The hijacked airliner that slammed into the Pentagon September 11th caused massive damage to the building and killed 125 people, in addition to the 64 onboard the aircraft. Massive recovery efforts are underway by a variety of governmental agencies that included the 3rd US Army Infantry (the Old Guard) from Fort Myer, Virginia, the Military District of Washington Engineer Company, and the US Army Criminal Investigation Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The Pentagon was the third target of Al-Qaida, a group of fundamentalist Muslims. The others were, the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) and one unknown, when the passengers brought that aircraft down in a Pennsylvania field
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: NOBLE EAGLE
Base: Pentagon
State: District Of Columbia (DC)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSG John Valceanu, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
According to the official 9/11 Commission Report, the Flight 77 was 5 miles (8.0 km) west-southwest of the Pentagon when, it made a 330-degree turn. At the end of the turn, it was descending through 2,200 feet (670 m), pointed toward the Pentagon and downtown Washington. Boeing 757-223, flying at 530 mph over the Navy Annex Building adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, crashed into the western side of the Pentagon. The plane hit the Pentagon at the first-floor level, and at the moment of impact, the airplane was rolled slightly to the left, with the right wing elevated. The front part of the fuselage disintegrated on impact, while the mid and tail sections moved for another fraction of a second, with tail section debris penetrating furthest into the building. In all, the airplane took eight-tenths of a second to fully penetrate 310 feet (94 m) into the three outermost of the building's five rings and unleashed a fireball that rose 200 feet (61 m) above the building.
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