Witnesses saw no plane wreckage, nothing
Not a single eyewitness was sure that there was a plane in the crater.
On the contrary people said in disbelief:
Homer Barron: " It didn’t look like a plane crash because there was nothing that looked like a plane”.
(Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 9/12/01 b)
Carol Delano: ? If they hadn’t told us a plane had wrecked, you wouldn’t have known. It looked like it hit and disintegrated”.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_12942.html
"We haven’t seen anything bigger than a phone book, certainly nothing that would resemble a part of a plane," said Capt. Frank Monaco of the Pennsylvania State Police.
(Cox, 9/12/01 b)
Lee Purbaugh: “There was nothing there. Everything was shredded.”
(Among the Heroes, 299)
Nick Tweardy: ? We couldn’t tell what we were looking at. There’s just a huge crater in the woods. ?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_12940.html
Nina Lensbouer: "But I got there and there was nothing, nothing there but charcoal. Instantly, it was charcoal."
(Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 9/12/01 b)
Rick King: ? Never in my wildest dreams did I think half the plane was down there. ?
(Among the Heroes, 302)