"I saw the wing of the plane clip the light post, and it made the plane slant." -- Wanda Ramey
"I knew it [the plane] was going to strike the building because it was very, very low -- at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down." -- Mark Bright
"It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts." -- Afework Hagos
"I am sorry to rain on your parade, but I saw the plane hit the building. It did not hit the ground first... It hit dead center on the side... It was not completely level but it was not going straight down, kind of like it was landing with no gear down... It knocked over a few light poles on its way." -- Steve Riskus
"The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us, injuring a taxi driver, whose taxi was just a few feet away from my car." -- Stephen McGraw
"First, the plane knocked down a number of street lamp poles, then headed directly for the Pentagon and crashed on the lawn near the west side of the Pentagon." -- D. S. Khavkin
"I was right underneath the plane. I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles. It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." -- Kirk Milburn
"Its downward angle was too sharp, its elevation of maybe 50 feet, too low. Street lights toppled as the plane barely cleared the Interstate 395 overpass. The thought that I was about to die was immediate and certain. This plane was going to hit me along with all the other commuters trapped on Washington Boulevard." -- Mary Ann Owens