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PENNSYLVANIA CRASH
June '01 - A major terrorist exercise 'Mall Strike 2001' is conducted in a PA county next to county Flight 93 allegedly crashed at. (FEMA, PittsburgLive)
Sept 10 - Neighboring Cambria county has a meeting for its Local Emergency Planning Committee which is hosted by a member of the PA Air National Guard discussing the County's hazmat team and equipment purchases regarding terrorism/hazmat response. (Cambria County)
9/11 - Flight 93 reportedly lands at a Cleveland airport, adjacent to NASA Glenn Research Ctr, due to a bomb scare after a man over Flight 93's intercom says a bomb is on board and the plane will be 'returning to the airport' at about the time it is flying over Cleveland. (WCPO-TV, Pitt Post-Gazette)
9/11 - Somerset county coroner Wally Miller says the small crater looked as if someone took a scrap truck, dug a 10-foot ditch and dumped trash into it and that no remains were visible at the crash site as if the plane had 'stopped and let the passengers off before it crashed' and that the most 'eerie' thing was that he hadn't seen a 'single drop of blood' at the scene. (Pittsburg Live, Washington Post)
Shanksville, PA, is a military flight corridor. (Daily American)
Dec '04 - Donald Rumsfeld says Flight 93 was shot down in a speech. (CNN)
Witnessing hardly any plane debris
Homer Barron said it didn't look like a plane crash because there was nothing that looked like a plane, just a big pile of 'charcoal'. (Pitt Post-Gazette)
Chris Konicki told a FOX News reporter that there was nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there. (FOX News)
Nina Lensbouer said when she arrived there was nothing there but charcoal. (Pitt Post-Gazette)
State police Capt. Frank Monaco said the scene looked like a 'trash heap' littered with nothing but tiny pieces of debris. (Pitt Post-Gazette)
Mark Stahl said that the plane had pretty much disintegrated and there was nothing left but scorched trees. (CNN)
Shanksville mayor Ernie Stull said there wasn't much left of the plane after the explosion except for one of the engines lying in the bushes. (Der Spiegel)
State police Maj. Lyle Szupinka said the scene looked liked a 'commercial landfill' with papers flying around and bits and pieces of shredded metal. (PittsburghLive)
Small white military plane seen circling area before and right after alleged crash
Jim Brandt said that he saw another plane in the area and said it stayed there for one or two minutes before leaving. (Pittsburgh Channel)
Dale Browning said everybody saw this plane in the sky, but no one can tell them what it was. (Bergen Record)
Rick Chaney described the plane as a Lear-jet type, with engines mounted near the tail and painted white with no identifying markings. (Bergen Record)
Susan Custer said she saw a small white jet streaking overhead. (Bergen Record)
Dennis Decker saw a Lear type jet with engines mounted near the tail and painted white with no identifying markings flying low and fast that appeared to make a loop or part of a circle before it turned fast and headed out. (Bergen Record)
Robin Doppstadt saw a small white jet that looked like it was making a single circle over the crash site then climbed very quickly and took off. (Bergen Record)
Val McClatchey heard what she thought was a small plane roar over Indian Lake headed east towards the crash scene which is the opposite direction officials said Flight 93 flew in and caught a glimpse of it when she looked out her front window. (Pittsburgh Live)
Susan Mcelwain saw a white plane with two rear engines, a big fin on the back with two upright fins at the side with no markings that looked 'military' rocket 40 or 50ft above her mini-van, but hardly made any sound and then heard an explosion then saw a fireball rise up over the trees followed by a white plume of smoke thinking it was the jet that crashed and later the FBI tried to tell her no other plane was around the area then changed their story to say it was a plane taking pictures of the crash 3,000ft up. (Bergen Record, Daily Mirror)
Lee Purbaugh saw a white jet circle the area about twice before flying off over the horizon. (Daily Mirror)
Tom Spinelli saw a white plane with high back wings flying around all over the place before and after the crash like it was looking for something. (Daily Mirror, Pittsburgh Channel)
Three Shanksville High students see a fighter plane fly from the alleged Flight 93 crash scene seconds after the explosion. [video]