After they ejected, their abandoned jet clipped trees, skidded along the tarmac and slammed into the crowd at an airfield in Sknyliv.
On Sept. 11, he rushed from his Pentagon office - leaving his security detail behind - to tend to the wounded in the first minutes after a hijacked jet slammed into the building.
The jet slammed into stands at the far end of the stadium, kitling hundreds in- stantly and spitling burning jet fuel over hundreds more nearby.
The pilot was already dead as the jet slammed headlong into the side of a six story office building just two blocks away from where Polucki had brought the car to a screeching halt.
He had his eye on the star images, steady and perfectly matched, as the jet slammed him into his pads.
At the north tower, the evacuation began after an explosion and rain of debris as low as the 88th floor, just below where the first jet slammed into the tower.
"It sounded like a roar," said Mr. Slater, who was 500 yards away from where the jet slammed into the Pentagon's west side.
He pulled into the Cortlandt Street stop and brought the train to a halt at exactly 8:48, just as the first jet slammed into the north tower.
The jet slammed two parked cars into the wall of the warehouse, which partly collapsed and then caught fire.
He had just arrived to begin his second week of fifth grade at Public School 150, a few blocks from the World Trade Center, when the first jet slammed into its target.