Steve Riskus: "I could see the "American Airlines" logo...It knocked over a few light poles in its way."
Mark Bright: "...at the height of the street lights. It knocked a couple down."
Mike Walter: "...it clipped one of these light poles ... and slammed right into the Pentagon right there. It was an American Airlines jet."
Rodney Washington: "...knocking over light poles"
Kirk Milburn: "I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles."
Afework Hagos: "It hit some lampposts on the way in."
Kat Gaines: "saw a low-flying jetliner strike the top of nearby telephone poles."
D.S. Khavkin: "First, the plane knocked down a number of street lamp poles."
Wanda Ramey: "I saw the wing of the plane clip the light post, and it made the plane slant.
Penny Elgas: A piece of American Airlines Flight 77 was torn from the plane as it clipped a light pole. It landed in her car. Now in the Smithsonian Institution's 9/11 collection.
Lincoln Liebner: "It was probably about thirty feet off the ground, clipping the lampposts. I could clearly see through the windows of the plane. It was maybe going 500 miles an hour - when it just flew...into the Pentagon ... less than a hundred yards away."