words, taking them out of context with a disregard for the truth."
