There’s some skepticism about the veracity of accounts that AA Flight 77 actuallly hit the Pentagon. ThePowerHour carefully examines eyewitness accounts, including an article from Netscape.com News with information that has escaped further media scrutiny:

“Away from the Pentagon, unexplained explosions were reported in the vicinity of the State Department and the Capitol. Agents with automatic weapons patrolled the White House grounds.”

“AP reporter Dave Winslow also saw the crash. He said, ‘I saw the tail of a large airliner. … It plowed right into the Pentagon.’”

“Gen. Richard Myers, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that prior to the crash into the Pentagon, military officials had been notified that another hijacked plane had been heading from the New York area to Washington. He said he assumed that hijacked plane was the one that hit the Pentagon, though he couldn’t be sure.”

“Within the hour, an aircraft crashed on a helicopter landing pad near the Pentagon, and the White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol were evacuated.”

The article oddly ends with a cryptic line from the almanac, “In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog.”