The 2nd Plane Cover Story

The complex topography, landscape, and sheer size of the Pentagon create a scenario where people on the alleged impact side of the Pentagon -- who would even have a view of this portion of the building at all -- would most readily be fooled by the sleight of hand deception of a plane timed perfectly with the explosion.






However, there are some areas of 395 and up in the Crystal City high-rises where people would have been able to see the flyover no problem.  Here is a shot from the top floor of the Doubletree Hotel that shows what would have been a perfect view of the flyover:



Anybody who may have noticed a plane flying over the building were handled with a cover story about a 2nd plane.  There were additional planes called into the area and there were reports of a 2nd plane that allegedly "shadowed" the AA jet and "veered away" over the Pentagon immediately after the explosion.  The two known planes there were reported in the airspace neart the time of the attack are a C-130 and an E4B that came in a few minutes later.  For confusion the flyover plane and the C-130 accounts were ambiguously blended by fabricated accounts of some sort of second military plane/jet shadowing/chasing along the same flight  path then veering off/peeling off and up into the air.  That way anyone who might have seen the flyover jet would be thrown off by these fabricated accounts that bring this alleged ambiguous 2nd plane that much closer to the time of impact, essentially veering away simultaneously with the explosion...



Vin Narayanan:
-"I hopped out of my car after the jet exploded, nearly oblivious to a second *jet* hovering in the skies".



Joel Sucherman:
-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.'"..."another plane started veering up and to the side. At that point it wasn't clear if that plane was trying to maneuver out of the air space or if that plane was coming round for another hit.




Kelly Knowles:
...she saw a second plane in the air *over the Pentagon* *as* a hijacked jet plunged into the five-sided military fortress...some sort of plane followed the doomed American Airlines jet toward the Pentagon, then veered away after the explosion. "Thank God somebody else saw that. There was most definitely a second plane, " Knowles said. "It's so frustrating because nobody knows about the second plane, or if they do they're hiding it for some reason." (Kelly sounds like a great actress) Pentagon official said late Friday no other plane was flying with the jetliner. But he said it was possible a military plane was in the area at the time of the attack. (that would sure fool a lot of people who saw a jet fly away)



Keith Wheelhouse:
-He believes it flew directly above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing on radar while at the same time guiding the jet toward the Pentagon....As the hijacked jet started its descent, "it's like it stepped on its gas pedal, " Wheelhouse said. "As soon as he did that, the second plane banked off to the west." A possible explanation for the second plane could be a plane landing at nearby Ronald Reagan National Airport . The Pentagon is between the cemetery and the airport... (He) said it's possible the second plane was a military plane, but the military has not said it had a plane shadowing the hijacked jet."

*-Both Keith and Kelly, as well as at least one other person at the funeral (Pam Young), insist that there was another plane flying near the hijacked jet... the other three witnesses say they're not sure what the plane looked like."


Keith Wheelhouse eventually confirmed it as a C-130, but the "other three witnesses", kept it ambiguous enough to still make people think there WAS a military jet chasing/shadowing and that Keith Wheelhouse (who we've interviewed) may be "wrong". It kept people in confusion and the scenario regarding this alleged 2nd plane ambiguous.

...So the "second plane/jet" was eventually explained as being the C-130 piloted by Lt Col Steve O'Brien who never shadowed or chased the plane. He actually lost sight of it after if passed in front of him and he turned around. He was never near AND/OR over the Pentagon at the time of alleged impact (explosion & fireball). In fact it would be physically impossible for him to keep up with a 530 mph jet, when a C-130 can only travel maximum 379 mph. He didn't show up to the scene until approximately 3 minutes later at a much higher altitude.





We learned from an e-mail exchange with him that he was too high and far away to even see the Pentagon!

C-130 Pilot Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien:

"I distinctly remember having a difficult time keeping the AA flight in sight after we turned back to the east to follow it per a request from Wash. Departure Control.  When I saw the initial explosion I was not able to see exactly where or what it had impacted, but remember trying to approximate a position to give to ATC.  It was then that I was able to see the sun reflecting off the Potomac and the runway at Wash. Nat'l and thought to myself that the AA flight must have had some sort of IFE (in flight emergency) and was trying to make it back to National Airport."


Clearly the "2nd plane" that Wheelhouse and others described shadowing the jet was NOT the C-130.

Why wasn't this "2nd plane" more widely reported if it was really in the area at the same time as the attack?

Why didn't any of the CITGO witnesses see this 2nd plane?

Because there was no 2nd plane seen immediately after or at the same time as the explosion but ambiguous reports suggesting this were meant to confuse people who really saw the plane fly over the building.

So...for the sake of argument, pretend you were in the Doubletree on the top floor looking out the window (like in picture at beginning) and you saw the big explosion and the plane flying away from the building.  If you didn't report it you might wonder about what you saw and look into it only to find reports of this mysterious 2nd plane.  Obviously that would satisfy most people.  But there may have been some that called in to report this plane flying over the Pentagon immediately after a massive explosion.  However...we will NEVER know what people initially reported because conveniently for the perpetrators...the 911 calls were confiscated and permanently sequestered.

*For more information regarding confiscated 911 tapes click here.

*For a video presentation featuring exclusive CIT interviews with Keith Wheelhouse, Joel Sucherman, and Vin Narayanan click here.