in the interest of being completely accurate Morin would be recanting all after;
"I had just reached the elevator in the 5th Wing of BMDO/Federal Office Building (FOB) #2 – call it approximately 9:36 AM. I was already trying to make some sense out of the World Trade Tower attacks having heard about them on the radio. The news was sketchy, but the fact that it was a terrorist attack was already known. I then realized that I was wearing sunglasses and needed to go back to Lot 3 to retrieve my clear lenses. Since it was by no means a short walk to my car, I was upset with myself for being so distracted."
The next thing he originally stated is;
Approximately 10 steps out from between Wings 4 and 5
the Pft/CiT say he has changed this to his still being between those two wings.
Next Morin stated
was making a gentle right turn towards the security check-in building just above Wing 4
when I became aware of something unusual. I can’t remember exactly what I was thinking about at that moment, but I started to hear an increasingly loud rumbling behind me and to my left.[/quote]
He can hardly be turning towards a security station if he has yet to exit from between the wings.
Is Morin saying that he was mistaken about having started this turn? He is if the CiT/PfT are correct in their interpretation of the words Morin spoke in the newer interview. We will never know what those exact words were though, they're not recorded.
As I turned to my left, I immediately realized the noise was bouncing off the 4-story structure that was Wing 5. One to two seconds later the airliner came into my field of view. By that time the noise was absolutely deafening. I instantly had a very bad feeling about this but things were happening very quickly. The aircraft was essentially right over the top of me and the outer portion of the FOB (flight path parallel the outer edge of the FOB).
According to the CiT/PfT Morin must be changing this since they put the aircraft not at the outer edge of the building since they state that Morin said in the later interview that he was nearer the central portion of the wings.
That is if the CiT/PfT are correct in their interpretation of the words Morin spoke in the newer interview. We will never know what those exact words were though, they're not recorded.
Everything was shaking and vibrating, including the ground. I estimate that the aircraft was no more than 100 feet above me (30 to 50 feet above the FOB) in a slight nose down attitude. The plane had a silver body with red and blue stripes down the fuselage. I believed at the time that it belonged to American Airlines, but I couldn’t be sure. It looked like a 737 and I so reported to authorities.
If the CiT/PfT are correct in their interpretation of the words Morin spoke in the newer interview it is difficult to understand how Morin could discern all this detail as the aircraft passed over him while he is between the wings of the complex. The aircraft would only be in view while directly overhead, not in his line of sight until it came over the wing to his right and disappearing as it passed over the wing to his right.
Did Morin change his story to have him sprinting like an Olympic qualifier to a location in the parking lot where he could observe these details as the plane again came into view?
We will never know what those exact words were though, they're not recorded.
Within seconds the plane cleared the 8th Wing of BMDO and was heading directly towards the Pentagon.
Again, how can Morin see this if he is between the wings of the Annex below the CiT/PfT flight path?
Engines were at a steady high-pitched whine, indicating to me that the throttles were steady and full. I estimated the aircraft speed at between 350 and 400 knots. The flight path appeared to be deliberate, smooth, and controlled. As the aircraft approached the Pentagon, I saw a minor flash (later found out that the aircraft had sheared off a portion of a highway light pole down on Hwy 110). As the aircraft flew ever lower I started to lose sight of the actual airframe as a row of trees to the Northeast of the FOB blocked my view. I could now only see the tail of the aircraft. I believe I saw the tail dip slightly to the right indicating a minor turn in that direction. The tail was barely visible when I saw the flash and subsequent fireball rise approximately 200 feet above the Pentagon. There was a large explosion noise and the low frequency sound echo that comes with this type of sound.
Again all of this detail must have been recanted by Morin unless he managed to sprint into the parking lot far enough to be able to see the aircraft beyond the far wall of the Annex. Even if he did that then he is correcting the suggestion that he had the plane in sight from the moment it passed over him all the way into the Pentagon.
Associated with that was the increase in air pressure, momentarily, like a small gust of wind. For those formerly in the military, it sounded like a 2000lb bomb going off roughly ½ mile in front of you. At once there was a huge cloud of black smoke that rose several hundred feet up. Elapsed time from hearing the initial noise to when I saw the impact flash was between 12 and 15 seconds.
Can't quibble with any of that except for the elapsed time. Eyewitness estimates of elapsed time is not particularily accurate. For elapsed time only a few multiples of human reaction time witnesses will often underestimate elapsed time whereas in cases where things take longer they will often over estimate the elapsed time. ("it happened so fast" versus "it was like time slowed down")
PfT/CiT says that we should pester Morin for our own clarification if we don't believe them.
I choose to believe that he was not recanting almost all of his previous statement. If PfT wishes to assert that Morin changed all of it then they should have recorded it. I am not going to pester this man just to prove that the interpretation of a second 'interview' by a fringe group is incorrect. If Mr. Morin chooses to set the record straight on his own that is his perogative but hopefully he would not try to do so by contacting CiT/PfT.
